Public Understanding of Science

Papers
(The H4-Index of Public Understanding of Science is 20. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies86
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections48
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception47
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward45
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries45
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science32
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science29
Who believes in science? A computational tool for identifying language invoking or disputing scientific knowledge25
Book review: Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez, Science Under Siege: How To Fight The Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World MannMichael E.Ho24
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis24
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science24
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media24
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs23
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter23
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing22
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies22
Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and Russia22
Socio-economic status and authority deference: Understanding public (dis)engagement with science in Europe22
‘Poetry under siege by rockets’: A case study of the creative and critical coverage by the New York Times of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk21
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society20
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