European newspaper reports of non-communicable disease research, 2002-13

TY - CHAP

T1 - European newspaper reports of non-communicable disease research, 2002-13

AU - Pallari, Elena

AU - Lewison, Grant

PY - 2017/10/23

Y1 - 2017/10/23

N2 - This project was part of a large mapping exercise on the research on five non-communicable diseases in Europe in 2002-13. This involved the identification and analysis of over 700,000 papers and also examination of their impact through citations in other papers, on clinical guidelines and in European papers. Stories in newspapers inform many groups, from politicians to the general public, about progress in medical research, but they can also report selectively and so bias our understanding of the state of play. We employed a large multilingual team to search the archives of 32 newspapers in 21 countries, and compiled an archive of over 9000 stories and the papers that they cited. These were mostly about cancer, how to prevent it rather than treat it, and over-cited European research but neglected that from east Asia. Some papers were cited in many different newspapers and so achieved wide coverage. Commentators' views on the importance of the research were sought on 13% of the continental newspaper stories, but 37% of those in the UK Daily Mail. The latter paper mostly quoted UK charities who thereby gained free publicity.

AB - This project was part of a large mapping exercise on the research on five non-communicable diseases in Europe in 2002-13. This involved the identification and analysis of over 700,000 papers and also examination of their impact through citations in other papers, on clinical guidelines and in European papers. Stories in newspapers inform many groups, from politicians to the general public, about progress in medical research, but they can also report selectively and so bias our understanding of the state of play. We employed a large multilingual team to search the archives of 32 newspapers in 21 countries, and compiled an archive of over 9000 stories and the papers that they cited. These were mostly about cancer, how to prevent it rather than treat it, and over-cited European research but neglected that from east Asia. Some papers were cited in many different newspapers and so achieved wide coverage. Commentators' views on the importance of the research were sought on 13% of the continental newspaper stories, but 37% of those in the UK Daily Mail. The latter paper mostly quoted UK charities who thereby gained free publicity.

M3 - Conference paper

SP - 587

EP - 598

BT - ISSI-International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics

PB - University of Wuhan, China

CY - Wuhan, China

ER -