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This paper tries to value the importance of science popularization through some of its forerunners, both Spanish and from other countries. There has been a Spanish scientific journalism since the first decades of the XXth century. Nowadays, the society ne
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Traditionally, the image of science has been burdened with some negative connotations that have not favoured its popularization among the great public. Associating science to something abrupt, boring, complex and unaware to our lives has been a constant f- 1
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Press citation: The impact of scientific journals and research articles on news media
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The news media’s citations of journals, authors, and papers have been used avant la letre to study the impact of science in the lay press and some characteristics of scientific journalism. In this paper, the concepts of press citation and media impact are outlined by analogy to [...]- 26
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Challenges and perspectives in the biomedical information ecosystem
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The new information flows and the collapse of the journalistic monopoly in the intermediation with the public, have created opportunities and dysfunctions in biomedical information. To the problems of hype and commercialization, those related to the lack of filters and the diffusion [...]- 17
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In this paper the authors analyze the university formation which scientific journalists get in Communication Studies Colleges all over Spain trough the different curricula. As a new proposal, they believe how useful it would be the introduction of a scien- 0
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