Public Understanding of Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Public Understanding of Science is 6. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections56
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science35
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies34
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception28
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science26
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era25
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries25
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
Public support for government use of network surveillance: An empirical assessment of public understanding of ethics in science administration24
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis23
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 science22
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media22
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain21
More engagement but less participation: China’s alternative approach to public communication of science and technology21
Counteracting climate denial: A systematic review20
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing19
Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and Russia17
Bruce Lewenstein: ‘Our work is critical for the issues of the day . . . we must engage’17
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society17
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device16
Explainable AI and trust: How news media shapes public support for AI-powered autonomous passenger drones16
The role of motivated science reception and numeracy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic15
‘Poetry under siege by rockets’: A case study of the creative and critical coverage by the New York Times of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk15
The divide so wide: Public perspectives on the role of human genome editing in the US healthcare system14
1992: The first issue of Public Understanding of Science13
The role of journalistic voice in communicating climate scepticism13
Book Review: Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America13
The politics of politicization: Climate change debates in Canadian print media13
Public sensemaking of active packaging technologies: A feature-based perspective12
Delineating between scientism and science enthusiasm: Challenges in measuring scientism and the development of novel scale12
Children’s perceptions of scientists and their work: The ‘Draw a Scientist’ Test in the United Arab Emirates12
Comparing the influence of intellectual humility, religiosity, and political conservatism on vaccine attitudes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom12
Scientism, trust, value alignment, views of nature, and U.S. public opinion about gene drive mosquitos12
The legitimacy of science and the populist backlash: Cross-national and longitudinal trends and determinants of attitudes toward science12
Book review: Myrna Perez Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy11
The effects of self-disclosure and gender on a climate scientist’s credibility and likability on social media11
Public acceptance of evolution in the United States, 1985–202010
Examining science communication on Reddit: From an “Assembled” to a “Disassembling” approach10
Book Review: Kristin Demetrious, Public Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowledge Formation DemetriousKristinPublic Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowle10
Follow the metrics? How does social media affect the journalistic practices of digital science communication start-ups?10
Book review: Felicity Mellor (ed.), Insights on Science Journalism10
Moral expression of “experts” and public engagement: Communicating COVID-19 vaccines on Facebook public pages in Chinese9
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers9
Thank you reviewers9
Climate and nature emergency: From scientists’ warnings to sufficient action9
Characterizing the semantic features of climate change misinformation on Chinese social media9
Gene editing in animals: What does the public want to know and what information do stakeholder organizations provide?9
A different image? Images of scientists in Chinese films9
Book Review: Maya Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives9
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media9
Public perception of geothermal power plants in Korea following the Pohang earthquake: A social representation theory study9
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change8
Public perceptions of climate tipping points8
Examining a conceptual framework of aggressive and humorous styles in science YouTube videos about climate change and vaccination8
1796 – An Introduction to Botany: The critical role of women in eighteenth-century science popularisation and the early promotion of science for young girls in Britain8
What are we talking about when we are talking about the audience? Exploring the concept of audience in science communication research and education8
Democratising science in deliberative systems: Mobilising lay expertise against industry waste dumping in Taiwan8
Book review: John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo, Strategic Science Communication – A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for more Effective Public Engagement8
Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis8
Lay metrology and metroscoping: Towards the study of lay units8
Thank you reviewers8
The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search: Insights from a cross-national study8
From Big Farms to Big Pharma? Problematizing science-related populism7
The journalistic understanding of science as process and social system: A qualitative exploration in the German science journalism community7
Analytical categories to describe deficit attributions in deep disagreements between citizens and experts7
The health and environmental risks and rewards of modernity that shape scientific optimism7
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science7
Threatening experts: Correlates of viewing scientists as a social threat7
Book review: Pascal Hohaus (ed.), Science Communication in Times of Crisis7
Greenpeace and the online genetically modified food debate in the UK: The role of science and scientific evidence in ‘environmental representation’7
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews7
Reporting preprints in the media during the COVID-19 pandemic7
I am a scientist . . . Ask Me Anything: Examining differences between male and female scientists participating in a Reddit AMA session7
1999: The BBC simulates prehistoric wildlife7
Sociotechnical imaginaries of gene editing in food and agriculture: A comparative content analysis of mass media in the United States, New Zealand, Japan, the Netherlands, and Canada7
Perceptions of policy problems and solutions: Climate change and structural racism6
The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries6
Deliberating enhanced weathering: Public frames, iconic ecosystems and the governance of carbon removal at scale6
Positions on science and religious beliefs across societies: Development of a research instrument and testing of its validity among high school students6
Book Review: Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art6
Advocacy – defending science or destroying it? Interviews with 47 climate scientists about their fundamental concerns6
Book review: John L. Rudolph Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)6
Academic excellence and community relevance: Can we have it all?6
Public perception of new plant breeding techniques and the psychosocial determinants of acceptance: A systematic review6
Are science communication audiences becoming more critical? Reconstructing migration between audience segments based on Swiss panel data6
Brain-computer interfaces, disability, and the stigma of refusal: A factorial vignette study6
Guidance in the chaos: Effects of science communication by virologists during the COVID-19 crisis in Germany and the role of parasocial phenomena6
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