caa a22 4500 445349107 CHVBK 20180317142838.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-011-0412-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-011-0412-z Article title type and its relation with the number of downloads and citations [Elektronische Daten] [Hamid Jamali, Mahsa Nikzad] Title of an article can be descriptive, declarative or a question. It plays important role in both marketing and findability of article. We investigate the impact of the type of article titles on the number of citations and downloads articles receive. Number of downloads and citations for all articles published in six of PLoS (Public Library of Science) journals (2,172 articles) were obtained from PLoS and type of each article's title (including descriptive, indicative and question) was determined as well as the number of substantive words in title (title length). Statistical difference and correlation tests were carried out. The findings showed that differences exist between articles with different types of titles in terms of downloads and citations, especially articles with question titles tended to be downloaded more but cited less than the others. Articles with longer titles were downloaded slightly less than the articles with shorter titles. Titles with colon tended to be longer and receive fewer downloads and citations. As expected, number of downloads and citations were positively correlated. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2011 Article titles nationallicence Download nationallicence Citation nationallicence Title length nationallicence Colon nationallicence Jamali Hamid Department of Library and Information Studies, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Tarbiat Moallem University, No 49, Mofateh Ave, P.O. Box 15614, Tehran, Iran aut Nikzad Mahsa Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IRANDOC), Information Science Research Center, No. 1090, Enghelab Ave., Felestin Cross, 1315773314, Tehran, Iran aut Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 88/2(2011-08-01), 653-661 0138-9130 88:2<653 2011 88 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0412-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0412-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jamali Hamid Department of Library and Information Studies, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Tarbiat Moallem University, No 49, Mofateh Ave, P.O. Box 15614, Tehran, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nikzad Mahsa Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IRANDOC), Information Science Research Center, No. 1090, Enghelab Ave., Felestin Cross, 1315773314, Tehran, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 88/2(2011-08-01), 653-661 0138-9130 88:2<653 2011 88 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer