Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149322 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6235
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
articles
title characteristics
citations
non-alphanumeric characters
title length
JEL: 
A12
A14
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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