Research article title content and form in high-ranked international clinical medicine journals

Kerans, Mary Ellen; Marshall, Jane E.; Murray, Anne; Sabaté, Sergi

doi:10.1016/j.esp.2020.06.001

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“…Wang and Bai (2007) have confirmed this, finding that 99% of titles in the New England Journal of Medicine comprise nominal phrases. In terms of content, Kerans et al (2020) observed remarkable disciplinary variation in the mention of methods in titles and different preferences between general and more specific journals for including results.…”

Section: Titles In Research Papersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We then followed Hyland and Zou (2022) in distinguishing ‘indicative’ and ‘interrogative’ forms according to their syntax and as either a single sentence or a ‘compound’, comprising two parts separated by a colon or other punctuation. Like Kerans et al (2020) and Hyland and Zou (2022), we also categorized titles according to whether they mentioned the topic, method or results of the paper. We saw this as offering the most concrete and measurable means of distinguishing titles in order to describe changing preferences.…”

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“…Hartley's (2008) 13 types, for example, include those which highlight the general subject, the findings, the methods, and so on but also possible strategies for gaining attention, such as puns, comparisons, shocks, allusion, and so on. Kerans et al's (2020) analysis of titles in clinical medicine found that those mentioning methods were more common in general journals while specialized journals tended to prefer titles with results. We focused on the three key aspects of topic, methods and results (Hyland & Zou, 2022) with reference to the most salient information each title seeks to foreground.…”

Section: Content Of Titles: Highlighted Aspects Of the Papermentioning

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Titles in research articles: Changes across time and discipline

Jiang

Hyland

2022

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Titles are a crucial feature of research papers and have become increasingly important with changes in publishing practices and the explosion of published research. As a result, novice writers seeking to get their work noticed in international journals might benefit from a clear understanding of the features of research titles and an awareness of the relationship between language and disciplinary context. In this study, we explore this relationship and the impact of changing contexts on titles across the last 60 years on the length, form and content of 36,000 titles from the 10 leading journals from six disciplines spread along a soft‐hard science continuum. Our results show a considerable increase in the length of titles coupled with more interrogative and compound titles in almost all disciplines. There has also been a growing mention of methods in the titles of hard knowledge papers with more frequent inclusion of results in the softer domains. These diachronic changes can be attributed to different characteristics of the fields and of the changing dynamics of the publishing context. Our findings have important implications for early career academics seeking to publish in English and contribute to studies of diachronic analysis of academic discourse.

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Titles in research articles: Changes across time and discipline

Jiang

Hyland

2022

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“…The findings showed that colon use in articles developed gradually and steadily across the disciplines, initially in literacy criticism journals. Moreover, Kerans et al (2020) worked on medical research titles, identifying the number of parts of the titles and their punctuation. They found 10 subtypes.…”

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Syntactic structure and rhetorical combinations of Iranian English research article titles in medicine and applied linguistics: A cross-disciplinary study

Moslehi

Kafipour

2022

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This corpus-based cross-disciplinary study investigated the syntactic structures and rhetorical combinations of 200 research article titles in two disciplines, namely, medicine (100) and applied linguistics (100). The RA titles were selected from four reputable Iranian English journals. The authors were all Iranian researchers in these two disciplines. The titles were analyzed in light of Dietz taxonomy. First, the frequencies and percentages of each syntactic and rhetorical construction occurrence have been calculated. Next, the authors performed a t-test regarding title length and the chi-square test to decide whether syntactic or rhetorical construction is a discipline-specific convention. The findings revealed thatmedical titles were longer than the linguistic ones. The frequency and percentage of both single- and multi-unit RA titles were essentially the same in both disciplines. Concerning the syntactic components of single-unit RA titles, the most frequently used structure was the nominal construction, followed by verbal and prepositional ones. The most recurrent syntactic components of the nominal structure in both disciplines were post- and pre-modified, with medical titles overtaking the linguistic titles in all nominal categories. In terms of verbal constructions, the dominant structure in medicine was the full sentence, and in applied linguistics, gerund phrases. Regarding the rhetorical components of multi-unit RA titles, medical titles took precedence over the linguistic titles in using the topic method. The topic scope and topic description organization are mostly reported in applied linguistics titles. In this study, however, two new rhetorical combinations were identified. The chi-square test results only confirmed the verbal structures of single-unit and the rhetorical combinations of multi-unit RA titles as distinctive features for each discipline.

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“…Research and literature review articles were counted in the study. Among the research articles were taken into account those that provided their own results, which have been evaluated by scientific peers and which present the typical structure of introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and references were considered (Kerans et al, 2020). In addition, the review articles mainly focus on synthesizing existing knowledge were considered (Kerans et al, 2020;Prester et al, 2021).…”

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Scientometric study of drinking water treatments technologies: Present and future challenges

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The knowledge of the tendencies of the drinking water treatments was changing through the previous decades and it is necessary to improve it for the benefit of the human beings. In this sense, the purpose of the study was to develop a scientometric study about the drinking water treatments in the period 2010-2020 for providing the state of art of the studies about the drinking water treatments in diverse knowledge areas and new orientations for future research. For this purpose, a search of the information was performed both in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases, and all articles and reviews related to the field of water treatment or chemistry were included. The results showed that China, the USA and the Netherlands have the majority of the most cited publications and various related multidisciplinary topics, such as infrastructure, technologies and pollution. Therefore, the study allows concluding that there is a need for research on different technologies that contribute positively to obtaining quality water for consumption and for the use of routine activities, being the combination and integration of the different treatment processes a challenge for future studies.

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Research article title content and form in high-ranked international clinical medicine journals

Cited by 20 publications

References 21 publications

Titles in research articles: Changes across time and discipline

Titles in research articles: Changes across time and discipline

Syntactic structure and rhetorical combinations of Iranian English research article titles in medicine and applied linguistics: A cross-disciplinary study

Scientometric study of drinking water treatments technologies: Present and future challenges

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