Choosing a title for a paper

The abstract format of original articles: differences between imaging and non-imaging journals

“…Our report showed that the abstract adopted by imaging journals presents the IMRaD format or are narrative, never IMRaD Intrduction, methods, results, and discussion/conclusion In 1983, Kerkut [18] calculated that for every 500 people reading the title of a paper, only one read also the whole text. We do not know if this ratio has changed in almost three decades.…”

“…Abstracts published in Radiology lack information about study design in 10/23 cases (43%), while the same data is missing in 15/21(71%), 13/24 (54%), and 18/30 (60%) abstracts in Investigative Radiology, European Radiology, and AJR American Journal of Roentgenology, respectively. This means that abstract readers (that are probably only a small fraction of those who read the title [18]) will never know whether the conclusions of most of original articles published on such journals were based on a prospective or a retrospective study design. Surprisingly, study design declaration is not included within the article body of 26/98 papers (27%) included in our analysis.…”

The abstract format of original articles: differences between imaging and non-imaging journals

“…Our report showed that the abstract adopted by imaging journals presents the IMRaD format or are narrative, never IMRaD Intrduction, methods, results, and discussion/conclusion In 1983, Kerkut [18] calculated that for every 500 people reading the title of a paper, only one read also the whole text. We do not know if this ratio has changed in almost three decades.…”

“…Abstracts published in Radiology lack information about study design in 10/23 cases (43%), while the same data is missing in 15/21(71%), 13/24 (54%), and 18/30 (60%) abstracts in Investigative Radiology, European Radiology, and AJR American Journal of Roentgenology, respectively. This means that abstract readers (that are probably only a small fraction of those who read the title [18]) will never know whether the conclusions of most of original articles published on such journals were based on a prospective or a retrospective study design. Surprisingly, study design declaration is not included within the article body of 26/98 papers (27%) included in our analysis.…”

The Principles of Biomedical Scientific Writing: Title

“…The title of a paper acts as a billboard, a descriptor, an advertisement (3), or a trailer for the movie (4). For every person who reads the whole paper, about 500 people only read the title, indicating that the majority of the papers are read by title alone (5). The title can influence the first impression of the work during the pre-publication process that occurs in the peer-review, as well as the postpublication process, which affects both dissemination and citations (3,6).…”

The abstract format of original articles: differences between imaging and non-imaging journals

“…Our report showed that the abstract adopted by imaging journals presents the IMRaD format or are narrative, never IMRaD Intrduction, methods, results, and discussion/conclusion In 1983, Kerkut [18] calculated that for every 500 people reading the title of a paper, only one read also the whole text. We do not know if this ratio has changed in almost three decades.…”

“…Abstracts published in Radiology lack information about study design in 10/23 cases (43%), while the same data is missing in 15/21(71%), 13/24 (54%), and 18/30 (60%) abstracts in Investigative Radiology, European Radiology, and AJR American Journal of Roentgenology, respectively. This means that abstract readers (that are probably only a small fraction of those who read the title [18]) will never know whether the conclusions of most of original articles published on such journals were based on a prospective or a retrospective study design. Surprisingly, study design declaration is not included within the article body of 26/98 papers (27%) included in our analysis.…”

The Principles of Biomedical Scientific Writing: Title

“…The title of a paper acts as a billboard, a descriptor, an advertisement (3), or a trailer for the movie (4). For every person who reads the whole paper, about 500 people only read the title, indicating that the majority of the papers are read by title alone (5). The title can influence the first impression of the work during the pre-publication process that occurs in the peer-review, as well as the postpublication process, which affects both dissemination and citations (3,6).…”

The abstract format of original articles: differences between imaging and non-imaging journals

“…Our report showed that the abstract adopted by imaging journals presents the IMRaD format or are narrative, never IMRaD Intrduction, methods, results, and discussion/conclusion In 1983, Kerkut [18] calculated that for every 500 people reading the title of a paper, only one read also the whole text. We do not know if this ratio has changed in almost three decades.…”

“…Abstracts published in Radiology lack information about study design in 10/23 cases (43%), while the same data is missing in 15/21(71%), 13/24 (54%), and 18/30 (60%) abstracts in Investigative Radiology, European Radiology, and AJR American Journal of Roentgenology, respectively. This means that abstract readers (that are probably only a small fraction of those who read the title [18]) will never know whether the conclusions of most of original articles published on such journals were based on a prospective or a retrospective study design. Surprisingly, study design declaration is not included within the article body of 26/98 papers (27%) included in our analysis.…”

The Principles of Biomedical Scientific Writing: Title

“…The title of a paper acts as a billboard, a descriptor, an advertisement (3), or a trailer for the movie (4). For every person who reads the whole paper, about 500 people only read the title, indicating that the majority of the papers are read by title alone (5). The title can influence the first impression of the work during the pre-publication process that occurs in the peer-review, as well as the postpublication process, which affects both dissemination and citations (3,6).…”