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Samuel C. Bradford

British mathematician, librarian and documentalist (1878–1948)

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Lived 1878–1948, aged 70United Kingdom
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    1878–1948
    Aged 70
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Updated 2026-08-14

Samuel Clement Bradford was a British mathematician, librarian and documentalist at the Science Museum in London. He developed "Bradford's law" regarding differences in demand for scientific journals. This work influences bibliometrics and citation analysis of scientific publications. Bradford founded the British Society for International Bibliography (BSIB) and he was elected president of International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) in 1945. Bradford was a strong proponent of Universal Decimal Classification and of establishing abstracts of the scientific literature.

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