OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Science Communication is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
PubCasts: Putting Voice in Scholarly Work and Science Communication	49
Researchers’ Public Engagement in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflection from Boundary Crossing	44
Television News, Political Comedy, Party, and Political Knowledge in Global Warming Belief: Evidence From a Large-Scale Panel Survey	44
Ecologists Prioritize Listening to Community Perspectives When They See the Benefit: Norms and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Appear to Have Little Impact	38
Examining Muslims’ Opinions Toward Cultured Meat in Singapore: The Influence of Presumed Media Influence and Halal Consciousness	29
Erratum to Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News Coverage	27
Tipping the Scales of Psychological Reactance: A Closer Look at Imperative Language and the Role of Epistemic Certainty	25
Science, Not Scientists: Reflections on Science, Culture, and Their Mediators	23
The Efficacy of Social Media Communication in Engaging Citizen Scientists: Insights From the Jozi Bee Hotel Project	22
Media Use, Interpersonal Communication, and Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence	21
From Participation to Trust? Understanding Trust Dynamics in Participatory Science Communication	19
Are Productive Scientists More Willing to Engage With the Public?	18
“Glorified Minute Takers”: Journalists’ (Mis)handling of Scientific Uncertainty During the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
Does Scientific Evidence Sell? Combining Manual and Automated Content Analysis to Investigate Scientists’ and Laypeople’s Evidence Practices on Social Media	17
The Effects of Climate Change Meta-Knowledge on Selective Exposure, Selective Elaboration, and Behavioral Intentions	16
Investigating the Potential of Inoculation Messages and Self-Affirmation in Reducing the Effects of Health Misinformation	16
The Public Trust in Science Scale: A Multilevel and Multidimensional Approach	16
A Risky Object? How Microplastics Are Represented in the German Media	14
Video-Based Group-Values Affirmation Reduces Defensive Responses to Risk Messages	14
Promoting Concern for Climate Change: A Study of Wildfire Photographs Using Q Methodology	14
“Looking at the Big Picture”: A Qualitative Study of Ethics in Science Communication and Engagement	14
Linking Psychometric Paradigm of Risk and Issue Attention Cycle: Risk Information in News Coverage of Avian and Swine Influenza Global Outbreaks	13
Communicating Republicans’ Level of Support for Climate Policy Briefly Increases Personal Support in the United States	13
Literate and Critical? Characterizing Users of Alternative Scientific Media	12
Crafting Persuasive Stories: How Uncertainty and Sidedness Influence Narrative Efficacy in Promoting Updated COVID-19 Vaccination	11

Varieties of Awe in Science Communication: Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Practitioners’ Experiences and Uses of This Emotion	11
Detecting Social Media Rumor Debunking Effectiveness During Public Health Emergencies: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach	10
A Relational Identity-Based Solution to Group Polarization: Can Priming Parental Identity Reduce the Partisan Gap in Attitudes Toward the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Measuring Science Literacy in a Digital World: Development and Validation of a Multi-Dimensional Survey Scale	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	9
Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Artificial Intelligence: The Roles of Social Media Exposure and Information Elaboration	8
Bettering Biotech Foods’ Foul Flavor: An Experiment on Correcting Citizens’ Misconceptions About Genetic Modification	8
Exploring the Potential of Comics for Science Communication: A Study on Conveying COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Information to Black Americans	7
Creating Successful Science Poems: Craft Elements of Poems With Clear Science Content	7
Talking About Gene Drive in Uganda: The Need for Science Communication to Underpin Engagement	7
Indigenous Biologists and Culture Frames: Effects on Stereotype Perceptions and Conservation Policy Support in Environmental News	7
Debunking Misinformation About Genetically Modified Food Safety on Social Media: Can Heuristic Cues Mitigate Biased Assimilation?	7
Psychological Distance, Construal Level, and Parental Vaccine Hesitancy for COVID-19, HPV, and Monkey Pox Vaccines	7
Risk Communication and Community Engagement During the Migrant Worker COVID-19 Outbreak in Singapore	7
“Listening” to Science: Science Podcasters’ View and Practice in Strategic Science Communication	7
Introduction to This Theme Issue on Processing COVID Information	6
When Scientists Share Their Struggles: How Scientists’ Self-Presentation on Social Media Influences Public Perceptions, Support for Science, and Information-Seeking Intentions	6
Using a News Article to Convey Climate Science Consensus Information	6
Missing the Bigger Picture: The Need for More Research on Visual Health Misinformation	6
Minoritized Scientists in the United States: An Identity Perspective to Science Communication	5
How the Public Makes Sense of Artificial Intelligence: The Interplay Between Communication and Discrete Emotions	5
Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor: A Manifesto and Examples for Implementation	5
An Application of the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model in Understanding College Students’ COVID-19 Vaccination Information Seeking and Behavior	5
Sharon Dunwoody’s Legacy: Three Timely Lessons for Us	5
Exposure to Different Motives of Scientists Moderates Responses to Scientific Consensus: The Case of Cultured Meat	5
Conversational Polarization: Eight Key Considerations for Communication Scientists	4
Forcing a Deterministic Frame on Probabilistic Phenomena: A Communication Blind Spot in Media Coverage of the “Replication Crisis”	4
The Purity Myth: Why Stigmatizing GAI in Academic Writing Is Harmful	4
A Meta-Analysis Synthesizing the Effects of Three Uncertainty Types in Science Communication	4
Testing the Durability of Persuasion From Moral Appeals About Renewable Energy	4
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
Storytelling in Science Film: Narrative Engagement Relates to Greater Knowledge, Interest, and Identification With Science	3
Of Note: Recent Books	3
Striking an Emotional Chord: Effects of Emotional Appeals and Chatbot Anthropomorphism on Persuasive Science Communication	3
Response to Health Crises in Africa: Insight From Executing a 2-Year Project in Nigeria	3
Polarization or Mainstreaming? How COVID-19 News Exposure Affects Perceived Seriousness of the Pandemic and the Susceptibility to COVID-19 Misinformation?	3
Explaining Polarized Trust in Scientists: A Political Stereotype-Approach	3
Erratum to “Translation at Work in Climate Change Communication”	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
Contested Certainty and Credibility: The Effect of Personal Stories and Scientific Evidence in User Comments on News Story Evaluation and Relevance	2
To Vaccinate or Not? The Role Played by Uncertainty Communication on Public Understanding and Behavior Regarding COVID-19	2
A Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Case Insight: The Convergence of Social Media and Epidemiology	2
No Laughing Matter: Exploring the Effects of Scientists’ Humor Use on Twitter and the Moderating Role of Superiority	2
Book Review: Queering Science Communication: Representations, Theory, and Practice	2
Youth as Climate Change Messengers: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words	2
Stories of Astrobiology, SETI, and UAPs: Science and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life in German News Media From 2009 to 2022	2
On Becoming a Boffinhack: The Research-Based Reporting (ReBaR) Framework for Concurrent Scientific and Journalistic Investigation	2
Science Communication Spaces as “Pockets of Belonging”: Inviting in a Plurality of Science Identities for Scientists-in-Training	2

Linking Online Vaccine Information Seeking to Vaccination Intention in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Metaphor in Science Communication: With Special Reference to Jade Rabbit of the Moon Rover	2
The Influence of Flooding Imagery and Party Cues on Perceived Threat, Collective Efficacy, and Intentions for Political Action to Address Climate Change	2
Not My Pandemic: Solution Aversion and the Polarized Public Perception of COVID-19	2
Fighting the Infodemic on Two Fronts: Reducing False Beliefs Without Increasing Polarization	1
Generating Science Buzz: An Examination of Multidimensional Engagement With Humorous Scientific Messages on Twitter and Instagram	1
Science Journalism in India: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats	1
Can Communication Theory Advance Research When Environmental Issues Become Wicked? The Case of Microplastics	1
Trustworthiness of Policymakers, Technology Developers, and Media Organizations Involved in Introducing AI for Autonomous Vehicles: A Public Perspective	1
Going the Distance for COVID-19: Relationships Among News Use, Psychological Distance, Risk Perceptions, and Behavioral Intentions	1
Translation at Work in Climate Change Communication	1
Quantum in the Media: A Content Analysis of Dutch Newspapers	1
Motivating Climate-Adaptation Actions in Dutch Private Gardens: Developing an Effective Communication Tool	1
Exploring the Influence of Interactive and Empathetic Chatbots on Health Misinformation Correction and Vaccination Intentions	1
Introduction	1
Cultivating Authenticity as Role Models: Women in STEM Influencers on Instagram	1
Humor Can Increase Perceived Communicator Effectiveness Regardless of Race, Gender, and Expertise—If You are Funny Enough	1
Selling “Healthy” Radium Products With Science: A Multimodal Analysis of Marketing in Sweden, 1910–1940	1
Using Light Art Installation in Urban Nightscapes to Raise Public Awareness of Carbon Neutrality	1
When Science Meets Art on Instagram: Examining the Effects of Visual Art on Emotions, Interest, and Social Media Engagement	1
Assessing the Outputs, Outcomes, and Impacts of Science Communication: A Quantitative Content Analysis of 128 Science Communication Projects	1
Scientists and Journalists and Communicating Uncertainty: Collaborating With Sharon Dunwoody	1
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	1
Why Science Should Have a Female Face: Female Experts Increase Liking, Competence, and Trust in Science	1
Communicating Scientific Uncertainty Across the Dissemination Trajectory: A Precision Medicine Case Study	1