Identifying science in the news: An assessment of the precision and recall of Altmetric.com news mention data.

Unlabelled: The company Altmetric is often used to collect mentions of research in online news stories, yet there have been concerns about the quality of this data. This study investigates these concerns. Using a manual content analysis of 400 news stories as a comparison method, we analyzed the precision and recall with which Altmetric identified mentions of research in 8 news outlets.

Making headlines: an analysis of US government-funded cancer research mentioned in online media.

Objective: To characterise how online media coverage of journal articles on cancer funded by the US government varies by cancer type and stage of the cancer control continuum and to compare the disease prevalence rates with the amount of funded research published for each cancer type and with the amount of media attention each receives.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Setting: The United States.