The phrase "alarming study" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a research finding or report that raises concern or fear about a particular issue.
Example: "The alarming study revealed a significant increase in pollution levels over the past decade."
Alternatives: "disturbing research" or "concerning report".
Thomas Penn's Winter King is a lively and alarming study of the strange and ferocious Henry VII, the first Tudor king.
In an alarming study released Monday, researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara found that, on average, synthetic fleece jackets release 1.7 grams of microfibers each wash.
An alarming study released in 2004 by the National Endowment for the Arts noted that in the last two decades the US has experienced a 10% drop-off in the reading of literature - which they define as just one novel, story or play per year - and a 28% drop in the key 18-24 agroupoup.
Political adviser and author Jeremy Rifkin believes that the creation of a super internet heralds new economic system that could solve society's sustainability challenges In 2011, an ecologist released an alarming study showing that tiny clothing fibers could be the biggest source of plastic in our oceans.
"This alarming study is a landmark in public health research," says Jeffrey Koplan, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
An alarming study released this week has revealed that people are taking illegal substances at music festivals.
And other critics point to alarming studies showing that bottled water isn't as pure as its marketers suggest.
Americans pretty much took this self-perpetuating system for granted until about 20 years ago, when a series of alarming studies, above all the 1983 report "A Nation at Risk," called attention to how far American students lagged behind the rest of the developed world in virtually all subjects.
Those alarming studies set the tone for the past 2 years, said Ted Scambos, a scientist at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, who helped devise the initiative.
One review of human drugs suggests that globally 'up to 15% of all sold drugs are fake' (Cockburn et al. 2005), whilst some especially alarming studies have described markets in which more than half of all anti-malarial drugs on sale contain no active ingredient (Dondorp et al. 2004).
There are alarming studies about how all this time children spend on their computers and computer games are impacting the development of their brain and their social skills.
