Fig 1.
Process flow diagram of the categorization of news stories on microbiome papers.
Fig 2.
News stories on microbiome papers compared to microbiome papers in PubMed.
(A) Individual newspapers; (B) General vs business newspapers; (C) Newspapers grouped by countries (the USA, the UK and Spain); (D) Microbiome news/biomedicine news published by SINC (2008–2018) vs microbiome papers/biomedicine papers in PubMed (2007–2019). Microbiome papers in PubMed are presented as a black curve on each graph.
Table 1.
Number of news stories on microbiome papers, microbiome papers in PubMed, microbiome news published by SINC and correlations between them.
Fig 3.
Over-representation and under-representation of microbiome study designs in the press vs PubMed.