Scientific Papers With Shorter Titles Get More Citations

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @06:14PM from the brevity-is-the-soul-of-academia dept.

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 scientist’s work is often an important metric in hiring and workplace evaluations. Citations also play a role in determining a journal’s place in the scholarly pecking order, with journals that publish more highly cited papers earning a higher “impact factor” (although many critics challenge that measure).

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Re:Causation? by golodh · 2015-08-25 19:22 · Score: 1, Redundant

Yes, agreed. I think you've spotted that one.
The shorter your title the more general your subject.In that case, if your article has something useful to say it's interesting to a wider audience so you end up with more citations.