The advantage of short paper titles

被引：119

作者：

Letchford, Adrian ^{[1
]}

Moat, Helen Susannah ^{[1
]}

Preis, Tobias ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Warwick, Warwick Business Sch, Data Sci Lab, Behav Sci, Coventry CV4 7AL, W Midlands, England

来源：

ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE | 2015年 / 2卷 / 08期

基金：

英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;

关键词：

citation analysis; scientific writing; computational social science; science of science; IMPACT; BEHAVIOR; SCIENCE; SUCCESS; FUTURE; INDEX;

D O I：

10.1098/rsos.150266

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

070301 [无机化学]; 070403 [天体物理学]; 070507 [自然资源与国土空间规划学]; 090105 [作物生产系统与生态工程];

摘要：

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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