Public Understanding of Science

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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Thank you reviewers79
The climate battles of ideas: Minority discourses in readers’ comments to climate change articles in the Portuguese press79
A different image? Images of scientists in Chinese films72
Public understanding of science and technology in the Internet era52
Data authority: Public debate about personalized medicine in Denmark39
Book Review: Martin Paul Eve, Cameron Neylon, Daniel Paul O’Donnell, Samuel Moore, Robert Gadie, Victoria Odeniyi and Shahina Parvin, Reading Peer Review: PLOS ONE and Institutional Change in Academia32
Book review: Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal and Sarah Dillon (eds), AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines31
“If a black hole is an oyster, then . . .”: The discoursal trends of popularization in science fiction movies24
Book Review: The Many Voices of Modern Physics: Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries23
The effect of misinformation and inoculation: Replication of an experiment on the effect of false experts in the context of climate change communication23
Of robots and rhetoric: Nikola Tesla’s telautomaton and the boundaries of scientific communication (1897–1900)23
Testing the talented child: Direct-to-consumer genetic talent tests in China22
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies22
The role of ideological dimensions in shaping acceptance of facial recognition technology and reactions to algorithm bias21
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science20
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers19
30 years of PUS: Reflections from Latin America on the academic field of science communication19
Book review: Michael John Gorman, Idea Colliders – The Future of Science Museums19
Thank you reviewers18
Public perception of geothermal power plants in Korea following the Pohang earthquake: A social representation theory study18
Science museum educators’ views on object-based learning: The perceived importance of authenticity and touch18
Book Review: Philip Ball (text), Wenting Zu and Yan Liang (photographs), The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder and Science17
Social identity and racial disparities in science literacy17
Different periods, similar challenges, opposing paths: Exploring the social structure of popular science magazines in Turkey16
Public trust and mistrust of climate science: A meta-narrative review16
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science15
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change15
Climate and nature emergency: From scientists’ warnings to sufficient action15
Science rejection in Greece: Spirituality predicts vaccine scepticism and low faith in science in a Greek sample14
Lay metrology and metroscoping: Towards the study of lay units14
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era14
What are we talking about when we are talking about the audience? Exploring the concept of audience in science communication research and education14
The evil corporation master frame: The cases of vaccines and genetic modification13
The nature and origins of political polarization over science13
Indicators of trustworthiness in lay-friendly research summaries: Scientificness surpasses easiness13
Book Review: Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench (eds), Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology13
Comparing the structures of storytelling and magic for science communication with an agent-based model12
Re-visioning public engagement with emerging technology: A digital methods experiment on ‘vertical farming’12
The invisible frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining sourcing and the underrepresentation of female expertise in pandemic news coverage12
“They Only Silence the Truth”: COVID-19 retractions and the politicization of science12
The effect of experts on attitude change in public-facing political science: Scientific communication on term limits in the United States10
Gene editing in animals: What does the public want to know and what information do stakeholder organizations provide?10
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media10
Motivation, self-determination, and reflexivity of researchers in comedic public engagement10
Reviewer list 202110
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries10
Engaging the public or asking your friends? Analysing science-related crowdfunding using behavioural and survey data10
Does exposure necessarily lead to misbelief? A meta-analysis of susceptibility to health misinformation9
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception9
COVID scientists as rhetorical citizens: Persuasive op-eds and public debate over science policy9
A comparative study of the acceptance and understanding of evolution between China and the US9
1997: “Your genes, your choices” and public education about the ethical, legal and social issues of the Human Genome Project9
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 Alternatives9
Heuristic responses to pandemic uncertainty: Practicable communication strategies of “reasoned transparency” to aid public reception of changing science8
Book review: John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo, Strategic Science Communication – A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for more Effective Public Engagement8
Dark citizen science8
I am a scientist . . . Ask Me Anything: Examining differences between male and female scientists participating in a Reddit AMA session8
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies8
Learning about climate politics during COP 21: Explaining a diminishing knowledge gap8
Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis8
Charting cognition: Mapping public understanding of COVID-198
How did the top two greenhouse gas emitters depict climate change? A comparative analysis of the Chinese and US media7
Who are the publics engaging in AI?7
The acceptance of evolution: A developmental view of Generation X in the United States7
What are you assessing when you measure “trust” in scientists with a direct measure?7
Constructing the public in public perceptions research: A case study of forest genomics7
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 Britain7
The four “R”s: Strategies for tailoring science for religious publics and their prices7
Psychological underpinnings of pandemic denial - patterns of disagreement with scientific experts in the German public during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Lay representations of artificial intelligence and autonomous military machines7
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs7
Reframing sociotechnical imaginaries: The case of the Fourth Industrial Revolution7
Chemistry in the mail: Stamps from around the globe and public science communication in the twentieth century7
Scientists in the news photos: Photographic portraits of scientists in China (1949–2022)7
Universities claim to value community-engaged scholarship: So why do they discourage it?7
Democratising science in deliberative systems: Mobilising lay expertise against industry waste dumping in Taiwan6
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science6
Reporting preprints in the media during the COVID-19 pandemic6
When experts matter: Variations in consensus messaging for vaccine and genetically modified organism safety6
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media6
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews6
Performing publics of science in the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study in Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal6
Book Review: Marta Entradas and Martin W. Bauer (eds), Public Communication of Research Universities: ‘Arms Race’ for Visibility or Science Substance?6
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