Short and amusing: The relationship between title characteristics, downloads, and citations in psychology articles

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 115-124

  Subotic, Sinisa ^a   Mukherjee, Bhaskar ^b  

^a Bosnia and Herzegovina and CEON/CEES ^*  (Serbia)

^b GURU GHASIDAS UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Amusement humour; citation rates; download rates; journal impact; partial least squares (PLS); psychology; ScienceDirect's Top 25 Hottest Articles; title

Indexed keywords

AMUSEMENT/HUMOUR; JOURNAL IMPACT; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); PSYCHOLOGY; SCIENCEDIRECT'S TOP 25 HOTTEST ARTICLES; TITLE;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

EID: 84892693958     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551513511393     Document Type: Article

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