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“Association of title’s length and citation of the paper has remained inconclusive (47, 48), however, papers with shorter titles (40) especially when presenting study conclusion (49) receive more citations (40).”
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The Results (section 4) say shorter titles tend to be more cited, even after controlling for journal and research-team characteristics. The Conclusions (section 5) describe the correlation as strong and robust; what remains uncertain is whether title length causes the difference in citations, not whether an association exists. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Bramoullé, Y., & Ductor, L.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Middlesex University London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Ductor, Lorenzo
- ORCID
- Ductor, Lorenzo
- Venue
- Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-06
- Volume
- 150
- Pages
- 311-324
- ISSN
- 0167-2681 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4214753194
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 2.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (publishedVersion)
- Middlesex University Research Repository (Middlesex University Of London) (acceptedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Keywords
- article titles, title length, scientific quality, journal quality, citation impact, research innovation, economics literature, EconLit
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