Popkultur: All You Need Is A Beatles Song: Wie Forscher Hits nutzen
Beatles-Songs finden sich nicht nur in unzähligen Playlists, sondern auch in Tausenden Fachartikeln – von Long Covid bis Patentrecht. Warum Forscher auf Popkultur setzen.
In a recent study published in the journal "PLOS One," researchers found that scientists regularly cite songs by the Beatles in their academic articles. A team from the University of Technology in Delft, led by Gabriel Budel, analyzed a curated list of popular Beatles songs and texts using AI models and the Scopus database of scientific publications. The team identified 2,237 exact Beatles references and 963 creative wordplays involving the songs or titles, spanning from the 1970s to 2025.
The analysis revealed that the optimistic tone of the Beatles' songs often contrasts with the skeptical approach in scientific papers. For example, "With a little help from my enemies" and "Although it helps, love is not all you need" were cited in skeptical research papers. The song "The Long and Winding Road" was even used in a study on Long Covid with just a vowel change. Co-author Michiel Tjepkema noted that the Beatles' songs are cited in 1,584 academic articles, far surpassing Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.
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