Journal
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
Volume 2, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150266
Keywords
citation analysis; scientific writing; computational social science; science of science
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- Research Councils UK Digital Economy [EP/K039830/1]
- EPSRC [EP/K039830/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K039830/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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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.
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