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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:
• 13 / 88 in Communication (Web of Science 2018)

Authors per paper:
     Average: 2
     Median: 2
References per paper:
     Average: 46
     Median: 45

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Latest papers
9
Jan
2020
‘It is not entirely healthy.’ A qualitative study into public appraisals of uncertain risks of chemical substances in food
Public Understanding of Science
5
Dec
2019
Attacking science on social media: How user comments affect perceived trustworthiness and credibility
Public Understanding of Science
29
Nov
2019
Book review: The Science of Communicating Science: The Ultimate Guide
Public Understanding of Science
28
Nov
2019
Secularism in science: The role of religious affiliation in assessments of scientists’ trustworthiness
Public Understanding of Science
28
Nov
2019
From self-tracking to self-expertise: The production of self-related knowledge by doing personal science
Public Understanding of Science
28
Nov
2019
Book review: Stephen H Jones, Tom Kaden and Rebecca Catto (eds), Science, Belief and Society: International Perspectives on Religion, Non-Religion and the Public Understanding of Science
Public Understanding of Science
28
Nov
2019
Public engagement by researchers of different disciplines in Singapore: A qualitative comparison of macro- and meso-level concerns
Public Understanding of Science
11
Nov
2019
Shifting public engagement: How media coverage of climate change conferences affects climate change audience segments
Public Understanding of Science
11
Nov
2019
Responsibility, rationality, and acceptance: How future users of autonomous driving are constructed in stakeholders’ sociotechnical imaginaries
Public Understanding of Science
11
Nov
2019
Book review: Creative (Climate) Communications: Productive Pathways for Science, Policy and Society
Public Understanding of Science
7
Nov
2019
Predefined criteria and interpretative flexibility in legal courts’ evaluation of expertise
Public Understanding of Science
7
Nov
2019
Book review: Science and the Politics of Openness – Here Be Monsters
Public Understanding of Science
6
Nov
2019
Trust/distrust judgments and perceptions of climate science: A research note on skeptics’ rationalizations
Public Understanding of Science
22
Oct
2019
Science in the Kitchen and beyond: Cooking with Pellegrino Artusi in Post-Unified Italy
Public Understanding of Science
18
Oct
2019
Discussion structures as tools for public deliberation
Public Understanding of Science

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Impactful Papers

Altmetric Attention Score: 198
Hot topics in science communication: Aggressive language decreases trustworthiness and credibility in scientific debates
Public Understanding of Science2019-03-08

Altmetric Attention Score: 94
Jargon as a barrier to effective science communication: Evidence from metacognition
Public Understanding of Science2019-07-29

Altmetric Attention Score: 68
What do we know about public attitudes towards experts? Reviewing survey data in the United Kingdom and European Union
Public Understanding of Science2019-06-30

Altmetric Attention Score: 58
Conversion messages and attitude change: Strong arguments, not costly signals
Public Understanding of Science2019-01-10

Altmetric Attention Score: 49
Science in society discussed with my father: A parting editorial in the form of a dialogue
Public Understanding of Science2019-05-29

Altmetric Attention Score: 29
Scientific networks on Twitter: Analyzing scientists’ interactions in the climate change debate
Public Understanding of Science2019-04-27

Altmetric Attention Score: 27
A Twitter campaign against pseudoscience: The sceptical discourse on complementary therapies in Spain
Public Understanding of Science2019-06-06

Altmetric Attention Score: 23
Fostering public trust in science: The role of social media
Public Understanding of Science2019-09-06

Altmetric Attention Score: 20
Stakeholder relations in Australian science journalism
Public Understanding of Science2019-03-21

Altmetric Attention Score: 20
Editorial
Public Understanding of Science2019-07-11

Altmetric Attention Score: 18
Americans’ views of scientists’ motivations for scientific work
Public Understanding of Science2019-10-17

Altmetric Attention Score: 17
Attacking science on social media: How user comments affect perceived trustworthiness and credibility
Public Understanding of Science2019-12-05

Altmetric Attention Score: 16
1928. Popular bird-watching becomes scientific: The first national bird census in Britain
Public Understanding of Science2019-04-01

Altmetric Attention Score: 16
Science communication activism: Protesting Traditional Chinese Medicine in China
Public Understanding of Science2019-08-07

Altmetric Attention Score: 13
Who wants to be a citizen scientist? Identifying the potential of citizen science and target segments in Switzerland
Public Understanding of Science2019-06-06

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Cited median publication year:
2012