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: 3
References per paper:
     Average: 47
     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
5
Aug
2022
Book review: Reading Peer Review: PLOS ONE and Institutional Change in Academia
Public Understanding of Science
3
Aug
2022
Engaging the public or asking your friends? Analysing science-related crowdfunding using behavioural and survey data Gold Open Access
Public Understanding of Science
3
Aug
2022
Deliberating enhanced weathering: Public frames, iconic ecosystems and the governance of carbon removal at scale
Public Understanding of Science
2
Aug
2022
Why do experts disagree? The development of a taxonomy
Public Understanding of Science
1
Aug
2022
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews
Public Understanding of Science
1
Aug
2022
Imagined futures for livestock gene editing: Public engagement in the Netherlands Gold Open Access
Public Understanding of Science
28
Jul
2022
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device Gold Open Access
Public Understanding of Science
28
Jul
2022
South Koreans’ responses to evolution and creationism: A survey and its implications
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
Hyung Wook Park Singapore
Lena Gunnarsson N/A
Maria Wemrell Sweden
Mei-Fang Fan N/A
Markus Lehmkuhl Germany
Melanie Leidecker-Sandmann Germany
Mike Zapp Luxembourg
Henning Silber Germany
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