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Introduction: Besides the Jounal’s prestige, the citation rate of a manuscript

depends on several other factors. Among these, the title of an article seems to be of
crucial importance. Objective: To determine the impact of article titles on citation
rates by examining the most and least cited documents in a single Spine Journal.

Materials & Methods: Scopus database was searched for arti- cles published from
2005 to 2008 in Spine J (Impact factor_2008: 2.902 – Thomson Reuters Web of

Knowledge research platform). Review articles were not in- cluded. The articles were
sorted by ci- tations. The titles of the first 30 most cited articles and the last 30 least

cit- ed articles were analysed with empha- sis on the number of words, the pres- ence
of country names, acronyms, ques- tion-marks, colons, and numbers. The number of

authors, the number of cita- tions and the year of publication were al- so recorded.
Differences were explored with the Wilcoxon signed-rank test (IBM SPSS Statistics

19). A p value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Results: In total, 341 articles were retrieved. The first 30 articles presented: 37.1 ±
2.831 citations, publication year (mode) 2005, 5.43 ± 0.467 authors (Image 1), 16.4 ±

1.101 words (Image 2), 12 acronyms (0.4 ± 0.09), 14 colons (0.47 ± 0.09), 2 ques-
tion-marks (0.07 ± 0.05), and 12 numbers (0.4 ± 0.091). The last 30 articles showed:

0 citations, publication year (mode) 2006, 3.37 ± 0.294 authors (Image 3), 11.77 ±
0.979 words (Image 4), 1 acronym (0.03 ± 0.033), 12 colons (0.4 ± 0.9), 1 ques- tion-

mark (0.03 ± 0.033), and 5 numbers (0.17 ± 0.069).

Statistical significance was noted for authors (Z=-3.164, p=0.002), words (Z=-2.719,
p=0.007), citations (Z=-4.787, p=0.000), year of publication (Z=-2.163, p=0.031),

acronyms (Z=-3.317, p=0.001) but not for colons (Z=-0.5, p=0.617), numbers (Z=-
1.941, p=0.052), and coun- try names (Z=-1.000, p=0.317).

Conclusions: It seems that articles written by more au- thors and having titles with
greater length (more words) and an acronym are more frequently cited in the
literature.

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