Il titolo di questo post non tiene conto dell’indicazione emersa da uno studio realizzato all’università di Coventry: i paper scientifici che hanno un titolo più breve sono più citati (Nature).
Adrian Letchford and his colleagues at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK, analysed the titles of 140,000 of the most highly cited peer-reviewed papers published between 2007 and 2013 as listed on Scopus, a research-paper database. They compared the lengths of the papers’ titles with the number of times each paper was cited by other peer-reviewed papers— a statistic sometimes used as a crude measure of importance. As they report in Royal Society Open Science, “journals which publish papers with shorter titles receive more citations per paper”.
Il team di ricercatori ha speso molto tempo a decidere il titolo di questo loro paper. Alla fine hanno scelto: “The advantage of short paper titles”.
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