Fig 1.
Systematic review inclusion process for academic articles focusing on general review.
(A) The primary search for articles written after the Western African outbreak. (B) A similar search for general topic review articles from 2010 up until the Western African outbreak onset.
Table 1.
The Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) model for topic scoring.
The CERC model was used to generate topic lists for scoring of accuracy, completeness, as well as enumerating unrelated information.
Table 2.
The resultant scores for comprehensive review articles under Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) model.
Scores for presence or absence of covered topics were generated using the CERC model in Table 1. Citations 111–114 pre-date 2013 EVD outbreak. Red indicates the citation covered the topic, blue indicates the topic was not covered, and grey indicates not applicable.
Table 3.
Completeness and accuracy scores by media type.
Aggregate scores for coverage of topics were collected for each media type based on individual media outlets (S1 Table). Nations impacted in the 2013–2016 outbreak were not counted against those sources that pre-dated the outbreak.
Fig 2.
Completeness and errors did not correlate to markers of journal quality.
Each academic press article is graphed for completeness versus impact factor (A), errors versus impact factor (B), completeness versus authors (C) and citations (D). (E) Completeness for full open access journals versus limited access is shown, red dots indicate articles that were free of errors. Errors versus authors (F), citations (G), and pages (H) are shown. (I) completeness versus page length is shown.
Fig 3.
Both completeness and errors were larger in academic journals.
Completeness (A) and errors (B) for each of the categories of written press. Each dot represents one article. Significance determined by ANOVA, ****—p = <0.0001, ***—p = <0.001, **—p = <0.01, *—p = <0.05, f = p value significant if outlier statistically removed from academic errors group.