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科学家虽然不愿意坦诚承认，但内心喜欢自己的研究被媒体关注。精彩的科研故事是组成科学家职业的重要因素，是获得更多研究经费和更好职位的敲门砖。在将影响因子作为判断论文质量标准的同时，媒体关注度也逐渐成为评价学术影响的一个指标。
关于媒体评价的最突出案例，是英国伦敦的Digital Science公司建立的Altmetric评价系统。这种评价系统不是利用杂志影响因子，而是基于论文在媒体、博客、推特、。每年12月份，该公司发布100篇当年度最热门的学术论文。http://www.altmetric.com/top100/2015/#explore
今年最热门的100篇论文分别来自34份学术期刊，作者分布在105个不同国家，在52个国际合作机构工作。其中第一名是2015年1月发表在《自然》上关于新抗生素的研究，论文共同作者波士顿东北大学微生物学家Brian Conlon对媒体如此关注这一研究此表示意外，因为这是一项比较冷门的研究，在CBS晚间新闻上看到关于细菌培养的照片是一种非常陌生的体验。
这种影响已经吸引了新的合作研究，但是也给他们的研究带来新挑战，因为研究曾经声称细菌不可能对这种药物产生耐受。同样是波士顿东北大学微生物学家的Kim Lewis说，毫无疑问这一声称也激怒了一些人，例如有医药公司提出让他们提供药物样本，他们将拿出能耐受这种药物的细菌突变种。
为了应对媒体的狂轰滥炸，一些科学家不得不把手头工作暂时搁置。维尔弗吉尼亚大学心理学家布雷恩·诺斯克说，这真是难以应付。他领导的项目8月发表在《科学》上，是关于大多数心理学研究无法重复的研究。在270位合作者的共同努力下，大家分成几个组，分别和说不同国家语言的记者进行沟通，其中最惨烈的一天，他用了整整5个小时向记者们介绍其他作者。
当然，受到媒体关注和是否有科学价值没有必然联系，一些媒体报道会增加Altmetric分数，例如在今年的热点论文名单中，排20名的一项研究是6月发表在《现代生物学》上的关于角恐龙的研究，记者关注这一研究只是因为一个求婚的致谢脚注，这与研究内容没有任何关系。
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5.Estimating the reproducibility ofpsychological science
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7.The geographical distribution of fossilfuels unused when limiting global warming to 2 °C
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11.Mapping tree density at a global scale
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14.National hiring experiments reveal 2:1faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track
15.Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negativelyaffects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness
16.Shaping the oral microbiota throughintimate kissing
17.CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing inhuman tripronuclear zygotes
18.Climate change in the Fertile Crescentand implications of the recent Syrian drought
19.Spectral evidence for hydrated salts inrecurring slope lineae on Mars
20.A New Horned Dinosaur Reveals ConvergentEvolution in Cranial Ornamentation in Ceratopsidae
21.Whole-body endothermy in a mesopelagicfish, the opah, Lampris guttatus
22.Computer-based personality judgments aremore accurate than those made by humans
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26.Human-level control through deepreinforcement learning
27.Plastic waste inputs from land into theocean
28.Global, regional, and nationalincidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute andchronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematicanalysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
29.The genome of cultivated sweet potatocontains Agrobacterium T-DNAs with expressed genes: An example of a naturally transgenicfood crop
30.3.3-million-year-old stone tools fromLomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya
31.A Neural Conversational Model
32.The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers inthe Digital Era
33.An investigation of the false discoveryrate and the misinterpretation of p-values
34.Business culture and dishonesty in thebanking industry
35.Heads-up limit hold’em poker is solved
36.Global, regional, and national age-sexspecific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death,1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
37.Scanning ultrasound removes amyloid-βand restores memory in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model
38.Malignant Transformation of Hymenolepisnana in a Human Host.
