OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Science Communication is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
Examining Muslims’ Opinions Toward Cultured Meat in Singapore: The Influence of Presumed Media Influence and Halal Consciousness	61
PubCasts: Putting Voice in Scholarly Work and Science Communication	58
Researchers’ Public Engagement in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflection from Boundary Crossing	57
Recognising the Scholar-Creator: Social Media Science Communication as Scholarly Labour	46
Tipping the Scales of Psychological Reactance: A Closer Look at Imperative Language and the Role of Epistemic Certainty	37
Television News, Political Comedy, Party, and Political Knowledge in Global Warming Belief: Evidence From a Large-Scale Panel Survey	36
The Efficacy of Social Media Communication in Engaging Citizen Scientists: Insights From the Jozi Bee Hotel Project	33
Ecologists Prioritize Listening to Community Perspectives When They See the Benefit: Norms and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Appear to Have Little Impact	33
“Glorified Minute Takers”: Journalists’ (Mis)handling of Scientific Uncertainty During the COVID-19 Pandemic	25
From Participation to Trust? Understanding Trust Dynamics in Participatory Science Communication	25
Familiarity Matters: Examining the Effects of AI-Generated Images on Science Information Credibility	20
Science, Not Scientists: Reflections on Science, Culture, and Their Mediators	19
Shifting Narratives: The Role of Science Slams in Climate Mobility Communication	18
Does Scientific Evidence Sell? Combining Manual and Automated Content Analysis to Investigate Scientists’ and Laypeople’s Evidence Practices on Social Media	18
The Public Trust in Science Scale: A Multilevel and Multidimensional Approach	17
Media Use, Interpersonal Communication, and Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence	17
Are Productive Scientists More Willing to Engage With the Public?	16
From Doubt to Action: Examining the Potential of AI Comments in Promoting Health Information Seeking on Social Media	15
“Looking at the Big Picture”: A Qualitative Study of Ethics in Science Communication and Engagement	15
Communicating Republicans’ Level of Support for Climate Policy Briefly Increases Personal Support in the United States	14
Linking Psychometric Paradigm of Risk and Issue Attention Cycle: Risk Information in News Coverage of Avian and Swine Influenza Global Outbreaks	14
The Effects of Climate Change Meta-Knowledge on Selective Exposure, Selective Elaboration, and Behavioral Intentions	14
Video-Based Group-Values Affirmation Reduces Defensive Responses to Risk Messages	13
Crafting Persuasive Stories: How Uncertainty and Sidedness Influence Narrative Efficacy in Promoting Updated COVID-19 Vaccination	12
The Paradox of Belief in Science: A Proposal for Reconciliation	12

Varieties of Awe in Science Communication: Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Practitioners’ Experiences and Uses of This Emotion	12
Literate and Critical? Characterizing Users of Alternative Scientific Media	12
Video Production Attributes as Tactics for Communicating Science on Social Media	11
Who Is Skeptical About Scientific Innovation? Examining Worldview Predictors of Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, and Human Gene Editing Attitudes	10
Establishing Trust in Experts During a Crisis: Expert Trustworthiness and Media Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Detecting Social Media Rumor Debunking Effectiveness During Public Health Emergencies: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach	10
Psychological Distance, Construal Level, and Parental Vaccine Hesitancy for COVID-19, HPV, and Monkey Pox Vaccines	9
Measuring Science Literacy in a Digital World: Development and Validation of a Multi-Dimensional Survey Scale	9
Bettering Biotech Foods’ Foul Flavor: An Experiment on Correcting Citizens’ Misconceptions About Genetic Modification	9
Creating Successful Science Poems: Craft Elements of Poems With Clear Science Content	8
To Fund or Not to Fund? Examining Relationships Between Support for Scientific Research Across Political Ideologies and Science-Related Populist Beliefs	8
