Public Understanding of Science

Article	Citations
The dangers of blind trust: Examining the interplay among social media news use, misinformation identification, and news trust on conspiracy beliefs	71
The nature and origins of political polarization over science	70
Between security and convenience: Facial recognition technology in the eyes of citizens in China, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States	61
A systematic review of narrative interventions: Lessons for countering anti-vaccination conspiracy theories and misinformation	45
What do we believe in? Rumors and processing strategies during the COVID-19 outbreak in China	40
Knowledge about the nature of science increases public acceptance of science regardless of identity factors	39
Interactions between emotional and cognitive engagement with science on YouTube	34
A desire for authoritative science? How citizens’ informational needs and epistemic beliefs shaped their views of science, news, and policymaking in the COVID-19 pandemic	30
Public acceptance of evolution in the United States, 1985–2020	26
The effect of misinformation and inoculation: Replication of an experiment on the effect of false experts in the context of climate change communication	23
Following science on social media: The effects of humor and source likability	21
Ignorance or culture war? Christian nationalism and scientific illiteracy	21
The role of motivated science reception and numeracy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Open science and public trust in science: Results from two studies	19
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 research	19
Psychological underpinnings of pandemic denial - patterns of disagreement with scientific experts in the German public during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Reporting preprints in the media during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Before and after the Chinese gene-edited human babies: Multiple discourses of gene editing on social media	18
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era	17
Selected by expertise? Scientific experts in German news coverage of COVID-19 compared to other pandemics	16
Universities claim to value community-engaged scholarship: So why do they discourage it?	16
Science rejection in Greece: Spirituality predicts vaccine scepticism and low faith in science in a Greek sample	16
Art for public engagement on emerging and controversial technologies: A literature review	15
Fostering climate change consensus: The role of intimacy in group discussions	15
The effects of media narratives about failures and discoveries in science on beliefs about and support for science	15

Public perception of geothermal power plants in Korea following the Pohang earthquake: A social representation theory study	15
Science-related populism declining during the COVID-19 pandemic: A panel survey of the Swiss population before and after the Coronavirus outbreak	15
Trust or attention? Medialization of science revisited	15
Public trust and mistrust of climate science: A meta-narrative review	15
Thirty years of science–society interfaces: What’s next?	14
Stop avoiding the inevitable: The effects of anthropomorphism in science writing for non-experts	14
Talk like an expert: The construction of expertise in news comments concerning climate change	14
Influence of intrinsic motivations on the continuity of scientific knowledge contribution to online knowledge-sharing platforms	13
Call them COVIDiots: Exploring the effects of aggressive communication style and psychological distance in the communication of COVID-19	13
Mapping mental models of science communication: How academics in Germany, Austria and Switzerland understand and practice science communication	13
Reframing sociotechnical imaginaries: The case of the Fourth Industrial Revolution	13
Deconstruction of the discourse authority of scientists in Chinese online science communication: Investigation of citizen science communicators on Chinese knowledge sharing networks	13
Knowing when to talk? Plant genome editing as a site for pre-engagement institutional reflexivity	12
No harm in being self-corrective: Self-criticism and reform intentions increase researchers’ epistemic trustworthiness and credibility in the eyes of the public	12
Children’s conceptions of coronavirus	12
Older people’s attitudes towards emerging technologies: A systematic literature review	12
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	12
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews	12
‘We will multiply the fires of resistance’: The catalysts of dissent against institutional science and their interplay with refused knowledge communities	11
Experience, experts, statistics, or just science? Predictors and consequences of reliance on different evidence types during the COVID-19 infodemic	11
Public understanding of science and technology in the Internet era	11
The Dawkins effect? Celebrity scientists, (non)religious publics and changed attitudes to evolution	10
Associations between conspiracism and the rejection of scientific innovations	10
Guidance in the chaos: Effects of science communication by virologists during the COVID-19 crisis in Germany and the role of parasocial phenomena	10
Public communication at research universities: Moving towards (de)centralised communication of science?	10
Re-visioning public engagement with emerging technology: A digital methods experiment on ‘vertical farming’	10
The press club as indicator of science medialization: How Japanese research organizations adapt to domestic media conventions	10
How the public evaluates media representations of uncertain science: An integrated explanatory framework	9
Using infographics to reduce the negative effects of jargon on intentions to vaccinate against COVID-19	9
Data authority: Public debate about personalized medicine in Denmark	9
