Objectives The aim of this study was to assess whether specific title characteristics could
influence the likelihood of being included in the “Altmetric Top 100.” Methods We conducted …

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 …

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 …

Objective To describe the use of NICE, the acronym for the UK National Institute for Health
and Clinical Excellence, as both an adjective and noun in peer-reviewed journal article …

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 …

We compared the characteristics of the most cited, most downloaded, and most mentioned
(the highest Altmetric Attention Score) articles published in general medical journals. We …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …