The study used algorithms to examine more than 235,000 economics papers and 93,000 medical and life-sciences papers that contain three-part phrases in their titles. The medical and life-sciences studies that used the format attracted 32 extra citations, on average, than did papers that don't contain such phrases, and the economics papers with this format received an extra 3.5 citations. 'When you have a catchy title, people are more likely to read at least the abstract or the whole paper,' says study co-author Klaus Wohlrabe, an economist at the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research in Munich, Germany. The analysis was published1 last month on the SSRN preprint server. The economics papers were published in journals indexed by the scholarly database Web of Science between 2006 and 2019. The life-sciences and medicine studies ' peer reviewed from 2001 to 2023 ' were rated 'good', 'very good' or 'excellent' by the post-publication appraisal service Faculty Opinions. Wohlrabe says...
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