TY - JOUR AB - Recent work has shown that potentially useful predictions of the circulation of library materials can be made which do not require very restrictive assumptions about underlying probability distributions. In the same spirit, we here consider one of the classic problems of bibliometrics, viz. predicting the number of ‘new’ journals carrying ‘relevant’ articles in the future, using both established parametric approaches and the newer, empirical methods. VL - 45 IS - 4 SN - 0022-0418 DO - 10.1108/eb026847 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026847 AU - BURRELL QUENTIN L. PY - 1989 Y1 - 1989/01/01 TI - ON THE GROWTH OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES WITH TIME: AN EXERCISE IN BIBLIOMETRIC PREDICTION T2 - Journal of Documentation PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 302 EP - 317 Y2 - 2024/04/19 ER -