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What Makes Science Newsworthy? Predicting and Interpreting Media Coverage of Scientific Papers with Large Language Models

2026-05-25

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>News media coverage is a major altmetric indicator of how scientific research circulates beyond academia, yet existing altmetrics research remains largely descriptive and retrospective. Only a few studies have attempted to predict media coverage, and they rely mainly on traditional NLP methods. Some also require auxiliary inputs such as press releases, which are unavailable for most pap...

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Literature Corpus work: d15430eb-fc4d-5e57-9ef6-70af620f700d
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9555741/v1

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