Science Barometer 2025: Attitudes toward science and research and the role of polarization
The Science Barometer continuously examines the public's interest, information behavior, and trust in science and research. The latest wave of the Science Barometer, with data from 2025, has now been published. In addition to assessing benefits and risks, this time the focus is on current areas of social tension: the 2025 survey focuses on social polarization and attitudes toward controversial research areas such as climate change, migration, gender-neutral language, and social inequality.
Since 2014, Wissenschaft im Dialog has been using the Science Barometer to collect representative data on the attitudes of citizens in Germany toward science and research on an annual basis. The Science Barometer is part of the GESIS Community Data Collection, in which data from the scientific community is processed, archived, and made available for scientific use.