Reporting guidelines for clinical research designs emerged in the mid-1990s and have
influenced various aspects of research articles, including titles, which have also been …

Readers now scan keyword-generated search results from online databases to select
articles rather than browse tables of contents, increasing the importance of titles in isolation …

The title of an article is the main entrance for reading the full article. The aim of our work
therefore is to examine differences of title content and form between original research …

Importance The language of medical research appears to be intrinsically tied to the culture
of medical research and provides a unique window into broader trends in the culture of …

Original articles in the medical literature should have informative titles, also referred to as
declarative titles. A nondeclarative title expresses the study's theme (topic) or, at most, the …

This paper is a diachronic analysis of a corpus of 180 titles drawn from Case Reports (CRs)
published in the BMJ and BMJ Case Reports between 1840 and 2009. The corpus was …

Objective–To describe the implementation of the new policy of the Journal of Clinical
Epidemiology (JCE) to use informative titles for newly submitted articles. Setting–JCE …

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate some features of article titles from open
access journals and to assess the possible impact of these titles on predicting the number of …

Journals instruct authors to proofread their accepted manuscripts before signing them off for
publication and expect them to submit errata to correct any mistakes identified thereafter …

Objectives Most published articles are not cited and citation rates depend on many
variables. We hypothesized that specific features of journal titles may be related to citation …