Article title type and its relation with the number of downloads and citations

Jamali, Hamid R.; Nikzad, Mahsa

doi:10.1007/s11192-011-0412-z

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“…However, a very large number of studies found the negative relationship in biology (Didegah and Thelwall, 2013), social sciences (Didegah andThelwall, 2013), sociology (van Wesel et al, 2014), and psychology (Subotic and Mukherjee, 2014). Others have found no correlation; e.g., in chemistry (Didegah and Thelwall, 2013), management science (Nair and Gibbert, 2016), ECL (Fox and Burns, 2015), or in articles published in six PLoS journals (Jamali and Nikzad, 2011). Anthony (2001) found that the lengths of titles within computer science literature varied widely, attributing it to different subdisciplines, claiming that "an adequate description depends more on the type of study or problem being investigated than the discipline itself " (p. 193).…”

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“…Specifically, the usage of colon has become more prevalent, although it differed across the fields (Lewison and Hartley, 2005). For example, a study of the medical literature found that 70% of highly cited articles included a colon (Jacques and Sebire, 2010), while a study of PLoS articles found that articles with colon had both fewer downloads and citations (Jamali and Nikzad, 2011).…”

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“…Turning to title syntax, three types of article titles have been identified as most common: descriptive (or indicative), declarative (or informative), and titles posed as a question (or interrogatory) (Jamali and Nikzad, 2011;Wager et al, 2016). Descriptive (or indicative) titles describe the subject or topic of the article.…”

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“…The increase in the usage of questions in titles has been attributed to marketing purposes (Ball, 2009). The study of over 2,000 articles published in 6 PLoS journals found that articles with question titles were more often downloaded, but less frequently cited (Jamali and Nikzad, 2011).…”

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The Length and Semantic Structure of Article Titles—Evolving Disciplinary Practices and Correlations with Impact

Milojević

2017

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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In this paper, we examine the characteristics of titles (average length, proportion of titles with subtitles, proportion of interrogatory, and indicative titles) and how they changed over a substantial period of time (half a century). We consistently analyze core literature in five diverse fields, in order to probe the usage of titles as a disciplinary identity building tool. In addition, we study whether different types of titles are used differently by authors depending on their academic age and productivity and collaboration levels, which has not been studied before. Finally, we revisit the connection between title characteristics and impact. We found that belonging to some discipline is the strongest determinant for the length of the titles and the occurrence of different forms of titles. This suggests that authors try to comply with the norms set in their fields. However, these norms are not fixed in time. Over the decades, the practices have changed, some of them quite abruptly. Individual groups of authors most often did not differ in their practices regarding the use of titles. We find that using titles posed as questions or titles stating the result do not lead to citation benefit.

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2017

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Linear Regression Analysis of Title Word Count and Article Time Cited using R

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Douzandegan²

2017

JSCIRES

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There is a common idea, that title variables like article title length would influence article citations. The aim of the present study was to investigating possible relationship between size of article title and number of article citations by minimizing scientometric variable biases. A dataset containing ~100,000 virological literatures was obtained from Web of Science InCite TM database from 1997 to 2016. Variables, Title size (TWC), Year (YoP), Source (JS), and Publisher were selected. In addition number of times article is cited 'Time Cited' (TC) was retrieved from Web of Science InCite TM . Linear regression analysis was performed between variables and TC using R for a possible prediction model for TC. Result has shown a robust standard error corrected linear regression with only 30.6% power of predictability. Furthermore, it was found that TC, YoP, and JS have meaningful potential in the linear model. Moreover, TC is negatively correlated with YoP, JS, and positively with TWC. As a result, size of article title, years passed since publication and the journal in which article accepted are good but not sufficient predictor of article citations. In addition, article is a multi-characteristic subject and other predictors can be supposed. However, we think that finding an efficient statistical linear predication model for TC, by increase of articles citation, is overwhelming.

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It’s all in the title

Schmidt

2021

FEBS Letters

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The title is the most pivotal part of a scientific paper and should be assembled with particular caution to achieve the right amalgam of vigour and style. Besides informing about the content, the title provides important keywords that facilitate online searches. Most importantly, the title should hook potential readers. Here are some thoughts that may aid in accomplishing this multifaceted mission.

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Article title type and its relation with the number of downloads and citations

Cited by 224 publications

References 19 publications

The Length and Semantic Structure of Article Titles—Evolving Disciplinary Practices and Correlations with Impact

The Length and Semantic Structure of Article Titles—Evolving Disciplinary Practices and Correlations with Impact

Linear Regression Analysis of Title Word Count and Article Time Cited using R

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