WRITING A

RESEARCH TITLE
 A research paper title summarizes the aim and purpose of
your research study. Making a title for your research is one

Research of the most important decisions when writing an article to

publish in journals. The research title is the first thing that

Title journal editors and reviewers see when they look at your
paper and the only piece of information that fellow
researchers will see in a database or search engine query.
Good titles that are concise and contain all the relevant
terms have been shown to increase citation counts and
Altmetric scores.
 Therefore, when you title research work,
make sure it captures all of the relevant
Research aspects of your study, including the specific
topic and problem being investigated. It
Title also should present these elements in a way
that is accessible and will captivate readers.
Follow these steps to learn how to make a
good research title for your work.
How to Make a

Research Paper You might wonder how you are

supposed to pick a title from all the
content that your manuscript
Title in 5 Steps contains—how are you supposed to
choose? What will make your
research paper title come up in
search engines and what will make
the people in your field read it?
How to Make a
In a nutshell, your research title should
Research Paper accurately capture what you have done, it
should sound interesting to the people who
work on the same or a similar topic, and it
Title in 5 Steps should contain the important
title keywords that other researchers use
when looking for literature in databases.
To make the title writing process as simple
as possible, we have broken it down into 5
simple steps.
 Step 1: Answer some key questions about your research paper
What does your paper seek
what does it accomplish? Try to answer and
to answer these questions as
possible. You can create thesebriefly as
questions by going through
your paper and finding the each section of
MOST relevant
research title. information to make a
 Step 2: Identify research study keywords
Now that you have answers to your research questions,
find the most important parts of these responses and
make these your study keywords. Note that you should
only choose the most important terms for your
keywords–journals usually request anywhere from 3 to 8
keywords maximum.
Step 3: Research title writing: use these keywords
“We employed a case study of 60 liver transplant patients around the US aged
20-50 years to assess how waiting list volume affects the outcomes of liver
transplantation in patients; results indicate a positive correlation between
increased waiting list volume and negative prognosis after the transplant
procedure.”

The sentence above is clearly much too long for a research paper title. This
is why you will trim and polish your title in the next two steps.
Step 4: Create a working research paper title

To create a working title, remove elements that make it a

complete “sentence” but keep everything that is important to what
the study is about. Delete all unnecessary and redundant words that
are not central to the study or that researchers would most likely not
use in a database search.
 Step 4: Create a working research paper title
“ We employed a case study of 60 liver transplant patients around the US aged 20-50
years to assess how the waiting list volume affects the outcome of liver transplantation in
patients; results indicate a positive correlation between increased waiting list volume and
a negative prognosis after transplant procedure”

Now shift some words around for proper syntax and rephrase it a bit
to shorten the length and make it leaner and more natural. What you are
left with is:
Step 4: Create a working research paper title
“A case study of 60 liver transplant patients around the US aged 20-50
years assessing the impact of waiting list volume on outcome of
transplantation and showing a positive correlation between increased waiting
list volume and a negative prognosis” (Word Count: 38)

This text is getting closer to what we want in a research title, which

is just the most important information. But note that the word count for
this working title is still 38 words, whereas the average length of
published journal article titles is 16 words or fewer. Therefore, we should
eliminate some words and phrases that are not essential to this title.
Step 5: Remove any nonessential words and phrases from your title
Because the number of patients studied and the
exact outcome are not the most essential parts of this
paper, remove these elements first:

“ “A case study of 60 liver transplant

patients around the US aged 20-50 years assessing the
impact of waiting list volume on outcomes of
transplantation and showing a positive correlation
between increased waiting list volume and a
negative prognosis” (Word Count: 19)
Step 5: Remove any nonessential words and phrases from your title
In addition, the methods used in a study are
not usually the most searched-for keywords in
databases and represent additional details that you
may want to remove to make your title leaner. So
what is left is:

“Assessing the impact of waiting list volume

on outcome and prognosis in liver transplantation
patients” (Word Count: 15)
Step 5: Remove any nonessential words and phrases from your title

In this final version of the title, one can

immediately recognize the subject and what
objectives the study aims to achieve. Note that the
most important terms appear at the beginning and
end of the title: “Assessing,” which is the main
action of the study, is placed at the beginning;
and “liver transplantation patients,” the specific
subject of the study, is placed at the end.
Tips on Formulating a Good Research Paper Title
In addition to the steps given above, there are a few other
important things you want to keep in mind when it
comesto how
to write a research paper title, regarding formatting, word count, and
content:
 Write the title after you’ve written your paper and abstract
 Include all of the essential terms in your paper
 Keep it short and to the point (~16 words or fewer)
 Avoid unnecessary jargon and abbreviations
 Use keywords that capture the content of your paper
 Never include a period at the end—your title is NOT a sentence
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