The advantage of short paper titles

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Letchford, Adrian ^a   Moat, Helen Susannah ^a   Preis, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Computational social science; Science of science; Scientific writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945490437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150266     Document Type: Article

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