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Jonathan Dudek

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Junior Researcher @cwts@social.cwts.nl, Leiden University. Studying science on Twitter, scholarly communication & researcher mobility.

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Joined December 07, 2022

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Jonathan Dudek @jo_dudek@social.cwts.nl

· 24mo ago

📰 Academic press releases play an important role in the dissemination of new research, but are basic and applied research distributed alike? Jingwen Zhang, Marina Joubert, @rodrigocostas@social.cwts.nl and I have studied this question in a new paper.

💾 We combined a dataset of press releases published on EurekAlert! with publications categorized into basic and applied research.

📚 For our results and more details check out our paper published in the Journal of Science Communication 👉 https://jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JCOM_2307_2024_A01/

The coverage of basic and applied research in press releases on EurekAlert!

Journal of Science Communication

The coverage of basic and applied research in press releases on EurekAlert!

Research organisations routinely reach out to the media via press releases to announce research news and promote advances in science. This paper explores the presence of basic and applied research in press releases issued through EurekAlert!. Using a scientometric approach to classify research papers featured in press releases into basic and applied research, we found that more than half of the press releases in our dataset were related to basic research. This trend was particularly notable in l

Jonathan Dudek @jo_dudek@social.cwts.nl

· 38mo ago

Great insights into researchers’ recent experiences with Twitter and their takes on the current situation and how to deal with it. Super excited to see our work quoted as well! @rodrigocostas@social.cwts.nl @cwts@social.cwts.nl @Nature@press.coop

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

nature.com

Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty

A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform now known as X, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community.