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Climate Change Communication and Perception

Climate Change Communication and Perception is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the perceptions, communication, and societal responses to climate change, including public attitudes, risk perception, media coverage, policy preferences, psychological impacts, and cultural cognition. It delves into the role of affect, imagery, values, and science literacy in shaping public views on global warming and climate change. The cluster also addresses the politicization of climate change, barriers to engagement, and the impact of personal experience on risk perception.

  • Climate Change
  • Public Perception
  • Science Communication
  • Risk Perception
  • Media Coverage
  • Policy Preferences
  • Global Warming
  • Psychological Responses
  • Cultural Cognition
  • Environmental Attitudes
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+36%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Climate Change Communication and Perception

Which countries lead Climate Change Communication and Perception research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.6k and 558 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 558 works
  3. 3 Germany 504 works
  4. 4 China 352 works
  5. 5 Australia 264 works
  6. 6 Canada 263 works
  7. 7 Spain 214 works
  8. 8 Netherlands 179 works
  9. 9 Italy 169 works
  10. 10 France 148 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 37.6%United Kingdom: 13.1%Germany: 11.8%China: 8.3%6 others listed: 29.1%38%largest
United States1,601 · 37.6%United Kingdom558 · 13.1%Germany504 · 11.8%China352 · 8.3%6 others listed1,238 · 29.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Climate Change Communication and Perception research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Climate Change Communication and Perception research, followed by Aarhus University and University of Helsinki.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 46 works
  2. 2 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 31 works
  3. 3 University of HelsinkiFinland 28 works
  4. 4 Leibniz AssociationGermany 27 works
  5. 5 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 27 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 26 works
  7. 7 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 26 works
  8. 8 University of British ColumbiaCanada 24 works
  9. 9 The University of QueenslandAustralia 24 works
  10. 10 Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Climate Change Communication and Perception?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Climate Change Communication and Perception include David Moher, Yoshua Bengio and Matthias Egger.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  3. 3 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  4. 4 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  5. 5 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  6. 6 Isabelle Boutron France 271k citations
  7. 7 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  8. 8 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 258k citations
  9. 9 Asbjørn Hróbjartsson Denmark 252k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Climate Change Communication and Perception?

The most cited paper in Climate Change Communication and Perception is "Mind the Gap: Why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior?" (Anja Kollmuss, Julian Agyeman, 2002), with 8,791 citations. Next come "The Matthew effect in science. The reward and communication systems of science are considered." (4,882) and "The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework" (3,671).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mind the Gap: Why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior? Anja Kollmuss, Julian Agyeman · Environmental Education Research Open access Aug 2002 8,791
2 The Matthew effect in science. The reward and communication systems of science are considered. Robert Κ. Merton · PubMed 5 Jan 1968 4,882
3 The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework Roger E. Kasperson, Ortwin Renn, Paul Slovic et al. · Risk Analysis Open access Jun 1988 3,671
4 Knowledge systems for sustainable development David W. Cash, William C. Clark, Frank Alcock et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 30 May 2003 3,642
5 The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other Trevor Pinch, Wiebe E. Bijker · Social Studies of Science Open access Aug 1984 3,457
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Where is Climate Change Communication and Perception research done?

The largest centres of Climate Change Communication and Perception research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), New York (United States) and Melbourne (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bergen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 122 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 82 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 64 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 55 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C.United States 54 works
  6. 6 BerlinGermany 52 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 44 works
  8. 8 TorontoCanada 43 works
  9. 9 CopenhagenDenmark 42 works
  10. 10 AmsterdamNetherlands 42 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BergenNO · 29.8 works8.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Climate Change Communication and Perception than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Climate Change Communication and Perception?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Amsterdam, The University of Queensland and University of Helsinki score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 20.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →The University of Qu…University of Amster…University of Gronin…University of Helsinki
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of AmsterdamNetherlands 81.726.0%6.6×23 +110.3%
2The University of QueenslandAustralia 75.126.7%4.4×24 -4.6%
3University of HelsinkiFinland 74.216.7%7.1×28 +21.9%
4University of GroningenNetherlands 72.022.7%5.1×20 -13.1%
5University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 70.717.1%3.3×27 +31.2%
6University of ExeterUnited Kingdom 70.720.2%6.8×16 +19.5%
7University of BathUnited Kingdom 69.223.8%9.9×14 +29.0%
8University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 66.818.0%3.7×26 +5.5%
9Universität HamburgGermany 66.817.1%5.3×22 +32.6%
10University of ZurichSwitzerland 66.216.9%4.8×19 +65.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Climate Change Communication and Perception, country by country

Is Climate Change Communication and Perception research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Climate Change Communication and Perception.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Climate Change Communication and Perception as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Climate Change Communication and Perception over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Climate Change Communication and Perception10.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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