“…"Journals", in this sense, was defined as including annuals such as Advances in Librarianship and the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology but proceedings of yearly conferences were ignored as they were believed to constitute a separate entity. Since the interpretation of the concept of "journal" is so fundamental to work involving Bradford's Law, it is, as Heine comments, surprising that this issue has attracted little discussion in the literature [17], and, in the absence of useful guidance from elsewhere, the researcher had no alternative but to make his own ruling. Shenton's records of the citations have been revisited for this paper in order to explore the value of Bradford's Law to describe, in statistical terms, the distribution, within the journals, of the papers cited.…”