论文标题
作者在《科学新闻》中提到，揭示了姓名份额种族之间的广泛差异
Author Mentions in Science News Reveal Widespread Disparities Across Name-inferred Ethnicities
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论文摘要
媒体媒体在向公众传播科学知识并在同龄人之间提高研究人员的形象中发挥了关键作用。然而，记者如何选择在他们的故事中介绍研究人员。我们使用来自288个美国媒体的223,587个新闻报道的全面数据集，这些数据集在所有科学的所有领域中报道了100,486个研究论文，我们调查作者的种族是否与名字相关，是否与记者明确提及它们是否按名称相关联。通过关注研究论文新闻媒体选择涵盖，我们的分析减少了对名称提及的差异的担忧，这是由研究质量或新闻价值差异所驱动的。我们发现，名称上有实质性的差异，提到了种族赋予的名称。具有非anglo名称的研究人员，尤其是具有东亚和非洲名字的名字的研究人员，即使在比较特定科学场所中有关特定科学场所在特定研究主题的特定新闻媒体报道的故事中，新闻报道中也很少提到他们的研究。作者的隶属关系位置并没有充分解释差异，这表明务实的因素（例如安排访谈的困难）仅扮演部分角色。此外，在美国的作者中，记者在提到非英语命名的作者时经常使用作者的机构而不是名字，这表明记者的修辞选择也是关键。总体而言，这项研究发现了在研究媒体报道中如何描述研究人员的种族差异的证据，这可能仅在我们的数据中影响成千上万的非英语命名学者。
Media outlets play a key role in spreading scientific knowledge to the general public and raising the profile of researchers among their peers. Yet, how journalists choose to present researchers in their stories is poorly understood. Using a comprehensive dataset of 223,587 news stories from 288 U.S. outlets reporting on 100,486 research papers across all areas of science, we investigate if the authors' ethnicities, as inferred from names, are associated with whether journalists explicitly mention them by name. By focusing on research papers news outlets chose to cover, our analysis reduces concerns that differences in name mentions are driven by differences in research quality or newsworthiness. We find substantial disparities in name mention rates across ethnically-distinctive names. Researchers with non-Anglo names, especially those with East Asian and African names, are significantly less likely to be mentioned in news stories covering their research, even when comparing stories from a particular news outlet reporting on publications in a particular scientific venue on a particular research topic. The disparities are not fully explained by authors' affiliation locations, suggesting that pragmatic factors such as difficulties in scheduling interviews play only a partial role. Furthermore, among U.S.-based authors, journalists more often use authors' institutions instead of names when referring to non-Anglo-named authors, suggesting that journalists' rhetorical choices are also key. Overall, this study finds evidence of ethnic disparities in how researchers are described in the media coverage of their research, likely affecting thousands of non-Anglo-named scholars in our data alone.
