A Quantitative Investigation of Academic Research Findings in Media Report Articles　－Relationship between press release and scientific publication－

Abstract

We analyze the frequency at which press releases from universities form the basis of articles in newspapers. The number of universities that have been publishing press releases has been growing. Moreover, the number of newspaper articles on the university sector has also been growing. In this study, we extract the information of original scientific publication from the press release text body. And we investigate what the relations between press　releases and scientific publication. Moreover, we plan to analyze the relationship between published scientific journal title and newspaper reports.