Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Discrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians

  • Alexander Michael Petersen,
  • Emmanuel M. Vincent,
  • Anthony LeRoy Westerling

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09959-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The role of climate change (CC) contrarians is neglected in climate change communication studies. Here the authors used a data-driven approach to identify CC contrarians and CC scientists and found that CC scientists have much higher citation impact than those for contrarians but lower media visibility.