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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections56
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science35
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies34
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception28
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science26
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries25
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era25
Public support for government use of network surveillance: An empirical assessment of public understanding of ethics in science administration24
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies24
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter24
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis23
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media22
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs22
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science22
More engagement but less participation: China’s alternative approach to public communication of science and technology21
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain21
Counteracting climate denial: A systematic review20
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing19
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