Title characteristics and citations in economics

Klaus Wohlrabe and Matthias Gnewuch

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

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.

Keywords: articles; title characteristics; citations; non-alphanumeric characters; title length (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 A14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-11-30
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