Science Communication

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 2020-12-01 to 2024-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Promoting COVID-19 Vaccination: The Interplay of Message Framing, Psychological Uncertainty, and Public Agency as a Message Source41
Correcting Misperceptions About Genetically Modified Food on Social Media: Examining the Impact of Experts, Social Media Heuristics, and the Gateway Belief Model33
Linking Online Vaccine Information Seeking to Vaccination Intention in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic32
Establishing Trust in Experts During a Crisis: Expert Trustworthiness and Media Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic31
To Vaccinate or Not? The Role Played by Uncertainty Communication on Public Understanding and Behavior Regarding COVID-1926
Cutting the Bunk: Comparing the Solo and Aggregate Effects of Prebunking and Debunking Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation26
Information Seeking and Processing in the Context of Vaccine Scandals24
Assessment by Audiences Shows Little Effect of Science Communication Training23
How Effective Are Concrete and Abstract Climate Change Images? The Moderating Role of Construal Level in Climate Change Visual Communication19
Fish Tales: How Narrative Modality, Emotion, and Transportation Influence Support for Sustainable Aquaculture19
Debunking Misinformation About Genetically Modified Food Safety on Social Media: Can Heuristic Cues Mitigate Biased Assimilation?18
Fighting the Infodemic on Two Fronts: Reducing False Beliefs Without Increasing Polarization18
Systematic Processing of COVID-19 Information: Relevant Channel Beliefs and Perceived Information Gathering Capacity as Moderators18
Benefits and Pitfalls of Debunking Interventions to Counter mRNA Vaccination Misinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic18
Not My Pandemic: Solution Aversion and the Polarized Public Perception of COVID-1918
Can We Stop the Spread of False Information on Vaccination? How Online Comments on Vaccination News Affect Readers’ Credibility Assessments and Sharing Behaviors16
“Listening” to Science: Science Podcasters’ View and Practice in Strategic Science Communication15
“Siri, Show Me Scary Images of AI”: Effects of Text-Based Frames and Visuals on Support for Artificial Intelligence14
Reduced Risk Information Seeking Model (RISK): A Meta-Analysis13
Using a News Article to Convey Climate Science Consensus Information13
Generating Science Buzz: An Examination of Multidimensional Engagement With Humorous Scientific Messages on Twitter and Instagram12
An Application of the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model in Understanding College Students’ COVID-19 Vaccination Information Seeking and Behavior12
Verification Upon Exposure to COVID-19 Misinformation: Predictors, Outcomes, and the Mediating Role of Verification12
Risk Communication and Community Engagement During the Migrant Worker COVID-19 Outbreak in Singapore12
Factors That Influence Risk Perceptions and Successful COVID-19 Vaccination Communication Campaigns With American Indians11
A Risky Object? How Microplastics Are Represented in the German Media11
Selling “Healthy” Radium Products With Science: A Multimodal Analysis of Marketing in Sweden, 1910–194011
Media Use, Interpersonal Communication, and Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence10
American Scientists’ Willingness to Use Different Communication Tactics10
Communicating Scientific Uncertainty Across the Dissemination Trajectory: A Precision Medicine Case Study9
Can’t You All Just Get Along? Effects of Scientific Disagreement and Incivility on Attention to and Trust in Science9
Missing the Bigger Picture: The Need for More Research on Visual Health Misinformation9
Who Is Skeptical About Scientific Innovation? Examining Worldview Predictors of Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, and Human Gene Editing Attitudes9
Investigating the Potential of Inoculation Messages and Self-Affirmation in Reducing the Effects of Health Misinformation9
No Laughing Matter: Exploring the Effects of Scientists’ Humor Use on Twitter and the Moderating Role of Superiority8
A Relational Identity-Based Solution to Group Polarization: Can Priming Parental Identity Reduce the Partisan Gap in Attitudes Toward the COVID-19 Pandemic7
Mother Nature’s Fury: Antagonist Metaphors for Natural Disasters Increase Forecasts of Their Severity and Encourage Evacuation7
The Benefit of Focusing on Air Pollution Instead of Climate Change: How Discussing Power Plant Emissions in the Context of Air Pollution, Rather than Climate Change, Influences Perceived Benefits, Cos7
Gene Drives in the U.K., U.S., and Australian Press (2015–2019): How a New Focus on Responsibility Is Shaping Science Communication7
Individual and Collective Actions Against Climate Change Among Chinese Adults: The Effects of Risk, Efficacy, and Consideration of Future Consequences6
Effect of Context on Scientists’ Normative Beliefs6
The Role of Repeated Exposure and Message Fatigue in Influencing Willingness to Help Polar Bears and Support Climate Change Mitigation6
Television News, Political Comedy, Party, and Political Knowledge in Global Warming Belief: Evidence From a Large-Scale Panel Survey6
Promoting Concern for Climate Change: A Study of Wildfire Photographs Using Q Methodology5
