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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
PubCasts: Putting Voice in Scholarly Work and Science Communication	56
Television News, Political Comedy, Party, and Political Knowledge in Global Warming Belief: Evidence From a Large-Scale Panel Survey	51
Ecologists Prioritize Listening to Community Perspectives When They See the Benefit: Norms and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Appear to Have Little Impact	51
Tipping the Scales of Psychological Reactance: A Closer Look at Imperative Language and the Role of Epistemic Certainty	46
Researchers’ Public Engagement in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflection from Boundary Crossing	31
Examining Muslims’ Opinions Toward Cultured Meat in Singapore: The Influence of Presumed Media Influence and Halal Consciousness	28
Does Scientific Evidence Sell? Combining Manual and Automated Content Analysis to Investigate Scientists’ and Laypeople’s Evidence Practices on Social Media	26
Shifting Narratives: The Role of Science Slams in Climate Mobility Communication	25
The Efficacy of Social Media Communication in Engaging Citizen Scientists: Insights From the Jozi Bee Hotel Project	24
Investigating the Potential of Inoculation Messages and Self-Affirmation in Reducing the Effects of Health Misinformation	23
“Glorified Minute Takers”: Journalists’ (Mis)handling of Scientific Uncertainty During the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
Are Productive Scientists More Willing to Engage With the Public?	18
Science, Not Scientists: Reflections on Science, Culture, and Their Mediators	18
From Participation to Trust? Understanding Trust Dynamics in Participatory Science Communication	18
Media Use, Interpersonal Communication, and Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence	17
The Public Trust in Science Scale: A Multilevel and Multidimensional Approach	16
Video-Based Group-Values Affirmation Reduces Defensive Responses to Risk Messages	16
“Looking at the Big Picture”: A Qualitative Study of Ethics in Science Communication and Engagement	15
Linking Psychometric Paradigm of Risk and Issue Attention Cycle: Risk Information in News Coverage of Avian and Swine Influenza Global Outbreaks	14
Communicating Republicans’ Level of Support for Climate Policy Briefly Increases Personal Support in the United States	14
The Effects of Climate Change Meta-Knowledge on Selective Exposure, Selective Elaboration, and Behavioral Intentions	13
Varieties of Awe in Science Communication: Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Practitioners’ Experiences and Uses of This Emotion	12
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	11
Literate and Critical? Characterizing Users of Alternative Scientific Media	10

Measuring Science Literacy in a Digital World: Development and Validation of a Multi-Dimensional Survey Scale	10
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
Who Is Skeptical About Scientific Innovation? Examining Worldview Predictors of Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, and Human Gene Editing Attitudes	8
Psychological Distance, Construal Level, and Parental Vaccine Hesitancy for COVID-19, HPV, and Monkey Pox Vaccines	8
“Listening” to Science: Science Podcasters’ View and Practice in Strategic Science Communication	8
Bettering Biotech Foods’ Foul Flavor: An Experiment on Correcting Citizens’ Misconceptions About Genetic Modification	8
Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Artificial Intelligence: The Roles of Social Media Exposure and Information Elaboration	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
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	6
How the Public Makes Sense of Artificial Intelligence: The Interplay Between Communication and Discrete Emotions	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
Introduction to This Theme Issue on Processing COVID Information	6
Minoritized Scientists in the United States: An Identity Perspective to Science Communication	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
An Application of the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model in Understanding College Students’ COVID-19 Vaccination Information Seeking and Behavior	6
Risk Communication and Community Engagement During the Migrant Worker COVID-19 Outbreak in Singapore	6
Striking an Emotional Chord: Effects of Emotional Appeals and Chatbot Anthropomorphism on Persuasive Science Communication	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
Sharon Dunwoody’s Legacy: Three Timely Lessons for Us	5
Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor: A Manifesto and Examples for Implementation	5
A Meta-Analysis Synthesizing the Effects of Three Uncertainty Types in Science Communication	4
Conversational Polarization: Eight Key Considerations for Communication Scientists	4
The Purity Myth: Why Stigmatizing GAI in Academic Writing Is Harmful	4
Explaining Polarized Trust in Scientists: A Political Stereotype-Approach	4
Of Note: Recent Books	4
Polarization or Mainstreaming? How COVID-19 News Exposure Affects Perceived Seriousness of the Pandemic and the Susceptibility to COVID-19 Misinformation?	4
A Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Case Insight: The Convergence of Social Media and Epidemiology	3
Response to Health Crises in Africa: Insight From Executing a 2-Year Project in Nigeria	3
No Laughing Matter: Exploring the Effects of Scientists’ Humor Use on Twitter and the Moderating Role of Superiority	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
Science Communication Spaces as “Pockets of Belonging”: Inviting in a Plurality of Science Identities for Scientists-in-Training	3
Erratum to “Translation at Work in Climate Change Communication”	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
Stories of Astrobiology, SETI, and UAPs: Science and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life in German News Media From 2009 to 2022	3
Contested Certainty and Credibility: The Effect of Personal Stories and Scientific Evidence in User Comments on News Story Evaluation and Relevance	3
On Becoming a Boffinhack: The Research-Based Reporting (ReBaR) Framework for Concurrent Scientific and Journalistic Investigation	3
Translation at Work in Climate Change Communication	2
A Mixed-Methods Study of Public Understanding of Scientific Uncertainty	2
Going the Distance for COVID-19: Relationships Among News Use, Psychological Distance, Risk Perceptions, and Behavioral Intentions	2
Metaphor in Science Communication: With Special Reference to Jade Rabbit of the Moon Rover	2
Investigating the Heterogeneity of Misperceptions: A Latent Profile Analysis of COVID-19 Beliefs and Their Consequences for Information-Seeking	2
“What Might Happen With Generative AI?” Examining the Role of Prefactual Thinking in the Cognitive Mediation Model in the Context of Emerging Technologies	2
Introduction	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
To Vaccinate or Not? The Role Played by Uncertainty Communication on Public Understanding and Behavior Regarding COVID-19	2
Narrative Versus Statistical Evidence in Environmental Persuasion: A Meta-Analysis Study	2
Strategic Interactions in Science Communication: A Complex Adaptive Systems Framework	2
Selling “Healthy” Radium Products With Science: A Multimodal Analysis of Marketing in Sweden, 1910–1940	2
Why Science Should Have a Female Face: Female Experts Increase Liking, Competence, and Trust in Science	2
Youth as Climate Change Messengers: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words	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
Surprise of Serious COVID-19 Vaccination Messages on TikTok: The Effect of Expectancy Violation on Message Effectiveness	2