Dr A.L. (Alice) Fleerackers

Faculty of Humanities

Capaciteitsgroep Media & Cultuur

Photographer: Alfred Hermida

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Turfdraagsterpad 1

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Postbus 94550
1090 GN Amsterdam

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Alice Fleerackers (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Civic Engagement in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her research examines the intersections of journalism, health and science communication, and scholarly communication. She is a member of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and the Taal en Cultuur sector plan programme.

Beyond her work at UvA, Alice is also an (occasional) freelance writer, researcher at the ScholCommLab, Vice President of the Public Communication of Science and Technology Network (PCST), and co-founder and co-chair of PCST’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee.
Publications
2025

Fleerackers, A. L., Moorhead, L. L., Alperin, J. P., Riedlinger, M., & Maggio, L. A. (2025). From impact metrics and open science to communicating research: Journalists’ awareness of academic controversies. PLoS ONE, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.24.604934

2024

Alperin, J. P., Fleerackers, A. L., Riedlinger, M., & Haustein, S. (2024). Second-order citations in altmetrics: A case study analyzing the audiences of COVID-19 research in the news and on social media. Quantitative Science Studies. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00298

Atef, N., Fleerackers, A. L., & Alperin, J. P. (2024). Why do health professionals create content on social media? uses and gratifications of Egyptian “physician vloggers” on YouTube. Journal of Social Media in Society. https://www.thejsms.org/index.php/JSMS/article/view/1287

Benson Marshall, M., Pinfield, S., Abbott, P., Cox, A., Alperin, J. P., Barata, G., Chtena, N., Dorsch, I., Fleerackers, A. L., Oliveira, M., & Peters, I. (2024). The impact of COVID-19 on the debate on open science: A qualitative analysis of published materials from the period of the pandemic. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03804-w

Céspedes, L., Fleerackers, A. L., & Maggio, L. A. (2024). “Giving them the best information I could with whatever I had at hand”. Physicians’ online health communication practices in a post-normal science context. JCOM, Journal of Science Communication, 23(06). https://doi.org/10.22323/2.23060204

Fleerackers, A. L., Chtena, N., Pinfield, S., Alperin, J. P., Barata, G., Oliveira, M., & Peters, I. (2024). Making science public: A review of journalists’ use of Open Access research. F1000Research. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.133710.1

Fleerackers, A. L., Ratcliff, C. L., Wicke, R., King, A. J., & Jensen, J. D. (2024). Public understanding of preprints: How audiences make sense of unreviewed research in the news. Public Understanding of Science, 09636625241268881. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625241268881

Fleerackers, A. L., Shores, K., Chtena, N., & Alperin, J. P. (2024). Unreviewed science in the news: The evolution of preprint media coverage from 2014–2021. Quantitative Science Studies. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00282

Kankaria, S., Fleerackers, A. L., Escalón, E., Stengler, E., Wilkinson, C., & Kreutzer, T. (2024). Teaching to bridge research and practice: Perspectives from science communication educators across the world. JCOM, Journal of Science Communication. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.23020803

Maggio, L. A., Céspedes, L., & Fleerackers, A. L. (2024). “My doctor self and my human self”: A qualitative study of physicians' presentation of self on social media. Medical Education. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.15384

Oliveira, M., Barata, G., Fleerackers, A. L., Alperin, J. P., Falade, B., & Bauer, M. (2024). Bridging science communication and open science—Working inclusively toward the common good. Frontiers in Communication. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1473268
2024

Alperin, J. P., Shores, K., Fleerackers, A. L., & Chtena, N. (2024). Stark decline in journalists’ use of preprints postpandemic [commentary]. Science Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10755470241285405

Fleerackers, A. L., Nguyen, A., McKinnon, M. (Ed.), & Walsh-Childers, K. (Ed.) (2024). Treading waters: The many socio-ethical challenges of science and health journalism. In Handbook of science and health journalism Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49084-2_22
2025

Fleerackers, A. L. (2025). Using open data to sharpen science stories. The Open Notebook. https://www.theopennotebook.com/2025/01/14/using-open-data-to-sharpen-science-stories/
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Ancillary activities
- Freelance writer
  See alicefleerackers.com/portfolio
- PCST Network
  Vice President + Co-Chair, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility Committee

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