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There is a large debate on effective titles that influence the reading of an article and its citations. Colons play an important role in titles for academic articles.This article considers the use of “colonic” titles in different disciplines, analyzing some current practices in using colons and students’ and academics’ preferences for titles with and without colons. Colons are used more in the arts than in the sciences, and single authors use more colons than multiple authors. Titles of conference papers and journal articles differ. However, the use of colons did not influence citation rates. Smith B, Ashburner M, Rosse C, Bard J, Bug W, Ceusters W, Goldberg LJ, Eilbeck K, Ireland A, Mungall CJ, the OBI Consortium, Leontis N, Rocca-Serra P, Ruttenberg A, Sansone SA, Scheuermann RH, Shah N, Whetzel PL, Lewis S. The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration. Nature Biotechnology 2007;25(11):1251–1255. As the value of data is enhanced by their being in a form that allows them to be integrated with other data, a wide number of “ontologies”, common controlled vocabularies, were created to approach this integration. Unfortunately the proliferation of these “ontologies” became an obstacle itself to integration. The Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) consortium, pursuing a strategy to overcome this problem, is undergoing a coordinated reform. The result is a new family of ontologies designed to be interoperable and logically well formed and to incorporate accurate representations of biological reality. © Copyright 2008 by European Association of Science Editors Top of Page |
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