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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Television News, Political Comedy, Party, and Political Knowledge in Global Warming Belief: Evidence From a Large-Scale Panel Survey	58
PubCasts: Putting Voice in Scholarly Work and Science Communication	57
Researchers’ Public Engagement in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflection from Boundary Crossing	46
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	38
Tipping the Scales of Psychological Reactance: A Closer Look at Imperative Language and the Role of Epistemic Certainty	34
Recognising the Scholar-Creator: Social Media Science Communication as Scholarly Labour	34
The Public Trust in Science Scale: A Multilevel and Multidimensional Approach	27
Media Use, Interpersonal Communication, and Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence	25
The Efficacy of Social Media Communication in Engaging Citizen Scientists: Insights From the Jozi Bee Hotel Project	21
Science, Not Scientists: Reflections on Science, Culture, and Their Mediators	19
Shifting Narratives: The Role of Science Slams in Climate Mobility Communication	19
Familiarity Matters: Examining the Effects of AI-Generated Images on Science Information Credibility	19
Are Productive Scientists More Willing to Engage With the Public?	17
From Participation to Trust? Understanding Trust Dynamics in Participatory Science Communication	17
“Glorified Minute Takers”: Journalists’ (Mis)handling of Scientific Uncertainty During the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
From Doubt to Action: Examining the Potential of AI Comments in Promoting Health Information Seeking on Social Media	15
Does Scientific Evidence Sell? Combining Manual and Automated Content Analysis to Investigate Scientists’ and Laypeople’s Evidence Practices on Social Media	15
Video-Based Group-Values Affirmation Reduces Defensive Responses to Risk Messages	15
The Effects of Climate Change Meta-Knowledge on Selective Exposure, Selective Elaboration, and Behavioral Intentions	15
“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	14
Crafting Persuasive Stories: How Uncertainty and Sidedness Influence Narrative Efficacy in Promoting Updated COVID-19 Vaccination	12
Communicating Republicans’ Level of Support for Climate Policy Briefly Increases Personal Support in the United States	12
Video Production Attributes as Tactics for Communicating Science on Social Media	12

Literate and Critical? Characterizing Users of Alternative Scientific Media	12
The Paradox of Belief in Science: A Proposal for Reconciliation	11
Measuring Science Literacy in a Digital World: Development and Validation of a Multi-Dimensional Survey Scale	11
Detecting Social Media Rumor Debunking Effectiveness During Public Health Emergencies: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach	11
Who Is Skeptical About Scientific Innovation? Examining Worldview Predictors of Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, and Human Gene Editing Attitudes	10
Psychological Distance, Construal Level, and Parental Vaccine Hesitancy for COVID-19, HPV, and Monkey Pox Vaccines	10
Intermedia Agenda-Setting of a Scientific Controversy in the Hybrid Media System: A Cross-Media and Cross-Platform Analysis of Hydroxychloroquine During COVID-19	10
Bettering Biotech Foods’ Foul Flavor: An Experiment on Correcting Citizens’ Misconceptions About Genetic Modification	9
Talking About Gene Drive in Uganda: The Need for Science Communication to Underpin Engagement	9
Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Artificial Intelligence: The Roles of Social Media Exposure and Information Elaboration	9
Scalable Observed Correction With Generative AI: How Motivationally Relevant Message Features and Design Choices Boost Communicative Engagement	8
How Scientific Consensus Messaging Promotes Public Support for Socially Good AI: The Moderating Role of Collective Scientific Efficacy	8
When Scientists Share Their Struggles: How Scientists’ Self-Presentation on Social Media Influences Public Perceptions, Support for Science, and Information-Seeking Intentions	8
Reimagining the Role of Communication in Medical Consensus to Address Medical Mistrust and Disinformation	8
Creating Successful Science Poems: Craft Elements of Poems With Clear Science Content	8
Indigenous Biologists and Culture Frames: Effects on Stereotype Perceptions and Conservation Policy Support in Environmental News	8
To Fund or Not to Fund? Examining Relationships Between Support for Scientific Research Across Political Ideologies and Science-Related Populist Beliefs	8
Global Dynamics of Climate Change Imagery: Emotional and Engagement Effects Across Visual Frames on Twitter/X	8
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
Introduction to This Theme Issue on Processing COVID Information	7
Missing the Bigger Picture: The Need for More Research on Visual Health Misinformation	7
How the Public Makes Sense of Artificial Intelligence: The Interplay Between Communication and Discrete Emotions	7
Exposure to Different Motives of Scientists Moderates Responses to Scientific Consensus: The Case of Cultured Meat	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
Minoritized Scientists in the United States: An Identity Perspective to 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
