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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies86
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections48
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception47
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries45
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward45
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science32
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science29
Who believes in science? A computational tool for identifying language invoking or disputing scientific knowledge25
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis24
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science24
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media24
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.Ho24
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter23
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs23
Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and Russia22
Socio-economic status and authority deference: Understanding public (dis)engagement with science in Europe22
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing22
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies22
‘Poetry under siege by rockets’: A case study of the creative and critical coverage by the New York Times of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk21
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society20
Explainable AI and trust: How news media shapes public support for AI-powered autonomous passenger drones19
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device19
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain19
Counteracting climate denial: A systematic review18
Comparing the influence of intellectual humility, religiosity, and political conservatism on vaccine attitudes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom18
Book Review: Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America18
The divide so wide: Public perspectives on the role of human genome editing in the US healthcare system17
The politics of politicization: Climate change debates in Canadian print media17
Children’s perceptions of scientists and their work: The ‘Draw a Scientist’ Test in the United Arab Emirates16
The legitimacy of science and the populist backlash: Cross-national and longitudinal trends and determinants of attitudes toward science16
Female expertise in public discourses: Visibility of female compared to male scientific experts in German media coverage of eight science-related issues16
Political ideology-driven perceptions of experts and their claims16
Delineating between scientism and science enthusiasm: Challenges in measuring scientism and the development of novel scale16
Scientism, trust, value alignment, views of nature, and U.S. public opinion about gene drive mosquitos15
Book review: Myrna Perez Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy PerezMyrnaCriticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle14
Book review: Felicity Mellor (ed.), Insights on Science Journalism14
The effects of self-disclosure and gender on a climate scientist’s credibility and likability on social media14
Thank you reviewers13
Of Issue Advocates and Honest Brokers: Participation of U.S. and German scientists in COVID-19 policy disputes13
The untapped potential of inter-project cooperation of citizen science projects in Austria13
Moral expression of “experts” and public engagement: Communicating COVID-19 vaccines on Facebook public pages in Chinese13
Book Review: Kristin Demetrious, Public Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowledge Formation DemetriousKristinPublic Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowle13
Follow the metrics? How does social media affect the journalistic practices of digital science communication start-ups?13
First-in-human gene therapy clinical trials in the media: Exploring patient narratives13
Characterizing the semantic features of climate change misinformation on Chinese social media13
A different image? Images of scientists in Chinese films12
Why is it so hard to do co-created citizen social science? Reflecting on challenges and potential solutions12
Thank you reviewers12
Lay metrology and metroscoping: Towards the study of lay units12
Climate and nature emergency: From scientists’ warnings to sufficient action11
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media11
What are we talking about when we are talking about the audience? Exploring the concept of audience in science communication research and education11
Gene editing in animals: What does the public want to know and what information do stakeholder organizations provide?11
Quality in science communication with communicative artificial intelligence: A principle-based framework11
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers11
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change11
Book review: John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo, Strategic Science Communication – A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for more Effective Public Engagement11
Democratising science in deliberative systems: Mobilising lay expertise against industry waste dumping in Taiwan10
“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
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science10
How do you argue with a science denial meme? Memed responses may be counter-productive for responding to science denial online10
Thank you reviewers10
Public perceptions of climate tipping points10
Examining a conceptual framework of aggressive and humorous styles in science YouTube videos about climate change and vaccination10
1796 – An Introduction to Botany : The critical role of women in eighteenth-century science popularisation and the early promotion of science for young g10
The journalistic understanding of science as process and social system: A qualitative exploration in the German science journalism community9
Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis9
Disseminating the Italian history of medicine: Arturo Castiglioni and his project at the University of Padua, 1933–19439
From Big Farms to Big Pharma? Problematizing science-related populism9
The health and environmental risks and rewards of modernity that shape scientific optimism8
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
Greenpeace and the online genetically modified food debate in the UK: The role of science and scientific evidence in ‘environmental representation’8
Book review: Pascal Hohaus (ed.), Science Communication in Times of Crisis8
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
The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search: Insights from a cross-national study8
Advocacy – defending science or destroying it? Interviews with 47 climate scientists about their fundamental concerns8
Brain-computer interfaces, disability, and the stigma of refusal: A factorial vignette study8
Guidance in the chaos: Effects of science communication by virologists during the COVID-19 crisis in Germany and the role of parasocial phenomena8
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