A lexical and syntactic study of research article titles in Library Science and Scientometrics

Diao, Junli

doi:10.1007/s11192-021-04018-6

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“…This indicates the increased length of titles over the years might result from the emergence of a new type of syntactic pattern (compound titles with sentences) in titles. At the same time, there is a hint that full sentence structure is emerging in soft science, which used to be in the hard science and scientometrics (Diao, 2021). These convergent results differ with other genre of law-related public information, for example, legal texts published in the media shared discursive formulas peculiar to legal discourse (Chemeteva, 2022).…”

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“…Firstly, similarities can be found. The length and prevalent usage of nominal phrase similarities exist between library science and scientometrics (Diao, 2021), and nominal and compound structures are also frequently adopted in linguistics and literature, as well as lexical diversity (Xiang & Li, 2020). Secondly, being with these general features mentioned above, researchers also found that titles differ significantly in academic fields in some interdisciplinary aspects.…”

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“…Secondly, being with these general features mentioned above, researchers also found that titles differ significantly in academic fields in some interdisciplinary aspects. For example, in terms of title structure, gerund phrases are dominant in applied linguistics (Moslehi & Kapoor, 2022) and full sentences in scientometrics (Diao, 2021) and medicine (Moslehi & Kapoor, 2022). The use of punctuation is more favored in library science or using words as indicators of research methods in scientometrics (Diao, 2021).…”

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“…For example, in terms of title structure, gerund phrases are dominant in applied linguistics (Moslehi & Kapoor, 2022) and full sentences in scientometrics (Diao, 2021) and medicine (Moslehi & Kapoor, 2022). The use of punctuation is more favored in library science or using words as indicators of research methods in scientometrics (Diao, 2021). Thirdly, as to the content of titles, linguistic and applied linguistic article titles tend to be more diversified, with results, datasets, and methods (ParaGard & Meihami, 2016; Xiang & Li, 2020).…”

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Title Features in Research Articles: A Disciplinary Study of Law

Pan,

Hao,

Chen

2024

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This study brings to the fore trends in title research by investigating title features in law papers extracted by law readers from law-related journals. To this end, 447 articles published in 266 journals from 1946 to 2023 were coded and analyzed statistically. Title length, syntactic structure, and content features were considered. The quantitative results reveal that titles in law articles demonstrated 1) an increase in length 2) a favor of single declarative titles and compound titles with colon 3) an obvious trend of using descriptive titles concerning title content. The current study therefore reflects the full complexity and a comprehensive picture of law articles, demonstrates title features and trends in law paper writing, and thus in light of significant findings, introduces novice writers, especially law students, to disciplinary language use in convention.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Title Features in Research Articles: A Disciplinary Study of Law

Pan,

Hao,

Chen

2024

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“…Most articles investigating the form of the title compared whether the title was a full sentence [ 20 ], descriptive, indicative, or a question [ 18 , 21 ], or whether the title included non-alphanumeric characters, such as a colon or dash [ 22 ]. Very few publications looked at other title components of a research article.…”

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Content and form of original research articles in general major medical journals

Heßler

Ziegler

2023

PLoS ONE

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The title of an article is the main entrance for reading the full article. The aim of our work therefore is to examine differences of title content and form between original research articles and its changes over time. Using PubMed we examined title properties of 500 randomly chosen original research articles published in the general major medical journals BMJ, JAMA, Lancet, NEJM and PLOS Medicine between 2011 and 2020. Articles were manually evaluated with two independent raters. To analyze differences between journals and changes over time, we performed random effect meta-analyses and logistic regression models. Mentioning of results, providing any quantitative or semi-quantitative information, using a declarative title, a dash or a question mark were rarely used in the title in all considered journals. The use of a subtitle, methods-related items, such as mentioning of methods, clinical context or treatment increased over time (all p < 0.05), while the use of phrasal tiles decreased over time (p = 0.044). Not a single NEJM title contained a study name, while the Lancet had the highest usage of it (45%). The use of study names increased over time (per year odds ratio: 1.13 (95% CI: [1.03‒1.24]), p = 0.008). Investigating title content and form was time-consuming because some criteria could only be adequately evaluated by hand. Title content changed over time and differed substantially between the five major medical journals. Authors are advised to carefully study titles of journal articles in their target journal prior to manuscript submission.

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More diversity, more complexity, but more flexibility: research article titles in TESOL Quarterly, 1967–2022

Jiang

2023

Scientometrics

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A lexical and syntactic study of research article titles in Library Science and Scientometrics

Cited by 8 publications

References 30 publications

Title Features in Research Articles: A Disciplinary Study of Law

Title Features in Research Articles: A Disciplinary Study of Law

Content and form of original research articles in general major medical journals

More diversity, more complexity, but more flexibility: research article titles in TESOL Quarterly, 1967–2022

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