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ShriramKrishnamurthi

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Peyman 𝕄𝕀𝕃𝔸ℕ𝔽𝔸ℝ

· May 30, 2021

Hilarious finding: A funny title did not help a paper’s citations. In fact, while pleasantness was weakly correlated with # of citations, 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 *𝐟𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫* 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

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this is concerning because I've definitely been pre-planning puns I'd like to use for paper titles 😬

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I've been constructing my entire research agenda around puns I'd like to make

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"Porting Ports's Ports to the Port Ports: Portable Ports in Portugal's Ports"

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(I'm sure you've gotten plenty of dumb "ports" jokes in your life but I'd bet this is at least a somewhat novel construction 😅)

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good fodder for the 'contributions section' I guess?

10:28 AM · May 30, 2021Twitter Web App