Anticipatory solastalgia in the Antipodes: Evidence of future-oriented distress about environmental change in Australia and New Zealand

Samantha K. Stanley, Omid Ghasemi, Robert M. Ross, John R. Kerr, Mathew D. Marques, Niels G. Mede, Sebastian Berger, Mark Alfano, Neil Levy, Marinus Ferreira, Viktoria Cologna

The Journal of Climate Change and Health, vol. 23, 2025, p. 100415

A positive picture of Africans' trust in scientists

Marina Joubert, Niels G. Mede, Viktoria Cologna, Patrick O. Ansah

Nature Africa, 2025

Literate and critical? Characterizing users of alternative scientific media

Lena Zils, Florian Wintterlin, Julia Metag, Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer

Science Communication, 2025

Measuring science literacy in a digital world: Development and validation of a multi-dimensional survey scale

Niels G. Mede, Emily L. Howell, Mike S. Schäfer, Julia Metag, Becca Beets, Dominique Brossard

Science Communication, 2025

Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset

Niels G. Mede, Viktoria Cologna, Sebastian Berger, John C. Besley, Cameron Brick, Marina Joubert, Edward W. Maibach, Sabina Mihelj, Naomi Oreskes, Mike S. Schäfer, Sander van der Linden, Nor Izzatina Abdul Aziz, Suleiman Abdulsalam, Shamsi Shamsi, Balazs Aczel, Indro Adinugroho, Eleonora Alabrese, Alaa Aldoh, Mark Alfano, . . ., Rolf A. Zwaan

Scientific Data, vol. 12(1), 2025, p. 114

Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries

Viktoria Cologna, Niels G. Mede, Sebastian Berger, John C. Besley, Cameron Brick, Marina Joubert, Edward W. Maibach, Sabina Mihelj, Naomi Oreskes, Mike S. Schäfer, Sander van der Linden, Nor Izzatina Abdul Aziz, Suleiman Abdulsalam, Shamsi Shamsi, Balazs Aczel, Indro Adinugroho, Eleonora Alabrese, Alaa Aldoh, Mark Alfano, . . ., Rolf A. Zwaan

Nature Human Behaviour, 2025

Assessing large language models on climate information

Jannis Bulian, Mike S. Schäfer, Afra Amini, Heidi Lam, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Ben Gaiarin, Michelle Chen Huebscher, Christian Buck, Niels G. Mede, Markus Leippold, Nadine Strauss

Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, Vienna, Austria, PMLR 235, 2024

How scientists' collective climate advocacy affects public trust in scientists and voting behavior

Viktoria Cologna, Jana Freundt, Niels G. Mede, Lauren Howe, Eri Bertsou, Jamie Gloor, Naomi Oreskes, Reto Knutti, Mike S. Schäfer

Environmental Research Letters, vol. 20, 2024

The "Greta Effect'' on social media: A systematic review of research on Thunberg's impact on digital climate change communication

Niels G. Mede, Ralph Schroeder

Environmental Communication, 2024

The interplay of knowledge overestimation, social media use, and populist ideas: Cross-sectional and experimental evidence from Germany and Taiwan

Niels G. Mede, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Julia Metag, Mike S. Schäfer

Communication Research, 2024

Trust in climate science and climate scientists: A narrative review

Viktoria Cologna, John Kotcher, Niels G. Mede, John Besley, Edward W. Maibach, Naomi Oreskes

PloS Climate, vol. 3, 2024

Trust in science, trust in ChatGPT? How Germans think about Generative AI as a source in science communication

Mike S. Schäfer, Bastian Kremer, Niels G. Mede, Liliann Fischer

JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, vol. 23, 2024

Cognitio populi – Vox populi: Implications of science-related populism for communication behavior

Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer, Julia Metag

Communications, 2023

Populist attitudes towards politics and science: How do they differ?

Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Robert A. Huber, Niels G. Mede, Esther Greussing

Political Research Exchange, vol. 5, 2023

Science-related populism: Conceptualization, empirical investigation, and implications for science communication (dissertation summary)

Niels G. Mede

Studies in Communication Sciences, vol. 23, 2023, pp. 383-390

Variations of science-related populism in comparative perspective: A multilevel segmentation analysis of supporters and opponents of populist demands toward science

Niels G. Mede

International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2023

An anchor in troubled times: Trust in science before and within the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

Rainer Bromme, Niels G. Mede, Eva Thomm, Bastian Kremer, Ricarda Ziegler

PloS one, vol. 17, 2022

Are science communication audiences becoming more critical? Reconstructing migration between audience segments based on Swiss panel data

Kira Klinger, Julia Metag, Mike S. Schäfer, Tobias Füchslin, Niels G. Mede

Public Understanding of Science, vol. 31, 2022, pp. 553-562

Legacy media as inhibitors and drivers of public reservations against science: Global survey evidence on the link between media use and anti-science attitudes

Niels G. Mede

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, vol. 9, 2022

Predicting public trust in science: The role of basic orientations toward science, perceived trustworthiness of scientists, and experiences with science

Florian Wintterlin, Friederike Hendriks, Niels G. Mede, Rainer Bromme, Julia Metag, Mike S. Schäfer

Frontiers in Communication, 2022

Science communication in the face of skepticism, populism, and ignorance: What Don't Look Up tells us about science denial – and what it doesn't

Niels G. Mede

JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, vol. 21, 2022, pp. C05

Science-related populism: Conceptualization, empirical investigation, and implications for science communication

Niels G. Mede

Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 2022

Science-related populism declining during the COVID-19 pandemic: A panel survey of the Swiss population before and after the coronavirus outbreak

Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer

Public Understanding of Science, vol. 31, 2022, pp. 211-222

Who supports science-related populism? A nationally representative survey on the prevalence and explanatory factors of populist attitudes toward science in Switzerland

Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer, Julia Metag, Kira Klinger

PLoS one, 2022

Charakteristika der Forschung zu Wirkungen digitaler Wissenschaftskommunikation: Ein Systematic Review der Fachliteratur

Niels G. Mede

Wissenschaftspolitik im Dialog, Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Maryam Tatari, Niels G. Mede, Wissenschaftskommunikation in der digitalen Welt: Kartierung der Forschungslandschaft in zwei Themenfeldern, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), Berlin, Germany, 2021, pp. 37-82

The "replication crisis'' in the public eye: Germans' awareness and perceptions of the (ir)reproducibility of scientific research

Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer, Ricarda Ziegler, Markus Weißkopf

Public Understanding of Science, vol. 30, 2021, pp. 91-102

The SciPop Scale for measuring science-related populist attitudes in surveys: Development, test, and validation

Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer, Tobias Füchslin

International Journal of Public Opinion Research, vol. 33, 2021, pp. 273-293

Eyeing CRISPR gene editing: Using eye tracking to assess what lay audiences look for to learn more about CRISPR and genetic engineering on Wikipedia

Sabrina Heike Kessler, Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer

Environmental Communication, vol. 14, 2020, pp. 886-903

Kritik der Wissenschaftskommunikation und ihrer Analyse: PUS, PEST, Politisierung und wissenschaftsbezogener Populismus

Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer

Hans-Jürgen Bucher, Medienkritik: Zwischen ideologischer Instrumentalisierung und kritischer Aufklärung, Herbert von Halem, Köln, 2020, pp. 297-314

Science-related populism: Conceptualizing populist demands toward science

Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer

Public Understanding of Science, vol. 29(5), 2020, pp. 473-491