An Automatic Method to Identify Citations to Journals in News Stories: A Case Study of UK Newspapers Citing Web of Science Journals
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Article Category: Research Paper
Published Online: Aug 30, 2019
Page range: 73 - 95
Received: Feb 16, 2019
Accepted: Apr 12, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2019-0016
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© 2019 Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall, published by Sciendo
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Common reasons for newspaper stories citing journals based on a faceted content analysis of a random sample of 360 newspaper stories mentioning a WoS Science journal.
| Broad categories | Narrow classes | Daily Mail | Daily Teleg. | Times | Daily Mirror | Guard. | Indep. | Herald | Sun | %Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Types of | Research | 97.8% | 98% | 89.6% | 100.0% | 85.9% | 88.1% | 97.0% | 95.6% | 94.0% |
| citation | Non-res. | 2.2% | 2% | 9.6% | 0.0% | 14.1% | 11.9% | 3.0% | 3.7% | 5.8% |
| Coverage of | Brief | 37.9% | 31.1% | 41.7% | 63.7% | 41.7% | 25.6% | 17.1% | 66.7% | 40.7% |
| research | Extensive | 62.1% | 68.9% | 58.3% | 36.3% | 58.3% | 74.4% | 82.9% | 33.3% | 59.3% |
| Sources used | Single | 37.9% | 58.3% | 53.3% | 54.8% | 33.3% | 37.6% | 54.3% | 50.0% | 47.4% |
| Multiple | 62.1% | 41.7% | 46.7% | 45.2% | 66.7% | 62.4% | 45.7% | 50.0% | 52.6% | |
| Type of news | Good | 48.5% | 31.1% | 19.2% | 38.5% | 32.4% | 35.0% | 26.4% | 23.8% | 31.9% |
| (sentiment | Bad | 24.2% | 32.6% | 37.5% | 30.4% | 41.7% | 29.9% | 42.6% | 46.8% | 35.7% |
| towards res.) | Other | 27.3% | 36.4% | 43.3% | 31.1% | 25.9% | 35.0% | 31.0% | 29.4% | 32.4% |
| Research | High | 8.3% | 0.0% | 2.5% | 3.7% | 8.3% | 14.5% | 2.3% | 4.0% | 5.5% |
| quality | Low | 0.8% | 0.0% | 2.5% | 0.7% | 1.9% | 0.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.8% |
| judgment | Other | 90.9% | 100.0% | 95.0% | 95.6% | 89.8% | 84.6% | 97.7% | 96.0% | 93.7% |