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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies66
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science40
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward39
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science37
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era37
Who believes in science? A computational tool for identifying language invoking or disputing scientific knowledge32
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception32
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections28
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries26
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter26
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science23
Socio-economic status and authority deference: Understanding public (dis)engagement with science in Europe23
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media22
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs20
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis20
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies20
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society19
Bruce Lewenstein: ‘Our work is critical for the issues of the day . . . we must engage’19
‘Poetry under siege by rockets’: A case study of the creative and critical coverage by the New York Times of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk19
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device18
Explainable AI and trust: How news media shapes public support for AI-powered autonomous passenger drones18
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing18
Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and Russia18
More engagement but less participation: China’s alternative approach to public communication of science and technology17
Counteracting climate denial: A systematic review17
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain17
1992: The first issue of Public Understanding of Science16
The role of journalistic voice in communicating climate scepticism16
Book Review: Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America16
Political ideology-driven perceptions of experts and their claims16
Children’s perceptions of scientists and their work: The ‘Draw a Scientist’ Test in the United Arab Emirates15
Scientism, trust, value alignment, views of nature, and U.S. public opinion about gene drive mosquitos15
Delineating between scientism and science enthusiasm: Challenges in measuring scientism and the development of novel scale14
Book review: Felicity Mellor (ed.), Insights on Science Journalism14
The legitimacy of science and the populist backlash: Cross-national and longitudinal trends and determinants of attitudes toward science14
Female expertise in public discourses: Visibility of female compared to male scientific experts in German media coverage of eight science-related issues14
The divide so wide: Public perspectives on the role of human genome editing in the US healthcare system14
The politics of politicization: Climate change debates in Canadian print media14
Comparing the influence of intellectual humility, religiosity, and political conservatism on vaccine attitudes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom14
Of Issue Advocates and Honest Brokers: Participation of U.S. and German scientists in COVID-19 policy disputes13
Book review: Myrna Perez Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy PerezMyrnaCriticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle13
Book Review: Kristin Demetrious, Public Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowledge Formation DemetriousKristinPublic Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowle13
Moral expression of “experts” and public engagement: Communicating COVID-19 vaccines on Facebook public pages in Chinese13
The effects of self-disclosure and gender on a climate scientist’s credibility and likability on social media13
Characterizing the semantic features of climate change misinformation on Chinese social media12
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 Alternatives12
Follow the metrics? How does social media affect the journalistic practices of digital science communication start-ups?12
First-in-human gene therapy clinical trials in the media: Exploring patient narratives12
Examining science communication on Reddit: From an “Assembled” to a “Disassembling” approach12
Thank you reviewers12
Lay metrology and metroscoping: Towards the study of lay units11
Quality in science communication with communicative artificial intelligence: A principle-based framework11
What are we talking about when we are talking about the audience? Exploring the concept of audience in science communication research and education11
Climate and nature emergency: From scientists’ warnings to sufficient action11
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers11
A different image? Images of scientists in Chinese films11
Gene editing in animals: What does the public want to know and what information do stakeholder organizations provide?11
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media11
Disseminating the Italian history of medicine: Arturo Castiglioni and his project at the University of Padua, 1933–194310
Democratising science in deliberative systems: Mobilising lay expertise against industry waste dumping in Taiwan10
Book review: John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo, Strategic Science Communication – A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for more Effective Public Engagement10
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change10
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews10
Thank you reviewers10
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science9
How do you argue with a science denial meme? Memed responses may be counter-productive for responding to science denial online9
Public perceptions of climate tipping points9
Book review: Pascal Hohaus (ed.), Science Communication in Times of Crisis9
The journalistic understanding of science as process and social system: A qualitative exploration in the German science journalism community9
From Big Farms to Big Pharma? Problematizing science-related populism9
Reporting preprints in the media during the COVID-19 pandemic9
The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search: Insights from a cross-national study9
Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis9
Examining a conceptual framework of aggressive and humorous styles in science YouTube videos about climate change and vaccination9
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 Britain9
Threatening experts: Correlates of viewing scientists as a social threat9
1999: The BBC simulates prehistoric wildlife9
Greenpeace and the online genetically modified food debate in the UK: The role of science and scientific evidence in ‘environmental representation’8
Guidance in the chaos: Effects of science communication by virologists during the COVID-19 crisis in Germany and the role of parasocial phenomena8
Brain-computer interfaces, disability, and the stigma of refusal: A factorial vignette study8
The health and environmental risks and rewards of modernity that shape scientific optimism8
Are science communication audiences becoming more critical? Reconstructing migration between audience segments based on Swiss panel data8
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
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 Canada8
Perceptions of policy problems and solutions: Climate change and structural racism8
Positions on science and religious beliefs across societies: Development of a research instrument and testing of its validity among high school students8
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