Public Understanding of Science

Papers
(The H4-Index of Public Understanding of Science is 18. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies46
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era35
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science30
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception29
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries29
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science29
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward28
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections28
Public support for government use of network surveillance: An empirical assessment of public understanding of ethics in science administration27
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis26
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs25
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media23
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter21
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science20
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies20
More engagement but less participation: China’s alternative approach to public communication of science and technology19
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device18
Bruce Lewenstein: ‘Our work is critical for the issues of the day . . . we must engage’18
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