Public Understanding of Science

Papers
(The H4-Index of Public Understanding of Science is 17. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science38
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies34
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science28
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception28
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections26
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries26
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era26
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward25
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies24
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter24
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis23
Public support for government use of network surveillance: An empirical assessment of public understanding of ethics in science administration23
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs22
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science20
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media19
More engagement but less participation: China’s alternative approach to public communication of science and technology17
Explainable AI and trust: How news media shapes public support for AI-powered autonomous passenger drones17
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain17
The role of motivated science reception and numeracy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic17
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