Identifying factors that associate with more cited or higher quality research may be useful to
improve science or to support research evaluation. This article reviews evidence for the …

This literature review identifies indicators that associate with higher impact or higher quality
research from article text (eg, titles, abstracts, lengths, cited references and readability) or …

This study aims to investigate whether open peer review can improve citation count. Articles
published in PeerJ during 2013 and 2015 were chosen as the data set. Two categories of …

Research on the impact of and attention given to journal covers is a crucial research topic in
academia. This study investigated whether a paper featured on the cover of a journal …

In this paper, we addressed the question of whether a video abstract of an article affects its
citation counts. A retrospective cohort study was conducted using the research articles …

Scientific retraction practices are intended to help purge the continued use of flawed
research and assist in maintaining the integrity, credibility and quality of scientific literature …

We document strong and robust negative correlations between the length of the title of an
economics article and different measures of scientific quality. Analyzing all articles published …

Purpose Scientific impact is traditionally assessed with citation-based metrics. Recently,
altmetric indices have been introduced to measure scientific impact both within academia …

The increasing influence of publishers on academic publishing has inevitably promoted
studies of publisher citation and self-citation. However, in this type of citation analysis, it is …

Previous studies seldom investigated the evolution of research article titles in pragmatics.
Based on qualitative and quantitative analysis of 650 research article titles, this study depicts …