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 …

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 …

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 …

English titles of medical research articles (RAs) are of great importance, the quality of which
can, to a certain degree, affect impact factors of the articles, because many readers will …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Aim To investigate the correlation between the length of the title of a scientific article and the
number of citations it receives, in view of the common editorial call for shorter titles. Methods …

Successful publishing of an article depends on several factors, including the structure of the
main text, the so-called introduction, methods, results and discussion structure (IMRAD). The …

Research articles are clearly influenced by the discipline of the research being reported.
Just as disciplinary conventions place constraints on, for example, the moves and language …