Purpose: Communicating scientific results to the public is essential to inspire future researchers and ensure that discoveries are exploited. News stories about research are a key communication pathway for this and ha...Purpose: Communicating scientific results to the public is essential to inspire future researchers and ensure that discoveries are exploited. News stories about research are a key communication pathway for this and have been manually monitored to assess the extent of press coverage of scholarship.Design/methodology/Approach: To make larger scale studies practical, this paper introduces an automatic method to extract citations from newspaper stories to large sets of academic journals. Curated ProQuest queries were used to search for citations to 9,639 Science and3,412 Social Science Web of Science(WoS) journals from eight UK daily newspapers during2006–2015. False matches were automatically filtered out by a new program, with 94% of the remaining stories meaningfully citing research.Findings: Most Science(95%) and Social Science(94%) journals were never cited by these newspapers. Half of the cited Science journals covered medical or health-related topics,whereas 43% of the Social Sciences journals were related to psychiatry or psychology. From the citing news stories, 60% described research extensively and 53% used multiple sources,but few commented on research quality.Research Limitations: The method has only been tested in English and from the ProQuest Newspapers database.Practical implications: Others can use the new method to systematically harvest press coverage of research.Originality/value: An automatic method was introduced and tested to extract citations from newspaper stories to large sets of academic journals.展开更多
The top 10 science news items of 1995 in China,selected by some 400 of CAS Members,who are among the China’s top scientists,were announced at a press conference on January 18, 1996,in Beijing.This annual event was co...The top 10 science news items of 1995 in China,selected by some 400 of CAS Members,who are among the China’s top scientists,were announced at a press conference on January 18, 1996,in Beijing.This annual event was co-sponsored by the major Chinese News media. 1. Five scientists win an appeal in a libel suit On February 22,1995,five scientists won an appeal at Beijing Intermediate People’s Court in a two-year-long libel suit filed by a farmer inventor,Mr.Qiu Mandun。展开更多
文摘Purpose: Communicating scientific results to the public is essential to inspire future researchers and ensure that discoveries are exploited. News stories about research are a key communication pathway for this and have been manually monitored to assess the extent of press coverage of scholarship.Design/methodology/Approach: To make larger scale studies practical, this paper introduces an automatic method to extract citations from newspaper stories to large sets of academic journals. Curated ProQuest queries were used to search for citations to 9,639 Science and3,412 Social Science Web of Science(WoS) journals from eight UK daily newspapers during2006–2015. False matches were automatically filtered out by a new program, with 94% of the remaining stories meaningfully citing research.Findings: Most Science(95%) and Social Science(94%) journals were never cited by these newspapers. Half of the cited Science journals covered medical or health-related topics,whereas 43% of the Social Sciences journals were related to psychiatry or psychology. From the citing news stories, 60% described research extensively and 53% used multiple sources,but few commented on research quality.Research Limitations: The method has only been tested in English and from the ProQuest Newspapers database.Practical implications: Others can use the new method to systematically harvest press coverage of research.Originality/value: An automatic method was introduced and tested to extract citations from newspaper stories to large sets of academic journals.
文摘The top 10 science news items of 1995 in China,selected by some 400 of CAS Members,who are among the China’s top scientists,were announced at a press conference on January 18, 1996,in Beijing.This annual event was co-sponsored by the major Chinese News media. 1. Five scientists win an appeal in a libel suit On February 22,1995,five scientists won an appeal at Beijing Intermediate People’s Court in a two-year-long libel suit filed by a farmer inventor,Mr.Qiu Mandun。
