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Engagement present and future: Graduate student and faculty perceptions of so...
Interest in public engagement with science activities has grown in recent decades, especially engagement through social media and among graduate students. Research on... -
Scientists' Prioritization of Communication Objectives for Public Engagement.
Amid calls from scientific leaders for their colleagues to become more effective public communicators, this study examines the objectives that scientists’ report drive their... -
Engaging policy in science writing: Patterns and strategies
: Many scientific researchers aspire to engage policy in their writing, but translating scientific research and findings into policy discussion often requires an understanding... -
Scientific sinkhole: The pernicious price of formatting
Objective To conduct a time-cost analysis of formatting in scientific publishing. Design International, cross-sectional study (one-time survey). Setting Internet-based... -
Public communication of data-based research in cities
Trilles, S., Granell, C., Degbelo, A., & Bhattacharya, D. (2020). Interactive guidelines: Public communication of data-based research in cities. PLoS ONE, 15(1), [e0228008].... -
Stirring the strategic direction of scuba diving marine Citizen Science: A su...
ABSTRACT Citizen Science (CS) strengthens the relationship between society and science through education and engagement, with win-win benefits. Marine Citizen Science (MCS) is... -
Characters matter: How narratives shape affective responses to risk communica...
Introduction Whereas scientists depend on the language of probability to relay information about hazards, risk communication may be more effective when embedding scientific... -
A correlation comparison between Altmetric Attention Scores and citations for...
This study considered all articles published in six Public Library of Science (PLOS) journals in 2012 and Web of Science citations for these articles as of May 2015. A total of... -
Using citizen science to expand the global map of landslides: Introducing the...
Robust inventories are vital for improving assessment of and response to deadly and costly landslide hazards. However, collecting landslide events in inventories is difficult at... -
Using Selfies to Challenge Public Stereotypes of Scientists
In an online Qualtrics panel survey experiment (N = 1620), we found that scientists posting self-portraits ("selfies") to Instagram from the science lab/field were perceived as... -
Video abstracts and plain language summaries are more effective than graphica...
Background Journals are trying to make their papers more accessible by creating a variety of research summaries including graphical abstracts, video abstracts, and plain... -
How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and scie...
Communication technologies, from printing to social media, affect our historical records by changing the way ideas are spread and recorded. Yet, finding statistical instruments... -
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Social media has created networked communication channels that facilitate interactions and allow information to proliferate within professional academic communities as well as... -
An emerging form of public engagement with science: Ask Me Anything (AMA) ses...
Originally, online public engagement with science tended to be one directional-from experts to the general population via news media. Such an arrangement allowed for little to... -
Controversy matters: Impacts of topic and solution controversy on the perceiv...
In this article, we focus on the potential influence of a scientist's advocacy position on the public's perceived credibility of scientists as a whole. Further, we examine how... -
Authorship and citation manipulation in academic research
Some scholars add authors to their research papers or grant proposals even when those individuals contribute nothing to the research effort. Some journal editors coerce authors... -
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How information is communicated influences the public’s environmental perceptions and behaviors. Information channels and sources both play an important role in the... -
The effect of ad hominem attacks on the evaluation of claims promoted by scie...
Two experiments were conducted to determine the relative impact of direct and indirect (ad hominem) attacks on science claims. Four hundred and thirty-nine college students... -
For socially engaged science: The dynamics of knowledge production in the Fio...
Barral Netto, Manoel. Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Salvador, BA, Brasil. “Documento produzido em parceria ou por autor vinculado à Fiocruz, mas não consta à... -
Automatic jargon identifier for scientists engaging with the public and scien...
Scientists are required to communicate science and research not only to other experts in the field, but also to scientists and experts from other fields, as well as to the...
