Survey of active verbs in the titles of clinical trial reports Informative titles in the BMJ

Goodman, Neville W.

doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7239.914

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“…Hay evidencia, por ejemplo, de que los médicos muy a menudo toman decisiones terapéuticas a partir de los títulos de los artículos científicos (Goodman, 2000); Haynes et al 1990). Es una de las razones por las cuales los títulos deben transmitir de manera clara y precisa el tema de la investigación (Day, 1998;Hartley, 2008;Swales y Feak, 1994), y, si es importante, el diseño de la misma, al mismo tiempo que deben llamar la atención de los lectores en general, pero, en primerísimo lugar la de los editores y de los árbitros.…”

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Grammatical means of textual cohesion in appellate court decisions

Entralgo¹,

Salager‐Meyer²,

Briceño

2015

LFE 21.2

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Grammatical means of textual cohesion in appellate court decisions

Entralgo¹,

Salager‐Meyer²,

Briceño

2015

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“…She points out that editors and researchers were debating the advisability of what she called "conclusive" titles (for results mention) for clinical trials in the late 1980s and early 1990s. For example, some results-mention titles in the BMJ in 1996 were found to give conclusions that were later called into question or had overreached the actual findings of the trials [28] (in other words, misrepresenting the level of evidence obtained) and were later contradicted, yet the results claimed early on remain frozen in the titles forever-creating a potential problem for medical practitioners searching the literature. The relative rarity of results mention in general medicine titles today may have come about for this reason.…”

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Content and Phrasing in Titles of Original Research and Review Articles in 2015: Range of Practice in Four Clinical Journals

Kerans¹,

Murray²,

Sabaté

2016

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Abstract:Reporting guidelines for clinical research designs emerged in the mid-1990s and have influenced various aspects of research articles, including titles, which have also been subject to changing uses with the growth of electronic database searching and efforts to reduce bias in literature searches. We aimed (1) to learn more about titles in clinical medicine today and (2) to develop an efficient, reliable way to study titles over time and on the fly-for quick application by authors, manuscript editors, translators and instructors. We compared content and form in titles from two general medical journals-the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and the British Medical Journal-and two anesthesiology journals (the European Journal of Anaesthesiology and Anesthesiology); we also analyzed the inter-rater reliability of our coding. Significant content differences were found in the frequencies of mentions of methods, results (between general and subspecialty titles), and geographic setting; phrasing differences were found in the prevalence of full-sentence and compound titles (and their punctuation). NEJM titles were significantly shorter, and this journal differed consistently on several features. We conclude that authors must learn to efficiently survey titles for form and content patterns when preparing manuscripts to submit to unfamiliar journals or on resubmitting to a new journal after rejection.

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“…This was not so, however, in another multidisciplinary journal, Science, where only a few research article titles were found to be verbal (Jaime-Sisó 2009). Goodman (2000Goodman ( , 2010 too asserts that research article titles are becoming more informative: the third-person singular in research articles titles increased on average 43-fold between 1970 and 2009, and 105-fold in core clinical journals.Since the overwhelming majority of our CR title corpus was found to be nominal, it would seem that the use of full sentences in scientific title-writing is a generic question. In that sense, our findings lend support to the conclusion reached by Soler (2011) on the generic and disciplinary nature of verbal/ informative titles.…”

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“…The aforementioned studies have helped us understand better not only the essence and raison d'être of the CR narrative, but also its evolution from a rhetorical, structural, stylistic and linguistic standpoint. Nonetheless, to the best of our knowledge, no study has ever been conducted on the evolution of CR titles.Since there is evidence that doctors sometimes make clinical decisions from the titles of journal articles (Haynes et al 1990;Goodman 2000), titles should convey effectively the scope of the research and topic of the report, and, if possible, the design of the reported investigation, while attracting the attention of and informing the primary target audience, editors and reviewers. Despite their succinctness, 'titles are serious stuff ' , asserts Swales (1990: 224), in that they 'intrigue the reader and lure him into reading the whole article ' (Haggan 2004: 298).…”

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Titling and authorship practices in medical case reports: a diachronic study

Salager‐Meyer¹,

Ariza

Briceño³

2014

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This paper is a diachronic analysis of a corpus of 180 titles drawn from Case Reports (CRs) published in the BMJ and BMJ Case Reports between 1840 and 2009. The corpus was divided into three blocks, and the frequency of occurrence of 69 text-internal variables was recorded in each title. Between-block comparisons were carried out, and Student's t-tests IntroductionSince before Hippocrates, case reports (CRs) have made, and still make, a valuable contribution to the advancement of medical science (Friedell 1973; Morgan 1985;Pascal 1985;Simpson and Griggs 1985;Morris 1989). McCarthy and Reilly (2000) report, for example, that a search of the MEDLINE database from 1996 to 2000, using the Medical Subject Heading term 'case report' , retrieved more than 140,000 citations. More recently a search of Web of Science using the same MSH term retrieved 160 articles from 1953 and 4,011 from (cited in Gawrylewski 2007. Communication & MedicineGiven the unpredictable nature of medicine, many medical professionals will indeed have come across a patient who has not been a textbook case. The patient may have presented in an unusual way, had a strange pathology, or reacted to a medical intervention in a manner that has not been seen before. The publication of such novelties and curiosities as CRs has for many centuries been a fundamental way of sharing knowledge and conveying medical experience, and throughout history there have been famous CRs that have helped shape the way we view health and disease (Jamjoom et al. 2009;Salager-Meyer 2012).In recent years, though, and especially since the 1990s (Maisonneuve et al. 2010), CRs have come under scrutiny and disfavor among some members of the medical scientific community, and they are now frequently relegated to the lowest rank in the hierarchy of study design. Indeed, there are those who argue, for example, that CRs are 'passé, trivial ' (Rose and Corn 1984), and that they are increasingly irrelevant in current medical practice and education (Yadav 2006) because their obscurity and rarity appeal only to a specialized few, and because they add little to everyday medical practice. What is more, so argue the 'opponents' of CR publishing, their anecdotal nature lacks the scientific rigor of large, wellconducted studies. CRs have therefore fallen down the hierarchical ladder of medical evidence, and many 64 Françoise Salager-Meyer et al. medical journals, for 'shortage of page space' , now refuse to publish CRs (for a thorough analysis of the growing obsolescence of the psychiatric case report as a knowledge-bearing text, see Berkenkotter 2008).Another reason why this 'endangered species' (Rose and Corn 1984) sometimes receives low esteem and 'is frequently dismissed -unfairly so -as unscientific' (Simpson and Griggs 1985: 403) is because CRs are considered to be non-citable items (Morris 1989), thus lowering the impact factor of journals where citation data rule decisions ( Van der Wall and Wilde 2009; Maisonnneuve et al. 2010). Indeed, Patsopoulos et al. (2005) found that ...

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Survey of active verbs in the titles of clinical trial reports Informative titles in the BMJ

Cited by 31 publications

References 3 publications

Grammatical means of textual cohesion in appellate court decisions

Grammatical means of textual cohesion in appellate court decisions

Content and Phrasing in Titles of Original Research and Review Articles in 2015: Range of Practice in Four Clinical Journals

Titling and authorship practices in medical case reports: a diachronic study

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