How to create a good title
The title would be important when...
Potential readers search some keywords or terms to find a paper (Topic, Population)
Colleague researchers look for some paper to support their arguments/interpretations (What findings the paper showed)
Meta-analysts look for papers on some target phenomena (Cohen's d → Effects of ~; Pearson's r → Relationship)
Writing more informative titles and abstracts
List the relevant words to (a) Topic, (b) Purpose/design, and (c) Scope of the study
BUT you don't need to include all of them; less important information/keywords can be included in abstract
Combine them to tell a central contribution of the study, as short as possible (10–20 words)
Pariva et al. (2012): "Short titles presenting results or conclusions were independently associated with higher citation counts" My favorite examples:
Kormos, J., Brunfaut, T., & Michel, M. (2020). Motivational Factors in Computer-administered Integrated Skills Tasks: A Study of Young Learners. Language Assessment Quarterly, 17(1), 43–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2019.1664551 My mistakes...
Suzuki, S., & Kormos, J. (2020). Linguistic dimensions of comprehensibility and perceived fluency: An investigation of complexity, accuracy, and fluency in second language argumentative speech. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 42(1), 143–167. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263119000421 A bit too long
The unique point of the paper is the distinction between two constructs (comprehensibility and perceived fluency), comparing "Linguistic dimensions" of them; so I should have titled "Disentangling two listener-based constructs–Comprehensibility and Perceived fluency: From the perspective of linguistic correlates"
Why I made this mistake?