OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Science Communication is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
PubCasts: Putting Voice in Scholarly Work and Science Communication	49
Television News, Political Comedy, Party, and Political Knowledge in Global Warming Belief: Evidence From a Large-Scale Panel Survey	46
Ecologists Prioritize Listening to Community Perspectives When They See the Benefit: Norms and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Appear to Have Little Impact	45
Erratum to Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News Coverage	38
Tipping the Scales of Psychological Reactance: A Closer Look at Imperative Language and the Role of Epistemic Certainty	29
Researchers’ Public Engagement in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflection from Boundary Crossing	28
Examining Muslims’ Opinions Toward Cultured Meat in Singapore: The Influence of Presumed Media Influence and Halal Consciousness	25
Science, Not Scientists: Reflections on Science, Culture, and Their Mediators	23
Are Productive Scientists More Willing to Engage With the Public?	22
The Efficacy of Social Media Communication in Engaging Citizen Scientists: Insights From the Jozi Bee Hotel Project	22
Does Scientific Evidence Sell? Combining Manual and Automated Content Analysis to Investigate Scientists’ and Laypeople’s Evidence Practices on Social Media	21
“Glorified Minute Takers”: Journalists’ (Mis)handling of Scientific Uncertainty During the COVID-19 Pandemic	21
Investigating the Potential of Inoculation Messages and Self-Affirmation in Reducing the Effects of Health Misinformation	18
The Public Trust in Science Scale: A Multilevel and Multidimensional Approach	17
Shifting Narratives: The Role of Science Slams in Climate Mobility Communication	17
From Participation to Trust? Understanding Trust Dynamics in Participatory Science Communication	17
Media Use, Interpersonal Communication, and Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence	17
Video-Based Group-Values Affirmation Reduces Defensive Responses to Risk Messages	15
A Risky Object? How Microplastics Are Represented in the German Media	14
Linking Psychometric Paradigm of Risk and Issue Attention Cycle: Risk Information in News Coverage of Avian and Swine Influenza Global Outbreaks	14
Promoting Concern for Climate Change: A Study of Wildfire Photographs Using Q Methodology	14
Communicating Republicans’ Level of Support for Climate Policy Briefly Increases Personal Support in the United States	13
The Effects of Climate Change Meta-Knowledge on Selective Exposure, Selective Elaboration, and Behavioral Intentions	13
Crafting Persuasive Stories: How Uncertainty and Sidedness Influence Narrative Efficacy in Promoting Updated COVID-19 Vaccination	12
“Looking at the Big Picture”: A Qualitative Study of Ethics in Science Communication and Engagement	12

Varieties of Awe in Science Communication: Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Practitioners’ Experiences and Uses of This Emotion	11
Detecting Social Media Rumor Debunking Effectiveness During Public Health Emergencies: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach	10
A Relational Identity-Based Solution to Group Polarization: Can Priming Parental Identity Reduce the Partisan Gap in Attitudes Toward the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Literate and Critical? Characterizing Users of Alternative Scientific Media	10
Establishing Trust in Experts During a Crisis: Expert Trustworthiness and Media Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Who Is Skeptical About Scientific Innovation? Examining Worldview Predictors of Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, and Human Gene Editing Attitudes	9
Psychological Distance, Construal Level, and Parental Vaccine Hesitancy for COVID-19, HPV, and Monkey Pox Vaccines	8
Measuring Science Literacy in a Digital World: Development and Validation of a Multi-Dimensional Survey Scale	8
Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Artificial Intelligence: The Roles of Social Media Exposure and Information Elaboration	8
Talking About Gene Drive in Uganda: The Need for Science Communication to Underpin Engagement	8
Bettering Biotech Foods’ Foul Flavor: An Experiment on Correcting Citizens’ Misconceptions About Genetic Modification	8
Debunking Misinformation About Genetically Modified Food Safety on Social Media: Can Heuristic Cues Mitigate Biased Assimilation?	7
Risk Communication and Community Engagement During the Migrant Worker COVID-19 Outbreak in Singapore	7
Creating Successful Science Poems: Craft Elements of Poems With Clear Science Content	7
Reimagining the Role of Communication in Medical Consensus to Address Medical Mistrust and Disinformation	7
“Listening” to Science: Science Podcasters’ View and Practice in Strategic Science Communication	7
