Public Understanding of Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Public Understanding of Science is 8. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections115
Who believes in science? A computational tool for identifying language invoking or disputing scientific knowledge52
Book review: Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez, Science Under Siege: How To Fight The Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World MannMichael E.Ho51
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception48
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries40
Public engagement professionals: Exploring ethical tensions in communication, engagement and co-creation33
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science32
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward27
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science27
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter26
Socio-economic status and authority deference: Understanding public (dis)engagement with science in Europe26
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies25
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media24
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs24
‘Poetry under siege by rockets’: A case study of the creative and critical coverage by the New York Times of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk23
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science23
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society21
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing21
Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and Russia21
Explainable AI and trust: How news media shapes public support for AI-powered autonomous passenger drones20
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain20
Female expertise in public discourses: Visibility of female compared to male scientific experts in German media coverage of eight science-related issues19
When ignorance induces reliance: The role of epistemic knowledge about generative AI in changing health-related decision-making19
Book Review: Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America19
Counteracting climate denial: A systematic review19
Political ideology-driven perceptions of experts and their claims18
Comparing the influence of intellectual humility, religiosity, and political conservatism on vaccine attitudes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom17
The politics of politicization: Climate change debates in Canadian print media17
Scientism, trust, value alignment, views of nature, and U.S. public opinion about gene drive mosquitos16
Delineating between scientism and science enthusiasm: Challenges in measuring scientism and the development of novel scale16
Book review: Felicity Mellor (ed.), Insights on Science Journalism16
The divide so wide: Public perspectives on the role of human genome editing in the US healthcare system16
The effects of self-disclosure and gender on a climate scientist’s credibility and likability on social media15
Moral expression of “experts” and public engagement: Communicating COVID-19 vaccines on Facebook public pages in Chinese15
Book review: Myrna Perez Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy PerezMyrnaCriticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle15
Book Review: Kristin Demetrious, Public Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowledge Formation DemetriousKristinPublic Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowle15
Of Issue Advocates and Honest Brokers: Participation of U.S. and German scientists in COVID-19 policy disputes14
The untapped potential of inter-project cooperation of citizen science projects in Austria14
Thank you reviewers14
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change13
Thank you reviewers13
First-in-human gene therapy clinical trials in the media: Exploring patient narratives13
Lay metrology and metroscoping: Towards the study of lay units13
Characterizing the semantic features of climate change misinformation on Chinese social media13
A different image? Images of scientists in Chinese films13
Follow the metrics? How does social media affect the journalistic practices of digital science communication start-ups?13
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers12
Gene editing in animals: What does the public want to know and what information do stakeholder organizations provide?12
What are we talking about when we are talking about the audience? Exploring the concept of audience in science communication research and education12
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media12
Eighteenth-century science communication? Exploring the case of Julien Offray de La Mettrie11
How do you argue with a science denial meme? Memed responses may be counter-productive for responding to science denial online11
From Big Farms to Big Pharma? Problematizing science-related populism11
Quality in science communication with communicative artificial intelligence: A principle-based framework11
Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis11
Why is it so hard to do co-created citizen social science? Reflecting on challenges and potential solutions11
Disseminating the Italian history of medicine: Arturo Castiglioni and his project at the University of Padua, 1933–194311
1796 – An Introduction to Botany : The critical role of women in eighteenth-century science popularisation and the early promotion of science for young g10
Thank you reviewers10
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews10
Threatening experts: Correlates of viewing scientists as a social threat10
Threatened by science: Can affirmations alleviate motivated science rejection?10
The journalistic understanding of science as process and social system: A qualitative exploration in the German science journalism community9
The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search: Insights from a cross-national study9
Greenpeace and the online genetically modified food debate in the UK: The role of science and scientific evidence in ‘environmental representation’9
The health and environmental risks and rewards of modernity that shape scientific optimism9
Book review: John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo, Strategic Science Communication – A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for more Effective Public Engagement9
Book review: Pascal Hohaus (ed.), Science Communication in Times of Crisis9
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 Canada9
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science9
Public perceptions of climate tipping points9
Brain-computer interfaces, disability, and the stigma of refusal: A factorial vignette study9
Public perception of new plant breeding techniques and the psychosocial determinants of acceptance: A systematic review8
Advocacy – defending science or destroying it? Interviews with 47 climate scientists about their fundamental concerns8
Seduction, caution, fight: Media framing of research-based expertise in Norwegian print media coverage of low energy buildings (2005–2012)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
Deliberating enhanced weathering: Public frames, iconic ecosystems and the governance of carbon removal at scale8
Audience segmentation analysis of public intentions to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Australia8
Perceptions of policy problems and solutions: Climate change and structural racism8
Expertise as contingency-reduction: Evidence from interviews concerning Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine on German TV news8
The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries8
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