Are shorter article titles more attractive for citations? Crosssectional study of 22 scientific journals

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 165-170

  Habibzadeh, Farrokh ^a   Yadollahie, Mahboobeh ^a  

^a NIOC Medical Education and Research Center   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; PARAMETER; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; WRITING;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77953774764     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2010.51.165     Document Type: Article

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