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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
PubCasts: Putting Voice in Scholarly Work and Science Communication	55
Tipping the Scales of Psychological Reactance: A Closer Look at Imperative Language and the Role of Epistemic Certainty	47
Television News, Political Comedy, Party, and Political Knowledge in Global Warming Belief: Evidence From a Large-Scale Panel Survey	47
Ecologists Prioritize Listening to Community Perspectives When They See the Benefit: Norms and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Appear to Have Little Impact	43
Examining Muslims’ Opinions Toward Cultured Meat in Singapore: The Influence of Presumed Media Influence and Halal Consciousness	30
Researchers’ Public Engagement in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflection from Boundary Crossing	27
Does Scientific Evidence Sell? Combining Manual and Automated Content Analysis to Investigate Scientists’ and Laypeople’s Evidence Practices on Social Media	25
The Efficacy of Social Media Communication in Engaging Citizen Scientists: Insights From the Jozi Bee Hotel Project	23
Investigating the Potential of Inoculation Messages and Self-Affirmation in Reducing the Effects of Health Misinformation	23
Are Productive Scientists More Willing to Engage With the Public?	23
“Glorified Minute Takers”: Journalists’ (Mis)handling of Scientific Uncertainty During the COVID-19 Pandemic	19
Media Use, Interpersonal Communication, and Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence	18
Shifting Narratives: The Role of Science Slams in Climate Mobility Communication	18
From Participation to Trust? Understanding Trust Dynamics in Participatory Science Communication	17
Science, Not Scientists: Reflections on Science, Culture, and Their Mediators	17
The Public Trust in Science Scale: A Multilevel and Multidimensional Approach	16
Promoting Concern for Climate Change: A Study of Wildfire Photographs Using Q Methodology	15
Video-Based Group-Values Affirmation Reduces Defensive Responses to Risk Messages	15
Linking Psychometric Paradigm of Risk and Issue Attention Cycle: Risk Information in News Coverage of Avian and Swine Influenza Global Outbreaks	14
The Effects of Climate Change Meta-Knowledge on Selective Exposure, Selective Elaboration, and Behavioral Intentions	13
Communicating Republicans’ Level of Support for Climate Policy Briefly Increases Personal Support in the United States	13
“Looking at the Big Picture”: A Qualitative Study of Ethics in Science Communication and Engagement	12
Crafting Persuasive Stories: How Uncertainty and Sidedness Influence Narrative Efficacy in Promoting Updated COVID-19 Vaccination	11
Literate and Critical? Characterizing Users of Alternative Scientific Media	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

The Paradox of Belief in Science: A Proposal for Reconciliation	10
Establishing Trust in Experts During a Crisis: Expert Trustworthiness and Media Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Varieties of Awe in Science Communication: Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Practitioners’ Experiences and Uses of This Emotion	10
Who Is Skeptical About Scientific Innovation? Examining Worldview Predictors of Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, and Human Gene Editing Attitudes	9
Detecting Social Media Rumor Debunking Effectiveness During Public Health Emergencies: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach	9
Measuring Science Literacy in a Digital World: Development and Validation of a Multi-Dimensional Survey Scale	9
Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Artificial Intelligence: The Roles of Social Media Exposure and Information Elaboration	8
Psychological Distance, Construal Level, and Parental Vaccine Hesitancy for COVID-19, HPV, and Monkey Pox Vaccines	8
Creating Successful Science Poems: Craft Elements of Poems With Clear Science Content	8
“Listening” to Science: Science Podcasters’ View and Practice in Strategic Science Communication	8
Bettering Biotech Foods’ Foul Flavor: An Experiment on Correcting Citizens’ Misconceptions About Genetic Modification	8
Talking About Gene Drive in Uganda: The Need for Science Communication to Underpin Engagement	8
Indigenous Biologists and Culture Frames: Effects on Stereotype Perceptions and Conservation Policy Support in Environmental News	7
Reimagining the Role of Communication in Medical Consensus to Address Medical Mistrust and Disinformation	7
