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Public Understanding of Science is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Climate Change Communication and Perception, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Risk Perception and Management. Over its lifetime it has published 1,958 papers, which have received 78,749 citations.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Public Understanding of Science, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Climate Change Communication and Perception Misinformation and Its Impacts Risk Perception and Management Media Studies and Communication Science Education and Perceptions |
| ISSN | 0963-6625 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 3.29 |
| h-index | 130 |
| i10-index | 1,119 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Journal website | pus.sagepub.com |
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This paper draws general insights into the public reception of scientific knowledge from a case study of Cumbrian sheep farmers' responses to scientific advice about the restrictions introduced after the Chernobyl radioactive fallout. The analysis identifies several substantive factors which influence the credibility of scientific communication. Starting from the now-accepted point that public uptake of…
The “deficit model” of public attitudes towards science has led to controversy over the role of scientific knowledge in explaining lay people’s attitudes towards science. In this paper we challenge the de facto orthodoxy that has connected the deficit model and contextualist perspectives with quantitative and qualitative research methods respectively. We simultaneously test hypotheses from…
Over the past 20 years, thousands of citizen science projects engaging millions of participants in collecting and/or processing data have sprung up around the world. Here we review documented outcomes from four categories of citizen science projects which are defined by the nature of the activities in which their participants engage - Data Collection, Data…
Science communication is a growing area of practice and research. During the past two decades, the number of activities, courses, and practitioners has steadily increased. But what actually is science communication? In what ways is it different to public
The cartography of controversies is a set of techniques to explore and visualize issues. It was developed by Bruno Latour as a didactic version of Actor-Network Theory to train college students in the investigation of contemporary socio-technical debate. The scope and interest of such cartography, however, exceed its didactic origin. Adopted and developed in several…
