Deducing what a paper is about, titles are considered as the most important determinant of how many people will read the article. Therefore, studying the use of different syntactic structures and their rhetorical functions in titles is of great significance. The current study was set to investigate these structures used in research article titles in three disciplines of Applied Linguistics, Den...

Title of a research article is an abstract the abstract. Titles play decisive role in convincing readers at first sight whether articles are worth reading or not. Not only do titles show how carefully words chosen by authors, but also reflect disciplinary differences terms title and structure between hard sciences soft sciences. This study examined lexical density syntactic 690 from five Librar...

Titles are a key part of every academic genre and particularly important in research papers. Today, online searches overwhelmingly based on articles rather than journals which means that writers must, more ever, make their titles both informative appealing to attract readers who may go read, cite use research. In this paper we explore the features 5070 leading six disciplines human physical sci...

A research article (RA) title is the first and foremost feature that attracts the reader's attention, the feature from which she/he may decide whether the whole article is worth reading. The present study attempted to investigate syntactic structures and rhetorical functions of RA titles written in English and Persian and published in journals in three disciplines of Electrical Engineering, Psy...

In this paper we carried out a diachronic analysis (1840-2009) of a corpus of 180 medical case report titles drawn from the British Medical Journal. We analyzed a series of quantitative variables (number of authors and their institutional affiliation, title length, and punctuation/ grammatical data) and qualitative variables (authors’ collaboration and types of titles). The results of our resea...

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...

In the experimental sciences authors use the scientific article to express their findings by making an argumentative claim. While past studies have located the claim in the Abstract, the Introduction, and in the Discussion section, in this paper we focus on the article title as a potential source of the claim. Our investigation has suggested that titles which contain a tensed verb almost certai...