Metaphor in Science Communication: With Special Reference to Jade Rabbit of the Moon Rover5
Science Communication Through STEAM: Professional Development and Flipped Classrooms in the Digital Age5
Communication and Perspectives About COVID-19 and Vaccinations Among Native Americans5
Person, Place, or Thing: Individual, Community, and Risk Information Seeking5
Examining the Pathways From Information Acquisition to Preventive Behaviors: The Information-Response Model4
Varieties of Awe in Science Communication: Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Practitioners’ Experiences and Uses of This Emotion4
Spreadsheets, Software, Storytelling, Visualization, Lifelong Learning: Essential Data Skills for Journalism and Strategic Communication Students3
Researchers’ Public Engagement in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflection from Boundary Crossing3
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 Citizens3
Humor Can Increase Perceived Communicator Effectiveness Regardless of Race, Gender, and Expertise—If You are Funny Enough2
Using Light Art Installation in Urban Nightscapes to Raise Public Awareness of Carbon Neutrality2
Forcing a Deterministic Frame on Probabilistic Phenomena: A Communication Blind Spot in Media Coverage of the “Replication Crisis”2
Participatory Science Communication Through Consensus Conferences: Legitimacy Evaluations of a German Consensus Conference on Genome Editing2
PubCasts: Putting Voice in Scholarly Work and Science Communication2
Foregrounding Backgrounds: How Scientists Conceive Art to Express the Invisible2
Missing Voices: Examining How Misinformation-Susceptible Individuals From Underrepresented Communities Engage, Perceive, and Combat Science Misinformation2
Science Journalism in India: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats2
Exploring COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation Exposure, Beliefs, Fear, and Information Avoidance via the Stimulus–Organism–Response Framework2
The Influence of Flooding Imagery and Party Cues on Perceived Threat, Collective Efficacy, and Intentions for Political Action to Address Climate Change2
A View From the Trenches: Interviews With Journalists About Reporting Science News2
Do Conservation Films Generate Support for Conservation? A Case Study Using Transportation Theory and Hidden Rivers2
Scientists and Journalists and Communicating Uncertainty: Collaborating With Sharon Dunwoody2
Contested Certainty and Credibility: The Effect of Personal Stories and Scientific Evidence in User Comments on News Story Evaluation and Relevance2
Talking About Gene Drive in Uganda: The Need for Science Communication to Underpin Engagement1
Explaining Polarized Trust in Scientists: A Political Stereotype-Approach1
Can Communication Theory Advance Research When Environmental Issues Become Wicked? The Case of Microplastics1
Of Note: Recent Books1
For My Own Sake: The Role of Personal Relevance in Information Seeking1
How Media Reports on COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Impact Consensus Beliefs and Protective Action: A Randomized Controlled Online Trial1
Expanding on Behavioral Outcomes in the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model: Socio-Cognitive Factors Predicting Information Seeking, Sharing, and Discussion1
Seeking Scientific Health Information for Empowerment: Empowered-Get-More-Empowered Effects1
Erratum to Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News Coverage1
Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Artificial Intelligence: The Roles of Social Media Exposure and Information Elaboration1
Using VR for Science Communication: Presence, Message Perception, and Pro-Environmental Effects1
Striking an Emotional Chord: Effects of Emotional Appeals and Chatbot Anthropomorphism on Persuasive Science Communication1
Youth as Climate Change Messengers: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words1
Minoritized Scientists in the United States: An Identity Perspective to Science Communication1
Investigating the Heterogeneity of Misperceptions: A Latent Profile Analysis of COVID-19 Beliefs and Their Consequences for Information-Seeking1
Theories of Uncertainty Communication: An Interdisciplinary Literature Review1
Emergent Sonification: Using Computational Media to Communicate the Anthropocene in ByrdBot1
Tipping the Scales of Psychological Reactance: A Closer Look at Imperative Language and the Role of Epistemic Certainty1
The Sagan Effect and Scientists’ Public Outreach Participation in China: Multilayered Roles of Social Norms and Rewards1
Going the Distance for COVID-19: Relationships Among News Use, Psychological Distance, Risk Perceptions, and Behavioral Intentions1
Cultivating Authenticity as Role Models: Women in STEM Influencers on Instagram1
Sharon Dunwoody’s Legacy: Three Timely Lessons for Us1
Exploring the Influence of Aggressive and Target-Framing Messages on Proenvironmental Behaviors1
Using Science Fiction and Design Thinking in Workshops to Share Research Results With Low-Income, Marginalized Communities1
Overcoming Confirmation Bias in Misinformation Correction: Effects of Processing Motive and Jargon on Climate Change Policy Support1
The Efficacy of Social Media Communication in Engaging Citizen Scientists: Insights From the Jozi Bee Hotel Project1
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