The right choice of the paper title is of particular importance both to be successful in the review process as well as to achieve greater range of readers. However, there are certain technical aspects in this choice in which there is apparently no consensus. Specifically, I would like to know the opinion of researchers on the following aspects:
Should the title contain the key words of the article or should be use new terms in order to expand the possibility of finding the publication in the search engines?
Should the title contain information about the results or main conclusion of the research to make it more attractive?
Dear Colleague
Regarding the first point, i support the article to contain other term than keywords to increase its vidibility
Regarding the second point, there are three types of title format:
- General: e.g. Association between x and y
- Question: Is x associated to y?
- Answer: x is associated with y (The worst because you give the reader the answer in the title so he does not continue to read usually). So i believe the article title should not contain informaton from the conclusion.
Kind Regards
Dear Colleague
Regarding the first point, i support the article to contain other term than keywords to increase its vidibility
Regarding the second point, there are three types of title format:
- General: e.g. Association between x and y
- Question: Is x associated to y?
- Answer: x is associated with y (The worst because you give the reader the answer in the title so he does not continue to read usually). So i believe the article title should not contain informaton from the conclusion.
Kind Regards
I definitely agree with Dr. Abushouk. In addition, the title of the article should be attractive, informative, and concise as possible.
Saludos, en mi opinión el título del articulo científico debe estar relacionado con el objetivo o propósito de la investigación; debe ser interesante e innovador así atraer la atención del lector. Debe existir una congruencia ente el objetivo o propósito - Título - invocación (propuesta sobre la base de los resultados)
Hi,
I agree with the summary of Mr. Urribarri. The title should reflect,, first of all, your aim in this research, preferably emphasizing the special angle of your study. Titles, in general , should present the essence of the research so that the reader could identify immediately what the study is all about.
This is most important especially in these days of information overload.
Dear colleagues
For the first case, I found that some journals suggest to do so, reason being that by doing so chances of showing your article at first page (top list of the similar groups of works) is very high may be it is related to the search engine and their relevant softwares.
For the second case, i always prefer to use the key finding of my research to give a striking idea about my research. It is found to be beneficial from submission of the article itself to disemination of the article. I always try to consider both of these, but more importance to second one.
Regards
Chitra
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