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This work was supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Government of Spain, State Program R&D Oriented Society Challenges under grant no. CSO2017-82267-R.

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Perello-Oliver, SAuthorMuela-Molina, CAuthorRomero-Rodriguez, LmCorresponding Author

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Alcohol and Betting Radio Advertising in Spain. A Comparative Analysis of the Minor's Protection Time Slot from a Media Responsibility Perspective

Publicated to:International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health. 17 (23): 1-15 - 2020-12-01 17(23), DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17238873

Authors: Perello-Oliver, Salvador; Muela-Molina, Clara; Romero-Rodriguez, Luis M

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Univ Especialidades Espitiru Santo, ESAI Business Sch, Guayaquil 092301, Ecuador - Author
Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Dept Commun Sci & Sociol, Madrid 28492, Spain - Author

Abstract

This research analyzes the presence of advertising and radio mentions of alcoholic beverages and sports betting, two products that represent harmful behaviors for the audiences' health. To do this, a quantitative content analysis was undertaken for all of the programming of the three most listened radio stations in Spain (Cadena Ser, COPE, and Onda Cero) throughout 2017, obtaining a total corpus of 2848 radio messages distributed as follows: 266 radio spots and 2582 radio mentions. The messages were also analyzed according to the broadcasting schedules (protected time-slot or non-protected time-slot). The results showed that advertising and sports betting mentions were more present in the regular programming of the three stations (n = 2304), with mentions (n = 2582) being more numerous than advertising spots (n = 544). Moreover, it is evident that in practice, none of the radio stations respected the protected time slots since the majority of the mentions and spots of high alcoholic beverages and sports bets were verified between 6:00-21:59 (n = 2522). These results show the prevailing need for greater control over this type of content by public entities, demonstrating a significant lack of regulation by the media's self-control mechanisms.

Keywords

AccountabilityAdvertisingAlcohol advertisementAlcohol consumptionAlcoholic beverageAlcoholic beveragesArticleBehaviorBetting advertisementChild protectionComparative studyConsumer attitudeConsumer behaviorConsumption behaviorContent analysisControlled studyDrinkingGamblingGovernment regulationHealth behaviorHealth communicationHumanHumansMass mediaMedia regulationsMedia responsibilityMedia self-controlMedical informationMinority groupPathological gamblingPortrayalProtected time-slotsPublic healthQuantitative analysisRadioRadio advertisementRadio mentionsScreen timeSelf controlSocial mediaSocial responsibilitySpainSportSportsTelevisión

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2020, it was in position 42/176, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Public, Environmental & Occupational Health.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 1.9, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-17, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 3
  • Scopus: 2
  • Europe PMC: 2

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-17:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 41.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 54 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 0.5.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Ecuador.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Perelló Oliver, Salvador) and Last Author (Romero Rodríguez, Luis Miguel).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Romero Rodríguez, Luis Miguel.