Public Understanding of Science

Papers
(The H4-Index of Public Understanding of Science is 18. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections59
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies35
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science33
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries32
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward32
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science31
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era29
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception28
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter26
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies23
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science22
Socio-economic status and authority deference: Understanding public (dis)engagement with science in Europe22
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis21
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media21
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain20
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs20
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society19
Bruce Lewenstein: ‘Our work is critical for the issues of the day . . . we must engage’19
‘Poetry under siege by rockets’: A case study of the creative and critical coverage by the New York Times of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk18
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device18
Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and Russia18
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing18
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