PAPERS WITH SHORTER TITLES GET MORE CITATIONS

PAPERS WITH SHORTER TITLES GET MORE CITATIONS To William Shakespeare, brevity was the soul of wit. For scientists, it may be even more valuable, as conciseness seems to correlate with how frequently a research paper is cited. Adrian Letchford and his colleagues at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK, analysed the titles of 140,000 of the most highly cited peer-reviewed papers published between 2007 and 2013 as listed on Scopus, a research-paper database. They compared the lengths of the papers' titles with the number of times each paper was cited by other peer-reviewed papers- a statistic sometimes used as a crude measure of importance. As they report in Royal Society Open Science1, "journals which publish papers with shorter titles receive more citations per paper". FOR COMPLETE READ AND REFLINK:http://www.nature.com/news/papers-with-shorter-titles-get-more-citations-1.18246?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20150827&spMailingID=49415486&spUserID=ODkxOTIxNjUzNwS2&spJobID=744108196&spReportId=NzQ0MTA4MTk2S0 Best Regards, Raghvendra R The information contained in this electronic message and in any attachments to this message is confidential, legally privileged and intended only for use by the person or entity to which this electronic message is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify the sender and system manager by return email and delete the message and its attachments and also you are hereby notified that any distribution, copying, review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this electronic transmission or the information contained in it is strictly prohibited. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not represent those of the Company or bind the Company. Any commitments made over e-mail are not financially binding on the company unless accompanied or followed by a valid purchase order. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Mail Scanner, and is believed to be clean. The Company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.jubl.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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