OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Understanding of Science is 6. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

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
Ignorance or culture war? Christian nationalism and scientific illiteracy	21
Following science on social media: The effects of humor and source likability	21
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
The role of motivated science reception and numeracy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	19
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
Psychological underpinnings of pandemic denial - patterns of disagreement with scientific experts in the German public during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
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
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
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
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
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
‘We will multiply the fires of resistance’: The catalysts of dissent against institutional science and their interplay with refused knowledge communities	11
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
The Dawkins effect? Celebrity scientists, (non)religious publics and changed attitudes to evolution	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 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
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

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
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