Risk Communication and Community Engagement During the Migrant Worker COVID-19 Outbreak in Singapore	6
Introduction to This Theme Issue on Processing COVID Information	6
Minoritized Scientists in the United States: An Identity Perspective to Science Communication	6
Missing the Bigger Picture: The Need for More Research on Visual Health Misinformation	6
An Application of the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model in Understanding College Students’ COVID-19 Vaccination Information Seeking and Behavior	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
Exposure to Different Motives of Scientists Moderates Responses to Scientific Consensus: The Case of Cultured Meat	6
Forcing a Deterministic Frame on Probabilistic Phenomena: A Communication Blind Spot in Media Coverage of the “Replication Crisis”	5
Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor: A Manifesto and Examples for Implementation	5
Sharon Dunwoody’s Legacy: Three Timely Lessons for Us	5
Testing the Durability of Persuasion From Moral Appeals About Renewable Energy	5
How the Public Makes Sense of Artificial Intelligence: The Interplay Between Communication and Discrete Emotions	5
Of Note: Recent Books	4
The Purity Myth: Why Stigmatizing GAI in Academic Writing Is Harmful	4
Response to Health Crises in Africa: Insight From Executing a 2-Year Project in Nigeria	4
Conversational Polarization: Eight Key Considerations for Communication Scientists	4
Polarization or Mainstreaming? How COVID-19 News Exposure Affects Perceived Seriousness of the Pandemic and the Susceptibility to COVID-19 Misinformation?	4
Striking an Emotional Chord: Effects of Emotional Appeals and Chatbot Anthropomorphism on Persuasive Science Communication	4
A Meta-Analysis Synthesizing the Effects of Three Uncertainty Types in Science Communication	4
Erratum to “Translation at Work in Climate Change Communication”	3
A Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Case Insight: The Convergence of Social Media and Epidemiology	3
Explaining Polarized Trust in Scientists: A Political Stereotype-Approach	3
To Vaccinate or Not? The Role Played by Uncertainty Communication on Public Understanding and Behavior Regarding COVID-19	3
Stories of Astrobiology, SETI, and UAPs: Science and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life in German News Media From 2009 to 2022	3
The Influence of Flooding Imagery and Party Cues on Perceived Threat, Collective Efficacy, and Intentions for Political Action to Address Climate Change	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
Contested Certainty and Credibility: The Effect of Personal Stories and Scientific Evidence in User Comments on News Story Evaluation and Relevance	3
Science Communication Spaces as “Pockets of Belonging”: Inviting in a Plurality of Science Identities for Scientists-in-Training	3
Storytelling in Science Film: Narrative Engagement Relates to Greater Knowledge, Interest, and Identification With Science	3
Surprise of Serious COVID-19 Vaccination Messages on TikTok: The Effect of Expectancy Violation on Message Effectiveness	2
Book Review: Queering Science Communication: Representations, Theory, and Practice	2
Narrative Versus Statistical Evidence in Environmental Persuasion: A Meta-Analysis Study	2
Selling “Healthy” Radium Products With Science: A Multimodal Analysis of Marketing in Sweden, 1910–1940	2
Using Light Art Installation in Urban Nightscapes to Raise Public Awareness of Carbon Neutrality	2
Translation at Work in Climate Change Communication	2

No Laughing Matter: Exploring the Effects of Scientists’ Humor Use on Twitter and the Moderating Role of Superiority	2
Investigating the Heterogeneity of Misperceptions: A Latent Profile Analysis of COVID-19 Beliefs and Their Consequences for Information-Seeking	2
Youth as Climate Change Messengers: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words	2
Can Communication Theory Advance Research When Environmental Issues Become Wicked? The Case of Microplastics	2
Metaphor in Science Communication: With Special Reference to Jade Rabbit of the Moon Rover	2
On Becoming a Boffinhack: The Research-Based Reporting (ReBaR) Framework for Concurrent Scientific and Journalistic Investigation	2
Linking Online Vaccine Information Seeking to Vaccination Intention in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Introduction	2
Why Science Should Have a Female Face: Female Experts Increase Liking, Competence, and Trust in Science	2
Communicating Scientific Uncertainty Across the Dissemination Trajectory: A Precision Medicine Case Study	2