Table 5.
Moderating effect of news prominence
| News factors | Standardized coefficients | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Step | Predictor | β | p | R2 | R2 change | F | p |
| Importance | |||||||
| 1 | 0.46 | 0.46 | 125.04 | .000 | |||
| Importance score | 0.27 | .000 | |||||
| News mentions | 0.53 | .000 | |||||
| 2 | 0.52 | 0.06 | 106.25 | .000 | |||
| Importance score | 0.28 | .000 | |||||
| News mentions | 1.05 | .000 | |||||
| (Importance score * News mentions) | − 0.56 | .000 | |||||
| Controversy | |||||||
| 1 | 0.41 | 0.41 | 101.18 | .000 | |||
| Controversy | 0.13 | .004 | |||||
| News mentions | 0.60 | .000 | |||||
| 2 | 0.43 | 0.02 | 74.17 | .000 | |||
| Controversy | 0.15 | .001 | |||||
| News mentions | 0.76 | .000 | |||||
| (Controversy * News mentions) | − 0.23 | .000 | |||||
| Elite nations | |||||||
| 1 | 0.42 | 0.42 | 107.43 | .000 | |||
| Elite nations | 0.18 | .000 | |||||
| News mentions | 0.59 | .000 | |||||
| 2 | 0.44 | 0.02 | 76.86 | .000 | |||
| Elite nations | 0.17 | .000 | |||||
| News mentions | 0.80 | .000 | |||||
| (Elite nations * News mentions) | − 0.24 | .002 | |||||
| Elite persons—top medical institutions (Elite persons—M) | |||||||
| 1 | 0.41 | 0.41 | 104.85 | .000 | |||
| Elite persons—M | 0.16 | .000 | |||||
| News mentions | 0.58 | .000 | |||||
| 2 | 0.45 | 0.04 | 80.34 | .000 | |||
| Elite persons—M | 0.19 | .000 | |||||
| News mentions | 0.77 | .000 | |||||
| (Elite persons—M * News mentions) | − 0.27 | .000 | |||||
| Elite persons—top institutions in coronavirus research (Elite persons—C) | |||||||
| 1 | 0.43 | 0.43 | 113.54 | .000 | |||
| Elite persons—C | 0.22 | .000 | |||||
| News mentions | 0.55 | .000 | |||||
| 2 | 0.45 | 0.02 | 81.67 | .000 | |||
| Elite persons—C | 0.25 | .000 | |||||
| News mentions | 0.69 | .000 | |||||
| (Elite persons—C * News mentions) | − 0.21 | .001 | |||||
| Scale—author collaboration | |||||||
| 1 | 0.40 | 0.40 | 97.84 | .000 | |||
| Scale—author | 0. 09 | .042 | |||||
| News mentions | 0.61 | .000 | |||||
| 2 | 0.44 | 0.04 | 75.82 | .000 | |||
| Scale—author | 0.19 | .000 | |||||
| News mentions | 0.83 | .000 | |||||
| (Scale—author—C * News mentions) | − 0.32 | .000 | |||||
| Scale—country collaboration | |||||||
| 1 | 0.40 | 0.40 | 99.58 | .000 | |||
| Scale—country | 0.11 | .013 | |||||
| News mentions | 0.62 | .000 | |||||
| 2 | 0.41 | 0.01 | 69.83 | .000 | |||
| Scale—country | 0.18 | .001 | |||||
| News mentions | 0.75 | .000 | |||||
| (Scale—country—C * News mentions) | − 0.19 | .011 | |||||