This chapter reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the concept of credibility and
its areas of application relevant to information science and technology, encompassing …

This article reviews theoretical and empirical studies on information credibility, with
particular questions as to how scholars have conceptualized credibility, which is known as a …

Information seeking is an important part of people's everyday lives. To obtain information,
people use Web search engines, consult authorities, ask questions of friends, go to libraries …

Micro‐blogging websites (such as twitter), a new information channel, was widely reported
as outperforming the mainstream information channels in numerous ways during the …

The Internet is a significant information resource for students due to the ease of access it
allows to a vast amount of information. As the quality of the information on the Internet varies …

Introduction: We aim to create an in-depth understanding of how pupils in upper secondary
school negotiate the credibility and authority of information as part of their practices of …

Purpose-Citation is vital in academic writing but particularly challenging for novice writers
who use English as a second or foreign language. While much is known about citations …

This survey presents an overview of information retrieval, natural language processing and
machine learning research that makes use of forum data, including both discussion forums …

In a question answering (QA) system, each user interaction with the system is different and
since there are a variety of arguably correct answers to complex questions, identifying …

Introduction. This paper explores a sample of thirty-six active users' experience of credibility
judgments in Yahoo! Answers, the most popular social question and answer site in the US …