Relation of title length to number of authors in journal articles

T. D. C. Kuch

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1978, vol. 29, issue 4, 200-202

Abstract: The number of authors of papers in four scientific journals is positively correlated with the number of significant words in the titles of the same papers. A fifth journal showed no correlation. Implications for information retrieval are explored and tentative explanations are offered.

Date: 1978
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