Science Communication is the public communication of science-related topics to the general populace. The standard form of communication for the past decades has been the journal publications, making it the job of journalists to bring the results to the public. Unfortunately, fewer than 0.013-0.34% of papers have the voice of mass media, with health/medicine journals having a majority of the coverage. And only 0.001-0.005% of journal coverage comes from fields outside health/medicine.

The goal of the study is to compare the volume of scientific output to the volume of output that makes it to the mainstream media. The ratios determine whether paper publication of scientific output being default is valid. So far, our study shows that research is not making it beyond the borders of the scientific community, and that outside of researchers in the same field, the amount of information that is disseminating to the public in decreasing at an outstanding rate.

Communication is a responsibility that we must shoulder en masse. As Albert Einstein astutely pointed out, “It is just as important to make knowledge live and to keep it alive as to solve specific problems”