Visualizing science: The impact of infographics on free recall, elaboration, and attitude change for genetically modified foods news	9
Establishing an everyday scientific reasoning scale to learn how non-scientists reason with science	8
What are you assessing when you measure “trust” in scientists with a direct measure?	8
Political beliefs, views about technocracy, and energy and climate policy preferences	8
Science communication and mediatised environmental conflict: A cautionary tale	8
Novel interfaces in science communication: Comparing journalistic and social media uptake of articles published by The Conversation Africa	8
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis	8
A picture is not always worth a thousand words: The visual quality of photographs affects the effectiveness of interpretive signage for science communication	7
Deliberating enhanced weathering: Public frames, iconic ecosystems and the governance of carbon removal at scale	7
Thinking, not talking, predicts knowledge level: Effects of media attention and reflective integration on public knowledge of nuclear energy	7
Public perceptions of climate tipping points	7
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science	7
STS and science communication: Reflecting on a relationship	7
‘It’s all the other stuff!’ How smokers understand (and misunderstand) chemicals in cigarettes and cigarette smoke	7
Are science communication audiences becoming more critical? Reconstructing migration between audience segments based on Swiss panel data	7
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science	7
The explanation of a complex problem: A content analysis of causality in cancer news	7
Imagined futures for livestock gene editing: Public engagement in the Netherlands	7
Making sense of “superbugs” on YouTube: A storytelling approach	7
Testing the talented child: Direct-to-consumer genetic talent tests in China	7

Does China have a public debate on genetically modified organisms? A discourse network analysis of public debate on Weibo	6
Worlds apart, drawn together: Bears, penguins and biodiversity in climate change cartoons	6
Public understanding of science: Communicating in the midst of a pandemic	6
“The chilling effect”: Medical scientists’ responses to audience feedback on their media appearances during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Masculinity in the public image of physics and mathematics: a new model comparing Japan and England	6
How did the top two greenhouse gas emitters depict climate change? A comparative analysis of the Chinese and US media	6
Examining science communication on Reddit: From an “Assembled” to a “Disassembling” approach	6
The legitimacy of science and the populist backlash: Cross-national and longitudinal trends and determinants of attitudes toward science	6
Citizen science in South Africa: Rhetoric and reality	6
Charting cognition: Mapping public understanding of COVID-19	6
Audience segmentation analysis of public intentions to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Australia	6
Is public engagement gendered? An analytical proposal using some evidence from Italy	5
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 motiv	5
Who engages with science, and how? An empirical typology of Europeans’ science engagement	5
Naming is framing: The framing effect of technology name on public attitude toward automated vehicles	5
Characterizing the semantic features of climate change misinformation on Chinese social media	5
The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries	5
More engagement but less participation: China’s alternative approach to public communication of science and technology	5
Examining a conceptual framework of aggressive and humorous styles in science YouTube videos about climate change and vaccination	5
Learning about climate politics during COP 21: Explaining a diminishing knowledge gap	5
30 years of PUS: Reflections from Latin America on the academic field of science communication	5
The next generation of climate scientists as science communicators	5
Believing in science: Linking religious beliefs and identity with vaccination intentions and trust in science during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Food to politics: Representations of genetically modified organisms in cartoons on the Internet in China	5
Who makes AI? Gender and portrayals of AI scientists in popular film, 1920–2020	5
Climate and nature emergency: From scientists’ warnings to sufficient action	5
Science and behavioral intentions among Israeli Jewish ultra-Orthodox males: Death from COVID-19 or from the COVID-19 vaccine? A thematic study	4
Engaging the public or asking your friends? Analysing science-related crowdfunding using behavioural and survey data	4
Mapping pathways to public understanding of climate science	4
Co-producing uncertainty in public science: The case of genomic selection in forestry	4
Bridging the gap: Introducing a socio-cultural dimension to explain beliefs about man-made threats	4
The translator versus the critic: A flawed dichotomy in the age of misinformation	4
Counteracting climate denial: A systematic review	4
“Here comes Bio-me”: An analysis of a biobank campaign targeted at children	4
From scientific arguments to scepticism: Humans’ place in the Greenhouse	3
Associations of locus of control, information processing style and anti-reflexivity with climate change scepticism in an Australian sample	3
Between data providers and concerned citizens: Exploring participation in precision public health in Switzerland	3
Perceptions of policy problems and solutions: Climate change and structural racism	3
Science, Maddá, and ‘Ilm: The language divide in scientific information available to Internet users	3
Dunning–Kruger effect and flat-earthers: An exploratory analysis	3
Breeding by intervening: Exploring the role of associations and deliberation in consumer acceptance of different breeding techniques	3
Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis	3
A comparative study of the acceptance and understanding of evolution between China and the US	3
Social identity and racial disparities in science literacy	3
Fertilizing morality: How religiosity and orientations toward science shape the morality, immorality, and amorality of reproductive technologies	3
Intention of health experts to counter health misinformation in social media: Effects of perceived threat to online users, correction efficacy, and self-affirmation	3
Brain-computer interfaces, disability, and the stigma of refusal: A factorial vignette study	3
Just another clickbait title: A corpus-driven investigation of negative attitudes toward science on Reddit	3
The role of journalistic voice in communicating climate scepticism	3
1992: The first issue of Public Understanding of Science	3
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device	3
Christianity-science compatibility beliefs increase nonreligious individuals’ perceptions of Christians’ intelligence and scientific ability	3
Threatening experts: Correlates of viewing scientists as a social threat	3
The role of ideological dimensions in shaping acceptance of facial recognition technology and reactions to algorithm bias	3
How pandemic-related changes in global attitudes toward the scientific community shape “post-pandemic” environmental opinion	3
Anti-intellectualism amid the COVID-19 pandemic: The discursive elements and sources of anti-Fauci tweets	3
Engagement patterns with female and male scientists on Facebook	3
Heterogeneous attitudinal profiles towards gene editing: Evidence from latent class analysis	3
The role of gender in peer-group perceptions of climate scientists’ media statements	3
Academic excellence and community relevance: Can we have it all?	3
How institutional factors at US land-grant universities impact scientists’ public scholarship	3
Analytical categories to describe deficit attributions in deep disagreements between citizens and experts	3
Science communication on Twitter: Measuring indicators of engagement and their links to user interaction in communication scholars’ Tweet content	3
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media	3
Who should be a science communicator? The struggle for ‘legitimate’ status as science communicators between Chinese scientists and citizens on a Chinese knowledge-sharing platform	2
Looking back and looking ahead	2
Comparing the influence of intellectual humility, religiosity, and political conservatism on vaccine attitudes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom	2
‘Ugly and smelly or useful insect hunters?’ Perceptions of and attitudes towards bats in the turn of the twentieth-century public sphere in Barcelona	2
The divide so wide: Public perspectives on the role of human genome editing in the US healthcare system	2
Public engagement with emerging technologies: Does reflective thinking affect survey responses?	2
Playing God? Media coverage of CRISPR in the United States	2
Public support for government use of network surveillance: An empirical assessment of public understanding of ethics in science administration	2
Lay representations of artificial intelligence and autonomous military machines	2
Dark citizen science	2
For or against genetically modified foods: Different discursive strategies in Chinese social media	2
The public you want, the public you get: Exploring the relationship between the public and science in the debate on xenotransplantation	2
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
Dealing with dissent from the medical ranks: Public health authorities and COVID-19 communication	2
Nonscalability of “citizen science” in post-Fukushima Japan: Unpacking articulations of citizen radiation measuring organizations	2
Don’t they understand climate science? Reflections in times of crisis in science and politics	2

Facts do not speak for themselves: Community norms, dialog, and evidentiary practices in discussions of COVID-19 on Reddit	2
Climate change in the Cameroonian press: An analysis of its representations	2
Who is responsible? US Public perceptions of AI governance through the lenses of trust and ethics	2
I am a scientist . . . Ask Me Anything: Examining differences between male and female scientists participating in a Reddit AMA session	2
Democratising science in deliberative systems: Mobilising lay expertise against industry waste dumping in Taiwan	2
Gene editing in animals: What does the public want to know and what information do stakeholder organizations provide?	2
Biased perceptions against female scientists affect intentions to get vaccinated for COVID-19	2
Placing “trust” in science: The urban–rural divide and Americans’ feelings of warmth toward scientists	2
Science communication skills as an asset across disciplines: A 10-year case study of students’ motivation patterns at Université Laval	2
Children’s perceptions of scientists and their work: The ‘Draw a Scientist’ Test in the United Arab Emirates	2
Positions on science and religious beliefs across societies: Development of a research instrument and testing of its validity among high school students	2
Does knowledge make a difference? Understanding how the lay public and experts assess the credibility of information on novel foods	2
The emerging scientific public sphere in China’s digital economy: Weibo discussions on facial recognition technology	2
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain	2
Mindful mindfulness reporting: Media portrayals of scientific evidence for meditation mobile apps	2
Animal biodiversity and specificity in children’s picture books	2
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers	2
Of robots and rhetoric: Nikola Tesla’s telautomaton and the boundaries of scientific communication (1897–1900)	2
South Koreans’ responses to evolution and creationism: A survey and its implications	2