Missing the Bigger Picture: The Need for More Research on Visual Health Misinformation	6
Using a News Article to Convey Climate Science Consensus Information	6
Exploring the Potential of Comics for Science Communication: A Study on Conveying COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Information to Black Americans	6
When Scientists Share Their Struggles: How Scientists’ Self-Presentation on Social Media Influences Public Perceptions, Support for Science, and Information-Seeking Intentions	6
Indigenous Biologists and Culture Frames: Effects on Stereotype Perceptions and Conservation Policy Support in Environmental News	6
Sharon Dunwoody’s Legacy: Three Timely Lessons for Us	5
Minoritized Scientists in the United States: An Identity Perspective to Science Communication	5
Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor: A Manifesto and Examples for Implementation	5
Introduction to This Theme Issue on Processing COVID Information	5
Exposure to Different Motives of Scientists Moderates Responses to Scientific Consensus: The Case of Cultured Meat	5
Forcing a Deterministic Frame on Probabilistic Phenomena: A Communication Blind Spot in Media Coverage of the “Replication Crisis”	5
An Application of the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model in Understanding College Students’ COVID-19 Vaccination Information Seeking and Behavior	5
How the Public Makes Sense of Artificial Intelligence: The Interplay Between Communication and Discrete Emotions	5
Testing the Durability of Persuasion From Moral Appeals About Renewable Energy	4
A Meta-Analysis Synthesizing the Effects of Three Uncertainty Types in Science Communication	4
Conversational Polarization: Eight Key Considerations for Communication Scientists	4
The Purity Myth: Why Stigmatizing GAI in Academic Writing Is Harmful	4
Striking an Emotional Chord: Effects of Emotional Appeals and Chatbot Anthropomorphism on Persuasive Science Communication	4
Stories of Astrobiology, SETI, and UAPs: Science and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life in German News Media From 2009 to 2022	3
Response to Health Crises in Africa: Insight From Executing a 2-Year Project in Nigeria	3
Of Note: Recent Books	3
Storytelling in Science Film: Narrative Engagement Relates to Greater Knowledge, Interest, and Identification With Science	3
A State of Emergency or Business as Usual in Climate Science Communication? A Three-Dimensional Perspective on the Role Perceptions of Climate Scientists, Climate Journalists, and Citizens	3
The Influence of Flooding Imagery and Party Cues on Perceived Threat, Collective Efficacy, and Intentions for Political Action to Address Climate Change	3
Explaining Polarized Trust in Scientists: A Political Stereotype-Approach	3
Polarization or Mainstreaming? How COVID-19 News Exposure Affects Perceived Seriousness of the Pandemic and the Susceptibility to COVID-19 Misinformation?	3
Science Communication Spaces as “Pockets of Belonging”: Inviting in a Plurality of Science Identities for Scientists-in-Training	2
Investigating the Heterogeneity of Misperceptions: A Latent Profile Analysis of COVID-19 Beliefs and Their Consequences for Information-Seeking	2
Why Science Should Have a Female Face: Female Experts Increase Liking, Competence, and Trust in Science	2
Book Review: Queering Science Communication: Representations, Theory, and Practice	2
Erratum to “Translation at Work in Climate Change Communication”	2
On Becoming a Boffinhack: The Research-Based Reporting (ReBaR) Framework for Concurrent Scientific and Journalistic Investigation	2
A Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Case Insight: The Convergence of Social Media and Epidemiology	2
Communicating Scientific Uncertainty Across the Dissemination Trajectory: A Precision Medicine Case Study	2

Selling “Healthy” Radium Products With Science: A Multimodal Analysis of Marketing in Sweden, 1910–1940	2
Surprise of Serious COVID-19 Vaccination Messages on TikTok: The Effect of Expectancy Violation on Message Effectiveness	2
No Laughing Matter: Exploring the Effects of Scientists’ Humor Use on Twitter and the Moderating Role of Superiority	2
Contested Certainty and Credibility: The Effect of Personal Stories and Scientific Evidence in User Comments on News Story Evaluation and Relevance	2
Not My Pandemic: Solution Aversion and the Polarized Public Perception of COVID-19	2
Linking Online Vaccine Information Seeking to Vaccination Intention in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Metaphor in Science Communication: With Special Reference to Jade Rabbit of the Moon Rover	2
Youth as Climate Change Messengers: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words	2
To Vaccinate or Not? The Role Played by Uncertainty Communication on Public Understanding and Behavior Regarding COVID-19	2