The DOI matches its Crossref record; 10 of the 10 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Press Releases of Science Journal Articles and Subsequent Newspaper Stories on the Same Topic
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CONTEXT: Scientific journals issue press releases to disseminate scientific news about articles they publish. OBJECTIVE: To assess whether press releases about journal articles were associated with publication of subsequent newspaper stories. DESIGN: Retrospective content analysis of newspaper stories, journal press releases, and journal tables of contents. From December 1, 1996, to February 28, 1997, press releases and tables of contents were collected from BMJ, Nature, Science, and The Lancet, along with newspaper stories on scientific research published in The New York Times (United States), Le Figaro and Le Monde (France), El País and La Vanguardia (Spain), La Repubblica (Italy), and the International Herald Tribune. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS: Number of newspaper stories that contained reference to articles appearing in the 4 scientific journals, number of newspaper stories that referred to journal articles described in press releases, and the order in which journal articles were mentioned in press releases. RESULTS: Of the 1060 newspaper stories analyzed, 142 referred to journal articles; of these, 119 (84%) referred to articles mentioned in press releases and 23 (16%) referred to journal articles not mentioned in press releases (comparison of proportions, P=.03). Articles described first or second were referenced in more newspapers than articles described later in the press release (P=.01 by chi2 analysis). CONCLUSIONS: Journal articles described in press releases, in particular those described first or second in the press release, are associated with the subsequent publication of newspaper stories on the same topic.
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“science communication unfolds across multiple interacting stages 85”
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Will, R. G., Ironside, J. W., Zeidler, M., Estibeiro, K., Cousens, S. N., Smith, P. G., Alpérovitch, A., Poser, S., Pocchiari, M., & Albert Hofman, D. (1996) · The Lancet · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(96)91412-9 · Cited by 2,702
Reporting research in medical journals and newspapers
Entwistle, V. A. (1995) · BMJ · doi:10.1136/bmj.310.6984.920 · Cited by 164
Public understanding of science
Turney, J. (1996) · The Lancet · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(96)90283-4 · Cited by 118
Sources in science: who can we trust?
Wilkie, T. (1996) · The Lancet · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(96)90947-2 · Cited by 72
Journalists and their sources of ideas and information on medicines
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The association between alcohol and breast cancer: popular press coverage of research.
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Matthews, W. B. (1990) · BMJ · doi:10.1136/bmj.300.6722.412 · Cited by 17
Fast-tracking epidemic information
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Transmissable spongiform encephalopathies: The threat of BSE to man
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Sumner, P., Vivian-Griffiths, S., Boivin, J., Williams, A., Venetis, C. A., Davies, A., Ogden, J., Whelan, L., Hughes, B., Dalton, B., et al. (2014) · BMJ · doi:10.1136/bmj.g7015 · Cited by 489
Bartlett, C., Sterne, J., & Egger, M. (2002) · BMJ · doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7355.81 · Cited by 222
Woloshin, S., & Schwartz, L. M. (2002) · JAMA · doi:10.1001/jama.287.21.2856 · Cited by 194
“Releases do seem to draw journalists’ attention and increase the chance that an article receives press coverage.(7) However, most journalists say they do not rely solely on the release for information, but go to the article.”
BackgroundSchwartz, L. M., Woloshin, S., Andrews, A., & Stukel, T. A. (2012) · BMJ · doi:10.1136/bmj.d8164 · Cited by 136
Science and the sources of hype
Caulfield, T., & Condit, C. (2012) · Public Health Genomics · doi:10.1159/000336533 · Cited by 152
Metadata
- Authors
- de Semir, V.
- Venue
- JAMA
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 1998-07-15
- Volume
- 280
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 294
- ISSN
- 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
- 0098-7484
- OpenAlex
- W2118364654
- Cited by
- 121
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 6.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- JAMA (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Repositori digital de la UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Social Sciences › Communication › Journalism and Media Studies
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Keywords
- press releases, science journalism, newspaper coverage of science, science communication, scientific journals
- MeSH terms
- Mass Media, Newspapers as Topic, Periodicals as Topic, Publishing, Retrospective Studies
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
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