Title length

Yann Bramoullé and Lorenzo Ductor

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Abstract: We document strong and robust negative correlations between the length of the title of an economics article and different measures of scientific quality. Analyzing all articles published between 1970 and 2011 and referenced in EconLit, we find that articles with shorter titles tend to be published in better journals, to be more cited and to be more innovative. These correlations hold controlling for unobserved time-invariant and observed time varying characteristics of teams of authors. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Title length; Journal quality; Citations; Novelty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-06
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Published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 150, pp.311 - 324. ⟨10.1016/j.jebo.2018.01.014⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.01.014

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