The effect of characteristics of title on citation rates of articles

Rostami, Fatemeh; Mohammadpoorasl, Asghar; Hajizadeh, Mohammad

doi:10.1007/s11192-013-1118-1

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“…; Rostami et al. ), whereas a few have found that papers with shorter titles (Paiva et al. ) or longer titles (Habibzadeh and Yadollahie ; Jacques and Sebire ) are more highly cited.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Papers with subtitles (Jacques and Sebire ; Rostami et al. ), or with nonalphanumeric characters indicative of subtitles (colons and dashes; Buter and van Raan ; Haslam et al. ), have been found to be cited more often than are papers without subtitles, but other studies have also found either no relationship (Hartley ) or the opposite relationship (Jamali and Nikzad ; Paiva et al.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The relationship between manuscript title structure and success: editorial decisions and citation performance for an ecological journal

Fox

Burns

2015

Ecology and Evolution

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A poorly chosen article title may make a paper difficult to discover or discourage readership when discovered, reducing an article's impact. Yet, it is unclear how the structure of a manuscript's title influences readership and impact. We used manuscript tracking data for all manuscripts submitted to the journal Functional Ecology from 2004 to 2013 and citation data for papers published in this journal from 1987 to 2011 to examine how title features changed and whether a manuscript's title structure was predictive of success during the manuscript review process and/or impact (citation) after publication. Titles of manuscripts submitted to Functional Ecology became marginally longer (after controlling for other variables), broader in focus (less frequent inclusion of genus and species names), and included more humor and subtitles over the period of the study. Papers with subtitles were less likely to be rejected by editors both pre- and post-peer review, although both effects were small and the presence of subtitles in published papers was not predictive of citations. Papers with specific names of study organisms in their titles fared poorly during editorial (but not peer) review and, if published, were less well cited than papers whose titles did not include specific names. Papers with intermediate length titles were more successful during editorial review, although the effect was small and title word count was not predictive of citations. No features of titles were predictive of reviewer willingness to review papers or the length of time a paper was in peer review. We conclude that titles have changed in structure over time, but features of title structure have only small or no relationship with success during editorial review and post-publication impact. The title feature that was most predictive of manuscript success: papers whose titles emphasize broader conceptual or comparative issues fare better both pre- and post-publication than do papers with organism-specific titles.

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“…; Rostami et al. ), whereas a few have found that papers with shorter titles (Paiva et al. ) or longer titles (Habibzadeh and Yadollahie ; Jacques and Sebire ) are more highly cited.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The relationship between manuscript title structure and success: editorial decisions and citation performance for an ecological journal

Fox

Burns

2015

Ecology and Evolution

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“…Results vary across scientific fields and even among studies in the same field. For instance, Rostami et al (2014) find that the length of the title has no impact on the citation rate. Similar conclusions were documented in Alimoradi et al (2016).…”

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Title characteristics and citations in economics

Gnewuch

Wohlrabe

2017

Scientometrics

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“…An important development is search engines that automatically use various types of administrative characteristics such as bibliometric characteristics (e.g., author, title of document, title of journal or book, volume number and pages of specific articles). The result may be that articles that use a hyphen or a colon in the title, or with other keywords than the words used in the title, get a higher number of citations (Rostami, Mohammadpoorasl, & Hajizadeh 2014).…”

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Exploring a prototype framework of web-based and peer-reviewed “European Educational Research Quality Indicators” (EERQI)

Mooij

2014

Scientometrics

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Digitization, the Internet, and information or webometric interdisciplinary approaches are affecting the fields of Scientometrics and Library and Information Science (LIS). These new approaches can be used to improve citation-only procedures to estimate the quality and impact of research. A European pilot to explore this potential was called Three intrinsic and two extrinsic latent factors were found to be relevant. Moreover, the more a document was related to a reviewer's own area of research, the higher the score the reviewer gave concerning 1) significance, originality, and consistency, and 2) methodological adequacy. The conclusions are that a prototype EERQI framework has been constructed: intrinsic quality indicators add specific information to extrinsic quality or impact indicators, and vice versa. Also, a problem of "objective" impact scores is that they are based on "subjective" or biased peer-review scores. Peer-review, which is foundational to having a work cited, seems biased and this bias should be controlled or improved by more refined estimates of quality and impact of research. Some suggestions are given and limitations of the pilot are discussed. As the EERQI development approach, instruments, and tools are new, they should be developed further.

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The effect of characteristics of title on citation rates of articles

Cited by 65 publications

References 5 publications

The relationship between manuscript title structure and success: editorial decisions and citation performance for an ecological journal

The relationship between manuscript title structure and success: editorial decisions and citation performance for an ecological journal

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Exploring a prototype framework of web-based and peer-reviewed “European Educational Research Quality Indicators” (EERQI)

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