Public Understanding of Science

Papers
(The H4-Index of Public Understanding of Science is 20. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections115
Who believes in science? A computational tool for identifying language invoking or disputing scientific knowledge52
Book review: Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez, Science Under Siege: How To Fight The Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World MannMichael E.Ho51
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception48
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries40
Public engagement professionals: Exploring ethical tensions in communication, engagement and co-creation33
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science32
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward27
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science27
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter26
Socio-economic status and authority deference: Understanding public (dis)engagement with science in Europe26
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies25
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media24
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs24
‘Poetry under siege by rockets’: A case study of the creative and critical coverage by the New York Times of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk23
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science23
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society21
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing21
Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and Russia21
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain20
Explainable AI and trust: How news media shapes public support for AI-powered autonomous passenger drones20
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