Public Understanding of Science

Papers
(The H4-Index of Public Understanding of Science is 19. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections65
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies37
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward35
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science35
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception33
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries32
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science30
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era28
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter26
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science25
Socio-economic status and authority deference: Understanding public (dis)engagement with science in Europe23
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media22
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis22
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs21
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies20
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society20
Bruce Lewenstein: ‘Our work is critical for the issues of the day . . . we must engage’19
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device19
‘Poetry under siege by rockets’: A case study of the creative and critical coverage by the New York Times of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk19
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