BRADFORDS LAW OF SCATTERING AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE ANALYSIS OF PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS IN INDIA

This article deals with the application of Bradford’s law of scattering for Plant breeding research in India from 2021 to 2025, for this study the data has extracted from Web of Science. 7842 total publications are related to Plant Breeding research was published in 849 journals during 2021-2025. The study reveals Plant breeding with special emphasis on Indian researchers who accomplished unexpected milestones by contributing significant advances to the field and increasing their visibility in the global scientific community. It was determined that Plant Science Today ranked 1st with a total of 447 (5.70%) publications, followed by Frontiers in Plant Science, ranked 2nd with 439 (5.60%) publications, and Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant breeding, ranked 3rd with 333 (4.25%) publications. The result shows that verbal formulation 1: n: n2 has not fits with the data on Plant Breeding’ and verification of Bradford’s law and it fits with 13:65:771 geometric series with 23.25% of error. Furthermore, the Bradford law is examined using a graphical formulation, which indicates that all three characteristics are viable.