John C. Besley

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
118 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

John C. Besley is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, John C. Besley has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 37 papers in Communication and 19 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in John C. Besley's work include Climate Change Communication and Perception (84 papers), Risk Perception and Management (27 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (19 papers). John C. Besley is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Communication and Perception (84 papers), Risk Perception and Management (27 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (19 papers). John C. Besley collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. John C. Besley's co-authors include Anthony Dudo, Katherine A. McComas, Shupei Yuan, Matthew C. Nisbet, Andrea Tanner, James Shanahan, Sang‐Hwa Oh, Benjamin Haywood, Dominic H. P. Balog‐Way and Martin Storksdieck and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

John C. Besley

112 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Scientists’ Prioritization of Communication Objectives for Public Engagement

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John C. Besley United States	33	2.5k	781	545	474	411	118	3.7k
James Shanahan United States	33	2.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.9×	445 0.8×	521 1.1×	772 1.9×	92	4.3k
Donald Braman United States	23	4.2k 1.7×	563 0.7×	1.5k 2.7×	501 1.1×	217 0.5×	54	5.4k
Matthew C. Nisbet United States	32	5.1k 2.1×	2.2k 2.8×	1.5k 2.8×	505 1.1×	584 1.4×	61	7.1k
Martín W. Bauer United Kingdom	30	2.6k 1.1×	627 0.8×	363 0.7×	882 1.9×	241 0.6×	93	5.1k
Dan M. Kahan United States	38	6.5k 2.6×	1.1k 1.4×	1.9k 3.6×	839 1.8×	388 0.9×	138	8.8k
Sharon Dunwoody United States	35	3.5k 1.4×	1.6k 2.0×	465 0.9×	363 0.8×	638 1.6×	91	5.0k
Patrick Sturgis United Kingdom	31	2.7k 1.1×	323 0.4×	353 0.6×	475 1.0×	90 0.2×	95	4.3k
Nick Allum United Kingdom	21	2.0k 0.8×	315 0.4×	439 0.8×	405 0.9×	115 0.3×	64	3.5k
Mike S. Schäfer Switzerland	35	3.3k 1.3×	1.9k 2.5×	642 1.2×	180 0.4×	321 0.8×	152	4.4k
Ezra M. Markowitz United States	29	2.5k 1.0×	265 0.3×	1.9k 3.4×	451 1.0×	227 0.6×	79	4.3k

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Ghasemi, Omid, Viktoria Cologna, Niels G. Mede, et al.. (2025). Gaps in public trust between scientists and climate scientists: a 68 country study. Environmental Research Letters. 20(6). 61002–61002. 1 indexed citations

Besley, John C. & Anthony Dudo. (2025). Scientists’ public engagement goals: Perceived importance and personal prioritization. Public Understanding of Science. 35(2). 214–235.

Cologna, Viktoria, Chahan M. Kropf, Samuel Lüthi, et al.. (2025). Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world. Nature Climate Change. 15(7). 725–735. 3 indexed citations

Garlick, Sarah, John C. Besley, Karen Peterman, et al.. (2025). Six elements of effective public engagement with science. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 23(10).

Besley, John C. & Martha R. Downs. (2024). Environmental scientists’ support for public engagement strategy development is predicted by a range of factors, but mostly perceived benefits. International Journal of Science Education Part B. 1–16.

Dudo, Anthony, et al.. (2024). Science Communication Spaces as “Pockets of Belonging”: Inviting in a Plurality of Science Identities for Scientists-in-Training. Science Communication. 47(2). 250–275. 2 indexed citations

Besley, John C., et al.. (2024). Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs. Public Understanding of Science. 33(7). 872–883. 4 indexed citations

Dudo, Anthony, et al.. (2024). Race-evasive ideology in U.S.-based science communication fellowship director discourse. Journal of Science Communication. 23(1). 1 indexed citations

Dudo, Anthony, et al.. (2022). Science communication fellowship programs as gatekeepers. Public Understanding of Science. 31(7). 940–956. 2 indexed citations

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Besley, John C., et al.. (2021). American Scientists’ Willingness to Use Different Communication Tactics. Science Communication. 43(4). 486–507. 15 indexed citations

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Besley, John C., et al.. (2021). Effect of Context on Scientists’ Normative Beliefs. Science Communication. 44(1). 86–107. 9 indexed citations

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Dudo, Anthony, et al.. (2020). Contribution of Training to Scientists’ Public Engagement Intentions: A Test of Indirect Relationships Using Parallel Multiple Mediation. Science Communication. 42(4). 508–537. 25 indexed citations

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Besley, John C., et al.. (2020). Exploring scholars’ public engagement goals in Canada and the United States. Public Understanding of Science. 29(8). 855–867. 35 indexed citations

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Dudo, Anthony, John C. Besley, & Shupei Yuan. (2020). Science Communication Training in North America: Preparing Whom to Do What With What Effect?. Science Communication. 43(1). 33–63. 45 indexed citations

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Balog‐Way, Dominic H. P., Katherine A. McComas, & John C. Besley. (2020). The Evolving Field of Risk Communication. Risk Analysis. 40(S1). 2240–2262. 111 indexed citations

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Garlick, Sarah, Kathleen F. Lambert, Michael Weiß, & John C. Besley. (2019). Embedding Co-Production into Long Term Ecological Research: Insights from Hubbard Brook and Harvard Forest. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Besley, John C., Anthony Dudo, & Martin Storksdieck. (2015). Scientists' views about communication training. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 52(2). 199–220. 102 indexed citations

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Besley, John C., et al.. (2009). Public Meetings in Entertainment Television Programming: Using Procedural Justice to Analyze Fictional Civic Participation. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 53(3). 419–443. 5 indexed citations

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Thrasher, James F., et al.. (2008). Análisis de la cobertura del tema de tabaco en medios impresos mexicanos Analysis of coverage of the tobacco issue in Mexican print media. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Thrasher, James F., et al.. (2008). Análisis de la cobertura del tema de tabaco en medios impresos mexicanos. Salud Pública de México. 50. s348–s354. 19 indexed citations

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