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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Television News, Political Comedy, Party, and Political Knowledge in Global Warming Belief: Evidence From a Large-Scale Panel Survey	52
Researchers’ Public Engagement in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflection from Boundary Crossing	51
Ecologists Prioritize Listening to Community Perspectives When They See the Benefit: Norms and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Appear to Have Little Impact	46
PubCasts: Putting Voice in Scholarly Work and Science Communication	31
Examining Muslims’ Opinions Toward Cultured Meat in Singapore: The Influence of Presumed Media Influence and Halal Consciousness	30
Science, Not Scientists: Reflections on Science, Culture, and Their Mediators	28
Tipping the Scales of Psychological Reactance: A Closer Look at Imperative Language and the Role of Epistemic Certainty	28
The Public Trust in Science Scale: A Multilevel and Multidimensional Approach	25
Investigating the Potential of Inoculation Messages and Self-Affirmation in Reducing the Effects of Health Misinformation	22
Are Productive Scientists More Willing to Engage With the Public?	20
Does Scientific Evidence Sell? Combining Manual and Automated Content Analysis to Investigate Scientists’ and Laypeople’s Evidence Practices on Social Media	18
Shifting Narratives: The Role of Science Slams in Climate Mobility Communication	18
The Efficacy of Social Media Communication in Engaging Citizen Scientists: Insights From the Jozi Bee Hotel Project	17
Media Use, Interpersonal Communication, and Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence	16
“Looking at the Big Picture”: A Qualitative Study of Ethics in Science Communication and Engagement	16
From Participation to Trust? Understanding Trust Dynamics in Participatory Science Communication	16
Video-Based Group-Values Affirmation Reduces Defensive Responses to Risk Messages	16
“Glorified Minute Takers”: Journalists’ (Mis)handling of Scientific Uncertainty During the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Communicating Republicans’ Level of Support for Climate Policy Briefly Increases Personal Support in the United States	15
Linking Psychometric Paradigm of Risk and Issue Attention Cycle: Risk Information in News Coverage of Avian and Swine Influenza Global Outbreaks	15
The Effects of Climate Change Meta-Knowledge on Selective Exposure, Selective Elaboration, and Behavioral Intentions	12
Varieties of Awe in Science Communication: Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Practitioners’ Experiences and Uses of This Emotion	12
The Paradox of Belief in Science: A Proposal for Reconciliation	11
Literate and Critical? Characterizing Users of Alternative Scientific Media	11
Crafting Persuasive Stories: How Uncertainty and Sidedness Influence Narrative Efficacy in Promoting Updated COVID-19 Vaccination	11

Detecting Social Media Rumor Debunking Effectiveness During Public Health Emergencies: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach	10
Establishing Trust in Experts During a Crisis: Expert Trustworthiness and Media Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Measuring Science Literacy in a Digital World: Development and Validation of a Multi-Dimensional Survey Scale	8
“Listening” to Science: Science Podcasters’ View and Practice in Strategic Science Communication	8
Who Is Skeptical About Scientific Innovation? Examining Worldview Predictors of Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, and Human Gene Editing Attitudes	8
Bettering Biotech Foods’ Foul Flavor: An Experiment on Correcting Citizens’ Misconceptions About Genetic Modification	8
Psychological Distance, Construal Level, and Parental Vaccine Hesitancy for COVID-19, HPV, and Monkey Pox Vaccines	8
Talking About Gene Drive in Uganda: The Need for Science Communication to Underpin Engagement	8
Reimagining the Role of Communication in Medical Consensus to Address Medical Mistrust and Disinformation	7
Risk Communication and Community Engagement During the Migrant Worker COVID-19 Outbreak in Singapore	7
Creating Successful Science Poems: Craft Elements of Poems With Clear Science Content	7
Missing the Bigger Picture: The Need for More Research on Visual Health Misinformation	7
Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Artificial Intelligence: The Roles of Social Media Exposure and Information Elaboration	7
Introduction to This Theme Issue on Processing COVID Information	6
Exposure to Different Motives of Scientists Moderates Responses to Scientific Consensus: The Case of Cultured Meat	6
When Scientists Share Their Struggles: How Scientists’ Self-Presentation on Social Media Influences Public Perceptions, Support for Science, and Information-Seeking Intentions	6
Exploring the Potential of Comics for Science Communication: A Study on Conveying COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Information to Black Americans	6
