Articles with short titles describing the results are cited more often

Articles with short titles describing the results are cited more often

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 article views and citations. METHODS Research articles (n = 423, published in October 2008) from all Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals and from 12 Biomed Central (BMC) journals were evaluated. Publicatio...

Are higher quality papers cited more often?

Are Journal Articles Accessed More Times Also Cited More?

CrossRef reports what is called resolutions every month. This document reports statistics complied monthly on the papers of each journal accessed through the digital object identifier (DOI) proxy server (http://dx.doi.org/). The Archives of Plastic Surgery (APS) also receives the report about which papers are accessed frequently through the DOI system. However, the report only includes papers t...

Are astronomical papers with more authors cited more?

Following my previous study of paper length vs. number of citations in astronomy (Stanek 2008), some colleagues expressed an interest in knowing if any correlation exists between citations and the number of authors on an astronomical paper. At least naively, one would expect papers with more authors to be cited more. I test this expectation with the same sample of papers as analyzed in Stanek (...

Do First-Articles in a Journal Issue Get More Cited?

Introduction As the advice of peers on the quality of a submitted paper prior to publication, peer review can be regarded as the pre-publication evaluation. Bibliographic citations of scientific papers used as indicators of the visibility, impact, and quality of scientific publications, could be regarded as the post-publication evaluation. Intentionally or not, journal editors often put the acc...