title: Public Understanding of Science in turbulent times III: Deficit to dialogue, champions to critics.
abstract: As part of the 20th Anniversary of the Public Understanding of Science journal, the journal has been reflecting on how the field and journal have developed. This research note takes a closer look at some of the trends, considering the journal's 50 most cited papers and using IRaMuTeQ, an open-source computer text analysis technique. The research note presents data that show that the move within public engagement from deficit to dialogue has been followed by a further shift from championing dialogue to criticising its practice. This shift has taken place alongside a continued, but changing, interest in media coverage, surveys and models of public understanding.
authors.affiliation: University College London, UK m.smallman@ucl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smallman
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D003256:Community Participation; D033181:Information Dissemination; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D012586:Science
keywords: IRaMuTeQ; dialogue; public engagement; science communication; text mining