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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
A review of the effects of uncertainty in public science communication112
The dangers of blind trust: Examining the interplay among social media news use, misinformation identification, and news trust on conspiracy beliefs66
The nature and origins of political polarization over science63
Knowledge, (mis-)conceptions, risk perception, and behavior change during pandemics: A scoping review of 149 studies57
Between security and convenience: Facial recognition technology in the eyes of citizens in China, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States53
A systematic review of narrative interventions: Lessons for countering anti-vaccination conspiracy theories and misinformation41
What do we believe in? Rumors and processing strategies during the COVID-19 outbreak in China39
Knowledge about the nature of science increases public acceptance of science regardless of identity factors36
A desire for authoritative science? How citizens’ informational needs and epistemic beliefs shaped their views of science, news, and policymaking in the COVID-19 pandemic29
Deference and decision-making in science and society: How deference to scientific authority goes beyond confidence in science and scientists to become authoritarianism28
A deliberative study of public attitudes towards sharing genomic data within NHS genomic medicine services in England28
Exploring scholars’ public engagement goals in Canada and the United States27
Interactions between emotional and cognitive engagement with science on YouTube27
The spread of fake science: Lexical concreteness, proximity, misinformation sharing, and the moderating role of subjective knowledge22
Transformation of the media landscape: Infotainment versus expository narrations for communicating science in online videos21
Expert communication on Twitter: Comparing economists’ and scientists’ social networks, topics and communicative styles20
Following science on social media: The effects of humor and source likability20
Public acceptance of evolution in the United States, 1985–202020
The effect of misinformation and inoculation: Replication of an experiment on the effect of false experts in the context of climate change communication20
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 research18
Before and after the Chinese gene-edited human babies: Multiple discourses of gene editing on social media17
Open science and public trust in science: Results from two studies17
Ignorance or culture war? Christian nationalism and scientific illiteracy17
Psychological underpinnings of pandemic denial - patterns of disagreement with scientific experts in the German public during the COVID-19 pandemic17
The role of motivated science reception and numeracy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic16
Reporting preprints in the media during the COVID-19 pandemic15
Science-related populism declining during the COVID-19 pandemic: A panel survey of the Swiss population before and after the Coronavirus outbreak15
Science rejection in Greece: Spirituality predicts vaccine scepticism and low faith in science in a Greek sample15
Fostering climate change consensus: The role of intimacy in group discussions15
What drives science media use? Predictors of media use for information about science and research in digital information environments14
The “replication crisis” in the public eye: Germans’ awareness and perceptions of the (ir)reproducibility of scientific research14
Talk like an expert: The construction of expertise in news comments concerning climate change14
Public perception of geothermal power plants in Korea following the Pohang earthquake: A social representation theory study14
Selected by expertise? Scientific experts in German news coverage of COVID-19 compared to other pandemics14
Universities claim to value community-engaged scholarship: So why do they discourage it?14
Public trust and mistrust of climate science: A meta-narrative review14
Art for public engagement on emerging and controversial technologies: A literature review13
Call them COVIDiots: Exploring the effects of aggressive communication style and psychological distance in the communication of COVID-1913
Influence of intrinsic motivations on the continuity of scientific knowledge contribution to online knowledge-sharing platforms12
Stop avoiding the inevitable: The effects of anthropomorphism in science writing for non-experts12
Do scientists have a responsibility to provide climate change expertise to mitigation and adaptation strategies? Perspectives from climate professionals12
Deconstruction of the discourse authority of scientists in Chinese online science communication: Investigation of citizen science communicators on Chinese knowledge sharing networks12
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 pandemic12
Jargon use in Public Understanding of Science papers over three decades12
Experience, experts, statistics, or just science? Predictors and consequences of reliance on different evidence types during the COVID-19 infodemic11
The effects of media narratives about failures and discoveries in science on beliefs about and support for science11
Associations between conspiracism and the rejection of scientific innovations11
How deliberative designs empower citizens’ voices: A case study on Ghana’s deliberative poll on agriculture and the environment11
Knowing when to talk? Plant genome editing as a site for pre-engagement institutional reflexivity11
Trust or attention? Medialization of science revisited11
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era11
Mapping mental models of science communication: How academics in Germany, Austria and Switzerland understand and practice science communication10
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews10
Children’s conceptions of coronavirus10
Thirty years of science–society interfaces: What’s next?10
Re-visioning public engagement with emerging technology: A digital methods experiment on ‘vertical farming’10
‘We will multiply the fires of resistance’: The catalysts of dissent against institutional science and their interplay with refused knowledge communities10
Reframing sociotechnical imaginaries: The case of the Fourth Industrial Revolution10
Public understanding of science and technology in the Internet era9
No harm in being self-corrective: Self-criticism and reform intentions increase researchers’ epistemic trustworthiness and credibility in the eyes of the public9
Guidance in the chaos: Effects of science communication by virologists during the COVID-19 crisis in Germany and the role of parasocial phenomena9
Between concepts and experiences: understandings of climate change in southern Ecuador9
Population health AI researchers’ perceptions of the public portrayal of AI: A pilot study9
‘Will polar bears melt?’ A qualitative analysis of children’s questions about climate change9
Data authority: Public debate about personalized medicine in Denmark9
Visualizing science: The impact of infographics on free recall, elaboration, and attitude change for genetically modified foods news9
The Dawkins effect? Celebrity scientists, (non)religious publics and changed attitudes to evolution9
Quantifying scientific jargon9
The press club as indicator of science medialization: How Japanese research organizations adapt to domestic media conventions8
What are you assessing when you measure “trust” in scientists with a direct measure?8
A picture is not always worth a thousand words: The visual quality of photographs affects the effectiveness of interpretive signage for science communication7
The explanation of a complex problem: A content analysis of causality in cancer news7
Public communication at research universities: Moving towards (de)centralised communication of science?7
Novel interfaces in science communication: Comparing journalistic and social media uptake of articles published by The Conversation Africa7
Establishing an everyday scientific reasoning scale to learn how non-scientists reason with science7
Science communication and mediatised environmental conflict: A cautionary tale7
Making sense of “superbugs” on YouTube: A storytelling approach7
Political beliefs, views about technocracy, and energy and climate policy preferences7
How journalists and experts metaphorically frame emerging information technologies: The case of cyberinfrastructure for big data7
‘It’s all the other stuff!’ How smokers understand (and misunderstand) chemicals in cigarettes and cigarette smoke7
Are science communication audiences becoming more critical? Reconstructing migration between audience segments based on Swiss panel data7
Imagined futures for livestock gene editing: Public engagement in the Netherlands6
Social participation in science: Perspectives of Spanish civil society organizations6
Testing the talented child: Direct-to-consumer genetic talent tests in China6
Examining science communication on Reddit: From an “Assembled” to a “Disassembling” approach6
Defeating Merchants of Doubt: Subjective certainty and self-affirmation ameliorate attitude polarization via partisan motivated reasoning6
Older people’s attitudes towards emerging technologies: A systematic literature review6
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science6
Public understanding of science: Communicating in the midst of a pandemic6
Are you passing along something true or false? Dissemination of social media messages about genetically modified organisms6
Effects of gender harassment on science popularization behaviors6
Using infographics to reduce the negative effects of jargon on intentions to vaccinate against COVID-196
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