Titles in English-medium Astrophysics research articles

Méndez, David I.; Alcaraz, M. Ángeles; Salager‐Meyer, Françoise

doi:10.1007/s11192-013-1174-6

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“…; Whissell ), although this varies among journals (Méndez et al. ). We found that title word count of papers submitted to and published by Functional Ecology increased only very slightly over time, an effect only observable after controlling for changes in other features of titles.…”

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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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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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“…According to the obtained data, and like in the case of SLs, A&A RPs include the highest TL value, although the difference with the other samples is not statistically significant (some of the longest and shortest RP titles were already mentioned in Méndez, Alcaraz & Salager-Meyer, 2014b). Regarding TA, it follows the same pattern as TL, namely the highest value is found in A&A RPs.…”

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confidence: 57%

“…With respect to our RP title corpus, we used the same one we dealt with in our previous studies on the matter, but for the journal AJ because it does not publish SLs as was mentioned above. Summing up, the titles analysed are those drawn from The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), and Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A) (see Méndez, Alcaraz & Salager-Meyer, 2014a, 2014b for a detailed account of the three different corpora). Since both samples are not similar in size (480 SL titles and 200 RP titles), we base all our calculations on average values in order to be able to compare the obtained data.…”

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“…Somehow more numerous and varied are the bibliometric papers published by astronomers on the relation of citations to impact factors (Trimble and Zaich, 2006) or on the relationship between the number of articles published yearly in the main astrophysical journals and the number of authors per paper (Butler Burton, 2007;Henneken, 2012). Other articles also dealing with astrophysics were those dedicated to authorship and collaboration patterns by Abt (2000Abt ( , 2007aAbt ( , 2007bAbt ( , 2007c, Méndez et al (2014b), Méndez & Alcaraz (2015c, or Smith (2016).…”

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Titles of Scientific Letters and Research Papers In Astrophysics: A Comparative Study of Some Linguistic Aspects and Their Relationship with Collaboration Issues

Méndez

Alcaraz

2017

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In this study we compare the titles of scientific letters and those of research papers published in the field of astrophysics in order to identify the possible differences and/or similarities between both genres in terms of several linguistic and extra-linguistic variables (length, lexical density, number of prepositions, number of compound groups, number of authors and number of countries mentioned in the paper bylines). We also carry out a cross-genre and cross-journal analysis of the referred six variables. Our main findings may be summarized as follows: (1) When compared to research paper titles, scientific letter titles are usually shorter, they have a lower lexical density, they include a higher number of prepositions per number of words and a lower number of compound groups per number of words, although they have more up to 4-word compound groups, i.e. the simplest ones. As a consequence, scientific letter titles include less information, which is also less condensed, than research paper titles. (2) The predominance of compound adjectives over compound nouns in the titles of both genres highlights the scientificity of astrophysical discourse. (3) In general terms, our data show a positive correlation between title length and the number of countries mentioned in the bylines for both genres. The positive correlation between title length and number of authors is only met in the case of research papers. In light of these findings, it may be concluded that scientific letters are a clear example of a timeliness and more “immediate” science, whereas research papers are connected to a more timeless and “elaborate” science. It may also be concluded that two different collaboration scenarios are intertwining on the basis of three separate geographic and linguistic publication contexts (Mainland Europe, The United Kingdom and The United States of North America).

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“…A par do tratamento e dos processos de extração acima descritos, a exploração dos títulos dos textos de corpora de especialidade é relevante para a extração de ULE. Os títulos, nos vários tipos de texto típicos de cada domínio, são cada vez mais um tópico de interesse no que respeita ao estudo das línguas de especialidade (Baicchi, 2003;Roy, 2008;Moore, 2010;Soler, 2011;Méndez et al 2014), desde logo porque permitem a identificação do conteúdo dos textos sem a sua leitura (Hoek, 1981). Devido à produção e à acessibilidade massiva de conteúdos, a importância dos títulos tem, aliás, crescido, havendo provas de que muitos especialistas confiam muitas vezes apenas na informação dada no título para integrarem as obras como referências nos seus próprios textos, ou para tomarem decisões técnicas (Bérubé et al, 2018).…”

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Exploração de corpora para extração e descrição de léxico de especialidade

Barbero

Amaro

2020

Linha Água (Online)

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A exploração de corpora para a extração de léxico de especialidade é um método consensual e comum na construção de recursos lexicais. No entanto, as metodologias empregadas não são explicitamente discutidas, dificultando a comparação e a determinação de abordagens robustas. Para preencher essa lacuna, neste artigo apresentamos e discutimos uma metodologia detalhada para extração de léxico de especialidade a partir de corpora, conjugando abordagens linguísticas e estatísticas. O método proposto prevê tanto o uso de corpora de especialidade como de corpora monitores e inclui: i) análise de dados de frequência; ii) extração de concordâncias e colocações; iii) extração de informação de ordem textual, permitindo a extração de unidades lexicais atómicas e multipalavra e de relações semânticas relevantes. Desse modo, o objetivo da metodologia é a determinação de listas de potenciais unidades lexicais de especialidade e de informações relevantes para a sua descrição que permitam uma validação final rápida e eficiente, maximizando o valor informacional da interação com os especialistas.

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Titles in English-medium Astrophysics research articles

Cited by 19 publications

References 22 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

Titles of Scientific Letters and Research Papers In Astrophysics: A Comparative Study of Some Linguistic Aspects and Their Relationship with Collaboration Issues

Exploração de corpora para extração e descrição de léxico de especialidade

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