Public Understanding of Science

Article	Citations
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies	66
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science	40
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward	39
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science	37
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era	37
Who believes in science? A computational tool for identifying language invoking or disputing scientific knowledge	32
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception	32
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections	28
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries	26
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter	26
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science	23
Socio-economic status and authority deference: Understanding public (dis)engagement with science in Europe	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	20
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis	20
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies	20
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society	19
Bruce Lewenstein: ‘Our work is critical for the issues of the day . . . we must engage’	19
‘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	19
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device	18
Explainable AI and trust: How news media shapes public support for AI-powered autonomous passenger drones	18
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing	18
Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and Russia	18
More engagement but less participation: China’s alternative approach to public communication of science and technology	17
Counteracting climate denial: A systematic review	17

Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain	17
1992: The first issue of Public Understanding of Science	16
The role of journalistic voice in communicating climate scepticism	16
Book Review: Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America	16
Political ideology-driven perceptions of experts and their claims	16
Children’s perceptions of scientists and their work: The ‘Draw a Scientist’ Test in the United Arab Emirates	15
Scientism, trust, value alignment, views of nature, and U.S. public opinion about gene drive mosquitos	15
Delineating between scientism and science enthusiasm: Challenges in measuring scientism and the development of novel scale	14
Book review: Felicity Mellor (ed.), Insights on Science Journalism	14
The legitimacy of science and the populist backlash: Cross-national and longitudinal trends and determinants of attitudes toward science	14
Female expertise in public discourses: Visibility of female compared to male scientific experts in German media coverage of eight science-related issues	14
The divide so wide: Public perspectives on the role of human genome editing in the US healthcare system	14
The politics of politicization: Climate change debates in Canadian print media	14
Comparing the influence of intellectual humility, religiosity, and political conservatism on vaccine attitudes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom	14
Of Issue Advocates and Honest Brokers: Participation of U.S. and German scientists in COVID-19 policy disputes	13
Book review: Myrna Perez Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy PerezMyrnaCriticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle	13
Book Review: Kristin Demetrious, Public Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowledge Formation DemetriousKristinPublic Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowle	13
Moral expression of “experts” and public engagement: Communicating COVID-19 vaccines on Facebook public pages in Chinese	13
The effects of self-disclosure and gender on a climate scientist’s credibility and likability on social media	13
Characterizing the semantic features of climate change misinformation on Chinese social media	12
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	12
Follow the metrics? How does social media affect the journalistic practices of digital science communication start-ups?	12
First-in-human gene therapy clinical trials in the media: Exploring patient narratives	12
Examining science communication on Reddit: From an “Assembled” to a “Disassembling” approach	12
Thank you reviewers	12
Lay metrology and metroscoping: Towards the study of lay units	11
Quality in science communication with communicative artificial intelligence: A principle-based framework	11
What are we talking about when we are talking about the audience? Exploring the concept of audience in science communication research and education	11
Climate and nature emergency: From scientists’ warnings to sufficient action	11
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers	11
A different image? Images of scientists in Chinese films	11
Gene editing in animals: What does the public want to know and what information do stakeholder organizations provide?	11
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media	11
Disseminating the Italian history of medicine: Arturo Castiglioni and his project at the University of Padua, 1933–1943	10
Democratising science in deliberative systems: Mobilising lay expertise against industry waste dumping in Taiwan	10
Book review: John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo, Strategic Science Communication – A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for more Effective Public Engagement	10
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change	10
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews	10
Thank you reviewers	10
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science	9
How do you argue with a science denial meme? Memed responses may be counter-productive for responding to science denial online	9
Public perceptions of climate tipping points	9
Book review: Pascal Hohaus (ed.), Science Communication in Times of Crisis	9
The journalistic understanding of science as process and social system: A qualitative exploration in the German science journalism community	9
From Big Farms to Big Pharma? Problematizing science-related populism	9
Reporting preprints in the media during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search: Insights from a cross-national study	9
Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis	9
Examining a conceptual framework of aggressive and humorous styles in science YouTube videos about climate change and vaccination	9
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	9

