OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science Communication is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Ecologists Prioritize Listening to Community Perspectives When They See the Benefit: Norms and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Appear to Have Little Impact	52
Researchers’ Public Engagement in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflection from Boundary Crossing	52
PubCasts: Putting Voice in Scholarly Work and Science Communication	52
Television News, Political Comedy, Party, and Political Knowledge in Global Warming Belief: Evidence From a Large-Scale Panel Survey	32
Tipping the Scales of Psychological Reactance: A Closer Look at Imperative Language and the Role of Epistemic Certainty	31
Examining Muslims’ Opinions Toward Cultured Meat in Singapore: The Influence of Presumed Media Influence and Halal Consciousness	29
Science, Not Scientists: Reflections on Science, Culture, and Their Mediators	28
Are Productive Scientists More Willing to Engage With the Public?	25
The Efficacy of Social Media Communication in Engaging Citizen Scientists: Insights From the Jozi Bee Hotel Project	24
Shifting Narratives: The Role of Science Slams in Climate Mobility Communication	21
Does Scientific Evidence Sell? Combining Manual and Automated Content Analysis to Investigate Scientists’ and Laypeople’s Evidence Practices on Social Media	19
Media Use, Interpersonal Communication, and Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence	19
From Participation to Trust? Understanding Trust Dynamics in Participatory Science Communication	18
Familiarity Matters: Examining the Effects of AI-Generated Images on Science Information Credibility	18
“Glorified Minute Takers”: Journalists’ (Mis)handling of Scientific Uncertainty During the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
The Public Trust in Science Scale: A Multilevel and Multidimensional Approach	16
Video-Based Group-Values Affirmation Reduces Defensive Responses to Risk Messages	16
“Looking at the Big Picture”: A Qualitative Study of Ethics in Science Communication and Engagement	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	12
Communicating Republicans’ Level of Support for Climate Policy Briefly Increases Personal Support in the United States	12
Varieties of Awe in Science Communication: Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Practitioners’ Experiences and Uses of This Emotion	12
Crafting Persuasive Stories: How Uncertainty and Sidedness Influence Narrative Efficacy in Promoting Updated COVID-19 Vaccination	11
The Paradox of Belief in Science: A Proposal for Reconciliation	11
Literate and Critical? Characterizing Users of Alternative Scientific Media	10

Detecting Social Media Rumor Debunking Effectiveness During Public Health Emergencies: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach	10
Measuring Science Literacy in a Digital World: Development and Validation of a Multi-Dimensional Survey Scale	9
Psychological Distance, Construal Level, and Parental Vaccine Hesitancy for COVID-19, HPV, and Monkey Pox Vaccines	8
Bettering Biotech Foods’ Foul Flavor: An Experiment on Correcting Citizens’ Misconceptions About Genetic Modification	8
Establishing Trust in Experts During a Crisis: Expert Trustworthiness and Media Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
“Listening” to Science: Science Podcasters’ View and Practice in Strategic Science Communication	8
Who Is Skeptical About Scientific Innovation? Examining Worldview Predictors of Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, and Human Gene Editing Attitudes	8
Talking About Gene Drive in Uganda: The Need for Science Communication to Underpin Engagement	8
Risk Communication and Community Engagement During the Migrant Worker COVID-19 Outbreak in Singapore	7
Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Artificial Intelligence: The Roles of Social Media Exposure and Information Elaboration	7
Reimagining the Role of Communication in Medical Consensus to Address Medical Mistrust and Disinformation	7
Indigenous Biologists and Culture Frames: Effects on Stereotype Perceptions and Conservation Policy Support in Environmental News	7
Creating Successful Science Poems: Craft Elements of Poems With Clear Science Content	7
Missing the Bigger Picture: The Need for More Research on Visual Health Misinformation	6
Exploring the Potential of Comics for Science Communication: A Study on Conveying COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Information to Black Americans	6
Communicating Pollutants That Threaten Tribal Identities: PFAS Contamination in Local Fish and Shellfish	6
When Scientists Share Their Struggles: How Scientists’ Self-Presentation on Social Media Influences Public Perceptions, Support for Science, and Information-Seeking Intentions	6
Introduction to This Theme Issue on Processing COVID Information	5
Testing the Durability of Persuasion From Moral Appeals About Renewable Energy	5
Sharon Dunwoody’s Legacy: Three Timely Lessons for Us	5
Minoritized Scientists in the United States: An Identity Perspective to Science Communication	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
Exposure to Different Motives of Scientists Moderates Responses to Scientific Consensus: The Case of Cultured Meat	5
Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor: A Manifesto and Examples for Implementation	5
How the Public Makes Sense of Artificial Intelligence: The Interplay Between Communication and Discrete Emotions	5