OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science Communication is 7. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Television News, Political Comedy, Party, and Political Knowledge in Global Warming Belief: Evidence From a Large-Scale Panel Survey	48
Recognising the Scholar-Creator: Social Media Science Communication as Scholarly Labour	41
PubCasts: Putting Voice in Scholarly Work and Science Communication	41
Examining Muslims’ Opinions Toward Cultured Meat in Singapore: The Influence of Presumed Media Influence and Halal Consciousness	37
Tipping the Scales of Psychological Reactance: A Closer Look at Imperative Language and the Role of Epistemic Certainty	36
Ecologists Prioritize Listening to Community Perspectives When They See the Benefit: Norms and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Appear to Have Little Impact	27
Researchers’ Public Engagement in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflection from Boundary Crossing	24
The Efficacy of Social Media Communication in Engaging Citizen Scientists: Insights From the Jozi Bee Hotel Project	23
Science, Not Scientists: Reflections on Science, Culture, and Their Mediators	22
Media Use, Interpersonal Communication, and Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence	20
Shifting Narratives: The Role of Science Slams in Climate Mobility Communication	20
Does Scientific Evidence Sell? Combining Manual and Automated Content Analysis to Investigate Scientists’ and Laypeople’s Evidence Practices on Social Media	18
Are Productive Scientists More Willing to Engage With the Public?	17
Familiarity Matters: Examining the Effects of AI-Generated Images on Science Information Credibility	17
The Public Trust in Science Scale: A Multilevel and Multidimensional Approach	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
“Glorified Minute Takers”: Journalists’ (Mis)handling of Scientific Uncertainty During the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Video-Based Group-Values Affirmation Reduces Defensive Responses to Risk Messages	15
From Doubt to Action: Examining the Potential of AI Comments in Promoting Health Information Seeking on Social Media	14
The Effects of Climate Change Meta-Knowledge on Selective Exposure, Selective Elaboration, and Behavioral Intentions	14
Communicating Republicans’ Level of Support for Climate Policy Briefly Increases Personal Support in the United States	14
Linking Psychometric Paradigm of Risk and Issue Attention Cycle: Risk Information in News Coverage of Avian and Swine Influenza Global Outbreaks	13
Video Production Attributes as Tactics for Communicating Science on Social Media	12
Literate and Critical? Characterizing Users of Alternative Scientific Media	12

Intermedia Agenda-Setting of a Scientific Controversy in the Hybrid Media System: A Cross-Media and Cross-Platform Analysis of Hydroxychloroquine During COVID-19	11
The Paradox of Belief in Science: A Proposal for Reconciliation	11
Crafting Persuasive Stories: How Uncertainty and Sidedness Influence Narrative Efficacy in Promoting Updated COVID-19 Vaccination	11
Bettering Biotech Foods’ Foul Flavor: An Experiment on Correcting Citizens’ Misconceptions About Genetic Modification	10
Who Is Skeptical About Scientific Innovation? Examining Worldview Predictors of Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, and Human Gene Editing Attitudes	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
Apprehensive or Motivational Threat? Examining the Effects of Inoculation, Threat Generation, Counterarguing, and Information Processing on Disinformation Belief	10
How Scientific Consensus Messaging Promotes Public Support for Socially Good AI: The Moderating Role of Collective Scientific Efficacy	9
Talking About Gene Drive in Uganda: The Need for Science Communication to Underpin Engagement	9
To Fund or Not to Fund? Examining Relationships Between Support for Scientific Research Across Political Ideologies and Science-Related Populist Beliefs	9
Psychological Distance, Construal Level, and Parental Vaccine Hesitancy for COVID-19, HPV, and Monkey Pox Vaccines	9
Creating Successful Science Poems: Craft Elements of Poems With Clear Science Content	9
Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Artificial Intelligence: The Roles of Social Media Exposure and Information Elaboration	9
Global Dynamics of Climate Change Imagery: Emotional and Engagement Effects Across Visual Frames on Twitter/X	8
Scalable Observed Correction With Generative AI: How Motivationally Relevant Message Features and Design Choices Boost Communicative Engagement	8
How the Public Makes Sense of Artificial Intelligence: The Interplay Between Communication and Discrete Emotions	8
Reimagining the Role of Communication in Medical Consensus to Address Medical Mistrust and Disinformation	8
Exploring the Potential of Comics for Science Communication: A Study on Conveying COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Information to Black Americans	8
Missing the Bigger Picture: The Need for More Research on Visual Health Misinformation	8
Science Popularization Writing in the Age of Generative AI: Efficiency, Authorship, Trust, and Fidelity	8
When Scientists Share Their Struggles: How Scientists’ Self-Presentation on Social Media Influences Public Perceptions, Support for Science, and Information-Seeking Intentions	8
Indigenous Biologists and Culture Frames: Effects on Stereotype Perceptions and Conservation Policy Support in Environmental News	8
Communicating Pollutants That Threaten Tribal Identities: PFAS Contamination in Local Fish and Shellfish	8
An Application of the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model in Understanding College Students’ COVID-19 Vaccination Information Seeking and Behavior	7
Sharon Dunwoody’s Legacy: Three Timely Lessons for Us	7
Exposure to Different Motives of Scientists Moderates Responses to Scientific Consensus: The Case of Cultured Meat	7
Testing the Durability of Persuasion From Moral Appeals About Renewable Energy	7
Minoritized Scientists in the United States: An Identity Perspective to Science Communication	7
Rethinking Trust in Scientists as a Network Model: A Global Analysis and Implications for Science Communication	7
Forcing a Deterministic Frame on Probabilistic Phenomena: A Communication Blind Spot in Media Coverage of the “Replication Crisis”	7