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Scientific clickbait: Examining media coverage and readability in genome-wide association research

2022-09-28

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<p>In the first systematic text mining review of media coverage of genome-wide association studies, we retrieved all GWAS publications indexed by GWAS Catalog. Our review includes 3,555 GWAS publications on 1,943 different traits. We analyzed trends in media coverage, readability, themes, and mentions of ethical and social issues, in over 5,000 websites published from 2005 to 2018. We found that 22.9% of GWAS pape...

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Literature Corpus work: c53a714e-6276-5628-a761-d7235e888be9
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/w29as

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