Mohammad Mahdi Parvizi; Farhad Handjani; Leila Ghahramani; Nasrin Shokrpour
Abstract
Background: Evidence shows that article titles might affectcitation metrics. This study aimed to evaluate the associationbetween selected citation metrics and the title characteristics indermatology journals.Methods: We enrolled 305 reviews and original articles publishedduring 2016 from four dermatology ...
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Background: Evidence shows that article titles might affectcitation metrics. This study aimed to evaluate the associationbetween selected citation metrics and the title characteristics indermatology journals.Methods: We enrolled 305 reviews and original articles publishedduring 2016 from four dermatology journals consisting of the“Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology,” “Journalof the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology,”“Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology,”and “International Journal of Dermatology” using a stratifiedand simple random sampling method. The list of articles wasextracted from Scopus; then, the title characteristics werereviewed. Moreover, we extracted the citation metrics, includingthe citation count, Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI), andcitation benchmarking percentile of the articles until the end ofOctober 2021 using Scopus. For statistical analysis, we used Statasoftware version 14.2.Results: Overall, 239 (78.36%) original and 66 (21.64%) reviewarticles were included. The citation count and FWCI significantlyand positively correlated with the number of words, characters,and punctuation marks in the titles. By adjusting the covariates,linear logistic regression showed that the title length and thepresence of acronyms in the title were the most effective factorsin increasing the citation count and FWCI of the articles.Conclusion: Using longer titles and including acronyms in thetitles may help augment the citation of articles in dermatologyjournals.