Scholarly communication in transition: The use of question marks in the titles of scientific articles in medicine, life sciences and physics 1966-2005

被引：50

作者：

Ball, Rafael ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Lib Regensburg, D-93042 Regensburg, Germany

来源：

SCIENTOMETRICS | 2009年 / 79卷 / 03期

关键词：

TITULAR COLONICITY; NUMBER;

D O I：

10.1007/s11192-007-1984-5

中图分类号：

TP39 [计算机的应用];

学科分类号：

081203 ; 0835 ;

摘要：

The titles of scientific articles have a special significance. We examined nearly 20 million scientific articles and recorded the development of articles with a question mark at the end of their titles over the last 40 years. Our study was confined to the disciplines of physics, life sciences and medicine, where we found a significant increase from 50% to more than 200% in the number of articles with question-mark titles. We looked at the principle functions and structure of the titles of scientific papers, and we assume that marketing aspects are one of the decisive factors behind the growing usage of question-mark titles in scientific articles.

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页码：667 / 679

页数：13

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