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Seven topic categories in science communication research and their composition from journals of PUS and SC from 1997 to mid-2018 (n = 393).
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By investigating scholarly output in science communication from 1997 to 2018, this research sought evidence that science education has been increasingly focusing on communication methods to reach the public. Through an automatic scientometric method, this study analyzed 1300 articles published in two leading journals in the field of science communi...
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... For Wu et al. (2019), academic output related to the study of science communication has focused on the field of science education. Although most research focuses on science education, these two fields -science education and science communication-converge in their objectives and methods (Baram-Tsabari & Osborne, 2015), but differ in style and setting (Wu et al., 2019). ...
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... For the current study, these metrics form the most important components of the SEC scale used to analyse audiences' responses regarding a science communication activity or experience. As Wu and colleagues introduced a research trend in Science Edu-Communication (SEC) [6], the current study sought to establish and validate a conceptual framework using dimensions of the AEIOU framework for effective evaluation of science communication experiences. ...
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