Public Understanding of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Understanding of Science is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies96
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries48
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections48
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward47
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science45
Public engagement professionals: Exploring ethical tensions in communication, engagement and co-creation35
Who believes in science? A computational tool for identifying language invoking or disputing scientific knowledge31
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.Ho26
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science25
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception25
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs24
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies24
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science24
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter23
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media23
Socio-economic status and authority deference: Understanding public (dis)engagement with science in Europe23
Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and Russia22
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing22
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society21
‘Poetry under siege by rockets’: A case study of the creative and critical coverage by the New York Times of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk20
Counteracting climate denial: A systematic review19
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device19
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain19
Explainable AI and trust: How news media shapes public support for AI-powered autonomous passenger drones18
When ignorance induces reliance: The role of epistemic knowledge about generative AI in changing health-related decision-making17
Female expertise in public discourses: Visibility of female compared to male scientific experts in German media coverage of eight science-related issues17
Book Review: Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America17
Comparing the influence of intellectual humility, religiosity, and political conservatism on vaccine attitudes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom16
Political ideology-driven perceptions of experts and their claims16
The divide so wide: Public perspectives on the role of human genome editing in the US healthcare system16
The legitimacy of science and the populist backlash: Cross-national and longitudinal trends and determinants of attitudes toward science16
Scientism, trust, value alignment, views of nature, and U.S. public opinion about gene drive mosquitos16
The politics of politicization: Climate change debates in Canadian print media15
Book review: Felicity Mellor (ed.), Insights on Science Journalism15
Delineating between scientism and science enthusiasm: Challenges in measuring scientism and the development of novel scale15
Book review: Myrna Perez Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy PerezMyrnaCriticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle14
The effects of self-disclosure and gender on a climate scientist’s credibility and likability on social media14
Moral expression of “experts” and public engagement: Communicating COVID-19 vaccines on Facebook public pages in Chinese13
Characterizing the semantic features of climate change misinformation on Chinese social media13
Thank you reviewers13
Of Issue Advocates and Honest Brokers: Participation of U.S. and German scientists in COVID-19 policy disputes13
Book Review: Kristin Demetrious, Public Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowledge Formation DemetriousKristinPublic Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowle13
First-in-human gene therapy clinical trials in the media: Exploring patient narratives13
Lay metrology and metroscoping: Towards the study of lay units12
Follow the metrics? How does social media affect the journalistic practices of digital science communication start-ups?12
A different image? Images of scientists in Chinese films12
The untapped potential of inter-project cooperation of citizen science projects in Austria12
Thank you reviewers12
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media11
What are we talking about when we are talking about the audience? Exploring the concept of audience in science communication research and education11
Gene editing in animals: What does the public want to know and what information do stakeholder organizations provide?11
Eighteenth-century science communication? Exploring the case of Julien Offray de La Mettrie11
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers11
Why is it so hard to do co-created citizen social science? Reflecting on challenges and potential solutions11
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change11
Quality in science communication with communicative artificial intelligence: A principle-based framework11
How do you argue with a science denial meme? Memed responses may be counter-productive for responding to science denial online10
Disseminating the Italian history of medicine: Arturo Castiglioni and his project at the University of Padua, 1933–194310
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews10
From Big Farms to Big Pharma? Problematizing science-related populism10
1796 – An Introduction to Botany : The critical role of women in eighteenth-century science popularisation and the early promotion of science for young g10
Thank you reviewers9
Public perceptions of climate tipping points9
