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Overall and COVID-19-specific citation impact of highly visible COVID-19 media experts: bibliometric analysis. | LitMetric

Overall and COVID-19-specific citation impact of highly visible COVID-19 media experts: bibliometric analysis.

BMJ Open

Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Published: October 2021

Objective: To evaluate whether the COVID-19 experts who appear most frequently in media have high citation impact for their research overall, and for their COVID-19 peer-reviewed publications in particular and to examine the representation of women among such experts.

Design: Cross-linking of data sets of most highly visible COVID-19 media experts with citation data on the impact of their published work (career-long publication record and COVID-19-specific work).

Setting: Cable news appearance in prime-time programming or overall media appearances.

Participants: Most highly visible COVID-19 media experts in the USA, Switzerland, Greece and Denmark.

Interventions: None.

Outcome Measures: Citation data from Scopus along with discipline-specific ranks of overall career-long and COVID-19-specific impact based on a previously validated composite citation indicator.

Results: We assessed 76 COVID-19 experts who were highly visible in US prime-time cable news, and 50, 12 and 2 highly visible experts in media in Denmark, Greece and Switzerland, respectively. Of those, 23/76, 10/50, 2/12 and 0/2 were among the top 2% of overall citation impact among scientists in the same discipline worldwide. Moreover, 37/76, 15/50, 7/12 and 2/2 had published anything on COVID-19 that was indexed in Scopus as of 30 August 2021. Only 18/76, 6/50, 2/12 and 0/2 of the highly visible COVID-19 media experts were women. 55 scientists in the USA, 5 in Denmark, 64 in Greece and 56 in Switzerland had a higher citation impact for their COVID-19 work than any of the evaluated highly visible media COVID-19 experts in the respective country; 10/55, 2/5, 22/64 and 14/56 of them were women.

Conclusions: Despite notable exceptions, there is a worrisome disconnect between COVID-19 claimed media expertise and scholarship. Highly cited women COVID-19 experts are rarely included among highly visible media experts.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8551747PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052856DOI Listing

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