Researchers may be tempted to attract attention through poetic titles for their publications, but would this be mistaken in some fields? Whilst poetic titles are known to be common in medicine, it is not clear whether the practice is widespread elsewhere. This article investigates the prevalence of poetic expressions in journal article titles 1996-2019 in 3.3 million articles from all 27 Scopus broad fields. Expressions were identified by manually checking all phrases with at least 5 words that occurred at least 25 times, finding 149 stock phrases, idioms, sayings, literary allusions, film names and song titles or lyrics. The expressions found are most common in the social sciences and the humanities. They are also relatively common in medicine, but almost absent from engineering and the natural and formal sciences. The differences may reflect the less hierarchical and more varied nature of the social sciences and humanities, where interesting titles may attract an audience. In engineering, natural science and formal science fields, authors should take extra care with poetic expressions, in case their choice is judged inappropriate. This includes interdisciplinary research overlapping these areas. Conversely, reviewers of interdisciplinary research involving the social sciences should be more tolerant of poetic license.

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锅，水壶：非文字标题不是（自然）科学

研究人员可能会想通过他们出版物的诗意标题来吸引注意力，但这在某些领域会是错误的吗？虽然众所周知，诗歌标题在医学中很常见，但尚不清楚这种做法是否在其他地方普遍存在。本文调查了来自所有 27 个 Scopus 广泛领域的 330 万篇文章中 1996-2019 年期刊文章标题中诗歌表达的流行情况。通过人工检查所有至少出现 25 次的至少 5 个词的短语来识别表达，找到 149 个库存短语、成语、谚语、文学典故、电影名称和歌曲名称或歌词。所发现的表达方式在社会科学和人文学科中最为常见。它们在医学中也相对常见，但在工程、自然科学和形式科学中几乎没有。这些差异可能反映了社会科学和人文学科的等级较低和更加多样化的性质，在这些学科中，有趣的标题可能会吸引观众。在工程、自然科学和正规科学领域，作者应该特别注意诗意的表达，以防他们的选择被认为不合适。这包括与这些领域重叠的跨学科研究。相反，涉及社会科学的跨学科研究的审稿人应该对诗意的许可更加宽容。这包括与这些领域重叠的跨学科研究。相反，涉及社会科学的跨学科研究的审稿人应该对诗意的许可更加宽容。这包括与这些领域重叠的跨学科研究。相反，涉及社会科学的跨学科研究的审稿人应该对诗意的许可更加宽容。