Talking About Gene Drive in Uganda: The Need for Science Communication to Underpin Engagement	8
How Scientific Consensus Messaging Promotes Public Support for Socially Good AI: The Moderating Role of Collective Scientific Efficacy	8
Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Artificial Intelligence: The Roles of Social Media Exposure and Information Elaboration	8
Reimagining the Role of Communication in Medical Consensus to Address Medical Mistrust and Disinformation	8
Introduction to This Theme Issue on Processing COVID Information	7
Global Dynamics of Climate Change Imagery: Emotional and Engagement Effects Across Visual Frames on Twitter/X	7
Indigenous Biologists and Culture Frames: Effects on Stereotype Perceptions and Conservation Policy Support in Environmental News	7
When Scientists Share Their Struggles: How Scientists’ Self-Presentation on Social Media Influences Public Perceptions, Support for Science, and Information-Seeking Intentions	7
Missing the Bigger Picture: The Need for More Research on Visual Health Misinformation	7
An Application of the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model in Understanding College Students’ COVID-19 Vaccination Information Seeking and Behavior	7
Exploring the Potential of Comics for Science Communication: A Study on Conveying COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Information to Black Americans	7
Communicating Pollutants That Threaten Tribal Identities: PFAS Contamination in Local Fish and Shellfish	7
Forcing a Deterministic Frame on Probabilistic Phenomena: A Communication Blind Spot in Media Coverage of the “Replication Crisis”	6
How the Public Makes Sense of Artificial Intelligence: The Interplay Between Communication and Discrete Emotions	6
Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor: A Manifesto and Examples for Implementation	6
Striking an Emotional Chord: Effects of Emotional Appeals and Chatbot Anthropomorphism on Persuasive Science Communication	6
Minoritized Scientists in the United States: An Identity Perspective to Science Communication	6
Rethinking Trust in Scientists as a Network Model: A Global Analysis and Implications for Science Communication	6
Communicating Science in the Age of GenAI: Can Generative AI Support the Usage of Higher-Level Science Communication Strategies in Writing?	6
Testing the Durability of Persuasion From Moral Appeals About Renewable Energy	6
Exposure to Different Motives of Scientists Moderates Responses to Scientific Consensus: The Case of Cultured Meat	6
Sharon Dunwoody’s Legacy: Three Timely Lessons for Us	6
Conversational Polarization: Eight Key Considerations for Communication Scientists	6
Polarization or Mainstreaming? How COVID-19 News Exposure Affects Perceived Seriousness of the Pandemic and the Susceptibility to COVID-19 Misinformation?	5
A New Journalism for a New Climate: Is Solutions Journalism the Solution?	5
Response to Health Crises in Africa: Insight From Executing a 2-Year Project in Nigeria	5
Explaining Polarized Trust in Scientists: A Political Stereotype-Approach	5
Science Communication Spaces as “Pockets of Belonging”: Inviting in a Plurality of Science Identities for Scientists-in-Training	5
A Meta-Analysis Synthesizing the Effects of Three Uncertainty Types in Science Communication	5
“A Warning is Not Enough. Teach Me How to Spot Deepfakes.”: Testing Media Literacy Interventions for Combating Deepfakes	5
A Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Case Insight: The Convergence of Social Media and Epidemiology	5
A State of Emergency or Business as Usual in Climate Science Communication? A Three-Dimensional Perspective on the Role Perceptions of Climate Scientists, Climate Journalists, and Citizens	5
The Purity Myth: Why Stigmatizing GAI in Academic Writing Is Harmful	5
Stories of Astrobiology, SETI, and UAPs: Science and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life in German News Media From 2009 to 2022	4
On Becoming a Boffinhack: The Research-Based Reporting (ReBaR) Framework for Concurrent Scientific and Journalistic Investigation	4
Higher Scientific Consensus Promotes Wider Diffusion: The Case of “Bamboo for Plastic” Environmental Initiative in China	4
Contested Certainty and Credibility: The Effect of Personal Stories and Scientific Evidence in User Comments on News Story Evaluation and Relevance	4
