Relation of title length of journal articles to number of authors

Yitzhaki, Moshe

doi:10.1007/bf02017231

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“…Namely, Hudson (2016) has found that the single-authored papers have the shortest titles, with the title length increasing with the increase of number of authors on a paper up to 25-49 authors and then declining. However, the positive correlation between title length (measured as the number of substantive words per title) and number of authors on papers was found not to be universal-while common in sciences, it was not present in social sciences, and there was a negative correlation in humanities (Yitzhaki, 1994).…”

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

Milojević

2017

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“…We discern three dimensions within this perspective: (1) title length, (2) attention grabbers, and (3) expositional clarity. The title of an article is an important element of any scientific or scholarly article because it draws a reader's attention and is used in electronic databases to store, search, and retrieve articles (Yitzhaki 2002). However, little is known about its effect on article citations.…”

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“…However, little is known about its effect on article citations. Longer article titles are more informative and thus may perform their functions more effectively, but they may also hint at article complexity (Yitzhaki 2002). Therefore, the direction of the effect of title length on article citations is difficult to posit ex ante.…”

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The Quest for Citations: Drivers of Article Impact

Stremersch

Verniers

Verhoef

2007

Journal of Marketing

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Why do some articles become building blocks for future scholars, whereas others remain unnoticed? The authors aim to answer this question by contrasting, synthesizing, and simultaneously testing three scientometric perspectives—universalism, social constructivism, and presentation—on the influence of article and author characteristics on article citations. They study all articles published in a sample of five major journals in marketing from 1990 to 2002 that are central to the discipline. They count the number of citations each of these articles has received and regress this count on an extensive set of characteristics of the article (i.e., article quality, article domain, title length, the use of attention grabbers, and expositional clarity) and the author (i.e., author visibility and author personal promotion). They find that the number of citations an article in the marketing discipline receives depends more on “what is said” (quality and domain) and “who says it” (author visibility and personal promotion) than on “how it is said” (title length, the use of attention grabbers, and expositional clarity). The insights gleaned from this analysis contribute to the marketing literature and are relevant to scientific stakeholders, such as the management of scientific journals and individual academic scholars, as they strive to maximize citations. They are also relevant to marketing practitioners; they inform practitioners on characteristics of the academic journals in marketing and their relevance to decisions they face. Conversely, the insights also raise challenges regarding how to make journals accessible and relevant to marketing practitioners: (1) Authors visible to academics are not necessarily visible to practitioners; (2) the readability of an article may hurt academic credibility and impact, but it may be instrumental in influencing practitioners; and (3) it remains questionable whether articles that academics assess to be of high quality are also managerially relevant.

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“…Mencionemos, en primer lugar, los estudios monodisciplinarios, como por ejemplo, los de Gesuato (2009) La segunda perspectiva, la interdisciplinaria, es la que ha motivado el mayor número de estudios. Yitzhaki (1994), por ejemplo, analizó una muestra de artículos de investigación en las ciencias "duras" y "blandas". Fortanet et al, (1997Fortanet et al, ( , 1998, por su parte, examinaron una muestra de títulos en las ciencias informáticas, la economía, la lingüística aplicada, los negocios y la química.…”

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