Making the news
Congratulations to three Leeds researchers whose work has made the Altmetric Top 100 list of academic papers that have received the most media attention this year.
The data science company, Altmetric, tracks the coverage given to academic papers in:
- mainstream news media
- blog posts
- Tweets
- Facebook posts
- Wikipedia mentions
- Google+ posts
- Reddit posts
- Videos
Three Leeds researchers have contributed to articles appearing in the Top 100:
Dr Crispin Little (SEE), co-author of collaborative paper on Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates, published in Nature – no. 11 in top 100
Dr Maria Beger (Biology), co-author of collaborative paper on Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals, published in Nature – no. 21 in top 100
Dr Darren Greenwood (Medicine), co-author of collaborative paper on Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all-cause mortality–a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies, published in International Journal of Epidemiology – no. 88 in top 100
and Dr Darren Greenwood again, co-author of collaborative paper on Nut consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer, all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies, published in BMC Medicine – no. 98 in top 100
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