The title. What's in a name?

DeBakey, Selma; DeBakey, Lois

doi:10.1016/0167-5273(83)90012-8

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“…DeBakey warned about colloquialisms and readers who do not speak English 2. Shakespearean allusions are uncommon in non-English papers, but more pertinent is the fact that bare titles such as “Much ado about nothing” or “Back to the future” are difficult to index and mean nothing to the reviewer or researcher.…”

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From Shakespeare to Star Trek and beyond: a Medline search for literary and other allusions in biomedical titles

Goodman

2005

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“…A 1983 paper about titling biomedical papers, “The title. What's in a name?”,2 gives a clue to an unsurprising allusive source, William Shakespeare, but many others exist.…”

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From Shakespeare to Star Trek and beyond: a Medline search for literary and other allusions in biomedical titles

Goodman

2005

BMJ

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“…This was not surprising given the mixed results on the use of clichés reported in the literature. Although Atkin (2002) found they could be effective, other authors found they are ineffective (Debakey & Debakey, 1983;Gastel & Day, 2016;N. W. Goodman, 2005;N.…”

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“…Besides length and use of colons in the title, the APA manual and other authors inform writers to avoid acronyms or abbreviations in titles to limit reader confusion (APA, 2010; Debakey & Debakey, 1983; Gastel & Day, 2016). However, Jacques and Sebire (2010) revealed that articles with acronyms in the title were actually cited more often.…”

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I’ll Read That!: What Title Elements Attract Readers to an Article?

Hallock

Bennett

2020

Teaching of Psychology

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The title of an article is the first chance at catching a reader’s attention. We set to develop a list of title attributes that lead to attractive titles in psychology papers, which could then be used to help instruct undergraduate students on how to write good titles for their papers and projects. Currently, research into successful elements that comprise an effective title is generally limited to publication metrics (the number of hits and citations an article has). Here, we created and administered a survey to 99 undergraduate students to rate the effectiveness of titles of psychology papers that varied in length, use of colons, acronyms, clichés, being results-oriented, and phrased the title as a question. We then reworded these titles as the opposite choice (e.g., we made a longer title shorter or took the colon out of a title without changing the meaning or length). We found that participants significantly preferred long over short titles, titles containing colons over the absence of a colon, and titles phrased as questions. We hope our results aid in the instruction of writing in the discipline, and that undergraduate psychology students and authors alike can develop more effective and attractive titles to attract attention from scholars and invite broader audiences to read their work.

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Advancing the Field of Psychotherapy Through Innovation and Integration in Scholarly Works

Overholser

2008

J Contemp Psychother

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The title. What's in a name?

Cited by 12 publications

References 4 publications

From Shakespeare to Star Trek and beyond: a Medline search for literary and other allusions in biomedical titles

From Shakespeare to Star Trek and beyond: a Medline search for literary and other allusions in biomedical titles

I’ll Read That!: What Title Elements Attract Readers to an Article?

Advancing the Field of Psychotherapy Through Innovation and Integration in Scholarly Works

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