Public Understanding of Science

Article	Citations
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections	56
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science	35
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies	34
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception	28
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science	26
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries	25
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era	25
Public support for government use of network surveillance: An empirical assessment of public understanding of ethics in science administration	24
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies	24
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter	24
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis	23
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media	22
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs	22
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science	22
More engagement but less participation: China’s alternative approach to public communication of science and technology	21
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain	21
Counteracting climate denial: A systematic review	20
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing	19
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society	17
Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and Russia	17
Bruce Lewenstein: ‘Our work is critical for the issues of the day . . . we must engage’	17
Explainable AI and trust: How news media shapes public support for AI-powered autonomous passenger drones	16
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device	16
The role of motivated science reception and numeracy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	15
‘Poetry under siege by rockets’: A case study of the creative and critical coverage by the New York Times of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk	15

The divide so wide: Public perspectives on the role of human genome editing in the US healthcare system	14
The role of journalistic voice in communicating climate scepticism	13
Book Review: Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America	13
The politics of politicization: Climate change debates in Canadian print media	13
1992: The first issue of Public Understanding of Science	13
Children’s perceptions of scientists and their work: The ‘Draw a Scientist’ Test in the United Arab Emirates	12
Comparing the influence of intellectual humility, religiosity, and political conservatism on vaccine attitudes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom	12
Scientism, trust, value alignment, views of nature, and U.S. public opinion about gene drive mosquitos	12
The legitimacy of science and the populist backlash: Cross-national and longitudinal trends and determinants of attitudes toward science	12
Public sensemaking of active packaging technologies: A feature-based perspective	12
Delineating between scientism and science enthusiasm: Challenges in measuring scientism and the development of novel scale	12
The effects of self-disclosure and gender on a climate scientist’s credibility and likability on social media	11
Book review: Myrna Perez Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy	11
Follow the metrics? How does social media affect the journalistic practices of digital science communication start-ups?	10
Book review: Felicity Mellor (ed.), Insights on Science Journalism	10
Public acceptance of evolution in the United States, 1985–2020	10
Examining science communication on Reddit: From an “Assembled” to a “Disassembling” approach	10
Book Review: Kristin Demetrious, Public Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowledge Formation DemetriousKristinPublic Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowle	10
Book Review: Maya Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives	9
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media	9
Public perception of geothermal power plants in Korea following the Pohang earthquake: A social representation theory study	9
Moral expression of “experts” and public engagement: Communicating COVID-19 vaccines on Facebook public pages in Chinese	9
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers	9
Thank you reviewers	9
Climate and nature emergency: From scientists’ warnings to sufficient action	9
Characterizing the semantic features of climate change misinformation on Chinese social media	9
Gene editing in animals: What does the public want to know and what information do stakeholder organizations provide?	9
A different image? Images of scientists in Chinese films	9
What are we talking about when we are talking about the audience? Exploring the concept of audience in science communication research and education	8
Democratising science in deliberative systems: Mobilising lay expertise against industry waste dumping in Taiwan	8
Book review: John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo, Strategic Science Communication – A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for more Effective Public Engagement	8
Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis	8
Lay metrology and metroscoping: Towards the study of lay units	8
Thank you reviewers	8
The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search: Insights from a cross-national study	8
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change	8
Public perceptions of climate tipping points	8
Examining a conceptual framework of aggressive and humorous styles in science YouTube videos about climate change and vaccination	8
1796 – An Introduction to Botany: The critical role of women in eighteenth-century science popularisation and the early promotion of science for young girls in Britain	8
Book review: Pascal Hohaus (ed.), Science Communication in Times of Crisis	7
Greenpeace and the online genetically modified food debate in the UK: The role of science and scientific evidence in ‘environmental representation’	7
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews	7
Reporting preprints in the media during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
I am a scientist . . . Ask Me Anything: Examining differences between male and female scientists participating in a Reddit AMA session	7
1999: The BBC simulates prehistoric wildlife	7
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 Canada	7
From Big Farms to Big Pharma? Problematizing science-related populism	7
The journalistic understanding of science as process and social system: A qualitative exploration in the German science journalism community	7
Analytical categories to describe deficit attributions in deep disagreements between citizens and experts	7
The health and environmental risks and rewards of modernity that shape scientific optimism	7

Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science	7
Threatening experts: Correlates of viewing scientists as a social threat	7
Public perception of new plant breeding techniques and the psychosocial determinants of acceptance: A systematic review	6
Are science communication audiences becoming more critical? Reconstructing migration between audience segments based on Swiss panel data	6
Brain-computer interfaces, disability, and the stigma of refusal: A factorial vignette study	6
Guidance in the chaos: Effects of science communication by virologists during the COVID-19 crisis in Germany and the role of parasocial phenomena	6
Perceptions of policy problems and solutions: Climate change and structural racism	6
The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries	6
Deliberating enhanced weathering: Public frames, iconic ecosystems and the governance of carbon removal at scale	6
Academic excellence and community relevance: Can we have it all?	6
Positions on science and religious beliefs across societies: Development of a research instrument and testing of its validity among high school students	6
Book Review: Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art	6
Advocacy – defending science or destroying it? Interviews with 47 climate scientists about their fundamental concerns	6
Book review: John L. Rudolph Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)	6
Seduction, caution, fight: Media framing of research-based expertise in Norwegian print media coverage of low energy buildings (2005–2012)	5
Fiction references as framing devices in extended reality news discourse	5
Book Review: Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest	5
Martin W. Bauer: ‘“Truth-value” is not the only criterion of validity, there is also the felicity of performative knowledge claims . . .’	5
Audience segmentation analysis of public intentions to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Australia	5
Book Review: Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines and Roslynn D. Haynes (eds) Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel	5
The translator versus the critic: A flawed dichotomy in the age of misinformation	5
Belief updating when confronted with scientific evidence: Examining the role of trust in science	5
“Here comes Bio-me”: An analysis of a biobank campaign targeted at children	5
Credibility of misinformation source moderates the effectiveness of corrective messages on social media	5
Breeding by intervening: Exploring the role of associations and deliberation in consumer acceptance of different breeding techniques	4
Mindful mindfulness reporting: Media portrayals of scientific evidence for meditation mobile apps	4
Public understanding of science and technology in the Internet era	4
Selected by expertise? Scientific experts in German news coverage of COVID-19 compared to other pandemics	4
Open science and public trust in science: Results from two studies	4
Why do experts disagree? The development of a taxonomy	4
Predictors of young people’s anti-vaccine attitudes in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Chemistry in the mail: Stamps from around the globe and public science communication in the twentieth century	4
Richard S. Ellis, When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn	4
The acceptance of evolution: A developmental view of Generation X in the United States	4
Narratives of hope and concern? Examining the impact of climate scientists’ communication on credibility and engagement	4
Public engagement with emerging technologies: Does reflective thinking affect survey responses?	4
Imagined futures for livestock gene editing: Public engagement in the Netherlands	4
The effect of misinformation and inoculation: Replication of an experiment on the effect of false experts in the context of climate change communication	4
David S. Caudill, Expertise in Crisis: The Ideological Contours of Public Scientific Controversies	4
The invisible frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining sourcing and the underrepresentation of female expertise in pandemic news coverage	4
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 Facebook	4
Autonomy and bioethics in fan responses to Orphan Black	3
Believing in science: Linking religious beliefs and identity with vaccination intentions and trust in science during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Looking back and looking ahead	3
Associations of locus of control, information processing style and anti-reflexivity with climate change scepticism in an Australian sample	3
Establishing an everyday scientific reasoning scale to learn how non-scientists reason with science	3
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 pandemic	3
Children’s conceptions of coronavirus	3
Public communication at research universities: Moving towards (de)centralised communication of science?	3
Science as the raison d’etat: Nehruvian scientism and the Indian science museum	3
Are plain language summaries more readable than scientific abstracts? Evidence from six biomedical and life sciences journals	3
What if some people just do not like science? How personality traits relate to attitudes toward science and technology	3
Thirty years of science–society interfaces: What’s next?	3
Science on the mind: Examining question ordering effects when asking about science on large-scale surveys	3
Public understanding of preprints: How audiences make sense of unreviewed research in the news	3
European journalists and the sea: Contexts, motivations, and difficulties	3
The public you want, the public you get: Exploring the relationship between the public and science in the debate on xenotransplantation	3
Dealing with dissent from the medical ranks: Public health authorities and COVID-19 communication	3
Book review: Mark Solovey, Social Science for What? Battles Over Public Funding for the ‘Other Sciences’ at the National Science Foundation	3
‘Ugly and smelly or useful insect hunters?’ Perceptions of and attitudes towards bats in the turn of the twentieth-century public sphere in Barcelona	3
Christianity-science compatibility beliefs increase nonreligious individuals’ perceptions of Christians’ intelligence and scientific ability	3
Between data providers and concerned citizens: Exploring participation in precision public health in Switzerland	3
Science-related populism declining during the COVID-19 pandemic: A panel survey of the Swiss population before and after the Coronavirus outbreak	3
Mapping pathways to public understanding of climate science	3
Stereotypes and social evaluations of scientists are related to different antecedents and outcomes	3
Feminist retroviruses to white Sharia: Gender “science fan fiction” on 4Chan	3
A 30-nation investigation of lay heritability beliefs	3
Work and the public understanding of science	3
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)	3
Comparing the structures of storytelling and magic for science communication with an agent-based model	2
STS and science communication: Reflecting on a relationship	2
How generative artificial intelligence portrays science: Interviewing ChatGPT from the perspective of different audience segments	2
Book Review: The Many Voices of Modern Physics: Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries	2
Indicators of trustworthiness in lay-friendly research summaries: Scientificness surpasses easiness	2
The four “R”s: Strategies for tailoring science for religious publics and their prices	2
What are you assessing when you measure “trust” in scientists with a direct measure?	2
“That was not the discussion we wanted to have”: Engagement of civil society organizations with synthetic biology	2
Book Review: Andrew Hoffmann, The Engaged Scholar – Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World	2
A matter of right or wrong: Divisive attributes of moralized science and technology attitudes	2
Thank you reviewers	2

Who makes AI? Gender and portrayals of AI scientists in popular film, 1920–2020	2
Book Review: Charles Seife, Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity	2
Book Review: Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench (eds), Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology	2
Book review essay: Digging deep into stories in science communication	2
Science capital: Results from a Finnish population survey	2
How pandemic-related changes in global attitudes toward the scientific community shape “post-pandemic” environmental opinion	2
Science museum educators’ views on object-based learning: The perceived importance of authenticity and touch	2
Universities claim to value community-engaged scholarship: So why do they discourage it?	2
Learning about climate politics during COP 21: Explaining a diminishing knowledge gap	2