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Letchford, Adrian, Moat, Helen Susannah and Preis, Tobias (2015) The advantage of short paper titles. Royal Society Open Science , 2 (8). pp. 1-6. 150266. doi:10.1098/rsos.150266 ISSN 2054-5703.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150266
Abstract
Vast numbers of scientific articles are published each year, some of which attract considerable attention, and some of which go almost unnoticed. Here, we investigate whether any of this variance can be explained by a simple metric of one aspect of the paper's presentation: the length of its title. Our analysis provides evidence that journals which publish papers with shorter titles receive more citations per paper. These results are consistent with the intriguing hypothesis that papers with shorter titles may be easier to understand, and hence attract more citations.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Bibliographical citations, Science -- Social aspects, Report writing | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Royal Society Open Science | ||||||||
| Publisher: | The Royal Society Publishing | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2054-5703 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 26 June 2015 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 2 | ||||||||
| Number: | 8 | ||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 6 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-6 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | 150266 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1098/rsos.150266 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 February 2016 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 February 2016 | ||||||||
| Funder: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | ||||||||
| Grant number: | EP/K039830/1 (EPSRC) |
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