Traditionally, librarians have provided access to journal titles through the library’s catalog. With the introduction of full-text databases, which consist of articles from many different journals, librarians are faced with the challenge of providing access to these titles. This article reports the results of a survey which tried to determine if research libraries were attempting to catalog the...

We describe a rule-based approach for the automatic acquisition of salient scientific entities from Computational Linguistics (CL) scholarly article titles. Two observations motivated approach: (i) noting aspects an article's contribution in its title; and (ii) pattern regularities capturing terms that could be expressed set rules. Only those lexico-syntactic patterns were selected easily recog...

What kinds of titles are appropriate for research articles? Does creativity have a place in or should be descriptive and scientific? This article examines the 408 articles titled “Should I Stay Should Go?” asks why there so many with same title. The academic culture publication pressure can lead to researchers choosing creative titles, including popular song stand out from crowd. Furthermore, r...

The present study examines whether the use of humor in scientific article titles is associated with the number of citations an article receives. Four judges rated the degree of amusement and pleasantness of titles of articles published over 10 years (from 1985 to 1994) in two of the most prestigious journals in Psychology, Psychological Bulletin and Psychological Review. We then examined the as...

Enhancing sales and operations planning through forecasting analysis and business intelligence is demanded in many industries and enterprises. Publishing industries usually pick attractive titles and headlines for their stories to increase sales, since popular article titles and headlines can attract readers to buy magazines. In this paper, information retrieval techniques are adopted to extrac...