Colons play a hidden but important role in the planning and writing of effective titles for
academic articles. This paper presents three studies of current practices in using colons and …

This research focuses on the structural construction of scientific titles in English and Spanish
in research papers (RP) and review papers (RVP) in the biological and social sciences. The …

To prevent a paper from being discarded and ensure that it addresses the right audience, it
must have a proper title that satisfies certain requirements. Writing the titles to scientific …

Much has been written about titles in scientific journal articles but little research has been
carried out. We aimed to assess in two studies how factors like the length of a title and its …

Previous researchers have given conflicting views as to what makes a" good" research
article (RA) title. In this paper, characteristic features of research article titles, including …

This paper evidences the progressive adoption of a journalistic approach in title writing in
certain scientific fields and suggests the reasons why this evolution has not affected all …

In this study we analyse a corpus of 300 randomly selected research paper titles written in
English and published between 1998 and 2012 in the most prestigious journals in the field …

This research assesses the evolution of lexical diversity in scholarly titles using a new
indicator based on zipfian frequency-rank distribution tail fits. At the operational level, while …

Title of a research article is an abstract of the abstract. Titles play a decisive role in
convincing readers at first sight whether articles are worth reading or not. Not only do …

This corpus-based cross-disciplinary study investigated the syntactic structures and
rhetorical combinations of 200 research article titles in two disciplines, namely, medicine …