@article{ref1,
title="An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites",
journal="Scientific data",
year="2022",
author="Mammola, Stefano and Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba and Arabesky, Valeria and Barrales-Alcalá, Diego Alejandro and Barrion-Dupo, Aimee Lynn and Benamú, Marco Antonio and Bird, Tharina L. and Bogomolova, Maria and Cardoso, Pedro and Chatzaki, Maria and Cheng, Ren-Chung and Chu, Tien-Ai and Classen-Rodríguez, Leticia M. and Čupić, Iva and Dhiya'ulhaq, Naufal Urfi and Picard, André-Philippe Drapeau and El-Hennawy, Hisham K. and Elverici, Mert and Fukushima, Caroline S. and Ganem, Zeana and Gavish-Regev, Efrat and Gonnye, Naledi T. and Hacala, Axel and Haddad, Charles R. and Hesselberg, Thomas and Ho, Tammy Ai Tian and Into, Thanakorn and Isaia, Marco and Jayaraman, Dharmaraj and Karuaera, Nanguei and Khalap, Rajashree and Khalap, Kiran and Kim, Dongyoung and Korhonen, Tuuli and Kralj-Fišer, Simona and Land, Heidi and Lin, Shou-Wang and Loboda, Sarah and Lowe, Elizabeth and Lubin, Yael and Martínez, Alejandro and Mbo, Zingisile and Miličić, Marija and Kioko, Grace Mwende and Nanni, Veronica and Norma-Rashid, Yusoff and Nwankwo, Daniel and Painting, Christina J. and Pang, Aleck and Pantini, Paolo and Pavlek, Martina and Pearce, Richard and Petcharad, Booppa and Pétillon, Julien and Raberahona, Onjaherizo Christian and Saarinen, Joni A. and Segura-Hernández, Laura and Sentenská, Lenka and Uhl, Gabriele and Walker, Leilani and Warui, Charles M. and Wiśniewski, Konrad and Zamani, Alireza and Scott, Catherine and Chuang, Angela",
volume="9",
number="1",
pages="e109-e109",
abstract="Mass media plays an important role in the construction and circulation of risk perception associated with animals. Widely feared groups such as spiders frequently end up in the spotlight of traditional and social media. We compiled an expert-curated global database on the online newspaper coverage of human-spider encounters over the past ten years (2010-2020). This database includes information about the location of each human-spider encounter reported in the news article and a quantitative characterisation of the content-location, presence of photographs of spiders and bites, number and type of errors, consultation of experts, and a subjective assessment of sensationalism. In total, we collected 5348 unique news articles from 81 countries in 40 languages. The database refers to 211 identified and unidentified spider species and 2644 unique human-spider encounters (1121 bites and 147 as deadly bites). To facilitate data reuse, we explain the main caveats that need to be made when analysing this database and discuss research ideas and questions that can be explored with it.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2052-4463",
doi="10.1038/s41597-022-01197-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01197-6"
}