'Pandem-icons': exploring the characteristics of highly visible scientists during the Covid-19 pandemic

Marina Joubert; Lars Guenther; Jenni Metcalfe; Michelle Riedlinger; Anwesha Chakraborty; Toss Gascoigne; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari; Bernard Schiele; Dmitry Malkov; Eliana Fattorini; Gema Revuelta; Germana Barata; Jan Riise; Justin Schröder; Maja Horst; Margaret Kaseje; Marnell Kirsten; Martin W.  Bauer; Massimiano Bucchi; Natália Flores; Orli Wolfson; Tingjie Chen

doi:10.22323/2.22010204

'Pandem-icons': exploring the characteristics of highly visible scientists during the Covid-19 pandemic

Marina Joubert, Lars Guenther, Jenni Metcalfe, Michelle Riedlinger, Anwesha Chakraborty, Toss Gascoigne, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari, Bernard Schiele, Dmitry Malkov, Eliana Fattorini, Gema Revuelta, Germana Barata, Jan Riise, Justin Schröder, Maja Horst, Margaret Kaseje, Marnell Kirsten, Martin W. Bauer, Massimiano Bucchi, Natália FloresOrli Wolfson, Tingjie Chen

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The Covid-19 pandemic escalated demand for scientific explanations and guidance, creating opportunities for scientists to become publicly visible. In this study, we compared characteristics of visible scientists during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic (January to December 2020) across 16 countries. We find that the scientists who became visible largely matched socio-cultural criteria that have characterised visible scientists in the past (e.g., age, gender, credibility, public image, involvement in controversies). However, there were limited tendencies that scientists commented outside their areas of expertise. We conclude that the unusual circumstances created by Covid-19 did not change the phenomenon of visible scientists in significant ways.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Separation Science
Volume	22
Issue number	1
Number of pages	24
ISSN	1615-9306
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22323/2.22010204
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Joubert, M., Guenther, L., Metcalfe, J., Riedlinger, M., Chakraborty, A., Gascoigne, T., Baram-Tsabari, A., Schiele, B., Malkov, D., Fattorini, E., Revuelta, G., Barata, G., Riise, J., Schröder, J., Horst, M., Kaseje, M., Kirsten, M., Bauer, M. W., Bucchi, M., ... Chen, T. (2023). 'Pandem-icons': exploring the characteristics of highly visible scientists during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Separation Science, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.22323/2.22010204

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