| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | “Fear Won't Do It” | Science Communication | 2009 | 928 |
| 2 | Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News Coverage | Science Communication | 2020 | 407 |
| 3 | The Matilda Effect in Science Communication | Science Communication | 2013 | 348 |
| 4 | Nanotechnology, Governance, and Public Deliberation: What Role for the Social Sciences? | Science Communication | 2005 | 347 |
| 5 | Testing Public (Un)Certainty of Science | Science Communication | 2004 | 328 |
| 6 | New Evidence on Instrumental, Conceptual, and Symbolic Utilization of University Research in Government Agencies | Science Communication | 2004 | 324 |
| 7 | Public Attitudes toward Emerging Technologies | Science Communication | 2005 | 322 |
| 8 | Reorienting Climate Change Communication for Effective Mitigation | Science Communication | 2009 | 305 |
| 9 | After the Flood | Science Communication | 2008 | 299 |
| 10 | Using Expert Sources to Correct Health Misinformation in Social Media | Science Communication | 2017 | 295 |
| 11 | A Two-Step Flow of Influence? | Science Communication | 2009 | 277 |
| 12 | Toward a Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Model of Health Care Research Use | Science Communication | 1998 | 264 |
| 13 | What Factors Predict Scientists' Intentions to Participate in Public Engagement of Science Activities? | Science Communication | 2007 | 250 |
| 14 | The Origins and Development of the Diffusion of Innovations Paradigm as an Example of Scientific Growth | Science Communication | 1995 | 248 |
| 15 | Biotechnology and the American Media | Science Communication | 2002 | 247 |
| 16 | Constructing Communication | Science Communication | 2008 | 240 |
| 17 | Communicating Science | Science Communication | 2001 | 227 |
| 18 | Framing Climate Change: Exploring the Role of Emotion in Generating Advocacy Behavior | Science Communication | 2018 | 226 |
| 19 | What, Me Worry? The Role of Affect in Information Seeking and Avoidance | Science Communication | 2013 | 222 |
| 20 | Climbing the Ladder of Research Utilization | Science Communication | 2001 | 202 |
| 21 | Effects of COVID-19 Misinformation on Information Seeking, Avoidance, and Processing: A Multicountry Comparative Study | Science Communication | 2020 | 196 |
| 22 | Seeking and Processing Information about Impersonal Risk | Science Communication | 2006 | 180 |
| 23 | Heightening Uncertainty Around Certain Science | Science Communication | 2013 | 175 |
| 24 | A National Survey Assessing SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Intentions: Implications for Future Public Health Communication Efforts | Science Communication | 2020 | 160 |
| 25 | Assessing Media Influences on Middle School–Aged Children's Perceptions of Women in Science Using the Draw-A-Scientist Test (DAST) | Science Communication | 2007 | 157 |
| 26 | Framing Effects on Public Opinion about Nanotechnology | Science Communication | 2005 | 155 |
| 27 | Peer Review for Journals as it Stands Today—Part 1 | Science Communication | 1998 | 149 |
| 28 | Reporting a Potential Pandemic | Science Communication | 2007 | 148 |
| 29 | One or Many? The Influence of Episodic and Thematic Climate Change Frames on Policy Preferences and Individual Behavior Change | Science Communication | 2011 | 143 |
| 30 | Predictors of Pro-Environmental Behaviors of American and Korean Students | Science Communication | 2013 | 141 |
| 31 | The Framing of Nanotechnologies in the British Newspaper Press | Science Communication | 2005 | 139 |
| 32 | Using Political Efficacy Messages to Increase Climate Activism | Science Communication | 2016 | 136 |
| 33 | What Science Communication Scholars Think About Training Scientists to Communicate | Science Communication | 2011 | 135 |
| 34 | Metaphors and Biorisks | Science Communication | 2005 | 132 |
| 35 | Whose Science Do You Believe? Explaining Trust in Sources of Scientific Information About the Environment | Science Communication | 2013 | 132 |
| 36 | A Question of Balance | Science Communication | 2008 | 131 |
| 37 | Politicization and Polarization in Climate Change News Content, 1985-2017 | Science Communication | 2020 | 126 |
| 38 | Threat Without Efficacy? Climate Change on U.S. Network News | Science Communication | 2014 | 124 |
| 39 | Cultural Representations of Gender and Science | Science Communication | 2005 | 123 |
| 40 | Factors Influencing People’s Acceptance of Gene Technology: The Role of Knowledge, Health Expectations, Naturalness, and Social Trust | Science Communication | 2010 | 123 |
| 41 | If We Seek, Do We Learn? | Science Communication | 2009 | 120 |
| 42 | Misplaced Faith | Science Communication | 2001 | 119 |
| 43 | Peer Review for Journals as it Stands Today—Part 2 | Science Communication | 1998 | 118 |
| 44 | From Public Understanding to Public Engagement | Science Communication | 2009 | 118 |
| 45 | Consensus Conferences as Deliberative Democracy | Science Communication | 2000 | 116 |
| 46 | Motivation to Participate in an Online Citizen Science Game | Science Communication | 2015 | 116 |
| 47 | Advancing Science Communication | Science Communication | 2002 | 115 |
| 48 | Risk Information Seeking Among U.S. and Dutch Residents | Science Communication | 2009 | 114 |
| 49 | Putting Environmental Infographics Center Stage | Science Communication | 2015 | 114 |
| 50 | Visual Literacy and Science Communication | Science Communication | 1999 | 113 |
