Public Understanding of Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Public Understanding of Science is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies46
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era35
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science30
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception29
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries29
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science29
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward28
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections28
Public support for government use of network surveillance: An empirical assessment of public understanding of ethics in science administration27
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis26
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs25
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media23
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter21
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science20
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies20
More engagement but less participation: China’s alternative approach to public communication of science and technology19
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device18
Bruce Lewenstein: ‘Our work is critical for the issues of the day . . . we must engage’18
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing17
‘Poetry under siege by rockets’: A case study of the creative and critical coverage by the New York Times of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk16
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society16
Explainable AI and trust: How news media shapes public support for AI-powered autonomous passenger drones16
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain15
Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and Russia15
The role of motivated science reception and numeracy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic15
The politics of politicization: Climate change debates in Canadian print media14
Book Review: Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America14
Scientism, trust, value alignment, views of nature, and U.S. public opinion about gene drive mosquitos14
Counteracting climate denial: A systematic review14
The role of journalistic voice in communicating climate scepticism14
The divide so wide: Public perspectives on the role of human genome editing in the US healthcare system13
The legitimacy of science and the populist backlash: Cross-national and longitudinal trends and determinants of attitudes toward science13
Children’s perceptions of scientists and their work: The ‘Draw a Scientist’ Test in the United Arab Emirates12
1992: The first issue of Public Understanding of Science12
Comparing the influence of intellectual humility, religiosity, and political conservatism on vaccine attitudes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom11
Book review: Felicity Mellor (ed.), Insights on Science Journalism11
Characterizing the semantic features of climate change misinformation on Chinese social media11
Follow the metrics? How does social media affect the journalistic practices of digital science communication start-ups?11
Delineating between scientism and science enthusiasm: Challenges in measuring scientism and the development of novel scale11
Book Review: Kristin Demetrious, Public Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowledge Formation DemetriousKristinPublic Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowle11
Examining science communication on Reddit: From an “Assembled” to a “Disassembling” approach11
Moral expression of “experts” and public engagement: Communicating COVID-19 vaccines on Facebook public pages in Chinese11
Book review: Myrna Perez Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy PerezMyrnaCriticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle11
The effects of self-disclosure and gender on a climate scientist’s credibility and likability on social media11
Public acceptance of evolution in the United States, 1985–202011
What are we talking about when we are talking about the audience? Exploring the concept of audience in science communication research and education10
Thank you reviewers10
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change10
A different image? Images of scientists in Chinese films10
Climate and nature emergency: From scientists’ warnings to sufficient action10
Lay metrology and metroscoping: Towards the study of lay units10
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media10
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 Alternatives10
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers9
Thank you reviewers9
Quality in science communication with communicative artificial intelligence: A principle-based framework9
Examining a conceptual framework of aggressive and humorous styles in science YouTube videos about climate change and vaccination9
Gene editing in animals: What does the public want to know and what information do stakeholder organizations provide?9
Democratising science in deliberative systems: Mobilising lay expertise against industry waste dumping in Taiwan9
Book review: John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo, Strategic Science Communication – A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for more Effective Public Engagement9
Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis8
Public perceptions of climate tipping points8
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 Britain8
Threatening experts: Correlates of viewing scientists as a social threat8
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews8
From Big Farms to Big Pharma? Problematizing science-related populism8
The journalistic understanding of science as process and social system: A qualitative exploration in the German science journalism community8
I am a scientist . . . Ask Me Anything: Examining differences between male and female scientists participating in a Reddit AMA session8
Reporting preprints in the media during the COVID-19 pandemic8
1999: The BBC simulates prehistoric wildlife7
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science7
Brain-computer interfaces, disability, and the stigma of refusal: A factorial vignette study7
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 Canada7
How do you argue with a science denial meme? Memed responses may be counter-productive for responding to science denial online7
Book review: Pascal Hohaus (ed.), Science Communication in Times of Crisis7
Guidance in the chaos: Effects of science communication by virologists during the COVID-19 crisis in Germany and the role of parasocial phenomena7
Greenpeace and the online genetically modified food debate in the UK: The role of science and scientific evidence in ‘environmental representation’7
The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search: Insights from a cross-national study7
The health and environmental risks and rewards of modernity that shape scientific optimism7
Are science communication audiences becoming more critical? Reconstructing migration between audience segments based on Swiss panel data7
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