Are there other methods or other methods that can be used to search for studies that can be add?
Dear Mahmoud There are so many different indicators, which are relevant to citations and the impact of an article. In the literature you can find papers mentioning humour [1] or characteristics of the title [2], even a colon can be important [3, 4]. Xie et al. (2019) have published a very impressive study, which lists 66 factors, related to the number of citations [5]. Yet, this is only a selection. Best regards Anne-Katharina
References:
[1] Heard, S.B., Cull, C.A. & White, E.R. (2022). If this title is funny, will you cite me? Citation impacts of humour and other features of article titles in ecology and evolution. bioRxiv 2022.03.18.484880; doi:
https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.18.484880.
[2] Rostami, F., Mohammadpoorasl, A. & Hajizadeh, M. (2014). The effect of characteristics of title on citation rates of articles. Scientometrics 98, 2007–2010. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-013-1118-1. [3] van Wesel, M., Wyatt, S. & ten Haaf, J. (2014). What a difference a colon makes: how superficial factors influence subsequent citation. Scientometrics 98, 1601–1615. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-013-1154-x. [4] Donovan, J. M. (2025). Disciplinary variation in scholarly impact from two article title elements.
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006241311576.
[5] Xie, J., Gong, K., Li, J. et al. (2019). A probe into 66 factors which are possibly associated with the number of citations an article received. Scientometrics 119, 1429–1454. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03094-z.
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