Authors / roleHamed Ahmadinia
Date / period1 October 2024-31 March 2026
StatusCOMPLETED
Project period1 October 2024-31 March 2026
Participants / unitsPublic-media corpus; no directly recruited human participants. The final analytical corpus contains 384 accessible online news posts from 115 news outlets referring to 46 retracted mental-health research articles. The analysis examines titles and full text, retraction awareness, citation purpose and position, author polarity, outlet characteristics, authorship and professional background, audience-engagement features, publication/retraction timing, and Altmetric-linked metadata. The study uses a mixed descriptive scientometric and interpretive content-analysis design.
MethodsDescriptive scientometrics; Interpretive content analysis; Stratified random sampling; Retraction-awareness coding; Citation & framing analysis; Pre/post-retraction comparison
Data sources384 news posts; 115 news outlets; 46 retracted mental-health articles
Project pageOpen project page
Unravelling how mainstream media represent unreliable science
University of Turku – European Media and Information Fund (EMIF)
Project period: 1 October 2024-31 March 2026.
Funder: European Media and Information Fund (EMIF).
Grantee: University of Turku. Partners: University of Sheffield and OIKOPLUS GmbH.
Team leader: Senior Research Fellow Kim Holmberg. Hamed Ahmadinia’s role: Senior Researcher.
The project examines representations of retracted, corrected, low-quality and unrefereed research in mainstream and professional media, the subsequent circulation of misleading stories on social media, public awareness, and possible legal or regulatory responses.
READER REACTIONS
How did this post land with you?
DISCUSSION
0 commentsReader comments
Comments are currently closed for this post.
Loading comments…