Indigenous Biologists and Culture Frames: Effects on Stereotype Perceptions and Conservation Policy Support in Environmental News	6
Minoritized Scientists in the United States: An Identity Perspective to Science Communication	6
Sharon Dunwoody’s Legacy: Three Timely Lessons for Us	5
How the Public Makes Sense of Artificial Intelligence: The Interplay Between Communication and Discrete Emotions	5
Testing the Durability of Persuasion From Moral Appeals About Renewable Energy	5
Forcing a Deterministic Frame on Probabilistic Phenomena: A Communication Blind Spot in Media Coverage of the “Replication Crisis”	5
An Application of the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model in Understanding College Students’ COVID-19 Vaccination Information Seeking and Behavior	5
Polarization or Mainstreaming? How COVID-19 News Exposure Affects Perceived Seriousness of the Pandemic and the Susceptibility to COVID-19 Misinformation?	4
Conversational Polarization: Eight Key Considerations for Communication Scientists	4
Explaining Polarized Trust in Scientists: A Political Stereotype-Approach	4
Of Note: Recent Books	4
Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor: A Manifesto and Examples for Implementation	4
The Purity Myth: Why Stigmatizing GAI in Academic Writing Is Harmful	4
Response to Health Crises in Africa: Insight From Executing a 2-Year Project in Nigeria	4
Striking an Emotional Chord: Effects of Emotional Appeals and Chatbot Anthropomorphism on Persuasive Science Communication	4
A Meta-Analysis Synthesizing the Effects of Three Uncertainty Types in Science Communication	4
Stories of Astrobiology, SETI, and UAPs: Science and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life in German News Media From 2009 to 2022	3
A New Journalism for a New Climate: Is Solutions Journalism the Solution?	3
To Vaccinate or Not? The Role Played by Uncertainty Communication on Public Understanding and Behavior Regarding COVID-19	3
Erratum to “Translation at Work in Climate Change Communication”	3
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	3
The Influence of Flooding Imagery and Party Cues on Perceived Threat, Collective Efficacy, and Intentions for Political Action to Address Climate Change	3
Storytelling in Science Film: Narrative Engagement Relates to Greater Knowledge, Interest, and Identification With Science	3
Contested Certainty and Credibility: The Effect of Personal Stories and Scientific Evidence in User Comments on News Story Evaluation and Relevance	3
Science Communication Spaces as “Pockets of Belonging”: Inviting in a Plurality of Science Identities for Scientists-in-Training	3
A Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Case Insight: The Convergence of Social Media and Epidemiology	3
No Laughing Matter: Exploring the Effects of Scientists’ Humor Use on Twitter and the Moderating Role of Superiority	3
On Becoming a Boffinhack: The Research-Based Reporting (ReBaR) Framework for Concurrent Scientific and Journalistic Investigation	3
“What Might Happen With Generative AI?” Examining the Role of Prefactual Thinking in the Cognitive Mediation Model in the Context of Emerging Technologies	2
A Mixed-Methods Study of Public Understanding of Scientific Uncertainty	2
Quantum in the Media: A Content Analysis of Dutch Newspapers	2
Humor Can Increase Perceived Communicator Effectiveness Regardless of Race, Gender, and Expertise—If You are Funny Enough	2
Generative AI in Science Communication: Fostering Scientists’ Good Working Habits for Ethical and Effective Use	2

Narrative Versus Statistical Evidence in Environmental Persuasion: A Meta-Analysis Study	2
Investigating the Heterogeneity of Misperceptions: A Latent Profile Analysis of COVID-19 Beliefs and Their Consequences for Information-Seeking	2
Surprise of Serious COVID-19 Vaccination Messages on TikTok: The Effect of Expectancy Violation on Message Effectiveness	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
Why Science Should Have a Female Face: Female Experts Increase Liking, Competence, and Trust in Science	2
Value-Based Narratives Foster Trust in Scientists and Communication Behaviors	2
Book Review: Queering Science Communication: Representations, Theory, and Practice	2
Linking Online Vaccine Information Seeking to Vaccination Intention in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Using Light Art Installation in Urban Nightscapes to Raise Public Awareness of Carbon Neutrality	2
Can Communication Theory Advance Research When Environmental Issues Become Wicked? The Case of Microplastics	2
Introduction	2
Going the Distance for COVID-19: Relationships Among News Use, Psychological Distance, Risk Perceptions, and Behavioral Intentions	2
Translation at Work in Climate Change Communication	2
Strategic Interactions in Science Communication: A Complex Adaptive Systems Framework	2