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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
A comparative study of the acceptance and understanding of evolution between China and the US53
Comparing the structures of storytelling and magic for science communication with an agent-based model34
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries32
Motivation, self-determination, and reflexivity of researchers in comedic public engagement31
Reviewer list 202126
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 Alternatives24
Indicators of trustworthiness in lay-friendly research summaries: Scientificness surpasses easiness24
The role of ideological dimensions in shaping acceptance of facial recognition technology and reactions to algorithm bias24
Public understanding of science and technology in the Internet era23
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception22
“If a black hole is an oyster, then . . .”: The discoursal trends of popularization in science fiction movies22
Science rejection in Greece: Spirituality predicts vaccine scepticism and low faith in science in a Greek sample22
Climate and nature emergency: From scientists’ warnings to sufficient action22
Book Review: Philip Ball (text), Wenting Zu and Yan Liang (photographs), The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder and Science21
Of robots and rhetoric: Nikola Tesla’s telautomaton and the boundaries of scientific communication (1897–1900)21
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies20
Book Review: The Many Voices of Modern Physics: Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries19
What are we talking about when we are talking about the audience? Exploring the concept of audience in science communication research and education19
Data authority: Public debate about personalized medicine in Denmark18
The effect of experts on attitude change in public-facing political science: Scientific communication on term limits in the United States18
The climate battles of ideas: Minority discourses in readers’ comments to climate change articles in the Portuguese press17
Book Review: Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench (eds), Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology17
Science museum educators’ views on object-based learning: The perceived importance of authenticity and touch16
30 years of PUS: Reflections from Latin America on the academic field of science communication16
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media15
Thank you reviewers14
Social identity and racial disparities in science literacy14
1997: “Your genes, your choices” and public education about the ethical, legal and social issues of the Human Genome Project13
Engaging the public or asking your friends? Analysing science-related crowdfunding using behavioural and survey data13
Book Review: Martin Paul Eve, Cameron Neylon, Daniel Paul O’Donnell, Samuel Moore, Robert Gadie, Victoria Odeniyi and Shahina Parvin, Reading Peer Review: PLOS ONE and Institutional Change in Academia13
Lay metrology and metroscoping: Towards the study of lay units13
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science13
Does exposure necessarily lead to misbelief? A meta-analysis of susceptibility to health misinformation12
COVID scientists as rhetorical citizens: Persuasive op-eds and public debate over science policy12
“They Only Silence the Truth”: COVID-19 retractions and the politicization of science12
Book review: Michael John Gorman, Idea Colliders – The Future of Science Museums12
Different periods, similar challenges, opposing paths: Exploring the social structure of popular science magazines in Turkey12
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers12
A different image? Images of scientists in Chinese films11
Dark citizen science11
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections10
Testing the talented child: Direct-to-consumer genetic talent tests in China10
Public perception of geothermal power plants in Korea following the Pohang earthquake: A social representation theory study10
The effect of misinformation and inoculation: Replication of an experiment on the effect of false experts in the context of climate change communication10
Thank you reviewers10
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science9
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change9
The evil corporation master frame: The cases of vaccines and genetic modification9
The invisible frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining sourcing and the underrepresentation of female expertise in pandemic news coverage9
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era9
Gene editing in animals: What does the public want to know and what information do stakeholder organizations provide?9
Public trust and mistrust of climate science: A meta-narrative review9
From climate scepticism to discourses of delay in UK editorials8
Chemistry in the mail: Stamps from around the globe and public science communication in the twentieth century8
The acceptance of evolution: A developmental view of Generation X in the United States8
Charting cognition: Mapping public understanding of COVID-198
The four “R”s: Strategies for tailoring science for religious publics and their prices8
Reframing sociotechnical imaginaries: The case of the Fourth Industrial Revolution8
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs8
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
Heuristic responses to pandemic uncertainty: Practicable communication strategies of “reasoned transparency” to aid public reception of changing science8
Book review: John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo, Strategic Science Communication – A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for more Effective Public Engagement8
Public perceptions of climate tipping points7
Who makes AI? Gender and portrayals of AI scientists in popular film, 1920–20207
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies7
Fuelling the climate and science ‘denial machine’ on social media: A case study of the Great Barrier Reef’s 2021 ‘in danger’ recommendation on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook7
Constructing the public in public perceptions research: A case study of forest genomics7
Declaring crisis? Temporal constructions of climate change on Wikipedia7
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter7
Scientists in the news photos: Photographic portraits of scientists in China (1949–2022)7
Democratising science in deliberative systems: Mobilising lay expertise against industry waste dumping in Taiwan7
Public support for government use of network surveillance: An empirical assessment of public understanding of ethics in science administration6
Performing publics of science in the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study in Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal6
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media6
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science6
Thank you reviewers6
The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search: Insights from a cross-national study6
Who are the publics engaging in AI?6
Animal biodiversity and specificity in children’s picture books6
Book Review: Charles Seife, Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity6
COVID-19 coverage from six network and cable news sources in the United States: Representation of misinformation, correction, and portrayals of severity6
Examining a conceptual framework of aggressive and humorous styles in science YouTube videos about climate change and vaccination6
Threatening experts: Correlates of viewing scientists as a social threat6
From Big Farms to Big Pharma? Problematizing science-related populism6
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