Public Understanding of Science

Article	Citations
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections	115
Who believes in science? A computational tool for identifying language invoking or disputing scientific knowledge	52
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.Ho	51
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception	48
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries	40
Public engagement professionals: Exploring ethical tensions in communication, engagement and co-creation	33
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science	32
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science	27
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward	27
Socio-economic status and authority deference: Understanding public (dis)engagement with science in Europe	26
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter	26
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies	25
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs	24
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media	24
‘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	23
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science	23
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing	21
Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and Russia	21
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society	21
Explainable AI and trust: How news media shapes public support for AI-powered autonomous passenger drones	20
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain	20
Female expertise in public discourses: Visibility of female compared to male scientific experts in German media coverage of eight science-related issues	19
When ignorance induces reliance: The role of epistemic knowledge about generative AI in changing health-related decision-making	19
Book Review: Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America	19
Counteracting climate denial: A systematic review	19

Political ideology-driven perceptions of experts and their claims	18
Comparing the influence of intellectual humility, religiosity, and political conservatism on vaccine attitudes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom	17
The politics of politicization: Climate change debates in Canadian print media	17
Scientism, trust, value alignment, views of nature, and U.S. public opinion about gene drive mosquitos	16
Delineating between scientism and science enthusiasm: Challenges in measuring scientism and the development of novel scale	16
Book review: Felicity Mellor (ed.), Insights on Science Journalism	16
The divide so wide: Public perspectives on the role of human genome editing in the US healthcare system	16
The effects of self-disclosure and gender on a climate scientist’s credibility and likability on social media	15
Moral expression of “experts” and public engagement: Communicating COVID-19 vaccines on Facebook public pages in Chinese	15
Book review: Myrna Perez Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy PerezMyrnaCriticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle	15
Book Review: Kristin Demetrious, Public Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowledge Formation DemetriousKristinPublic Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowle	15
Of Issue Advocates and Honest Brokers: Participation of U.S. and German scientists in COVID-19 policy disputes	14
The untapped potential of inter-project cooperation of citizen science projects in Austria	14
Thank you reviewers	14
Lay metrology and metroscoping: Towards the study of lay units	13
Characterizing the semantic features of climate change misinformation on Chinese social media	13
A different image? Images of scientists in Chinese films	13
Follow the metrics? How does social media affect the journalistic practices of digital science communication start-ups?	13
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change	13
Thank you reviewers	13
First-in-human gene therapy clinical trials in the media: Exploring patient narratives	13
Gene editing in animals: What does the public want to know and what information do stakeholder organizations provide?	12
What are we talking about when we are talking about the audience? Exploring the concept of audience in science communication research and education	12
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media	12
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers	12
Eighteenth-century science communication? Exploring the case of Julien Offray de La Mettrie	11
How do you argue with a science denial meme? Memed responses may be counter-productive for responding to science denial online	11
From Big Farms to Big Pharma? Problematizing science-related populism	11
Quality in science communication with communicative artificial intelligence: A principle-based framework	11
Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis	11
Why is it so hard to do co-created citizen social science? Reflecting on challenges and potential solutions	11
Disseminating the Italian history of medicine: Arturo Castiglioni and his project at the University of Padua, 1933–1943	11
1796 – An Introduction to Botany : The critical role of women in eighteenth-century science popularisation and the early promotion of science for young g	10
Thank you reviewers	10
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews	10
Threatening experts: Correlates of viewing scientists as a social threat	10
Threatened by science: Can affirmations alleviate motivated science rejection?	10
The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search: Insights from a cross-national study	9
Greenpeace and the online genetically modified food debate in the UK: The role of science and scientific evidence in ‘environmental representation’	9
The health and environmental risks and rewards of modernity that shape scientific optimism	9
Book review: John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo, Strategic Science Communication – A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for more Effective Public Engagement	9
Book review: Pascal Hohaus (ed.), Science Communication in Times of Crisis	9
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	9
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science	9
Public perceptions of climate tipping points	9
Brain-computer interfaces, disability, and the stigma of refusal: A factorial vignette study	9
The journalistic understanding of science as process and social system: A qualitative exploration in the German science journalism community	9
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	8
Deliberating enhanced weathering: Public frames, iconic ecosystems and the governance of carbon removal at scale	8
Audience segmentation analysis of public intentions to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Australia	8

