{"id":27,"date":"2006-09-12T10:24:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T17:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/2006\/09\/12\/top-ten-longest-titles-of-research-papers\/"},"modified":"2009-06-02T13:11:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T20:11:41","slug":"top-ten-longest-titles-of-research-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/2006\/09\/12\/top-ten-longest-titles-of-research-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Top ten longest titles of research papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things you learn as a Ph.D. student is how to do research. Though I’m still far from mastering that particular lesson, there’s something I’ve discovered along the way: Academic researchers love<\/em> coming up with long titles for their papers. In fact, a colleague’s recent 27-word Ph.D. thesis had me wondering, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just how long do these titles get?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I decided to find out. I wrote a little script<\/a> that scans the DBLP<\/a> database and spits out the longest titles it finds (based on number of characters, not words). Excluding non-English titles, here’s the top-ten list:<\/p>\n

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  1. In silico exploration of the fructose-6-phosphate phosphorylation step in glycolysis: genomic evidence of the coexistence of an atypical ATP-dependent along with a PPi-dependent phosphofructokinase in Propionibacterium freudenreichii subsp. shermanii<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. A Comparative Study of Artificial Neural Networks Using Reinforcement Learning and Multidimensional Bayesian Classification Using Parzen Density Estimation for Identification of GC-EIMS Spectra of Partially Methylated Alditol Acetates on the World Wide Web<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Performance of empirical potentials (AMBER, CFF95, CVFF, CHARMM, OPLS, POLTEV), semiempirical quantum chemical methods (AM1, MNDO\/M, PM3), and ab initio<\/em> Hartree-Fock method for interaction of DNA bases: Comparison with nonempirical beyond Hartree-Fock results<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Joint quantum chemical and polarizable molecular mechanics investigation of formate complexes with penta- and hexahydrated Zn2+<\/sup>: Comparison between energetics of model bidentate, monodentate, and through-water Zn2+<\/sup> binding modes and evaluation of nonadditivity effects<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. A Simple Flexible Program for the Computational Analysis of Amyl Acyl Residue Distribution in Proteins: Application to the Distribution of Aromatic versus Aliphatic Hydrophobic Amino Acids in Transmembrane alpha-Helical Spanners of Integral Membrane Transport Proteins<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Three-Dimensional Quantitative Structure-Property Relationship (3D-QSPR) Models for Prediction of Thermodynamic Properties of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs): Enthalpies of Fusion and Their Application to Estimates of Enthalpies of Sublimation and Aqueous Solubilities<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. WEB OBJECTS TIME: When Microsoft Started Speaking Like a Good Open-Standards Citizen, The Netscape Extensions Tail Tried to Wag The Dog and Object-Oriented Software Turned Static Web Pages Into Dynamically-Linked Access Boulevards to Significant Online Collection Databases<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Hydrogen bonding in diols and binary diol-water systems investigated using DFT methods. II. Calculated infrared OH-stretch frequencies, force constants, and NMR chemical shifts correlate with hydrogen bond geometry and electron density topology. A reevaluation of geometrical criteria for hydrogen bonding<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Molecular mechanical models for organic and biological systems going beyond the atom centered two body additive approximation: aqueous solution free energies of methanol and N-methyl acetamide, nucleic acid base, and amide hydrogen bonding and chloroform\/water partition coefficients of the nucleic acid bases<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. The nucleotide sequence of a 3.2 kb segment of mitochondrial maxicircle DNA from Crithidia fasciculata<\/em> containing the gene for cytochrome oxidase subunit III, the N-terminal part of the apocytochrome b<\/em> gene and a possible frameshift gene; further evidence for the use of unusual initiator triplets in trypanosome mitochondria<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of course, a trivia researcher’s work is never done. For future analysis, I’ll focus on papers with the highest number of authors. (I’ve already discovered a potential candidate<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    One of the things you learn as a Ph.D. student is how to do research. Though I’m still far from mastering that particular lesson, there’s something I’ve discovered along the way: Academic researchers love coming up with long titles for their papers. In fact, a colleague’s recent 27-word Ph.D. thesis had me wondering, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-research","category-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}