When scientific experts come to be media stars: An evolutionary model tested by analysing coronavirus media coverage across Italian newspapers

F Neresini, P Giardullo, E Di Buccio, B Morsello… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The article aims to understand the process through which scientific experts gain and
maintain remarkable media visibility. It has been analysed a corpus of 213,875 articles …

Visible scientists in digital communication environments: An analysis of their role performance as public experts on Twitter/X during the Covid-19 pandemic

K Biermann, M Taddicken - Public Understanding of Science, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In response to significant societal challenges, there is a growing demand for scientists to
actively engage in public discussions. The recent Covid-19 pandemic led to the sudden …

Second-order citations in altmetrics: A case study analyzing the audiences of COVID-19 research in the news and on social media

JP Alperin, A Fleerackers, M Riedlinger… - Quantitative Science …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
The potential to capture the societal impact of research has been a driving motivation for the
use and development of altmetrics. Yet, to date, altmetrics have largely failed to deliver on …

The impact of COVID-19 on the debate on open science: a qualitative analysis of published materials from the period of the pandemic

M Benson Marshall, S Pinfield, P Abbott… - Humanities and Social …, 2024 - nature.com
This study is an analysis of the international debate on open science that took place during
the pandemic. It addresses the question, how did the COVID-19 pandemic impact the …

Does Scientific Evidence Sell? Combining Manual and Automated Content Analysis to Investigate Scientists' and Laypeople's Evidence Practices on Social Media

K Biermann, B Nowak, LM Braun… - Science …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Examining the dissemination of evidence on social media, we analyzed the discourse
around eight visible scientists in the context of COVID-19. Using manual (N= 1,406) and …

Does disseminating scientific information on social media promote public health during the COVID‐19 pandemic?

M Quan, C Zhang - Journal of the Association for Information …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Countries worldwide are transitioning their emergency response activities into long‐term
management of COVID‐19. One promising strategy to mitigate the pandemic is combining …

Bridging science communication and open science—Working inclusively toward the common good

M Oliveira, G Barata, A Fleerackers… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The 2020–2022 pandemic highlighted concerns about “information disorders”, pressing for
approaches capable of guiding the science-society alliance toward a mutually beneficial …

Interrogating the lack of diversity of thought in the pandemic response that led to mistakes-holistic evidence-based approach to deal with future pandemics

C Aldous, HG Kruger - Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic, triggered by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), rapidly became a worldwide emergency. How it was managed garnered …

[PDF][PDF] The impact of COVID-19 on the debate on open science: An analysis of expert opinion

MB Marshall, S Pinfield, P Abbott, A Cox, JP Alperin… - 2024 - microblogging.infodocs.eu
This study is an analysis of the international debate on open science that took place during
the pandemic. It addresses the question, how did the COVID-19 pandemic impact the …

Exploring online conversations around science: data practices of informal online knowing spaces

F Rohden - 2024 - duo.uio.no
Science and science communication are considered crucial to respond to global crises such
as climate change or pandemics. At the same time, debates about the role of online …