Risk & Trust in Science

Trust in science and trust in scientists has been a long-standing research topic. / 科学信頼、科学者信頼は長年の研究テーマです。


Wang, S., Wang, T., Yokoyama, H.M. et al. Beyond a single pole: exploring the nuanced coexistence of scientific elitism and populism in China. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 353 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04685-3

While there is active discussion about polarization in the West, in China we have confirmed the phenomenon of elitism and populism coexisting within one person./欧米では2極化の議論がさかんですが、中国では1人の中にエリートリズムとポピュリズムが共存する現象が確認されました。


Reif, A., Guenther, L., & Yokoyama, H. M. (2024). Public (dis)trust in science in digital media environments. Journal of Science Communication, 23(09), E. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.23090501

Digital media has a major impact on trust in science. This special issue, for which I served as guest editor for JCOM, was adopted as a panel at the PCST2025 Aberdeen conference./ デジタルメディアは科学の信頼に大きな影響を与えます。JCOMのゲストエディターを務めたこの特集は、PCST2025アバディーンの会議でパネルとして採択されました。


Yokoyama, H. M., Akimoto, Y., & Ikkatai, Y. (2023). Big science and society in Japan: Kamiokande series, policy systems and ILC. In M. B. Nielsen & S. A. Sholl (Eds.), Big science in the 21st century: Economic and societal impacts (pp. 48-1–48-16). IOP Publishing.


Ahmed N, McKinnon M, Onyige CD and Yokoyama HM (2023) Editorial: Science communication in difficult times: the intersectionality of science communication and risk communication during disasters and crises. Front. Commun. 8:1196680. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2023.1196680


Yokoyama HM and Ikkatai Y (2022) Support and trust in the government and COVID-19 experts during the pandemic. Front. Commun. 7:940585. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2022.940585


横山広美(2022) 科学的助言・グループボイスの必要性 法律時報 2022年5月号 コロナ対応における専門知と日本の政治・社会


横山広美(2021)スター科学者ではなく「グループボイス」を Voice 7月号 コロナ500日、政治の責任(総力特集) 2021年5月


Igarashi, Y., Mizushima, N. and Yokoyama, H. M. (2020). Manga-based risk communication for the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of storytelling that incorporates a cultural context JCOM 19(07), N02. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.19070802


Yokoyama, H. (2019, August). Proposal for group voice: Going beyond the limits of one voice and making information provided by scientists available to the public in emergency situations. In K. Nakajima, T. Tanoi, & S. Utsunomiya (Eds.), Environmental contamination from the Fukushima nuclear disaster: Dispersion, monitoring, mitigation and lessons learned (pp. 271–277). Cambridge University Press.


一方井祐子, マッカイ, ユアン., & 横山広美. (2018). 日本の研究者たちは何を重視してクラウドファンディングへの支援を呼びかけたか:第4のファンディングの可能性. 科学技術コミュニケーション, 24, 55–67.


Ikkatai, Y., McKay, E. and Yokoyama, H. M. (2018). Science created by crowds: a case study of science crowdfunding in Japan JCOM 17(03), A06. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.17030206

What is interesting is that through crowdfunding research, the paper proposes a "Budget-funding Community" in contrast to the Journal Community, which is important in scientific theory.We propose that science crowdfunding can be successfully used to generate “crowd-supported science” by means of this Crowd Community./クラウドファンディング研究を通じて、科学論で重視する Journal Communityに対して、”Budget-funding Community”を提案したところに面白さがあります。さらに、科学クラウドファンディングをうまく活用した「クラウド支援型科学」があることを明らかにしました。


中谷内一也, 長谷和久, & 横山広美. (2018). 科学的基礎知識とハザードへの不安との関係. 心理学研究, 89(2), 171–178. https://doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.89.17215​

This paper confirms the impact of the deficit model in Japan./ 日本で欠如モデルの影響を確認した論文です。知識は


一方井祐子, & 横山広美. (2016). 東日本大震災後,科学コミュニケーターは何ができたのか. 科学技術コミュニケーション, 19, 57–70. https://doi.org/10.14943/74100


Nakayachi, K., Yokoyama, H. M., & Oki, S. (2014). Public anxiety after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake: fluctuations in hazard perception after catastrophe. Journal of Risk Research, 18(2), 156–169. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2013.875936


Yokoyama, H. M., & Nakayachi, K. (2012). Public judgment on science expenditure in the national budget of Japan: An experimental approach to examining the effects of unpacking science. Public Understanding of Science, 23(5), 610-626. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662512456347 (Original work published 2014)


Tateno, S. and Yokoyama, H. M. (2013). Public anxiety, trust, and the role of mediators in communicating risk of exposure to low dose radiation after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant explosion JCOM 12(02), A03. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.12020203


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