{"abstracts":[{"sha1":"da44cd7942551b24a842638079716efa4b46653c","content":"ObjectiveTo evaluate whether the COVID-19 experts who appear most frequently in media have high citation impact for their research overall, and for their COVID-19 peer-reviewed publications in particular and to examine the representation of women among such experts.DesignCross-linking of data sets of most highly visible COVID-19 media experts with citation data on the impact of their published work (career-long publication record and COVID-19-specific work).SettingCable news appearance in prime-time programming or overall media appearances.ParticipantsMost highly visible COVID-19 media experts in the USA, Switzerland, Greece and Denmark.InterventionsNone.Outcome measuresCitation data from Scopus along with discipline-specific ranks of overall career-long and COVID-19-specific impact based on a previously validated composite citation indicator.ResultsWe assessed 76 COVID-19 experts who were highly visible in US prime-time cable news, and 50, 12 and 2 highly visible experts in media in Denmark, Greece and Switzerland, respectively. Of those, 23/76, 10/50, 2/12 and 0/2 were among the top 2% of overall citation impact among scientists in the same discipline worldwide. Moreover, 37/76, 15/50, 7/12 and 2/2 had published anything on COVID-19 that was indexed in Scopus as of 30 August 2021. Only 18/76, 6/50, 2/12 and 0/2 of the highly visible COVID-19 media experts were women. 55 scientists in the USA, 5 in Denmark, 64 in Greece and 56 in Switzerland had a higher citation impact for their COVID-19 work than any of the evaluated highly visible media COVID-19 experts in the respective country; 10/55, 2/5, 22/64 and 14/56 of them were women.ConclusionsDespite notable exceptions, there is a worrisome disconnect between COVID-19 claimed media expertise and scholarship. Highly cited women COVID-19 experts are rarely included among highly visible media experts.","mimetype":"application/xml+jats"}],"refs":[{"index":0,"extra":{"authors":["Ahmed"],"volume":"12"},"key":"2021102710152931000_11.10.e052856.1","year":2020,"container_name":"Cureus","title":"The COVID-19 Infodemic: a quantitative analysis through Facebook"},{"index":1,"extra":{"authors":["Zarocostas"],"doi":"10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30461-x","volume":"395"},"key":"2021102710152931000_11.10.e052856.2","year":2020,"container_name":"Lancet","title":"How to fight an infodemic"},{"index":2,"extra":{"doi":"10.1007/bf00993988"},"key":"2021102710152931000_11.10.e052856.3"},{"index":3,"extra":{"authors":["Tezel"],"doi":"10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6285","volume":"181"},"key":"2021102710152931000_11.10.e052856.4","year":2021,"container_name":"JAMA Intern Med","title":"Diversity and representation of physicians during the COVID-19 news cycle","locator":"124"},{"index":4,"extra":{"unstructured":"Akademikerbladet. 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