NDLI: An analysis of the titles of papers submitted to the UK REF in 2014: authors, disciplines, and stylistic details

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Author	Hudson, John
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	In 2014 over 52,000 academics submitted >155,500 journal articles in 36 different disciplines for assessment in the UK’s four-year Research Evaluation Framework (the REF). In this paper the characteristics of the titles of these papers are assessed. Although these varied considerably between the disciplines, the main findings were that: (i) the lengths of the titles increased with the number of authors in almost all disciplines, (ii) the use of colons and question marks tended to decline with increasing author numbers—although there were a few disciplines, such as economics, where the reverse was evident, (iii) papers published later on in the 4-year period tended to have more authors than those published earlier, and (iv), in some disciplines, the numbers of subsequent citations to papers were higher when the titles were shorter and when they employed colons but lower when they used question marks.
Ending Page	889
Page Count	19
Starting Page	871
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01389130
e-ISSN	15882861
Journal	Scientometrics
Issue Number	2
Volume Number	109
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-07-29
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Multiple authors REF Information Storage and Retrieval Library Science Colon Journal title length Citations Question marks Sociology (and profession) of mathematics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Library and Information Sciences Computer Science Applications

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