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Framing the challenge of climate change in Nature and Science editorials

Hulme, M; Obermeister, N; Randalls, S; Borie, M; (2018) Framing the challenge of climate change in Nature and Science editorials. Nature Climate Change , 8 pp. 515-521. 10.1038/s41558-018-0174-1. Green open access

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Abstract

Through their editorializing practices, leading international science journals such as Nature and Science interpret the changing roles of science in society and exert considerable influence on scientific priorities and practices. Here we examine nearly 500 editorials published in these two journals between 1966 and 2016 that deal with climate change, thereby constructing a lens through which to view the changing engagement of science and scientists with the issue. A systematic longitudinal frame analysis reveals broad similarities between Nature and Science in the waxing and waning of editorializing attention given to the topic, but, although both journals have diversified how they frame the challenges of climate change, they have done so in different ways. We attribute these differences to three influences: the different political and epistemic cultures into which they publish; their different institutional histories; and their different editors and editorial authorship practices.

Type: Article
Title: Framing the challenge of climate change in Nature and Science editorials
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-018-0174-1
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0174-1
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10047395
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