Presented at the 63rd Congress of the Société québécoise de science politique (SQSP), Université de Montréal, May 5, 2026. This talk presents a computational study on the influence and credibility of public scientific research agencies in public health in Canada, focusing on INSPQ, Health Canada, and the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Credibility measurement

A novel computational approach to measuring the credibility attributed to public health organizations in Canadian media coverage, using transformer-based classifiers applied to press conference transcripts and news articles.

The prominence paradox

Organizations with the highest media visibility do not necessarily command the highest credibility. The relationship between prominence and attributed scientific credibility reveals a paradox at the heart of science-policy interfaces.

Credible Science, Influential Science?
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Code and data

All code, data, and methodology are open source.

LLM_Tool LLM annotation framework