Media reporting of neuroscience depends on timing, topic and newspaper type

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Van Atteveldt, Nienke M ^a,b   Van Aalderen Smeets, Sandra I ^c   Jacobi, Carina ^d,e   Ruigrok, Nel ^d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROSCIENCE; PUBLICATION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; NEUROSCIENCES; NEWSPAPERS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84905842696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104780     Document Type: Article

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