Title characteristics and citations in economics

Wohlrabe, Klaus and Gnewuch, Matthias (2016): Title characteristics and citations in 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.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: articles, title characteristics, citations, non-alphanumeric characters, title length
• Subjects: A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines; A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A14 - Sociology of Economics

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