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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Science-related populism: Conceptualizing populist demands toward science160
A review of the effects of uncertainty in public science communication101
The nature and origins of political polarization over science59
The dangers of blind trust: Examining the interplay among social media news use, misinformation identification, and news trust on conspiracy beliefs59
Knowledge, (mis-)conceptions, risk perception, and behavior change during pandemics: A scoping review of 149 studies53
Between security and convenience: Facial recognition technology in the eyes of citizens in China, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States47
A systematic review of narrative interventions: Lessons for countering anti-vaccination conspiracy theories and misinformation39
What do we believe in? Rumors and processing strategies during the COVID-19 outbreak in China36
Knowledge about the nature of science increases public acceptance of science regardless of identity factors32
A desire for authoritative science? How citizens’ informational needs and epistemic beliefs shaped their views of science, news, and policymaking in the COVID-19 pandemic29
Deference and decision-making in science and society: How deference to scientific authority goes beyond confidence in science and scientists to become authoritarianism27
A deliberative study of public attitudes towards sharing genomic data within NHS genomic medicine services in England27
Immunized against science: Narrative community building among vaccine refusing/hesitant parents26
The ideological divide in public perceptions of self-driving cars25
Exploring scholars’ public engagement goals in Canada and the United States24
Interactions between emotional and cognitive engagement with science on YouTube24
Transformation of the media landscape: Infotainment versus expository narrations for communicating science in online videos21
Following science on social media: The effects of humor and source likability19
Reconfiguring health knowledges? Contemporary modes of self-care as ‘everyday fringe medicine’18
The spread of fake science: Lexical concreteness, proximity, misinformation sharing, and the moderating role of subjective knowledge18
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