Public Understanding of Science

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Basic Information

Publisher: SAGE
Founded in: 1992
Homepage: https://journals.sagepub.com/h...
Twitter: @SciPublic
Category: Communication
Rank:

• 26 / 94 in Communication

Authors per paper:
     Average: 3
     Median: 2
References per paper:
     Average: 48
     Median: 46

Journal Impact Factor (JIF) for Public Understanding of Science:

2021 Impact Factor: 3.702
2020 Impact Factor: 2.976
2019 Impact Factor: 2.338
2018 Impact Factor: 2.754

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Latest papers

Jan

2023

Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media

Public Understanding of Science

Jan

2023

Book review: Pascal Hohaus (ed.), Science Communication in Times of Crisis

Public Understanding of Science

Jan

2023

Anti-intellectualism amid the COVID-19 pandemic: The discursive elements and sources of anti-Fauci tweets

Public Understanding of Science

Jan

2023

Social identity and racial disparities in science literacy Gold Open Access

Public Understanding of Science

Jan

2023

Placing “trust” in science: The urban–rural divide and Americans’ feelings of warmth toward scientists

Public Understanding of Science

Jan

2023

Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science Gold Open Access

Public Understanding of Science

Jan

2023

Just another clickbait title: A corpus-driven investigation of negative attitudes toward science on Reddit

Public Understanding of Science

Jan

2023

Brain-computer interfaces, disability, and the stigma of refusal: A factorial vignette study Gold Open Access

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Impactful Papers

Public acceptance of evolution in the United States, 1985–2020

Public Understanding of Science2021-08-16

How deliberative designs empower citizens’ voices: A case study on Ghana’s deliberative poll on agriculture and the environment

Public Understanding of Science2020-10-26

Brahmins as scientists and science as Brahmins’ calling: Caste in an Indian scientific research institute

Public Understanding of Science2020-02-08

The effects of media narratives about failures and discoveries in science on beliefs about and support for science

Public Understanding of Science2021-05-18

Exploring scholars’ public engagement goals in Canada and the United States

Public Understanding of Science2020-09-03

Masculinity in the public image of physics and mathematics: a new model comparing Japan and England

Public Understanding of Science2021-03-24

Universities claim to value community-engaged scholarship: So why do they discourage it?

Public Understanding of Science2022-09-03

The “replication crisis” in the public eye: Germans’ awareness and perceptions of the (ir)reproducibility of scientific research

Public Understanding of Science2020-09-14

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Sep

2022

From Secrecy to Public Containment: The Role of Hybrid Spaces in the Governance of Nuclear Crises in France

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Aug

2022

Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk

Review of Policy Research

Aug

2022

Balance as Credibility? How Presenting One- vs. Two-Sided Messages Affects Ratings of Scientists’ and Politicians’ Trustworthiness

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Aug

2022

Integrating Interpersonal Communication into the Influence of Presumed Media Influence Model: Understanding Intentions to Censor and Correct COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media

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Aug

2022

“I’m Not a Conspiracy Theorist, But…”: Knowledge and Conservative Politics in Unsettled Times

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Cited Half-Life

Cited publication years:

Cited median publication year:
2014

Scholars

Authors who recently published in Public Understanding of Science:

Scholar	Affiliation
Lena Gunnarsson	N/A
Maria Wemrell
Hyung Wook Park
Mei-Fang Fan	N/A
Markus Lehmkuhl
Melanie Leidecker-Sandmann
Mike Zapp
Tom Rosman	N/A