The effect of characteristics of title on citation rates of articles

Scientometrics

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2007-2010

  Rostami, Fatemeh ^a   Mohammadpoorasl, Asghar ^b   Hajizadeh, Mohammad ^c  

^a BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b QAZVIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attractive title; Citation; Impact of article; Scopus; Type of title; Word count

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897569877     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-013-1118-1     Document Type: Article

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