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Peter Weingart

Peter Weingart

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
46
Citations
12785
World Ranking
3521
National Ranking
93

Overview

Peter Weingart is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and has established a research profile within the social sciences, particularly focusing on sociology and political science, communication, information systems and management, social psychology, and policy-related topics.

Their recent work encompasses several key topics, including climate change communication and perception, public relations and crisis communication, academic publishing and open access, misinformation and its impacts, media influence and health, species distribution and climate change, and animal and plant science education.

Notable publications by Peter Weingart include:

  • Public engagement with science-Origins, motives and impact in academic literature and science policy, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Trust or attention? Medialization of science revisited, 2022, Public Understanding of Science
  • Democratic and expert legitimacy: Science, politics and the public during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022, Science and Public Policy
  • Citizen science in South Africa: Rhetoric and reality, 2021, Public Understanding of Science

Frequent coauthors with whom Peter Weingart has collaborated include Lars Guenther, Anne Reif, Monika Taddicken, Luz María Hernández Nieto, and Marina Joubert.

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in venues such as:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Public Understanding of Science
  • Science and Public Policy
  • Journal of Science Communication
  • European Review

Best Publications

  • Risks of communication: discourses on climate change in science, politics, and the mass media

    Peter Weingart;Anita Engels;Petra Pansegrau

  • Rasse, Blut und Gene - Geschichte der Eugenik und Rassenhygiene in Deutschland

    Peter Weingart;Jürgen Kroll;Kurt Bayertz

  • Impact of bibliometrics upon the science system: Inadvertent consequences?

    Peter Weingart

  • Scientific expertise and political accountability: paradoxes of science in politics

    Peter Weingart

  • From “Finalization” to “Mode 2”: old wine in new bottles?

    Peter Weingart

  • Die Stunde der Wahrheit? : zum Verhältnis der Wissenschaft zu Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien in der Wissensgesellschaft

    Peter Weingart

  • Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge

    Sabine Maasen;Peter Weingart

  • Science and the media

    Peter Weingart

  • Die Wissenschaft der Öffentlichkeit

    Peter Weingart

  • Democratization of Expertise?: Exploring Novel Forms of Scientific Advice in Political Decision-Making

    Sabine Maasen;Peter Weingart

  • 2. Interdisciplinarity: The Paradoxical Discourse

    Peter Weingart

  • Von der Hypothese zur Katastrophe. Der anthropogene Klimawandel im Diskurs zwischen Wissenschaft, Politik und Massenmedien

    Peter Weingart;Anita Engels;Petra Pansegrau

  • Verwissenschaftlichung der Gesellschaft - Politisierung der Wissenschaft*

    Peter Weingart

  • A Short History of Knowledge Formations

    Peter Weingart

  • Science communication and the issue of trust

    Peter Weingart;Lars Guenther

  • Of Power Maniacs and Unethical Geniuses: Science and Scientists in Fiction Film:

    Peter Weingart;Claudia Muhl;Petra Pansegrau

  • Perspectives on the Emergence of Scientific Disciplines

    James A. Goldman;Gerard Lemaine;Roy MacLeod;Michael Mulkay

  • Functions and uses of disciplinary histories

    Loren R. Graham;Wolf Lepenies;Peter Weingart

  • The Social production of scientific knowledge

    Everett Mendelsohn;Peter Weingart;Richard Whitley

  • The Sciences’ Media Connection – Public Communication and its Repercussions

    Simone Rödder;Martina Franzen;Peter Weingart

  • Von der Hypothese zur Katastrophe

    Peter Weingart;Anita Engels;Petra Pansegrau

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinhold Kliegl
Reinhold Kliegl University of Potsdam
Ortwin Renn
Ortwin Renn University of Stuttgart
Peter J. Richerson
Peter J. Richerson University of California, Davis
Alfred Pühler
Alfred Pühler Bielefeld University
Wolfgang Prinz
Wolfgang Prinz Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Arie Rip
Arie Rip University of Twente
Anthony F. J. van Raan
Anthony F. J. van Raan Leiden University

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