What cancer research makes the news? A quantitative analysis of online news stories that mention cancer studies.

ABSTRACT: Journalists' health and science reporting aid the public's direct access to research through the inclusion of hyperlinks leading to original studies in peer-reviewed journals. While this effort supports the US-government mandate that research be made widely available, little is known about what research journalists share with the public. This cross-sectional exploratory study characterises US-government-funded research on cancer that appeared most frequently in news coverage and how that coverage varied by cancer type, disease incidence and mortality rates. The subject of analysis was 11436 research articles (published in 2016) on cancer funded by the US government and 642 news stories mentioning at least one of these articles. Based on Altmetric data, researchers identified articles via P

SUBMITTER: Moorhead L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7946182 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature