媒体关注
科学家虽然不愿意坦诚承认,但内心喜欢自己的研究被媒体关注。精彩的科研故事是组成科学家职业的重要因素,是获得更多研究经费和更好职位的敲门砖。在将影响因子作为判断论文质量标准的同时,媒体关注度也逐渐成为评价学术影响的一个指标。
关于媒体评价的最突出案例,是英国伦敦的Digital Science公司建立的Altmetric评价系统。这种评价系统不是利用杂志影响因子,而是基于论文在媒体、博客、推特、脸书和维基百科等类非学术共同体被引用或转发的情况。每年12月份,该公司发布100篇当年度最热门的学术论文。http://www.altmetric.com/top100/2015/#explore,altmetrictop1002015.xlsx
新抗生素的研究获头名
今年最热门的100篇论文分别来自34份学术期刊,作者分布在105个不同国家,在52个国际合作机构工作。其中第一名是2015年1月发表在《自然》上关于新抗生素的研究,论文共同作者波士顿东北大学微生物学家Brian Conlon对媒体如此关注这一研究此表示意外,因为这是一项比较冷门的研究,在CBS晚间新闻上看到关于细菌培养的照片是一种非常陌生的体验。
这这种影响已经吸引了新的合作研究,但是也给他们的研究带来新挑战,因为研究曾经声称细菌不可能对这种药物产生耐受。同样是波士顿东北大学微生物学家的Kim Lewis说,毫无疑问这一声称也激怒了一些人,例如有医药公司提出让他们提供药物样本,他们将拿出能耐受这种药物的细菌突变种。
报道带来的困恼
为了应对媒体的狂轰滥炸,一些科学家不得不把手头工作暂时搁置。维尔弗吉尼亚大学心理学家布雷恩·诺斯克说,这真是难以应付。他领导的项目8月发表在《科学》上,是关于大多数心理学研究无法重复的研究。在270位合作者的共同努力下,大家分成几个组,分别和说不同国家语言的记者进行沟通,其中最惨烈的一天,他用了整整5个小时向记者们介绍其他作者。
当然,受到媒体关注和是否有科学价值没有必然联系,一些媒体报道会增加Altmetric分数,例如在今年的热点论文名单中,排20名的一项研究是6月发表在《现代生物学》上的关于角恐龙的研究,记者关注这一研究只是因为一个求婚的致谢脚注,这与研究内容没有任何关系。
目录
1. A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistance |
2. Autism Occurrence by MMR Vaccine Status Among US Children With Older Siblings With and Without Autism |
3. Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction |
4. Cancer etiology. Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions |
5. Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science |
6. Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea |
7. The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2 °C |
8. An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used in Academic Research and Development |
9. A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style |
10. The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism across the World |
11. Mapping tree density at a global scale |
12. Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603 838 individuals |
13. Structural and functional features of central nervous system lymphatic vessels |
14. National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track |
15. Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness |
16. Shaping the oral microbiota through intimate kissing |
17. CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygotes |
18. Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought |
19. Spectral evidence for hydrated salts in recurring slope lineae on Mars |
20. A New Horned Dinosaur Reveals Convergent Evolution in Cranial Ornamentation in Ceratopsidae |
21. Whole-body endothermy in a mesopelagic fish, the opah, Lampris guttatus |
22. Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans |
23. Planet Hunters X. KIC 8462852 - Where's the Flux? |
24. Sexist Games=Sexist Gamers? A Longitudinal Study on the Relationship Between Video Game Use and Sexist Attitudes |
25. Consumption of spicy foods and total and cause specific mortality: population based cohort study |
26. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning |
27. Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean |
28. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 |
29. The genome of cultivated sweet potato contains Agrobacterium T-DNAs with expressed genes: An example of a naturally transgenic food crop |
30. 3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya |
31. A Neural Conversational Model |
32. The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era |
33. An investigation of the false discovery rate and the misinterpretation of p-values |
34. Business culture and dishonesty in the banking industry |
35. Heads-up limit hold’em poker is solved |
36. Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 |
37. Scanning ultrasound removes amyloid-β and restores memory in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model |
38. Malignant Transformation of Hymenolepis nana in a Human Host. |
39. Systematic Literature Review of Imaging Features of Spinal Degeneration in Asymptomatic Populations |
40. Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century |
41. Sedentary Time and Its Association With Risk for Disease Incidence, Mortality, and Hospitalization in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis |
42. 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a Jupiter family comet with a high D/H ratio |
43. Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus |
44. Association between breastfeeding and intelligence, educational attainment, and income at 30 years of age: a prospective birth cohort study from Brazil |
45. Am I normal? A systematic review and construction of nomograms for flaccid and erect penis length and circumference in up to 15 521 men |
46. Photonic crystals cause active colour change in chameleons |
47. Continuous liquid interface production of 3D objects |
48. Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes |
49. Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook |
50. Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet |
51. Potential Mechanisms for Cancer Resistance in Elephants and Comparative Cellular Response to DNA Damage in Humans |