Rethinking Trust in Scientists as a Network Model: A Global Analysis and Implications for Science Communication	6
Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor: A Manifesto and Examples for Implementation	6
A Meta-Analysis Synthesizing the Effects of Three Uncertainty Types in Science Communication	6
Sharon Dunwoody’s Legacy: Three Timely Lessons for Us	6
Testing the Durability of Persuasion From Moral Appeals About Renewable Energy	6
The Purity Myth: Why Stigmatizing GAI in Academic Writing Is Harmful	6
Stories of Astrobiology, SETI, and UAPs: Science and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life in German News Media From 2009 to 2022	5
“A Warning is Not Enough. Teach Me How to Spot Deepfakes.”: Testing Media Literacy Interventions for Combating Deepfakes	5
Striking an Emotional Chord: Effects of Emotional Appeals and Chatbot Anthropomorphism on Persuasive Science Communication	5
A Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Case Insight: The Convergence of Social Media and Epidemiology	5
Consensus Messaging Shifts Beliefs About Climate Change in a Field Experiment	5
Response to Health Crises in Africa: Insight From Executing a 2-Year Project in Nigeria	5
Conversational Polarization: Eight Key Considerations for Communication Scientists	5
The Influence of Flooding Imagery and Party Cues on Perceived Threat, Collective Efficacy, and Intentions for Political Action to Address Climate Change	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
Explaining Polarized Trust in Scientists: A Political Stereotype-Approach	5
Polarization or Mainstreaming? How COVID-19 News Exposure Affects Perceived Seriousness of the Pandemic and the Susceptibility to COVID-19 Misinformation?	5
Science Communication Spaces as “Pockets of Belonging”: Inviting in a Plurality of Science Identities for Scientists-in-Training	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
Erratum to “Translation at Work in Climate Change Communication”	4
Strategic Interactions in Science Communication: A Complex Adaptive Systems Framework	4
Storytelling in Science Film: Narrative Engagement Relates to Greater Knowledge, Interest, and Identification With Science	4

No Laughing Matter: Exploring the Effects of Scientists’ Humor Use on Twitter and the Moderating Role of Superiority	4
Higher Scientific Consensus Promotes Wider Diffusion: The Case of “Bamboo for Plastic” Environmental Initiative in China	4
On Becoming a Boffinhack: The Research-Based Reporting (ReBaR) Framework for Concurrent Scientific and Journalistic Investigation	4
A New Journalism for a New Climate: Is Solutions Journalism the Solution?	4
Contested Certainty and Credibility: The Effect of Personal Stories and Scientific Evidence in User Comments on News Story Evaluation and Relevance	4
Narrative Versus Statistical Evidence in Environmental Persuasion: A Meta-Analysis Study	4
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
Linking Online Vaccine Information Seeking to Vaccination Intention in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic	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
Dealing With Uncertain Futures: Communicating Scientific Modeling in the Public Sphere—A Systematic Review	3
Book Review: Queering Science Communication: Representations, Theory, and Practice	3
Who’s in Charge Here: How Linguistic Agency in Climate Messages Shapes Public Interpretations and Responses?	3
A Mixed-Methods Study of Public Understanding of Scientific Uncertainty	3
How Values Guide Trust: The Multiple Roles of Science-Related Value Predispositions in Shaping Trustworthiness and Trust in Scientific Authorities	3
Investigating the Heterogeneity of Misperceptions: A Latent Profile Analysis of COVID-19 Beliefs and Their Consequences for Information-Seeking	3
“What Might Happen With Generative AI?” Examining the Role of Prefactual Thinking in the Cognitive Mediation Model in the Context of Emerging Technologies	3
Generative AI in Science Communication: Fostering Scientists’ Good Working Habits for Ethical and Effective Use	2
Can Communication Theory Advance Research When Environmental Issues Become Wicked? The Case of Microplastics	2
Quantum in the Media: A Content Analysis of Dutch Newspapers	2
The Evolution of #OpenScience Discourse on Twitter	2
Their AI Versus Our AI: Is There a Hostile AI Perception in Correcting Geopolitically Framed Climate Misinformation in China?	2
The Future of AI Support in Health Care: Understanding Informal Caregivers’ Multidimensional Expectations of AI Chatbots	2
Translation at Work in Climate Change Communication	2
Introduction	2
Going the Distance for COVID-19: Relationships Among News Use, Psychological Distance, Risk Perceptions, and Behavioral Intentions	2
When Science Meets Art on Instagram: Examining the Effects of Visual Art on Emotions, Interest, and Social Media Engagement	2
Trustworthiness of Policymakers, Technology Developers, and Media Organizations Involved in Introducing AI for Autonomous Vehicles: A Public Perspective	2
Using Light Art Installation in Urban Nightscapes to Raise Public Awareness of Carbon Neutrality	2
Value-Based Narratives Foster Trust in Scientists and Communication Behaviors	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
When Leaders Are Hard to Find: Reimagining Opinion Leaders in Sparse Communication Networks	2