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Alice Fleerackers
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Research
Latest papers
Stark Decline in Journalists' Use of Preprints Postpandemic.
Science communication · 2025
Public understanding of preprints: How audiences make sense of unreviewed research in the news.
Public understanding of science (Bristol, England) · 2025 · first author
From impact metrics and open science to communicating research: Journalists' awareness of academic controversies.
PloS one · 2025 · first author
Latest funding
- $47,130
Watchdog science journalism: A Canada-UK study of practices, challenges, and opportunities
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
9 publications.
Stark Decline in Journalists' Use of Preprints Postpandemic.
Alperin JP, Shores K, Fleerackers A, Chtena N
Public understanding of preprints: How audiences make sense of unreviewed research in the news.
Fleerackers A, Ratcliff CL, Wicke R, King AJ, Jensen JD
From impact metrics and open science to communicating research: Journalists' awareness of academic controversies.
Fleerackers A, Moorhead LL, Alperin JP, Riedlinger M, Maggio LA
'My doctor self and my human self': A qualitative study of physicians' presentation of self on social media.
Maggio LA, Céspedes L, Fleerackers A, Royan R
Making science public: a review of journalists' use of Open Access research.
Fleerackers A, Chtena N, Pinfield S, Alperin JP, Barata G, Oliveira M, Peters I
Preprints in Health Professions Education: Raising Awareness and Shifting Culture.
Maggio LA, Fleerackers A
Science in motion: A qualitative analysis of journalists' use and perception of preprints.
Fleerackers A, Moorhead LL, Maggio LA, Fagan K, Alperin JP
Using social annotation to construct knowledge with others: A case study across undergraduate courses.
Morales E, Kalir JH, Fleerackers A, Alperin JP
Identifying science in the news: An assessment of the precision and recall of Altmetric.com news mention data.
Fleerackers A, Nehring L, Maggio LA, Enkhbayar A, Moorhead L, Alperin JP
Watchdog science journalism: A Canada-UK study of practices, challenges, and opportunities
Principal investigators: Fleerackers, Alice
Keywords: science journalism; science communication; research integrity; retractions; digital media; watchdog role
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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