Threatening experts: Correlates of viewing scientists as a social threat	9
1999: The BBC simulates prehistoric wildlife	9
Greenpeace and the online genetically modified food debate in the UK: The role of science and scientific evidence in ‘environmental representation’	8
Guidance in the chaos: Effects of science communication by virologists during the COVID-19 crisis in Germany and the role of parasocial phenomena	8
Brain-computer interfaces, disability, and the stigma of refusal: A factorial vignette study	8
The health and environmental risks and rewards of modernity that shape scientific optimism	8
Are science communication audiences becoming more critical? Reconstructing migration between audience segments based on Swiss panel data	8
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
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	8
Perceptions of policy problems and solutions: Climate change and structural racism	8
Positions on science and religious beliefs across societies: Development of a research instrument and testing of its validity among high school students	8
Deliberating enhanced weathering: Public frames, iconic ecosystems and the governance of carbon removal at scale	7
The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries	7
Seduction, caution, fight: Media framing of research-based expertise in Norwegian print media coverage of low energy buildings (2005–2012)	7
Public perception of new plant breeding techniques and the psychosocial determinants of acceptance: A systematic review	7
Martin W. Bauer: ‘“Truth-value” is not the only criterion of validity, there is also the felicity of performative knowledge claims . . .’	7
The translator versus the critic: A flawed dichotomy in the age of misinformation	7
Advocacy – defending science or destroying it? Interviews with 47 climate scientists about their fundamental concerns	7
Academic excellence and community relevance: Can we have it all?	7
Audience segmentation analysis of public intentions to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Australia	6
Fiction references as framing devices in extended reality news discourse	6
Contesting state expertise after COVID-19	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
Book review: Sarah R. Davies, Science Societies: Resources for Life in a Technoscientific World DaviesSarah R.Science Societies: Resources for Life in a	6
Book Review: Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest	6
Lucy as “one of us”: Public misconception, national narrative, and the scientific evidence about Australopithecus afarensis in Ethiopia	6
Public understanding of science and technology in the Internet era	6
Credibility of misinformation source moderates the effectiveness of corrective messages on social media	6
Richard S. Ellis, When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn	6
Belief updating when confronted with scientific evidence: Examining the role of trust in science	6
David S. Caudill, Expertise in Crisis: The Ideological Contours of Public Scientific Controversies	6
Selected by expertise? Scientific experts in German news coverage of COVID-19 compared to other pandemics	6
The invisible frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining sourcing and the underrepresentation of female expertise in pandemic news coverage	6
Narratives of hope and concern? Examining the impact of climate scientists’ communication on credibility and engagement	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
Science as the raison d’etat: Nehruvian scientism and the Indian science museum	5
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	5
Predictors of young people’s anti-vaccine attitudes in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Why do experts disagree? The development of a taxonomy	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
Imagined futures for livestock gene editing: Public engagement in the Netherlands	5
Tragic Flaws and Practical Wisdom: Public reasoning behind preferences for different genetic technologies	5
Breeding by intervening: Exploring the role of associations and deliberation in consumer acceptance of different breeding techniques	5
Christianity-science compatibility beliefs increase nonreligious individuals’ perceptions of Christians’ intelligence and scientific ability	5
Work and the public understanding of science	5
Mindful mindfulness reporting: Media portrayals of scientific evidence for meditation mobile apps	5
Open science and public trust in science: Results from two studies	5
Trust, experience, and innovation: Key factors shaping American attitudes about AI	4
Believing in science: Linking religious beliefs and identity with vaccination intentions and trust in science during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Dealing with dissent from the medical ranks: Public health authorities and COVID-19 communication	4
Looking back and looking ahead	4
The public you want, the public you get: Exploring the relationship between the public and science in the debate on xenotransplantation	4
Between data providers and concerned citizens: Exploring participation in precision public health in Switzerland	4
Scientists’ public engagement goals: Perceived importance and personal prioritization	4
What if some people just do not like science? How personality traits relate to attitudes toward science and technology	4
Natural history museum visitors’ use of key concepts and misconceptions in written explanations of evolutionary scenarios	4
Thirty years of science–society interfaces: What’s next?	4
Are plain language summaries more readable than scientific abstracts? Evidence from six biomedical and life sciences journals	4
A 30-nation investigation of lay heritability beliefs	4
Autonomy and bioethics in fan responses to Orphan Black	4
Science on the mind: Examining question ordering effects when asking about science on large-scale surveys	4
European journalists and the sea: Contexts, motivations, and difficulties	4
Book review essay: Digging deep into stories in science communication	3
How pandemic-related changes in global attitudes toward the scientific community shape “post-pandemic” environmental opinion	3
“That was not the discussion we wanted to have”: Engagement of civil society organizations with synthetic biology	3
A matter of right or wrong: Divisive attributes of moralized science and technology attitudes	3
Feminist retroviruses to white Sharia: Gender “science fan fiction” on 4Chan	3
Stereotypes and social evaluations of scientists are related to different antecedents and outcomes	3
STS and science communication: Reflecting on a relationship	3
How generative artificial intelligence portrays science: Interviewing ChatGPT from the perspective of different audience segments	3
Ethics, generative AI and science communication	3
Thank you reviewers	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
Establishing an everyday scientific reasoning scale to learn how non-scientists reason with science	3
Public understanding of preprints: How audiences make sense of unreviewed research in the news	3
Book Review: The Many Voices of Modern Physics: Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries	3
Science capital: Results from a Finnish population survey	3
Book Review: Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench (eds), Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology	3
Mapping pathways to public understanding of climate science	3

Associations of locus of control, information processing style and anti-reflexivity with climate change scepticism in an Australian sample

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