The journalistic understanding of science as process and social system: A qualitative exploration in the German science journalism community9
Threatening experts: Correlates of viewing scientists as a social threat9
Democratising science in deliberative systems: Mobilising lay expertise against industry waste dumping in Taiwan9
Book review: John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo, Strategic Science Communication – A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for more Effective Public Engagement9
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science8
Sociotechnical imaginaries of gene editing in food and agriculture: A comparative content analysis of mass media in the United States, New Zealand, Japan, the Netherlands, and Canada8
The health and environmental risks and rewards of modernity that shape scientific optimism8
Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis8
Threatened by science: Can affirmations alleviate motivated science rejection?8
Greenpeace and the online genetically modified food debate in the UK: The role of science and scientific evidence in ‘environmental representation’8
The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search: Insights from a cross-national study8
Book review: Pascal Hohaus (ed.), Science Communication in Times of Crisis8
Brain-computer interfaces, disability, and the stigma of refusal: A factorial vignette study8
Expertise as contingency-reduction: Evidence from interviews concerning Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine on German TV news7
Fiction references as framing devices in extended reality news discourse7
David S. Caudill, Expertise in Crisis: The Ideological Contours of Public Scientific Controversies7
Perceptions of policy problems and solutions: Climate change and structural racism7
Audience segmentation analysis of public intentions to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Australia7
Advocacy – defending science or destroying it? Interviews with 47 climate scientists about their fundamental concerns7
Seduction, caution, fight: Media framing of research-based expertise in Norwegian print media coverage of low energy buildings (2005–2012)7
Book review: Sarah R. Davies, Science Societies: Resources for Life in a Technoscientific World DaviesSarah R.Science Societies: Resources for Life in a 7
The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries7
Richard S. Ellis, When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn7
Public perception of new plant breeding techniques and the psychosocial determinants of acceptance: A systematic review7
Deliberating enhanced weathering: Public frames, iconic ecosystems and the governance of carbon removal at scale7
Belief updating when confronted with scientific evidence: Examining the role of trust in science7
Book review: John L. Rudolph Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should) RudolphJohn L.Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 224 7
Contesting state expertise after COVID-197
Selected by expertise? Scientific experts in German news coverage of COVID-19 compared to other pandemics6
Effects of epistemic beliefs, science populism, and social media use on climate change misperceptions6
The acceptance of evolution: A developmental view of Generation X in the United States6
Fuelling the climate and science ‘denial machine’ on social media: A case study of the Great Barrier Reef’s 2021 ‘in danger’ recommendation on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook6
Book review: Pamela Pietrucci and Leah Ceccarelli, Scientists, Politics, and the Rhetoric of Public Controversy PietrucciPamelaCeccarelliLeah (eds), Scie6
Mindful mindfulness reporting: Media portrayals of scientific evidence for meditation mobile apps6
Examining media coverage of ethical dimensions of advanced algorithmic technology6
Credibility of misinformation source moderates the effectiveness of corrective messages on social media6
The invisible frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining sourcing and the underrepresentation of female expertise in pandemic news coverage6
Lucy as “one of us”: Public misconception, national narrative, and the scientific evidence about Australopithecus afarensis in Ethiopia6
Open science and public trust in science: Results from two studies6
Breeding by intervening: Exploring the role of associations and deliberation in consumer acceptance of different breeding techniques5
Predictors of young people’s anti-vaccine attitudes in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic5
‘Ugly and smelly or useful insect hunters?’ Perceptions of and attitudes towards bats in the turn of the twentieth-century public sphere in Barcelona5
Imagined futures for livestock gene editing: Public engagement in the Netherlands5
Christianity-science compatibility beliefs increase nonreligious individuals’ perceptions of Christians’ intelligence and scientific ability5
Tragic Flaws and Practical Wisdom: Public reasoning behind preferences for different genetic technologies5
Narratives of hope and concern? Examining the impact of climate scientists’ communication on credibility and engagement5
Why do experts disagree? The development of a taxonomy5
Science as the raison d’etat: Nehruvian scientism and the Indian science museum4
Work and the public understanding of science4
Autonomy and bioethics in fan responses to Orphan Black4
Communicating scientific uncertainties: Effects of message and audience characteristics in the context of microplastic health risks4
Trust, experience, and innovation: Key factors shaping American attitudes about AI4