39.Systematic Literature Review of ImagingFeatures of Spinal Degeneration in Asymptomatic Populations
40.Rising morbidity and mortality inmidlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century
41.Sedentary Time and Its Association WithRisk for Disease Incidence, Mortality, and Hospitalization in Adults: ASystematic Review and Meta-analysis
42.67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a Jupiterfamily comet with a high D/H ratio
43.Possible artifacts of data biases in therecent global surface warming hiatus
44.Association between breastfeeding andintelligence, educational attainment, and income at 30 years of age: aprospective birth cohort study from Brazil
45.Am I normal? A systematic review andconstruction of nomograms for flaccid and erect penis length and circumferencein up to 15521 men
46.Photonic crystals cause active colourchange in chameleons
47.Continuous liquid interface productionof 3D objects
48.Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’smodern human-dominated landscapes
49.Exposure to ideologically diverse newsand opinion on Facebook
50.Planetary boundaries: Guiding humandevelopment on a changing planet
51.Potential Mechanisms for CancerResistance in Elephants and Comparative Cellular Response to DNA Damage inHumans
52.The association between exaggeration inhealth related science news and academic press releases: retrospectiveobservational study
53.Identification of the remains of KingRichard III
54.Insights into Sexism: Male Status andPerformance Moderates Female-Directed Hostile and Amicable Behaviour
55.A specimen-level phylogenetic analysisand taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)
56.Diet Soda Intake Is Associated with Long‐TermIncreases in Waist Circumference in a Biethnic Cohort of Older Adults: The SanAntonio Longitudinal Study of Aging
57.Dietary emulsifiers impact the mouse gutmicrobiota promoting colitis and metabolic syndrome
58.Intake of saturated and transunsaturated fatty acids and risk of all cause mortality, cardiovasculardisease, and type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis ofobservational studies
59.Mortality and Treatment Patterns AmongPatients Hospitalized With Acute Cardiovascular Conditions During Dates ofNational Cardiology Meetings
60.Restoring Study 329: efficacy and harmsof paroxetine and imipramine in treatment of major depression in adolescence
61.A smartphone dongle for diagnosis ofinfectious diseases at the point of care
62.Oxytocin-gaze positive loop and thecoevolution of human-dog bonds
63.Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled:High Confidence Predictions for Unrecognizable Images
64.Evidence from randomised controlledtrials did not support the introduction of dietary fat guidelines in 1977 and1983: a systematic review and meta-analysis
65.The Anatomy of Medical Research: US andInternational Comparisons
66.Comparative risk assessment of alcohol,tobacco, cannabis and other illicit drugs using the margin of exposure approach
67.Vegetarian Dietary Patterns and the Riskof Colorectal Cancers
68.Identifying the source of perytons atthe Parkes radio telescope
69.Comprehensive serological profiling ofhuman populations using a synthetic human virome
70.Efficacy and safety of paracetamol forspinal pain and osteoarthritis: systematic review and meta-analysis ofrandomised placebo controlled trials
71.Complex archaea that bridge the gapbetween prokaryotes and eukaryotes
72.Sizing ocean giants: patterns ofintraspecific size variation in marine megafauna
73.Unprecedented 21st century drought riskin the American Southwest and Central Plains
74.Physical activity and all-causemortality across levels of overall and abdominal adiposity in European men andwomen: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Study(EPIC)
75.Randomized trial of peanut consumptionin infants at risk for peanut allergy
76.Leisure Time Physical Activity andMortality: A Detailed Pooled Analysis of the Dose-Response Relationship
77.The octopus genome and the evolution ofcephalopod neural and morphological novelties
78.Weight training, aerobic physicalactivities, and long‐term waist circumference change in men
79.Breast Cancer Screening, Incidence, andMortality Across US Counties
80.Homo erectus at Trinil on Java usedshells for tool production and engraving
81.An ultraluminous quasar with a twelve-billion-solar-massblack hole at redshift 6.30
82.Observation of J/ψp resonancesconsistent with pentaquark states in Λ0b→J/ψK−p decays
83.Mediterranean Diet and Age-RelatedCognitive Decline: A Randomized Clinical Trial
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85.Small Amounts of Gluten in Subjects WithSuspected Nonceliac Gluten Sensitivity: A Randomized, Double-Blind,Placebo-Controlled, Cross-Over Trial
86.Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating theTrustworthiness of Web Sources
87.Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy intoa comprehensive tree of life
88.Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneumpapyri by X-ray phase-contrast imaging
89.Global non-linear effect of temperatureon economic production
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93.Gravitational lensing by spinning blackholes in astrophysics, and in the movie Interstellar
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95.Polygenic risk scores for schizophreniaand bipolar disorder predict creativity
96.Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of mindfulness-basedcognitive therapy compared with maintenance antidepressant treatment in theprevention of depressive relapse or recurrence (PREVENT): a randomisedcontrolled trial
97.Portion, package or tableware size forchanging selection and consumption of food, alcohol and tobacco
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