[Taxacom] Ornamental flourishes

[Geoffrey Read]

Lena to my knowledge has to date worked with very sober titles, so I shall
be interested in this new departure. :)

There is a bit of investigation on this topic for pyschology papers
[http://jis.sagepub.com/content/34/5/680], and it was found that "articles
with highly amusing titles (2 standard deviations above average) received
fewer citations".  Bad news for punsters.


Geoff


On Tue, May 22, 2012 2:21 pm, Elena Kupriyanova wrote:
> Geoff,
>
> Why not? We (mostly) have fun doing our research, why don't we reflect in
> in our paper's title
> (A confession - I am guilty as charged because I currently work on two
> manuscripts with embellished titles)
> Lena
>
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> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Geoff Read
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>
> Do taxacomers approve of paper titles which preface the nitty-gritty of
> the descriptive part with an adaption of a cliche phrase such as those
> below?