Title characteristics and citations in economics

Matthias Gnewuch and Klaus Wohlrabe

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: We investigate the relationship between article title characteristics and citations in economics using a large data set from Web of Science. Our results suggest that articles with a short title that also contains a non-alphanumeric character achieve a higher citation count.

Date: 2017
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Published in Scientometrics 3 110(2017): pp. 1573-1578

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