The PCST conference is an important conference in the field of science communication. The metrology research on the papers of PCST conferences could help to obtain a glimpse of the characteristics and hot spots of science communication research. There were 1954 papers, 3536 author’s names and 2479 communication information after the papers were sorted out. The frequency of distributions of author’s name, author’s country, author’s affiliations and keywords were analyzed. We can see it from the sorted document that most of the authors had only one signature. Nearly 90% papers were from 25 countries, mainly coming from India, China, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. Over 90% papers were from universities, research institutions and government agencies. The themes were not so concentrated, and the keywords distributions was not that focused.

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