Perceptions of policy problems and solutions: Climate change and structural racism	8
Expertise as contingency-reduction: Evidence from interviews concerning Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine on German TV news	8
The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries	8
Public perception of new plant breeding techniques and the psychosocial determinants of acceptance: A systematic review	8
Advocacy – defending science or destroying it? Interviews with 47 climate scientists about their fundamental concerns	8
Seduction, caution, fight: Media framing of research-based expertise in Norwegian print media coverage of low energy buildings (2005–2012)	8
David S. Caudill, Expertise in Crisis: The Ideological Contours of Public Scientific Controversies	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
Credibility of misinformation source moderates the effectiveness of corrective messages on social media	7
Belief updating when confronted with scientific evidence: Examining the role of trust in science	7
Book review: Pamela Pietrucci and Leah Ceccarelli, Scientists, Politics, and the Rhetoric of Public Controversy PietrucciPamelaCeccarelliLeah (eds), Scie	7
Contesting state expertise after COVID-19	7
Richard S. Ellis, When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn	7
Fiction references as framing devices in extended reality news discourse	7
Mindful mindfulness reporting: Media portrayals of scientific evidence for meditation mobile apps	6
Does medium matter? Political orientation and variability in scientific self-perceptions	6
Imagined futures for livestock gene editing: Public engagement in the Netherlands	6
Predictors of young people’s anti-vaccine attitudes in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Effects of epistemic beliefs, science populism, and social media use on climate change misperceptions	6
The acceptance of evolution: A developmental view of Generation X in the United States	6
Tragic Flaws and Practical Wisdom: Public reasoning behind preferences for different genetic technologies	6
Examining media coverage of ethical dimensions of advanced algorithmic technology	6
The invisible frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining sourcing and the underrepresentation of female expertise in pandemic news coverage	6
Lucy as “one of us”: Public misconception, national narrative, and the scientific evidence about Australopithecus afarensis in Ethiopia	6
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	6
Why do experts disagree? The development of a taxonomy	6
What if some people just do not like science? How personality traits relate to attitudes toward science and technology	5
Between data providers and concerned citizens: Exploring participation in precision public health in Switzerland	5
Science as the raison d’etat: Nehruvian scientism and the Indian science museum	5
‘Ugly and smelly or useful insect hunters?’ Perceptions of and attitudes towards bats in the turn of the twentieth-century public sphere in Barcelona	5
Believing in science: Linking religious beliefs and identity with vaccination intentions and trust in science during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Work and the public understanding of science	5
Are plain language summaries more readable than scientific abstracts? Evidence from six biomedical and life sciences journals	5
Breeding by intervening: Exploring the role of associations and deliberation in consumer acceptance of different breeding techniques	5
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)	5
A 30-nation investigation of lay heritability beliefs	5
Dealing with dissent from the medical ranks: Public health authorities and COVID-19 communication	5
Scientists’ public engagement goals: Perceived importance and personal prioritization	5
Autonomy and bioethics in fan responses to Orphan Black	5
Narratives of hope and concern? Examining the impact of climate scientists’ communication on credibility and engagement	5
Communicating scientific uncertainties: Effects of message and audience characteristics in the context of microplastic health risks	5
The communication of science within the framework of European Union-funded research projects: Exploring practitioners’ experiences and perceptions	4
Stereotypes and social evaluations of scientists are related to different antecedents and outcomes	4
Are relying on science and on religion to make sense of the world related to different domains of adaptive behavior and well-being?	4
A matter of right or wrong: Divisive attributes of moralized science and technology attitudes	4
Natural history museum visitors’ use of key concepts and misconceptions in written explanations of evolutionary scenarios	4
Trust, experience, and innovation: Key factors shaping American attitudes about AI	4
European journalists and the sea: Contexts, motivations, and difficulties	4
Feminist retroviruses to white Sharia: Gender “science fan fiction” on 4Chan	4
Book review essay: Digging deep into stories in science communication	4
How the public evaluates various sources of scientific information: A descriptive examination	4
Science on the mind: Examining question ordering effects when asking about science on large-scale surveys	4
Associations of locus of control, information processing style and anti-reflexivity with climate change scepticism in an Australian sample	4
The public you want, the public you get: Exploring the relationship between the public and science in the debate on xenotransplantation	4
Public understanding of preprints: How audiences make sense of unreviewed research in the news	4
How generative artificial intelligence portrays science: Interviewing ChatGPT from the perspective of different audience segments	3
Book review: Paula Murphy, AI in the Movies MurphyPaulaAI in the Movies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 208 pp. £85 (Hardback). ISBN: 97814	3
Book Review: The Many Voices of Modern Physics: Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries	3
Can homeopathy cure all diseases? Subgroups of homeopathy users based on beliefs about whether and how homeopathy should be used to treat serious conditions	3
Science capital: Results from a Finnish population survey	3
Indicators of trustworthiness in lay-friendly research summaries: Scientificness surpasses easiness	3
How pandemic-related changes in global attitudes toward the scientific community shape “post-pandemic” environmental opinion	3
Ethics, generative AI and science communication	3
Thank you reviewers	3
Generics in science communication: Misaligned interpretations across laypeople, scientists, and large language models	3
“That was not the discussion we wanted to have”: Engagement of civil society organizations with synthetic biology	3
Book review: Angela Potochnik, Science and the Public	2
Universities claim to value community-engaged scholarship: So why do they discourage it?	2
Book review: Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench, Science Communication: The Basics and Angela Potochnik and Melissa Jacquar, Publi	2
Who is responsible? US Public perceptions of AI governance through the lenses of trust and ethics	2
Does knowledge make a difference? Understanding how the lay public and experts assess the credibility of information on novel foods	2
Just another clickbait title: A corpus-driven investigation of negative attitudes toward science on Reddit	2
Heterogeneous attitudinal profiles towards gene editing: Evidence from latent class analysis	2
Climate change by any other name: Social representations and language practices of coastal inhabitants on Mayotte Island in the Indian Ocean	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 knowledge	2
Book Review: Martin Hewitt, Darwinism’s Generations: The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859–1909 HewittMartinDarwinism’s Generations: The	2
Science museum educators’ views on object-based learning: The perceived importance of authenticity and touch	2
Who makes AI? Gender and portrayals of AI scientists in popular film, 1920–2020	2
Make America quiet again: Achieving socially robust knowledge on noise pollution through citizen science	2
‘It benefits every moment’: Understandings of and engagements in science-related practices in everyday life	2

Community laboratories in the United States: BioMakerspaces for life science learning	2
What are you assessing when you measure “trust” in scientists with a direct measure?	2
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
The four “R”s: Strategies for tailoring science for religious publics and their prices	2
Science communication on Twitter: Measuring indicators of engagement and their links to user interaction in communication scholars’ Tweet content	2
Barriers to science communication about research involving animal experimentation: A systematic literature review	2
Book review: Geoff Mulgan, When Science Meets Power	2
Willingness to participate in medical research: Unraveling the roles of scientific literacy and beliefs about medical researchers	2
“You can’t challenge the narrative”: Conservative-leaning New Zealanders on power, truth and politics in science	2