biostudies-literatureMede NGNOMIS Stiftung (NOMIS Foundation)Austrian Science Fund FWFResnick Sustainability Institute for Science, Energy and Sustainability, California Institute of Technology (Resnick Institute)European Commission (EC)Victoria University of WellingtonBill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)Aston University (Aston)Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council)Trinity Western University (TWU)Universität Hamburg (University of Hamburg)John Templeton Foundation (JTF)Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy, and Communications | Bundesamt für Energie (Swiss Federal Office of Energy)Swiss National Science FoundationEuropean Research CouncilDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)Gouvernement du Canada | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada)Genome Canada (Génome Canada)Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond (Aarhus University Research Foundation)Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French National Research Agency)Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (French Community of Belgium)EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020)114https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11747281biostudies-literatureUnknown12(1)Science is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil society decision-making on issues such as public health, new technologies or climate change. Yet, public distrust and populist sentiment challenge the relationship between science and society. To help researchers analyse the science-society nexus across different geographical and cultural contexts, we undertook a cross-sectional population survey resulting in a dataset of 71,922 participants in 68 countries. The data were collected between November 2022 and August 2023 as part of the global Many Labs study "Trust in Science and Science-Related Populism" (TISP). The questionnaire contained comprehensive measures for individuals' trust in scientists, science-related populist attitudes, perceptioScientific dataPerceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries - the TISP dataset.PMC11747281n/aOPP1144RE 4752/1-12020-02584#61580ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02BE 3970/12-1202935#430-2022-00711FWFI3381964728 (JITSUVAX)101018262458303980AUFF-E-2019-9-13AUFF-E-2019-9-4P500PS_202935822166#62631De Peuter SLecuona OGrigoryev DSyropoulos SStrahm NGonzalez-Brambila CLindkvist AMGrimshaw GMAltenmuller MAli IMDziminska MRoss RMFriese MNwogwugwu DMotta MUzoma ICFage-Butler APoliakova KSpruyt BAlfano MBati KMonge-Rodriguez FNtui NVFeldhaus CStandaert OMitkidis PTokrri RKoivula ANitschke JPRasanen PTeran-Escobar CGhasemi ODubrov DMaibach EWvon Bubnoff AReynolds JPLevy NBerger SRoche JKuppens TMede NGStorms GBajrami ASantos ORego GGarrido Vasquez MELunz-Trujillo KPennington CRToribio-Florez DBardhan RZegler-Poleska EAmollo TPantazi MFan XStanley SKKlein OWintterlin FCagnoli FDelouvee SDouglas KMWojcik ADDohle SGallyamova ASpath LSantos RROreskes NRuin IVerheyen SElbaek CTKao JJBhatiya AYGatua WSchulreich SFarhart CAlsobay MUlug OMGoddard ECabrera-Alvarez PIslam MTDiaz-Catalan CCologna VBret ACallaghan TGenschow OKomyaginskaya EBesley JGloor JLLeviston ZFeuerriegel Svan der Linden SFaisal MZXia ZPfander JMetag JMudra ILopez-Ortega APalmer-Hague JSix JMayer SJFreundt JVlasceanu MEnke BHerziger AKabdulkair ZAdinugroho IJoubert MTsakiris MBertsou EAldoh AGollwitzer MPetkanopoulou KLantian AHaarstad HWestfal MCoksan SPronizius EAlvarez RMKoh HDi Stefano LWeber MLegal JBHuff MDries CMercier HSharaf AMarques MDPetrovic MMParnamets PRodder SKrouwel AGordon HHarari DMihelj SLazic ABilewicz MNamutebi JHawkins LNWarwas IAlabrese EPypno-Blajda KLopez-Villavicencio CValdez ACRebitschek FGOstermann TPisareva DHernandez-Mondragon ACvan Noord JBreeden KLoschel AParuzel-Czachura MKlabikova Rabova TJin TKonig LMilfont TLKrishnan PTyrala MBuchel OKavassalis SBetsch CSchafer MSSchmid PVilares IKotcher JEtienne TWIbadildin NFischer HDoell KCGuenther LGarrido-Vasquez PMcKay RAbdulsalam SPearson ARShuckburgh EEcker UKHIshibashi MMursic ZTanaka MJones CASolak NFerreira MOtterbring TLou NMSzumowska ECavalcante KKNKosachenko ACases RKZenklusen AKristiansen SHuang GCzarnek GKitsa MAmoako RDebnath RNewman EJShamsi NAGkinopoulos TXie JScoggins BAbdul Aziz NIKojan LToko AKApriliawati DKerr JRKranz LSFacciani MLits GRoer JPPavlov YGVarda CKyza EAElsherif MBhui RBialobrzeska OHurley MSzaszi BBouguettaya AAczel BSheria Nfundiko JJungkunz SAzevedo FFuglsang SKoppel LPloszaj AHensel PTodorova BBrick CWalker IParra Saiani PZwaan RAQuinones DMALamm CJurgiel DRefojo Seronero CPenner MAParzuchowski MAnsah PJeddi YLucas CHRauchfleisch AWeninger TMiller JMfalsePerceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries - the TISP dataset.Science is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil society decision-making on issues such as public health, new technologies or climate change. Yet, public distrust and populist sentiment challenge the relationship between science and society. To help researchers analyse the science-society nexus across different geographical and cultural contexts, we undertook a cross-sectional population survey resulting in a dataset of 71,922 participants in 68 countries. The data were collected between November 2022 and August 2023 as part of the global Many Labs study "Trust in Science and Science-Related Populism" (TISP). The questionnaire contained comprehensive measures for individuals' trust in scientists, science-related populist attitudes, perceptio2025-01-01T00:00:00Z2025 Jan2025-04-22T10:28:11.814Z2025-04-05T23:34:54.39ZS-EPMC117472813983324210.1038/s41597-024-04100-7