Content Findings from extensive qualitative research employing a range of methodologies are presented. Content analysis elicited the range of podiatric specialist areas, when titles associated with specialisation entered the professional language of podiatry, how titles have been applied and changes to titles over time. Using diabetes as a clinical exemplar, findings from focus group and key ac...

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 titles. DESIGN Systematic review of titles retrieved by electronic database searches. DATA SOURCES Ovid databases (MEDLINE, All EBM Reviews, EMBASE, ERIC, CINAHL and PsycINFO) covering the formation of NICE in 199...

Wikipedia can be utilized as a controlled vocabulary for identifying the main topics in a document, with article titles serving as index terms and redirect titles as their synonyms. Wikipedia contains over 4M such titles covering the terminology of nearly any document collection. This permits controlled indexing in the absence of manually created vocabularies. We combine state-of-the-art strate...

The title of a document has two roles, to give a compact summary and to lead the reader to read the document. Conventional title generation focuses on finding key expressions from the author’s wording in the document to give a compact summary and pays little attention to the reader’s interest. To make the title play its second role properly, it is indispensable to clarify the content (“what to ...

It is now generally accepted that academic writing is a social activity by which the authors negotiate with their audience to gain community acceptance for their findings. One of the ways to achieve such an acceptance is by establishing intertextual links to prior research using citation. Despite a vast research on the topic and suggestion of typologies for the form and function of citation in ...

The focus of current research is the translation of psychology book titles. There are numerous studies in the field of titles translation, but they are restricted in Persian context. The aim of this study is thus to investigate the translation strategies used by Persian translators when transferring English psychology book titles into Persian. To achieve this objective, 245 titles of translated...