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Clickbait in Journal Article Titles

2020-02-06 01:10:26.597887+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Clickbait works in journal article titles, and men use it: Male authors boost research impact through self-hyping studies

A language analysis of titles and abstracts in more than 100,000 scientific articles found that papers with first and last authors who were both women were about 12% less likely than male-authored papers to include sensationalistic terms such as ‘unprecedented’, ‘novel’, ‘excellent’ or ‘remarkable’. The study, published in The BMJ, also found that papers missing such words garnered significantly fewer citations.

Paper in the BMJ is Exley, C. L. & Kessler, J. B. NBER working paper 26345 (2019).

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