Did you know that adding hyphens to the title of your published papers can have a negative impact on your citation counts, h-values, impact factors, and other metrics? And that the negative effect is independent of the quality of the article and its underlying research?
A recent study conducted by Zhi Quan Zhou, T.H. Tse, and Matt Witheridge of the University of Hong Kong and the University of Wollongong (Australia) demonstrates these surprising results. Their resulting article, "Metamorphic Robustness Testing: Exposing Hidden Defects in Citation Statistics and Journal Impact Factors," was recently published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and (not surprisingly) contains no hyphens in the title.
A summary of the results can be found here: https://phys.org/news/2019-05-hyphens-paper-titles-citation-journal.html. The DOI of the full article in IEEE is https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2019.2915065. This is an open access article.
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