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Scientific Papers With Shorter Titles Get More Citations

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: August 26th, 2015, 4:00am UTC

sciencehabit writes: Articles with shorter titles tend to get cited more often than those with longer headers, concludes a study published today, which examined 140,000 papers published between 2007 and 2013. It appears in the journal Royal Society Open Science. Citations are a key currency in the academic world. The number of times other researchers cite a scientistrsquo;s work is often an important metric in hiring and workplace evaluations. Citations also play a role in determining a journalrsquo;s place in the scholarly pecking order, with journals that publish more highly cited papers earning a higher ldquo;impact factorrdquo; (although many critics challenge that measure).pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Scientific+Papers+With+Shorter+Titles+Get+More+Citations%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1JuP1C1"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F08%2F26%2F0549219%2Fscientific-papers-with-shorter-titles-get-more-citations%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/08/26/0549219/scientific-papers-with-shorter-titles-get-more-citations?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/08/26/0549219/scientific-papers-with-shorter-titles-get-more-citations?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/TqFr2W0wMSA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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