Motivation: There are many existing resources that integrate data between databases; they do this either semantically by the use of RDF and triplestores (e.g. Bio2RDF), or with web links and ID mapping services (e.g. PICR, eUtils). Results declared in the literature are, however, only rarely interlinked with existing databases and even more rarely interlinked with each other. We describe a meth...

Objectives. Titles of journal articles should effectively convey to readers, editors, and reviewers basic topics of the articles and, within topics, specific aspects. To increase our understanding of the current practices of authors and editors in the use of titles, we analyzed article titles from a sample of general medical journals and queried editors in the United States and England. Design ...

In this paper, we examine the characteristics of titles (average length, proportion of titles with subtitles, proportion of interrogatory, and indicative titles) and how they changed over a substantial period of time (half a century). We consistently analyze core literature in five diverse fields, in order to probe the usage of titles as a disciplinary identity building tool. In addition, we st...

OBJECTIVES Most published articles are not cited and citation rates depend on many variables. We hypothesized that specific features of journal titles may be related to citation rates. DESIGN We reviewed the title characteristics of the 25 most cited articles and the 25 least cited articles published in 2005 in general and specialist medical journals including the Lancet, BMJ and Journal of C...