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Misinformation Literacy

Misinformation Literacy is a cognitive-educational construct that denotes the ability to critically identify, evaluate, and resist false or misleading information in digital environments through informed judgment and source appraisal.

143

Publications

11.4K

Citations

356

Authors

207

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

120

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Publications

143

Beyond misinformation: Understanding and coping with the “post-truth” era.

Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, John Cook · Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition · 2017 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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Does Media Literacy Help Identification of Fake News? Information Literacy Helps, but Other Literacies Don’t

S. Mo Jones-Jang, Tara Marie Mortensen, Jingjing Liu · American Behavioral Scientist · 2019 · 648 citations

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Defining Misinformation and Understanding its Bounded Nature: Using Expertise and Evidence for Describing Misinformation

Emily K. Vraga, Leticia Bode · Political Communication · 2020 · 442 citations

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Aging in an Era of Fake News

Nadia M. Brashier, Daniel L. Schacter · Current Directions in Psychological Science · 2020 · 339 citations · Full text

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Lateral Reading and the Nature of Expertise: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information

Sam Wineburg, Sarah McGrew · Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education · 2019 · 334 citations

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Authors

356

  1. GP
    Gordon Pennycook

    University of Regina, Canada

    6 publications · 547 citations

    6

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  2. SL
    Stephan Lewandowsky

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    6 publications · 2.5K citations

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  3. DG
    David G. Rand

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    6 publications · 547 citations

    6

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  4. AJ
    Adam J. Berinsky

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    6 publications · 547 citations

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  5. EK
    Emily K. Vraga

    George Mason University, United States

    6 publications · 891 citations

    6

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Institutions

207

  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    8 h-index

    14 publications

    1.5K citations

  2. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    963 citations

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    6 h-index

    26 publications

    2.4K citations

  4. Georgetown University

    Washington, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    876 citations

  5. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    543 citations

  6. University of Regina

    Regina, Canada

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    429 citations

  7. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    660 citations

  8. The University of Western Australia

    Perth, Australia

    5 h-index

    11 publications

    5K citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

    JARMAC · 4 publications · 2.3K citations

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  2. New Media & Society

    3 publications · 230 citations

    3

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  3. Nature Human Behaviour

    3 publications · 443 citations

    3

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  4. Computers in Human Behavior

    3 publications · 244 citations

    3

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  5. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review

    3 publications · 107 citations

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