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What makes a good title?
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The chances are the first thing you when you set out to write an article is the title. But what factors transform a mediocre title into a good title? Firstly, it should be both informative and specific, using words or phrases likely to be used when searching for information, for example ‘nurse education’ rather than simply ‘nurse’. Secondly, it should be concise yet convey the main ideas clearly; articles with short titles reporting study findings have been found to attract higher numbers of viewing and citations. Thirdly, provide details of the study design to assist the reader in making an informed choice about the type of project your article is reporting. In taking these small steps when developing your title, your title can present a more concise, retrievable and clear articulation of your article.
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“A well-written title will help other researchers to find the paper more easily (8), whereas a poorly written one may make a paper difficult to be retrieved by search engines, discourage readers to go through the text, and reduce an article’s impact (9).”
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Articles with short titles describing the results are cited more often
Paiva, C. E., Lima, J. P. D. S. N., & Paiva, B. S. R. (2012) · Clinics · doi:10.6061/clinics/2012(05)17 · Cited by 196
Planning that title: Practices and preferences for titles with colons in academic articles
Hartley, J. R. (2007) · Library & Information Science Research · doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2007.05.002 · Cited by 123
Online strategies to facilitate health‐related knowledge transfer: a systematic search and review
Mairs, K., McNeil, H., McLeod, J., Prorok, J. C., & Stolee, P. (2013) · Health Information & Libraries Journal · doi:10.1111/hir.12048 · Cited by 88
Library services and user satisfaction in developing countries: a case study
Mairaj, M. I., & Naseer, M. M. (2013) · Health Information & Libraries Journal · doi:10.1111/hir.12038 · Cited by 37
The Trend toward more Attractive and Informative Titles: American Psychologist 1946–2010
Whissell, C. (2012) · Psychological Reports · doi:10.2466/17.28.pr0.110.2.427-444 · Cited by 32
Gavino, A., Ho, B. L., Co, P. A. W., Marcelo, A., & Fontelo, P. A. (2013) · Health Information & Libraries Journal · doi:10.1111/hir.12032 · Cited by 25
A bibliometric approach demonstrates the impact of a social care data set on research and policy
Urquhart, C. J., & Dunn, S. (2013) · Health Information & Libraries Journal · doi:10.1111/hir.12040 · Cited by 23
Development of a complex intervention to improve health literacy skills
Dahlgren, A., Danielsen, S. O., Opheim, E., Bjørndal, A., Reinar, L. M., Flottorp, S. A., Oxman, A. D., & Helseth, S. (2013) · Health Information & Libraries Journal · doi:10.1111/hir.12037 · Cited by 23
Cost-effective ways of delivering enquiry services: a rapid review
Sutton, A., & Grant, M. J. (2011) · Health Information & Libraries Journal · doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2011.00965.x · Cited by 8
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Fox, C. W., & Burns, C. S. (2015) · Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1002/ece3.1480 · Cited by 88
The Principles of Biomedical Scientific Writing: Title
Bahadoran, Z., Mirmiran, P., Kashfi, K., & Ghasemi, A. (2019) · International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism · doi:10.5812/ijem.98326 · Cited by 61
“cise (3, 4, 6, 8, 18, 26, 37), clear (unambiguous) (3, 18) and begins with an important term (3, 18).”
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- Authors
- Grant, M. J.
- Affiliations
- Health Information and Libraries Journal
- Corresponding author
- Grant, Maria J.
- ORCID
- Grant, Maria J.
- Venue
- Health Information & Libraries Journal
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-11-20
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 259-260
- ISSN
- 1471-1834 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-1842
- OpenAlex
- W2006219342
- Cited by
- 30
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2025: 5 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Health Information & Libraries Journal (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Keywords
- article titles, title writing, search engine retrieval, citation impact, research design, readability, nursing research articles
- MeSH terms
- Publishing, Writing, Guidelines as Topic
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