Working Paper

Title Characteristics and Citations in Economics

Matthias Gnewuch, Klaus Wohlrabe
CESifo, Munich, 2016

CESifo Working Paper No. 6235

We investigate the relationship between article title characteristics and citations in economics using a large data set from Web of Science. Our results suggest that articles with a short title that also contains a non-alphanumeric character achieve a higher citation count.

CESifo Category
Public Choice
Empirical and Theoretical Methods

Keywords: articles, title characteristics, citations, non-alphanumeric characters, title length

JEL Classification: A120, A140