Table 1.

Top 5 article co-citation bursts in the literature of scientific literacy between the years 1980 to 2019.

Authors and Year	Burst Size	Title	Highlights
Dickinson et al., 2012	38.74	The current state of citizen science as a tool for ecological research and public engagement	Strategic use of citizen science for socio-scientific issues to be addressed, public awareness and education, to appreciate sustainability and to involve non-scientists in scientific research
Roth and Barton, 2004	36.27	Rethinking Scientific Literacy: From Science Education as Propaedeutic to Participation in the Community	Urge to have community participation to build previously uninterested lifelong learning
Bell et al., 2009	28.39	Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits	Importance of learning science from the informal environment, the impact of venue and configuration of the learning environment, and the critical role of media.
Sadler, 2004	27.61	Informal Reasoning Regarding Socio-scientific Issues: A Critical Review of Research	The significance of the relationship between Nature of Science and socio-scientific issues-related decisions, use in curriculum, and argumentation.
Duschl et al., 2007	27.47	Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8	Examined K-8, and concluded to fundamentally revisit science education to improve foundations with the use of History and Philosophy of Science