OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The dangers of blind trust: Examining the interplay among social media news use, misinformation identification, and news trust on conspiracy beliefs	71
The nature and origins of political polarization over science	70
Between security and convenience: Facial recognition technology in the eyes of citizens in China, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States	61
Knowledge, (mis-)conceptions, risk perception, and behavior change during pandemics: A scoping review of 149 studies	59
A systematic review of narrative interventions: Lessons for countering anti-vaccination conspiracy theories and misinformation	45
What do we believe in? Rumors and processing strategies during the COVID-19 outbreak in China	40
Knowledge about the nature of science increases public acceptance of science regardless of identity factors	39
Interactions between emotional and cognitive engagement with science on YouTube	34
A desire for authoritative science? How citizens’ informational needs and epistemic beliefs shaped their views of science, news, and policymaking in the COVID-19 pandemic	30
Deference and decision-making in science and society: How deference to scientific authority goes beyond confidence in science and scientists to become authoritarianism	30
Public acceptance of evolution in the United States, 1985–2020	26
The spread of fake science: Lexical concreteness, proximity, misinformation sharing, and the moderating role of subjective knowledge	23
The effect of misinformation and inoculation: Replication of an experiment on the effect of false experts in the context of climate change communication	23
Ignorance or culture war? Christian nationalism and scientific illiteracy	21
Following science on social media: The effects of humor and source likability	21
The role of motivated science reception and numeracy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Open science and public trust in science: Results from two studies	19
How psychedelic researchers’ self-admitted substance use and their association with psychedelic culture affect people’s perceptions of their scientific integrity and the quality of their research	19
Psychological underpinnings of pandemic denial - patterns of disagreement with scientific experts in the German public during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Reporting preprints in the media during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Before and after the Chinese gene-edited human babies: Multiple discourses of gene editing on social media	18