Keyword

source evaluation

Description: The process of assessing an information source’s credibility, relevance, accuracy, and purpose, commonly used in research and information literacy.

Primary topic: Library Science and Information Literacy (77%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q2122746

OpenAlex ID: keywords/source-evaluation

How do consumers search for and appraise health information on the world wide web? Qualitative study using focus groups, usability tests, and in-depth interviews

2002 · G. Eysenbach · BMJ · 1,918

Credibility and trust of information in online environments: The use of cognitive heuristics

2013 · Miriam J. Metzger, Andrew J. Flanagin · Journal of Pragmatics · 994

Wag the Blog: How Reliance on Traditional Media and the Internet Influence Credibility Perceptions of Weblogs Among Blog Users

2004 · Thomas J. Johnson, Barbara K. Kaye · Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly · 715

Social Media as Information Source: Recency of Updates and Credibility of Information

2013 · David Westerman, Patric R. Spence, et al. · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication · 707

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Judgment of information quality and cognitive authority in the Web

2001 · Soo Young Rieh · Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · 613

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Developing a unifying framework of credibility assessment: Construct, heuristics, and interaction in context

2007 · Brian Hilligoss, Soo Young Rieh · Information Processing & Management · 609

Judgment of information quality and cognitive authority in the Web

2002 · Soo Young Rieh · Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · 585

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Source Evaluation, Comprehension, and Learning in Internet Science Inquiry Tasks

2009 · Jennifer Wiley, Susan R. Goldman, et al. · American Educational Research Journal · 419

When do consumers buy online product reviews? Effects of review quality, product type, and reviewer’s photo

2013 · Eun-Ju Lee, Soo Yun Shin · Computers in Human Behavior · 380

Measuring Laypeople’s Trust in Experts in a Digital Age: The Muenster Epistemic Trustworthiness Inventory (METI)

2015 · Friederike Hendriks, Dorothe Kienhues, et al. · PLoS ONE · 372

Critical Thinking Skills: Developing Effective Analysis and Argument

2005 · Stella Cottrell · 330

Knowledge producers or knowledge consumers? Argumentation and decision making about environmental management

2002 · Maria-Pilar Jime´nez-Aleixandre · International Journal of Science Education · 320

Audiences’ acts of authentication in the age of fake news: A conceptual framework

2017 · Edson C Tandoc, Richard Ling, et al. · New Media & Society · 312

How students evaluate information and sources when searching the World Wide Web for information

2008 · Amber Walraven, Saskia Brand-Gruwel, et al. · Computers & Education · 300

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COVID-19 Misinformation Online and Health Literacy: A Brief Overview

2021 · Salman Bin Naeem, Maged N. Kamel Boulos · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 295

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Health Information Literacy and Competencies of Information Age Students: Results From the Interactive Online Research Readiness Self-Assessment (RRSA)

2006 · Lana Ivanitskaya, Irene O’Boyle, et al. · Journal of Medical Internet Research · 270

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'To trust or not to trust,…'-pupils' ways of judging information encountered in a socio-scientific issue

2001 · Stein Dankert Kolstø · International Journal of Science Education · 269

Measuring critical components of digital literacy and their relationships with learning

2014 · Jeffrey Alan Greene, Seung B. Yu, et al. · Computers & Education · 260

Adolescents Searching for Health Information on the Internet: An Observational Study

2003 · Derek L Hansen, Holly A Derry, et al. · Journal of Medical Internet Research · 257

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Trust Matters: Examining the Role of Source Evaluation in Students' Construction of Meaning Within and Across Multiple Texts

2009 · Ivar Bråten, Helge I. Strømsø, et al. · Reading Research Quarterly · 255

Studying and Using Multiple Documents in History: Effects of Discipline Expertise

1997 · Jean-François Rouet, Monik Favart, et al. · Cognition and Instruction · 248

Trust and mistrust when students read multiple information sources about climate change

2010 · Ivar Bråten, Helge I. Strømsø, et al. · Learning and Instruction · 241

Epistemic Thinking in Action: Evaluating and Integrating Online Sources

2012 · Sarit Barzilai, Anat Zohar · Cognition and Instruction · 240

Multiple-documents literacy: Strategic processing, source awareness, and argumentation when reading multiple conflicting documents

2013 · Øistein Anmarkrud, Ivar Bråten, et al. · Learning and Individual Differences · 236

An empirical examination of Wikipedia's credibility

2006 · Thomas Chesney · First Monday · 230

Works count: 32,340

Citation count: 40,070