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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Science-related populism: Conceptualizing populist demands toward science	160
A review of the effects of uncertainty in public science communication	101
The dangers of blind trust: Examining the interplay among social media news use, misinformation identification, and news trust on conspiracy beliefs	59
The nature and origins of political polarization over science	59
Knowledge, (mis-)conceptions, risk perception, and behavior change during pandemics: A scoping review of 149 studies	53
Between security and convenience: Facial recognition technology in the eyes of citizens in China, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States	47
A systematic review of narrative interventions: Lessons for countering anti-vaccination conspiracy theories and misinformation	39
What do we believe in? Rumors and processing strategies during the COVID-19 outbreak in China	36
Knowledge about the nature of science increases public acceptance of science regardless of identity factors	32
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	29
A deliberative study of public attitudes towards sharing genomic data within NHS genomic medicine services in England	27
Deference and decision-making in science and society: How deference to scientific authority goes beyond confidence in science and scientists to become authoritarianism	27
Immunized against science: Narrative community building among vaccine refusing/hesitant parents	26
The ideological divide in public perceptions of self-driving cars	25
Interactions between emotional and cognitive engagement with science on YouTube	24
Exploring scholars’ public engagement goals in Canada and the United States	24
Transformation of the media landscape: Infotainment versus expository narrations for communicating science in online videos	21
Following science on social media: The effects of humor and source likability	19
The spread of fake science: Lexical concreteness, proximity, misinformation sharing, and the moderating role of subjective knowledge	18
Reconfiguring health knowledges? Contemporary modes of self-care as ‘everyday fringe medicine’	18
Before and after the Chinese gene-edited human babies: Multiple discourses of gene editing on social media	17
The effect of misinformation and inoculation: Replication of an experiment on the effect of false experts in the context of climate change communication	17
Expert communication on Twitter: Comparing economists’ and scientists’ social networks, topics and communicative styles	17
Ignorance or culture war? Christian nationalism and scientific illiteracy	16
Psychological underpinnings of pandemic denial - patterns of disagreement with scientific experts in the German public during the COVID-19 pandemic	16

Public acceptance of evolution in the United States, 1985–2020	16
Can hype be a force for good?: Inviting unexpected engagement with science and technology futures	15
The role of motivated science reception and numeracy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Science-related populism declining during the COVID-19 pandemic: A panel survey of the Swiss population before and after the Coronavirus outbreak	15
Science rejection in Greece: Spirituality predicts vaccine scepticism and low faith in science in a Greek sample	15
Fostering climate change consensus: The role of intimacy in group discussions	15
What drives science media use? Predictors of media use for information about science and research in digital information environments	14
The “replication crisis” in the public eye: Germans’ awareness and perceptions of the (ir)reproducibility of scientific research	14
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	14
#JunkScience: Investigating pseudoscience disinformation in the Russian Internet Research Agency tweets	14
Scientists as comedians: The effects of humor on perceptions of scientists and scientific messages	14
Open science and public trust in science: Results from two studies	14
Talk like an expert: The construction of expertise in news comments concerning climate change	13
Public perception of geothermal power plants in Korea following the Pohang earthquake: A social representation theory study	13
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
Call them COVIDiots: Exploring the effects of aggressive communication style and psychological distance in the communication of COVID-19	12
Deconstruction of the discourse authority of scientists in Chinese online science communication: Investigation of citizen science communicators on Chinese knowledge sharing networks	12
Selected by expertise? Scientific experts in German news coverage of COVID-19 compared to other pandemics	12
Universities claim to value community-engaged scholarship: So why do they discourage it?	12
Associations between conspiracism and the rejection of scientific innovations	11
Jargon use in Public Understanding of Science papers over three decades	11
Influence of intrinsic motivations on the continuity of scientific knowledge contribution to online knowledge-sharing platforms	11
Reporting preprints in the media during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Knowing when to talk? Plant genome editing as a site for pre-engagement institutional reflexivity	11
Stop avoiding the inevitable: The effects of anthropomorphism in science writing for non-experts	11
Do as the Romans do: On the authoritarian roots of pseudoscience	10
Public trust and mistrust of climate science: A meta-narrative review	10
‘We will multiply the fires of resistance’: The catalysts of dissent against institutional science and their interplay with refused knowledge communities	10
The effects of media narratives about failures and discoveries in science on beliefs about and support for science	10
Experience, experts, statistics, or just science? Predictors and consequences of reliance on different evidence types during the COVID-19 infodemic	9
Reframing sociotechnical imaginaries: The case of the Fourth Industrial Revolution	9
Mapping mental models of science communication: How academics in Germany, Austria and Switzerland understand and practice science communication	9
Between concepts and experiences: understandings of climate change in southern Ecuador	9
Children’s conceptions of coronavirus	9
Population health AI researchers’ perceptions of the public portrayal of AI: A pilot study	9
How deliberative designs empower citizens’ voices: A case study on Ghana’s deliberative poll on agriculture and the environment	9
Visualizing science: The impact of infographics on free recall, elaboration, and attitude change for genetically modified foods news	8
Art for public engagement on emerging and controversial technologies: A literature review	8
Thirty years of science–society interfaces: What’s next?	8
Data authority: Public debate about personalized medicine in Denmark	8
The press club as indicator of science medialization: How Japanese research organizations adapt to domestic media conventions	8
What science means to me: Understanding personal identification with (evolutionary) science using the sociology of (non)religion	8
The Dawkins effect? Celebrity scientists, (non)religious publics and changed attitudes to evolution	8
Re-visioning public engagement with emerging technology: A digital methods experiment on ‘vertical farming’	8
No harm in being self-corrective: Self-criticism and reform intentions increase researchers’ epistemic trustworthiness and credibility in the eyes of the public	8
Trust or attention? Medialization of science revisited	8
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era	8
Do scientists have a responsibility to provide climate change expertise to mitigation and adaptation strategies? Perspectives from climate professionals	7
‘It’s all the other stuff!’ How smokers understand (and misunderstand) chemicals in cigarettes and cigarette smoke	7
‘Will polar bears melt?’ A qualitative analysis of children’s questions about climate change	7

Novel interfaces in science communication: Comparing journalistic and social media uptake of articles published by The Conversation Africa	7
How journalists and experts metaphorically frame emerging information technologies: The case of cyberinfrastructure for big data	7
Making sense of “superbugs” on YouTube: A storytelling approach	7
Quantifying scientific jargon	7
Political beliefs, views about technocracy, and energy and climate policy preferences	7
Science communication and mediatised environmental conflict: A cautionary tale	7
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews	7
Public understanding of science and technology in the Internet era	7
Establishing an everyday scientific reasoning scale to learn how non-scientists reason with science	6
Are you passing along something true or false? Dissemination of social media messages about genetically modified organisms	6
Examining science communication on Reddit: From an “Assembled” to a “Disassembling” approach	6
Public communication at research universities: Moving towards (de)centralised communication of science?	6
Imagined futures for livestock gene editing: Public engagement in the Netherlands	6
Social participation in science: Perspectives of Spanish civil society organizations	6
A picture is not always worth a thousand words: The visual quality of photographs affects the effectiveness of interpretive signage for science communication	6
Lay and scientific categorizations of new breeding techniques: Implications for food policy and genetically modified organism legislation	6
Effects of gender harassment on science popularization behaviors	6