nep-sog 2016-12-04 papers

on Sociology of Economics

Issue of 2016‒12‒04
one paper chosen by
Jonas Holmström
Axventure AB

Title characteristics and citations in economics By Wohlrabe, Klaus; Gnewuch, Matthias

Title characteristics and citations in economics

By:	Wohlrabe, Klaus; Gnewuch, Matthias
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
JEL:	A12 A14
Date:	2016–11–30
URL:	http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:75351&r=sog

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