A poorly chosen article title may make a paper difficult to discover or discourage readership when discovered, reducing an article's impact. Yet, it is unclear how the structure of a manuscript's title influences readership and impact. We used manuscript tracking data for all manuscripts submitted to the journal Functional Ecology from 2004 to 2013 and citation data for papers published in this...

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...

In spite of enormous previous efforts to model the growth of various networks, there have only been a few works that successfully describe the evolution of latent networks. In a latent network edges do not represent interactions between nodes, but show some proximity values. In this paper we analyze the structure and evolution of latent networks over time by looking at a wide range of document ...