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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Science-related populism: Conceptualizing populist demands toward science149
A review of the effects of uncertainty in public science communication96
The dangers of blind trust: Examining the interplay among social media news use, misinformation identification, and news trust on conspiracy beliefs56
The nature and origins of political polarization over science56
Knowledge, (mis-)conceptions, risk perception, and behavior change during pandemics: A scoping review of 149 studies51
Between security and convenience: Facial recognition technology in the eyes of citizens in China, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States44
Spiritual skepticism? Heterogeneous science skepticism in the Netherlands38
A systematic review of narrative interventions: Lessons for countering anti-vaccination conspiracy theories and misinformation36
What do we believe in? Rumors and processing strategies during the COVID-19 outbreak in China34
Replication crisis = trust crisis? The effect of successful vs failed replications on laypeople’s trust in researchers and research30
Knowledge about the nature of science increases public acceptance of science regardless of identity factors30
A desire for authoritative science? How citizens’ informational needs and epistemic beliefs shaped their views of science, news, and policymaking in the COVID-19 pandemic27
Deference and decision-making in science and society: How deference to scientific authority goes beyond confidence in science and scientists to become authoritarianism26
Immunized against science: Narrative community building among vaccine refusing/hesitant parents25
The ideological divide in public perceptions of self-driving cars24
A deliberative study of public attitudes towards sharing genomic data within NHS genomic medicine services in England24
Transformation of the media landscape: Infotainment versus expository narrations for communicating science in online videos20
Interactions between emotional and cognitive engagement with science on YouTube20
Exploring scholars’ public engagement goals in Canada and the United States20
Let’s (not) talk about synthetic biology: Framing an emerging technology in public and stakeholder dialogues18
Following science on social media: The effects of humor and source likability18
The spread of fake science: Lexical concreteness, proximity, misinformation sharing, and the moderating role of subjective knowledge17
Reconfiguring health knowledges? Contemporary modes of self-care as ‘everyday fringe medicine’17
Psychological underpinnings of pandemic denial - patterns of disagreement with scientific experts in the German public during the COVID-19 pandemic15
Expert communication on Twitter: Comparing economists’ and scientists’ social networks, topics and communicative styles15
The effect of misinformation and inoculation: Replication of an experiment on the effect of false experts in the context of climate change communication15
Ignorance or culture war? Christian nationalism and scientific illiteracy15
Science-related populism declining during the COVID-19 pandemic: A panel survey of the Swiss population before and after the Coronavirus outbreak14
Before and after the Chinese gene-edited human babies: Multiple discourses of gene editing on social media14
Brahmins as scientists and science as Brahmins’ calling: Caste in an Indian scientific research institute14
Can hype be a force for good?: Inviting unexpected engagement with science and technology futures14
Open science and public trust in science: Results from two studies14
Public acceptance of evolution in the United States, 1985–202014
The role of motivated science reception and numeracy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic14
#JunkScience: Investigating pseudoscience disinformation in the Russian Internet Research Agency tweets14
The “replication crisis” in the public eye: Germans’ awareness and perceptions of the (ir)reproducibility of scientific research13
How psychedelic researchers’ self-admitted substance use and their association with psychedelic culture affect people’s perceptions of their scientific integrity and the quality of their research13
Science rejection in Greece: Spirituality predicts vaccine scepticism and low faith in science in a Greek sample13
Scientists as comedians: The effects of humor on perceptions of scientists and scientific messages13
Call them COVIDiots: Exploring the effects of aggressive communication style and psychological distance in the communication of COVID-1912
What drives science media use? Predictors of media use for information about science and research in digital information environments12
Fostering climate change consensus: The role of intimacy in group discussions12
Emotion and judgments of scientific research11
Associations between conspiracism and the rejection of scientific innovations11
Stop avoiding the inevitable: The effects of anthropomorphism in science writing for non-experts11
Reporting preprints in the media during the COVID-19 pandemic11
Influence of intrinsic motivations on the continuity of scientific knowledge contribution to online knowledge-sharing platforms11
Deconstruction of the discourse authority of scientists in Chinese online science communication: Investigation of citizen science communicators on Chinese knowledge sharing networks11
Public perception of geothermal power plants in Korea following the Pohang earthquake: A social representation theory study11
Knowing when to talk? Plant genome editing as a site for pre-engagement institutional reflexivity11
Talk like an expert: The construction of expertise in news comments concerning climate change11
Assessing YouTube science news’ credibility: The impact of web-search on the role of video, source, and user attributes11
‘We will multiply the fires of resistance’: The catalysts of dissent against institutional science and their interplay with refused knowledge communities10
