Presence of Geographic Names, Title Length, and Title Changes
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Journal titles serve as crucial indicators of journals’ scope and affiliation and influence researchers’ perceptions of journals’ quality. This study explores the prevalence of geographic names, title length, and changes among journals indexed in Scopus. Out of 23,702 active English-language journals, 14.7 per cent incorporate geographic entities in their titles, with country names (60.4 per cent) being the most common, followed by continents (20.9 per cent), cities or universities (10.2 per cent), and regions (8.5 per cent). Approximately 12.3 per cent of these journals have undergone title changes, with a notable 40 per cent decrease in geographic name usage post-change. Alterations include broadening or removing geographic identifiers, language shifts to English, and adding the word international. On average, titles consist of 31 characters, often shortening after the removal of geographic identifiers. This research highlights the dynamic nature of journal titles in reflecting evolving trends in focus, language, and internationalization.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it