Amusing titles

Amusing titles in scientific journals and article citation

The present study examines whether the use of humor in scientific article titles is associated with the number of citations an article receives. Four judges rated the degree of amusement and pleasantness of titles of articles published over 10 years (from 1985 to 1994) in two of the most prestigious journals in Psychology, Psychological Bulletin and Psychological Review. We then examined the as...

Titles

This is not about knights and dames, nor is it about jazz musicians, such as Duke Ellington or Court Basie. Rather, it is about a most important issue in science, which is the difficult task of choosing titles for seminars, lectures, scientific papers, books and even the titles of the journals themselves. Today, we all have to compete for readers and listeners, and in the current ruthlessly com...

Study titles

Inappropriate titles of abstracts.

List of Titles

Mardonnes J, Segovia N, Hederra A, Alcaino F. Influence of sulfasuxidine on the effect of alpha lipoic or thioctic acid on the voluntary alcohol intake of rats depleted of factor N1. Acta Physiol Lat Am. 1953;3(2-3):140-3. PMID: 13138254 Abstract Mardonnes J, Segovia N, Alcaino F, Hederra A. Effect of synthetic thioctic or alpha lipoic acid on the voluntary alcohol intake of rats. Science. 1954...