Selected by expertise? Scientific experts in German news coverage of COVID-19 compared to other pandemics10
Jargon use in Public Understanding of Science papers over three decades10
Do as the Romans do: On the authoritarian roots of pseudoscience10
Population health AI researchers’ perceptions of the public portrayal of AI: A pilot study9
Between concepts and experiences: understandings of climate change in southern Ecuador9
Universities claim to value community-engaged scholarship: So why do they discourage it?9
Experience, experts, statistics, or just science? Predictors and consequences of reliance on different evidence types during the COVID-19 infodemic9
Reframing sociotechnical imaginaries: The case of the Fourth Industrial Revolution9
The press club as indicator of science medialization: How Japanese research organizations adapt to domestic media conventions8
Children’s conceptions of coronavirus8
Trust or attention? Medialization of science revisited8
Thirty years of science–society interfaces: What’s next?8
Re-visioning public engagement with emerging technology: A digital methods experiment on ‘vertical farming’8
Visualizing science: The impact of infographics on free recall, elaboration, and attitude change for genetically modified foods news8
Lithuanian scientists’ behavior and views on science communication8
Art for public engagement on emerging and controversial technologies: A literature review8
The Dawkins effect? Celebrity scientists, (non)religious publics and changed attitudes to evolution8
Synthetic livestock vaccines as risky interference with nature? Lay and expert arguments and understandings of “naturalness”8
No harm in being self-corrective: Self-criticism and reform intentions increase researchers’ epistemic trustworthiness and credibility in the eyes of the public8
Mapping mental models of science communication: How academics in Germany, Austria and Switzerland understand and practice science communication8
The effects of media narratives about failures and discoveries in science on beliefs about and support for science8
Data authority: Public debate about personalized medicine in Denmark8
Science communication and mediatised environmental conflict: A cautionary tale7
How deliberative designs empower citizens’ voices: A case study on Ghana’s deliberative poll on agriculture and the environment7
‘It’s all the other stuff!’ How smokers understand (and misunderstand) chemicals in cigarettes and cigarette smoke7
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era7
How journalists and experts metaphorically frame emerging information technologies: The case of cyberinfrastructure for big data7
Making sense of “superbugs” on YouTube: A storytelling approach7
Political beliefs, views about technocracy, and energy and climate policy preferences6
Can scientists use simple infographics to convince? Effects of the “flatten the curve” charts on perceptions of and behavioral intentions toward social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Quantifying scientific jargon6
Effects of gender harassment on science popularization behaviors6
Examining science communication on Reddit: From an “Assembled” to a “Disassembling” approach6
Public communication at research universities: Moving towards (de)centralised communication of science?6
Imagined futures for livestock gene editing: Public engagement in the Netherlands6
Are you passing along something true or false? Dissemination of social media messages about genetically modified organisms6
Public understanding of science and technology in the Internet era6
Do scientists have a responsibility to provide climate change expertise to mitigation and adaptation strategies? Perspectives from climate professionals6
What science means to me: Understanding personal identification with (evolutionary) science using the sociology of (non)religion6
Lay and scientific categorizations of new breeding techniques: Implications for food policy and genetically modified organism legislation6
Public trust and mistrust of climate science: A meta-narrative review6
Public understanding of science: Communicating in the midst of a pandemic5
A picture is not always worth a thousand words: The visual quality of photographs affects the effectiveness of interpretive signage for science communication5
Audience segmentation analysis of public intentions to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Australia5
Masculinity in the public image of physics and mathematics: a new model comparing Japan and England5
Heuristic responses to pandemic uncertainty: Practicable communication strategies of “reasoned transparency” to aid public reception of changing science5
Defeating Merchants of Doubt: Subjective certainty and self-affirmation ameliorate attitude polarization via partisan motivated reasoning5
“The chilling effect”: Medical scientists’ responses to audience feedback on their media appearances during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Is public engagement gendered? An analytical proposal using some evidence from Italy5
Distrust, danger, and confidence: A content analysis of the Australian Vaccination-Risks Network Blog5
Naming is framing: The framing effect of technology name on public attitude toward automated vehicles5
Using infographics to reduce the negative effects of jargon on intentions to vaccinate against COVID-195
Establishing an everyday scientific reasoning scale to learn how non-scientists reason with science5
Does China have a public debate on genetically modified organisms? A discourse network analysis of public debate on Weibo5
Are science communication audiences becoming more critical? Reconstructing migration between audience segments based on Swiss panel data5
Social participation in science: Perspectives of Spanish civil society organizations5
Bridging the gap: Introducing a socio-cultural dimension to explain beliefs about man-made threats4