The communication of science within the framework of European Union-funded research projects: Exploring practitioners’ experiences and perceptions4
What if some people just do not like science? How personality traits relate to attitudes toward science and technology4
Scientists’ public engagement goals: Perceived importance and personal prioritization4
Dealing with dissent from the medical ranks: Public health authorities and COVID-19 communication4
Between data providers and concerned citizens: Exploring participation in precision public health in Switzerland4
Science on the mind: Examining question ordering effects when asking about science on large-scale surveys4
Book review: Jean Paul Bertemes, Serge Haan and Dirk Hans (eds), 50 Essentials on Science Communication (co-created by the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg National Research Fund)4
Are plain language summaries more readable than scientific abstracts? Evidence from six biomedical and life sciences journals4
A 30-nation investigation of lay heritability beliefs4
How the public evaluates various sources of scientific information: A descriptive examination4
Believing in science: Linking religious beliefs and identity with vaccination intentions and trust in science during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Book review essay: Digging deep into stories in science communication3
How pandemic-related changes in global attitudes toward the scientific community shape “post-pandemic” environmental opinion3
Establishing an everyday scientific reasoning scale to learn how non-scientists reason with science3
Public understanding of preprints: How audiences make sense of unreviewed research in the news3
Stereotypes and social evaluations of scientists are related to different antecedents and outcomes3
Feminist retroviruses to white Sharia: Gender “science fan fiction” on 4Chan3
A matter of right or wrong: Divisive attributes of moralized science and technology attitudes3
Associations of locus of control, information processing style and anti-reflexivity with climate change scepticism in an Australian sample3
Are relying on science and on religion to make sense of the world related to different domains of adaptive behavior and well-being?3
Natural history museum visitors’ use of key concepts and misconceptions in written explanations of evolutionary scenarios3
“That was not the discussion we wanted to have”: Engagement of civil society organizations with synthetic biology3
Science capital: Results from a Finnish population survey3
European journalists and the sea: Contexts, motivations, and difficulties3
The public you want, the public you get: Exploring the relationship between the public and science in the debate on xenotransplantation3
Who makes AI? Gender and portrayals of AI scientists in popular film, 1920–20202
Science museum educators’ views on object-based learning: The perceived importance of authenticity and touch2
Thank you reviewers2
What are you assessing when you measure “trust” in scientists with a direct measure?2
Book Review: The Many Voices of Modern Physics: Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries2
Heterogeneous attitudinal profiles towards gene editing: Evidence from latent class analysis2
Who is responsible? US Public perceptions of AI governance through the lenses of trust and ethics2
Climate change by any other name: Social representations and language practices of coastal inhabitants on Mayotte Island in the Indian Ocean2
Barriers to science communication about research involving animal experimentation: A systematic literature review2
Book review: Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench, Science Communication: The Basics and Angela Potochnik and Melissa Jacquar, Publi2
Indicators of trustworthiness in lay-friendly research summaries: Scientificness surpasses easiness2
How generative artificial intelligence portrays science: Interviewing ChatGPT from the perspective of different audience segments2
Book review: Paula Murphy, AI in the Movies MurphyPaulaAI in the Movies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 208 pp. £85 (Hardback). ISBN: 978142
Book Review: Brandon R. Brown Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM BrownBrandon R.Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA,2
Universities claim to value community-engaged scholarship: So why do they discourage it?2
Community laboratories in the United States: BioMakerspaces for life science learning2
Book review: Angela Potochnik, Science and the Public2
Generics in science communication: Misaligned interpretations across laypeople, scientists, and large language models2
The four “R”s: Strategies for tailoring science for religious publics and their prices2
Ethics, generative AI and science communication2
Can homeopathy cure all diseases? Subgroups of homeopathy users based on beliefs about whether and how homeopathy should be used to treat serious conditions2
Science communication on Twitter: Measuring indicators of engagement and their links to user interaction in communication scholars’ Tweet content2
‘It benefits every moment’: Understandings of and engagements in science-related practices in everyday life2
Just another clickbait title: A corpus-driven investigation of negative attitudes toward science on Reddit2
Book Review: Martin Hewitt, Darwinism’s Generations: The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859–1909 HewittMartinDarwinism’s Generations: The 2
The leap of faith in science hypothesis: The link between secular belief and confidence in scientific consensus is better explained by faith in science than by knowledge2
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