Prosocial Behavior in the Context of Online Harassment of Scientists and Science Communicators: Designing and Implementing a Social Media Intervention in a Transdisciplinary Co-Creation Process	4
The Influence of Flooding Imagery and Party Cues on Perceived Threat, Collective Efficacy, and Intentions for Political Action to Address Climate Change	4

Book Review: Queering Science Communication: Representations, Theory, and Practice	4
“What Might Happen With Generative AI?” Examining the Role of Prefactual Thinking in the Cognitive Mediation Model in the Context of Emerging Technologies	4
Storytelling in Science Film: Narrative Engagement Relates to Greater Knowledge, Interest, and Identification With Science	4
Erratum to “Translation at Work in Climate Change Communication”	4
No Laughing Matter: Exploring the Effects of Scientists’ Humor Use on Twitter and the Moderating Role of Superiority	4
Investigating the Heterogeneity of Misperceptions: A Latent Profile Analysis of COVID-19 Beliefs and Their Consequences for Information-Seeking	4
Who’s in Charge Here: How Linguistic Agency in Climate Messages Shapes Public Interpretations and Responses?	3
Surprise of Serious COVID-19 Vaccination Messages on TikTok: The Effect of Expectancy Violation on Message Effectiveness	3
Brewing Public Engagement With Pint of Science USA	3
How Values Guide Trust: The Multiple Roles of Science-Related Value Predispositions in Shaping Trustworthiness and Trust in Scientific Authorities	3
Can Communication Theory Advance Research When Environmental Issues Become Wicked? The Case of Microplastics	3
Dealing With Uncertain Futures: Communicating Scientific Modeling in the Public Sphere—A Systematic Review	3
Strategic Interactions in Science Communication: A Complex Adaptive Systems Framework	3
Unveiling Climate Adaptation: A Comprehensive Analysis of Agenda-Setting Dynamics in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands	3
Why Science Should Have a Female Face: Female Experts Increase Liking, Competence, and Trust in Science	3
Translation at Work in Climate Change Communication	3
Linking Online Vaccine Information Seeking to Vaccination Intention in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Narrative Versus Statistical Evidence in Environmental Persuasion: A Meta-Analysis Study	3
Using Light Art Installation in Urban Nightscapes to Raise Public Awareness of Carbon Neutrality	3
A Mixed-Methods Study of Public Understanding of Scientific Uncertainty	3
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence Chatbots to Employ Bypassing and Correction Strategies for Addressing Misinformation About Contraceptive Use	2
When Leaders Are Hard to Find: Reimagining Opinion Leaders in Sparse Communication Networks	2
Introduction	2
Value-Based Narratives Foster Trust in Scientists and Communication Behaviors	2
The Future of AI Support in Health Care: Understanding Informal Caregivers’ Multidimensional Expectations of AI Chatbots	2
Scientists and Journalists and Communicating Uncertainty: Collaborating With Sharon Dunwoody	2
Exploring the Influence of Interactive and Empathetic Chatbots on Health Misinformation Correction and Vaccination Intentions	2
Going the Distance for COVID-19: Relationships Among News Use, Psychological Distance, Risk Perceptions, and Behavioral Intentions	2
Generative AI in Science Communication: Fostering Scientists’ Good Working Habits for Ethical and Effective Use	2
Quantum in the Media: A Content Analysis of Dutch Newspapers	2
Using Preprint Sources in Science News: Do Transparent Disclosures Enhance Credibility?	2
From Frequency to Diversity: Validating the Multidimensional Measures of Information Acquisition	2
When Science Meets Art on Instagram: Examining the Effects of Visual Art on Emotions, Interest, and Social Media Engagement	2
But Is That Mediator Really the Cause? An Experiment Manipulating Persuasion Knowledge as a Mediator for How Adaptive Frames Create Positive Responses to Climate Change News	2
Humor Can Increase Perceived Communicator Effectiveness Regardless of Race, Gender, and Expertise—If You are Funny Enough	2
Trustworthiness of Policymakers, Technology Developers, and Media Organizations Involved in Introducing AI for Autonomous Vehicles: A Public Perspective	2