Applying Modified Bradford’s Law of Scattering to Identify Core Journals of Surgical Robotics

  • Kutty Kumar Assistant Professor Library and Information Science College of Veterinary Science Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University Proddatur-516360

Abstract

 This research attempts to use Bradford’s law to identify the most productive “Surgical Robotics†journals. Using the search terms “surgical robotics / robotic surgery / robot-assisted surgery,†the PubMed database was searched for journals indexed under the publication form and data collected was analysed using R software, Biblioshiny method; 6897 publications from 772 journals dealing with surgical robotics were retrieved from January 2015 to June 2020. As per Bradford’s rule, the journal distribution revealed the ration as 16:64: 692. With 25.41% of publications, the United States of America was the leading country to publish robotic surgery studies, followed by Italy (15.93%) and China (10.36 %). The “Journal of Robotic Surgery†described as the most productive journal involved in “Surgical Robotics†research publications. For the Bradford Multiplier (k) at 8.75, the dispersion of journal publications did not satisfy either the Bradford Scattering law or the Leimkuhler model in this analysis.

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Published
2024-12-28
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KUMAR, Kutty. Applying Modified Bradford’s Law of Scattering to Identify Core Journals of Surgical Robotics. Journal of Science & Technology Metrics, [S.l.], v. 2, n. 2, p. 33-46, dec. 2024. ISSN 2582-6956. Available at: <https://www.dline.info/ojs/index.php/jstm/article/view/341>. Date accessed: 06 june 2026.
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