Usually the keywords are the triggers in the search, however, having an attractive title that matches the quality of the paper adds value.

Dear Hussin. agreed with your own answer

attractive tittle, keywords, authors,research filed .sample volume. outcomes,journal where published/submitted and the least important origin of research all these factors do matter

i have seen similar studies from developing and developed countries-- but those from developed countries had more citations.

I think, No!, we as a researchers have to read a paper very well and check its strength and relation to our core idea, it is not a citation competition! never.

Regards, Emad

@Hussin Jose Hejase

I agree with your comments. An attractive title adds value to your study.

@Syed Amir Gilani 

You have identified another point of difference. Studies from developed nations have more citations due to their country tag. However, studies from developing nations have less chances of wide citations. 

@Emad Kamil Hussein

Dear Sir! i respect your opinion but it has become a fashion to use attractive title. Research can never be citation competition. We must have a positive word of mouth about good quality research. 

I think yes, it may add some values but to a limited extent.  Well written topic with consice meaning and the scientific names of the terms undoubtedly adds something important but not necessarily more citations. 

Liqaa 

@Liqaa Habeb

You are right Sir!. an attractive title adds value up-to some extent, but good quality research speaks itself. 

The title that contains words that accurately indicate the subject matter of the study is very important...

@Ahmed Al mayahi 

I also agree with you.

Attractiveness of the title is not enough for a research paper to get many citations. The most important thing for getting many citations is that research result described in the paper is excellent.

@Tatsuo Tabata

You are right Sir! Clear description and validity of results are the major factors to increase the visibility of your research.

I don't think that an attractive title grantees more citations . Citation depends on who is interested in your field of study, well written and well organized paper, good way of analysis and appropriate references.

@Arwa Alsalman

Citations do not heavily depend on research title of a paper but well written and well organized paper, good way of analysis and appropriate references makes it competent in the eyes of target researchers. I agree with you.

More than good Title, ensure the Title has Key Words to attract attention of a Researcher doing a Web Search. That is however not enough to get citations. Unless the work is original, unique and scholarly, there is a good chance that it would not be cited.

@Emmanuel Vijayanand Murray

You are right Sir!

Is an attractive title of a research paper guarantee more citation?

Not necessary but attractive title can facilitate the article easier to be searched & to be read by readers due to its relevancy at first glance.  Number of citation is depending on other factors as mentioned in the question.

Dear Han Ping Fung,

Generally researcher conduct searching by key word and cite it for their reference and argument. So, attractive title of a research article gets more citation.

No--there are couple of other factors too

I do not believe that an attractive title guarantees more citations, HOWEVER, an attractive title may get more people to read your paper and consider citing it, depending on your actual content.

Very interesting discussion. To me, the title of an article should capture the content in some fashion. Hence some descriptive words will help and there is no harm in working towards making it more attractive and pleasing to read. Citation will happen naturally over time as long as there is some meaningful contribution made within the article. 

Best wishes!

Perhaps the attractive title will attract more readers. But the most important thing is the quality of the article itself.

Hi,

I agree with what Radostina said. An attractive title will just increase the number of readers. Sometime, the titles are eye-catching but there is nothing in the article. Instead, an attractive abstract can guarantee more citations. When an abstract is attractive, the readers are inclined to read the whole article and thus the number of citations will go high.

Great answer Dr. Radostina, I completely agree with you, thank you so much.

Emad

@Chalamala Srinivas  

You highlighted many other factors to increase the number of citations. But no one can denied the importance of title in a research paper. 

@Han Ping Fung

You are right Sir!, an attractive title can facilitate the article easier to be searched & to be read by readers due to its relevancy at first glance. 

@Md. Nazirul Islam Sarker

You have identified a new dilemma and its a bitter reality. 

@Syed Amir Gilani

You are right Sir, There are many other factors too as mentioned in the question too.

@Michael W. Marek

An attractive title may get more people to read your paper and consider citing it. I agree with you.

@Kaleel Rahman

Its really a fashioned and tricky way to capture more audiences. I agree with you.

@Radostina Alexandrova

No doubt, quality paper speaks itself and an attractive title can also increase its visibility.

@Laya Heidari Darani

Sometime, the titles are eye-catching but there is nothing in the article. Instead, an attractive abstract can guarantee more citations. Attractive title and comprehensive abstract can increase the visibility of your study. 

@Emad Kamil Hussein

Thanks for your comments.

No, it is depend on different factors, like, the journal with or without impact factor, the novality of project research, the institute of the author (s), may be when you put the province or country or area in your title,,may be give some attention..

Yes,,That is right, different factors give your paper more citation, like the journal, field of research and originality not only a title.

@Suzan Al-Azizz ·

you are right, sometimes a good quality reseaech with attractive title does not many citation due to publishing in low ranked journal

@Ghazi Azzal 

I agree with your opinion but i think attractive title and abstract are good ways to capture more citation.

Title won't matter unless the quality of the paper is good.

@Huma Shafiq 

You are right but initial glance can be captured by only with an attractive title.

Hi.... i dont know about others but I have experienced works with eye catching titles proved to be useless in terms of necessity. Again, some papers having titles that even seem less comprehensive in terms of the topics covered, were very useful. Citing requires close reading of the papers and I believe titles should not matter at all. But good titles (titles that help understand whats in side) are always good to have.... 

@Arafat Habib 

I also agree with you, but catchy title gives you priority for more glance.

@Naveed Ahmed

Thanks a lot. Yes they grab attention first.

@@Arafat Habib 

You are welcome dear.

A catchy title may grab attention, but it does so only when seen. And you don't "see" the titles in a database when making a search. I'll rather say a title stands a good chance of getting "seen" and then perhaps cited when its words directly mirror its subject matter. I, for example, often search for articles by title first, especially where the subject matter has a fairly large corpus on it.

@Bala Salisu

Search engine optimization only works for titles best matching subject matter. In this way, an attractive title have low capicity to come first in the search results. I agree with you.

An attractive title is the start point but should be backed by substance for higher impact.

@Professor Sushil

An attractive title is the start of citation journey but it heavily depends on internal subject matter. You are right Professor. 

Apart from the insightful views of the colleagues, for me, an attractive title of a research paper, not accompanied with an attractive abstract, first, does not guarantee more citation.

Regards

@Aristidis Matsoukis

I also agree with you.

Perfect and excellent detailed answer our colleague Dr. Chalamala, thank you so much, I agree with you.

Regards, Emad

You are right @Emad Kamil Hussein 

@Chalamala Srinivas always provide a detailed insights about any question. That is really helpful for understanding phenomena about citations.