52. The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases: retrospective observational study |
53. Identification of the remains of King Richard III |
54. Insights into Sexism: Male Status and Performance Moderates Female-Directed Hostile and Amicable Behaviour |
55. A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) |
56. Diet Soda Intake Is Associated with Long‐Term Increases in Waist Circumference in a Biethnic Cohort of Older Adults: The San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging |
57. Dietary emulsifiers impact the mouse gut microbiota promoting colitis and metabolic syndrome |
58. Intake of saturated and trans unsaturated fatty acids and risk of all cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies |
59. Mortality and Treatment Patterns Among Patients Hospitalized With Acute Cardiovascular Conditions During Dates of National Cardiology Meetings |
60. Restoring Study 329: efficacy and harms of paroxetine and imipramine in treatment of major depression in adolescence |
61. A smartphone dongle for diagnosis of infectious diseases at the point of care |
62. Oxytocin-gaze positive loop and the coevolution of human-dog bonds |
63. Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled: High Confidence Predictions for Unrecognizable Images |
64. Evidence from randomised controlled trials did not support the introduction of dietary fat guidelines in 1977 and 1983: a systematic review and meta-analysis |
65. The Anatomy of Medical Research: US and International Comparisons |
66. Comparative risk assessment of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis and other illicit drugs using the margin of exposure approach |
67. Vegetarian Dietary Patterns and the Risk of Colorectal Cancers |
68. Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope |
69. Comprehensive serological profiling of human populations using a synthetic human virome |
70. Efficacy and safety of paracetamol for spinal pain and osteoarthritis: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised placebo controlled trials |
71. Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes |
72. Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna |
73. Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains |
74. Physical activity and all-cause mortality across levels of overall and abdominal adiposity in European men and women: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Study (EPIC) |
75. Randomized trial of peanut consumption in infants at risk for peanut allergy |
76. Leisure Time Physical Activity and Mortality: A Detailed Pooled Analysis of the Dose-Response Relationship |
77. The octopus genome and the evolution of cephalopod neural and morphological novelties |
78. Weight training, aerobic physical activities, and long‐term waist circumference change in men |
79. Breast Cancer Screening, Incidence, and Mortality Across US Counties |
80. Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving |
81. An ultraluminous quasar with a twelve-billion-solar-mass black hole at redshift 6.30 |
82. Observation of J/ψp resonances consistent with pentaquark states in Λ0b→J/ψK−p decays |
83. Mediterranean Diet and Age-Related Cognitive Decline: A Randomized Clinical Trial |
84. Consumption of sugar sweetened beverages, artificially sweetened beverages, and fruit juice and incidence of type 2 diabetes: systematic review, meta-analysis, and estimation of population attributable fraction |
85. Small Amounts of Gluten in Subjects With Suspected Nonceliac Gluten Sensitivity: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Cross-Over Trial |
86. Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources |
87. Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy into a comprehensive tree of life |
88. Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast imaging |
89. Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production |
90. Real-Time Visualization of Joint Cavitation |
91. Lethal Interpersonal Violence in the Middle Pleistocene |
92. Music as an aid for postoperative recovery in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis |
93. Gravitational lensing by spinning black holes in astrophysics, and in the movie Interstellar |
94. An enigmatic plant-eating theropod from the Late Jurassic period of Chile |
95. Polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder predict creativity |
96. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy compared with maintenance antidepressant treatment in the prevention of depressive relapse or recurrence (PREVENT): a randomised controlled trial |
97. Portion, package or tableware size for changing selection and consumption of food, alcohol and tobacco |
98. Association Between Sauna Bathing and Fatal Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality Events |
99. Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks |
100.Human language reveals a universal positivity bias |
(作者孙学军教授,授权发布,推荐孙老师的公众号:氢思语,国内最大的氢气生物医学平台,欢迎关注)
如若转载,请注明e科网。
如果你有好文章想发表or科研成果想展示推广,可以联系我们或免费注册拥有自己的主页
- 科研之路
- 学术评价
- 媒体关注