Abstract:In the era of convergent media, studying the key factors affecting the dissemination of short videos of popular science will help popular science workers create high-quality popular science works. Based on the “Addiction Model”, this paper proposed a communication effect calculation formula with the help of the entropy weight method, and used the content analysis method to build a popular science short video communication effect model. The research results showed that some independent variables of trigger, action, and investment in the “addiction model” had a significant impact on the dissemination effect of popular science short videos; there was no significant effect between the independent variables of reward dimension and the dissemination effect. Therefore, making full use of the audience's herd mentality, strengthening the effective cooperation between creators, and balancing the public welfare and utilitarian nature of popular science short videos will be conducive to the in-depth development of short video science popularization.