ArticleBiochemia medica2020
Title does matter: a cross-sectional study of 30 journals in the Medical Laboratory Technology category.
Article in Biochemia medica, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- How ChatGPT writes scientific titles in medical research: structural and content differences compared to human authors.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2026Article
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Abstract
introductionFirst impression on potential readers is created by the title; therefore, authors should give importance to the title structure. The aim of this study was to establish whether articles created by a smaller number of authors and with shorter, descriptive or declarative titles gain more citations and whether article title length and number of authors correlate to the number of citations. MATERIAL AND
methodsA cross-sectional study on article citation data for 30 scientific journals published in 2016 in Medical Laboratory Technology field according to Web of Science database was conducted. The type of article, type of title, as well as number of words in the title and number of authors was recorded.
resultsIn the group of original articles (N = 2623), articles with declarative titles (N = 336, 13%) showed statistically higher number of citations in multiple comparison analysis when compared to descriptive titles (P < 0.001). No correlation was found between number of citations and title word count (r = 0.07, P < 0.001) nor between number of citations and number of authors in group of original articles (r = 0.09, P < 0.001). Original articles with descriptive titles longer than 15 words or with more than six authors are cited more (P = 0.005 and P < 0.001, respectively).
conclusionBased on results of our study, titles do matter. Therefore, authors of original articles might want to consider including their findings in the title and having longer titles.
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