Peter Suber - Google+ - How often do newspapers cite peer-reviewed journals? …

Brazil's most widely-read newspaper, Folha de S. Paulo, has quoted peer-reviewed science journals only four times in the last five years, according to a new study by Germana Barata, a researcher at the State University of Campinas, Brazil.  That's the disappointing answer to a good question. I'd love to see the same question investigated in other countries.  In Brazil, however, the problem is less about access to journals than it is about attitudes toward research. Quoting Abel Packer, program coordinator for Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), ‘About 80 per cent of Latin American journals are open access, [and] the number of scientific articles downloaded is increasing daily.’"