Public communication by research institutes compared across countries and sciences: Building capacity for engagement or competing for visibility?

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dc.WoS.categoriesMultidisciplinary Sciencesen_US
dc.authorid0000-0001-5692-8594en_US
dc.contributor.authorSüerdem, Ahmet
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-11T07:59:45Z
dc.date.available2020-11-11T07:59:45Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-08
dc.description17 pagesen_US
dc.description.abstractLeading academic institutions, governments, and funders of research across the world have spent the last few decades fretting publicly about the need for scientists and research organisations to engage more widely with the public and be open about their research. While a global literature asserts that public communication has changed from a virtue to a duty for scientists in many countries and disciplines, our knowledge about what research institutions are doing and what factors drive their 'going public' is very limited. Here we present the first cross-national study of N = 2,030 research institutes within universities and large scientific organisations in Brazil, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. We find that institutes embrace communication with non-peers and do so through a variety of public events and traditional news media-less so through new media channels-and we find variation across countries and sciences, yet these are less evident than we expected. Country and disciplinary cultures contribute to the level of this communication, as do the resources that institutes make available for the effort; institutes with professionalised staff show higher activity online. Future research should examine whether a real change in the organisational culture is happening or whether this activity and resource allocation is merely a means to increase institutional visibility.en_US
dc.fullTextLevelFull Texten_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0235191en_US
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.pmid32639974en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85087685482en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/2588
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235191
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000552601500022en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMeden_US
dc.issue7en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.nationalInternationalen_US
dc.numberofauthors18en_US
dc.publisherPublic Library Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPlos Oneen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectMass-mediaen_US
dc.subjectScientisten_US
dc.subjectUniversitiesen_US
dc.subjectMobilizationen_US
dc.titlePublic communication by research institutes compared across countries and sciences: Building capacity for engagement or competing for visibility?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.volume15en_US

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