[Purposes] This paper aims to enhance Chinese scholars' writing and translation of academic article titles by investigating the norms of English title writing of SCI papers. [Methods]Based on the top 100 cited SCI research papers,this research employed the tools of SPSS 17. 0 and Antconc 3. 4. 4 to analyze the multidimensional features of scientific paper titles,including their length,high frequency words,chunks and structural types. [Findings] Firstly,the length of titles varies,while most of them are constituted by 5-13 words; secondly,the h...