The explanation of a complex problem: A content analysis of causality in cancer news4
Citizen science in South Africa: Rhetoric and reality4
Guidance in the chaos: Effects of science communication by virologists during the COVID-19 crisis in Germany and the role of parasocial phenomena4
‘Will polar bears melt?’ A qualitative analysis of children’s questions about climate change4
Charting cognition: Mapping public understanding of COVID-194
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science4
The translator versus the critic: A flawed dichotomy in the age of misinformation4
How the public evaluates media representations of uncertain science: An integrated explanatory framework4
Worlds apart, drawn together: Bears, penguins and biodiversity in climate change cartoons4
Food to politics: Representations of genetically modified organisms in cartoons on the Internet in China4
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews4
Examining diversity in public willingness to participate in offshore human biobanking: An Australian mixed methods study4
30 years of PUS: Reflections from Latin America on the academic field of science communication4
Novel interfaces in science communication: Comparing journalistic and social media uptake of articles published by The Conversation Africa4
“Here comes Bio-me”: An analysis of a biobank campaign targeted at children4
Science and behavioral intentions among Israeli Jewish ultra-Orthodox males: Death from COVID-19 or from the COVID-19 vaccine? A thematic study4
The construction of awe in science communication4
Exploring factors associated with participation in citizen science among UK museum visitors aged 40–60: A qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework and the capability opportunity motiv4
Learning about climate politics during COP 21: Explaining a diminishing knowledge gap4
Testing the talented child: Direct-to-consumer genetic talent tests in China4
STS and science communication: Reflecting on a relationship3
The legitimacy of science and the populist backlash: Cross-national and longitudinal trends and determinants of attitudes toward science3
More engagement but less participation: China’s alternative approach to public communication of science and technology3
Climate and nature emergency: From scientists’ warnings to sufficient action3
Science, Maddá, and ‘Ilm: The language divide in scientific information available to Internet users3
The role of gender in peer-group perceptions of climate scientists’ media statements3
How did the top two greenhouse gas emitters depict climate change? A comparative analysis of the Chinese and US media3
Post-Fukushima discourse in the US press: Quantified knowledge, the technical object, and a panicked public3
Academic excellence and community relevance: Can we have it all?3
Thinking, not talking, predicts knowledge level: Effects of media attention and reflective integration on public knowledge of nuclear energy3
Examining a conceptual framework of aggressive and humorous styles in science YouTube videos about climate change and vaccination3
Dinosaurs in the aquarium2
The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries2
The role of journalistic voice in communicating climate scepticism2
Co-producing uncertainty in public science: The case of genomic selection in forestry2
Christianity-science compatibility beliefs increase nonreligious individuals’ perceptions of Christians’ intelligence and scientific ability2
Analytical categories to describe deficit attributions in deep disagreements between citizens and experts2
What are you assessing when you measure “trust” in scientists with a direct measure?2
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science2
Social identity and racial disparities in science literacy2
Engaging the public or asking your friends? Analysing science-related crowdfunding using behavioural and survey data2
How pandemic-related changes in global attitudes toward the scientific community shape “post-pandemic” environmental opinion2
Looking back and looking ahead2
Believing in science: Linking religious beliefs and identity with vaccination intentions and trust in science during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Heterogeneous attitudinal profiles towards gene editing: Evidence from latent class analysis2
‘Ugly and smelly or useful insect hunters?’ Perceptions of and attitudes towards bats in the turn of the twentieth-century public sphere in Barcelona2
How institutional factors at US land-grant universities impact scientists’ public scholarship2
Editorial: Update of our “Aims and Scope” and “Submission Guidelines”2
Who makes AI? Gender and portrayals of AI scientists in popular film, 1920–20202
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media2
Of robots and rhetoric: Nikola Tesla’s telautomaton and the boundaries of scientific communication (1897–1900)2
Comparing the knowledge gap hypothesis in the United States and Singapore: The case of nanotechnology2
Associations of locus of control, information processing style and anti-reflexivity with climate change scepticism in an Australian sample2
A large-scale study exploring understanding of the national premarital screening program among Jordanians: Is an at-risk marriage a valid option for Jordanians?2
Between data providers and concerned citizens: Exploring participation in precision public health in Switzerland2
Deliberating enhanced weathering: Public frames, iconic ecosystems and the governance of carbon removal at scale2
Playing God? Media coverage of CRISPR in the United States2
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device2
Older people’s attitudes towards emerging technologies: A systematic literature review2
I am a scientist . . . Ask Me Anything: Examining differences between male and female scientists participating in a Reddit AMA session2
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers2
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change2
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