The Length and Semantic Structure of Article Titles—Evolving Disciplinary Practices and Correlations with Impact

In this paper, we examine the characteristics of titles (average length, proportion of titles with subtitles, proportion of interrogatory, and indicative titles) and how they changed over a substantial period of time (half a century). We consistently analyze core literature in five diverse fields, i...

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Main Author: Staša Milojević
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2017.00002/full