Emily L. Howell

902 total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 591 citations indexed

About

Emily L. Howell is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Emily L. Howell has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 591 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Communication and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Emily L. Howell's work include Climate Change Communication and Perception (16 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (6 papers) and Risk Perception and Management (6 papers). Emily L. Howell is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Communication and Perception (16 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (6 papers) and Risk Perception and Management (6 papers). Emily L. Howell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Austria. Emily L. Howell's co-authors include Dominique Brossard, Dietram A. Scheufele, Michael A. Xenos, Kathleen M. Rose, Shiyu Yang, Bruce W. Hardy, Christopher D. Wirz, Luye Bao, Becca Beets and Todd P. Newman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Emily L. Howell

23 papers receiving 567 citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

(Mis)informed about what? What it means to be a science-literate citizen in a digital world

2021 104 citations Emily L. Howell, Dominique Brossard profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Emily L. Howell United States	14	281	120	86	69	54	26	591
Christopher D. Wirz United States	13	325 1.2×	107 0.9×	170 2.0×	10 0.1×	124 2.3×	28	672
Gemma Revuelta Spain	11	205 0.7×	88 0.7×	75 0.9×	37 0.5×	163 3.0×	46	589
Caitlin Drummond Otten United States	10	518 1.8×	19 0.2×	127 1.5×	59 0.9×	19 0.4×	23	746
Alison Harvey United Kingdom	16	240 0.9×	230 1.9×	52 0.6×	24 0.3×	152 2.8×	40	700
Heather Akin United States	14	418 1.5×	33 0.3×	174 2.0×	15 0.2×	50 0.9×	30	560
Anne M. Dijkstra Netherlands	11	133 0.5×	18 0.1×	34 0.4×	53 0.8×	16 0.3×	33	387
Clare Wilkinson United Kingdom	17	360 1.3×	12 0.1×	155 1.8×	75 1.1×	9 0.2×	36	750
Marina Joubert South Africa	13	321 1.1×	16 0.1×	121 1.4×	54 0.8×	7 0.1×	50	521
Leona Yi-Fan Su United States	20	707 2.5×	16 0.1×	395 4.6×	28 0.4×	55 1.0×	39	1.1k
Isabelle Freiling United States	10	512 1.8×	30 0.3×	218 2.5×	16 0.2×	11 0.2×	17	642

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20 of 20 papers shown

Howell, Emily L., et al.. (2025). Race and gender biases persist in public perceptions of scientists’ credibility. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 11021–11021.

Mede, Niels G., Emily L. Howell, Mike S. Schäfer, et al.. (2025). Measuring Science Literacy in a Digital World: Development and Validation of a Multi-Dimensional Survey Scale. Science Communication. 48(1). 93–127. 4 indexed citations

Howell, Emily L., et al.. (2024). Storytelling in Science Film: Narrative Engagement Relates to Greater Knowledge, Interest, and Identification With Science. Science Communication. 47(2). 211–249.

Beets, Becca, Todd P. Newman, Emily L. Howell, Luye Bao, & Shiyu Yang. (2023). Surveying Public Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care in the United States: Systematic Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25. e40337–e40337. 63 indexed citations

Wirz, Christopher D., Emily L. Howell, Dietram A. Scheufele, Dominique Brossard, & Michael A. Xenos. (2023). Examining expertise: Synthetic biology experts’ perceptions of risk, benefit, and the public for research and applications regulation. Public Understanding of Science. 32(7). 870–888. 2 indexed citations

Krause, Nicole M., et al.. (2023). Collateral damage from debunking mRNA vaccine misinformation. Vaccine. 41(4). 922–929. 4 indexed citations

Bao, Luye, Isabelle Freiling, Emily L. Howell, et al.. (2021). Polarized platforms? How partisanship shapes perceptions of “algorithmic news bias”. New Media & Society. 25(11). 2833–2854. 16 indexed citations

Howell, Emily L., et al.. (2021). Communicating Chemistry through Cooking and Personal Health: Everyday Applications Increase Perceived Relevance, Interest, and Self-Efficacy in Chemistry. Journal of Chemical Education. 98(6). 1852–1862. 12 indexed citations

Wirz, Christopher D., et al.. (2021). Media Systems and Attention Cycles: Volume and Topics of News Coverage on COVID-19 in the United States and China. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 99(4). 1048–1071. 17 indexed citations

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Howell, Emily L., et al.. (2021). Learning without seeking?: Incidental exposure to science news on social media & knowledge of gene editing. Journal of Science Communication. 20(4). A01–A01. 14 indexed citations

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Howell, Emily L., Shiyu Yang, Becca Beets, et al.. (2020). What Do We (Not) Know About Global Views of Human Gene Editing? Insights and Blind Spots in the CRISPR Era. The CRISPR Journal. 3(3). 148–155. 16 indexed citations

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Howell, Emily L., Christopher D. Wirz, Dietram A. Scheufele, Dominique Brossard, & Michael A. Xenos. (2020). Deference and decision-making in science and society: How deference to scientific authority goes beyond confidence in science and scientists to become authoritarianism. Public Understanding of Science. 29(8). 800–818. 36 indexed citations

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Howell, Emily L.. (2020). Science Communication in the Context of Reproducibility and Replicability: How Nonscientists Navigate Scientific Uncertainty. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). 4 indexed citations

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Wirz, Christopher D., Emily L. Howell, Dominique Brossard, Michael A. Xenos, & Dietram A. Scheufele. (2020). The state of GMOs on social media. Politics and the Life Sciences. 40(1). 40–55. 6 indexed citations

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Howell, Emily L., Christopher D. Wirz, Dominique Brossard, Dietram A. Scheufele, & Michael A. Xenos. (2019). Seeing through risk-colored glasses: Risk and benefit perceptions, knowledge, and the politics of fracking in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science. 55. 168–178. 20 indexed citations

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Howell, Emily L., et al.. (2019). Engagement present and future: Graduate student and faculty perceptions of social media and the role of the public in science engagement. PLoS ONE. 14(5). e0216274–e0216274. 19 indexed citations

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Howell, Emily L., Christopher D. Wirz, Dominique Brossard, et al.. (2018). National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on genetically engineered crops influences public discourse. Politics and the Life Sciences. 37(2). 250–261. 16 indexed citations

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Scheufele, Dietram A., Michael A. Xenos, Emily L. Howell, et al.. (2017). U.S. attitudes on human genome editing. Science. 357(6351). 553–554. 105 indexed citations

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Howell, Emily L., et al.. (2016). Creating in a Participatory Culture: Perceptions of Digital Tools Among Teachers. ScholarWorks - WMU (Western Michigan University). 5(1). 9. 7 indexed citations

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Monroe, Kristen Renwick, et al.. (2014). Gender Equality in the Ivory Tower, and How Best to Achieve It. PS Political Science & Politics. 47(2). 418–426. 29 indexed citations

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