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
26
Sep
2022
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science
Public Understanding of Science
13
Sep
2022
The emerging scientific public sphere in China’s digital economy: Weibo discussions on facial recognition technology
Public Understanding of Science
3
Sep
2022
Universities claim to value community-engaged scholarship: So why do they discourage it?
Public Understanding of Science
27
Aug
2022
The evil corporation master frame: The cases of vaccines and genetic modification
Public Understanding of Science
27
Aug
2022
Heterogeneous attitudinal profiles towards gene editing: Evidence from latent class analysis
Public Understanding of Science
27
Aug
2022
‘We will multiply the fires of resistance’: The catalysts of dissent against institutional science and their interplay with refused knowledge communities
Public Understanding of Science
27
Aug
2022
Who should be a science communicator? The struggle for ‘legitimate’ status as science communicators between Chinese scientists and citizens on a Chinese knowledge-sharing platform
Public Understanding of Science
27
Aug
2022
Associations of locus of control, information processing style and anti-reflexivity with climate change scepticism in an Australian sample
Public Understanding of Science

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Impactful Papers

Altmetric Attention Score: 411
Secularism in science: The role of religious affiliation in assessments of scientists’ trustworthiness
Public Understanding of Science2019-11-28

Altmetric Attention Score: 266
Public acceptance of evolution in the United States, 1985–2020
Public Understanding of Science2021-08-16

Altmetric Attention Score: 244
Jargon as a barrier to effective science communication: Evidence from metacognition
Public Understanding of Science2019-07-29

Altmetric Attention Score: 205
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

Altmetric Attention Score: 165
Brahmins as scientists and science as Brahmins’ calling: Caste in an Indian scientific research institute
Public Understanding of Science2020-02-08

Altmetric Attention Score: 165
The effects of media narratives about failures and discoveries in science on beliefs about and support for science
Public Understanding of Science2021-05-18

Altmetric Attention Score: 129
Science communication activism: Protesting Traditional Chinese Medicine in China
Public Understanding of Science2019-08-07

Altmetric Attention Score: 124
Exploring scholars’ public engagement goals in Canada and the United States
Public Understanding of Science2020-09-03


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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 Sweden
Hyung Wook Park Singapore
Mei-Fang Fan N/A
Markus Lehmkuhl Germany
Melanie Leidecker-Sandmann Germany
Mike Zapp Luxembourg
Joanna Koßmann Germany
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