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Most cited papers in Misinformation and Its Impacts
What are the most cited papers in Misinformation and Its Impacts?
The most cited paper in Misinformation and Its Impacts is "The spread of true and false news online" (Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Kumar Roy, Sinan Aral, 2018), with 8,825 citations. Next come "Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election" (6,749) and "What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?" (6,728).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,087 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The spread of true and false news online Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Kumar Roy, Sinan Aral · Science | 8 Mar 2018 | 8,825 |
| 2 | Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election Hunt Allcott, Matthew Aaron Gentzkow · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | May 2017 | 6,749 |
| 3 | What is Twitter, a social network or a news media? Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park et al. | 26 Apr 2010 | 6,728 |
| 4 | The Matthew Effect in Science Robert Κ. Merton · Science | 5 Jan 1968 | 6,530 |
| 5 | Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception Heinz Wimmer · Cognition | 1983 | 6,373 |
| 6 | Vaccine hesitancy: Definition, scope and determinants Noni E. MacDonald · Vaccine | 17 Apr 2015 | 5,786 |
| 7 | Heuristic versus systematic information processing and the use of source versus message cues in persuasion. Shelly Chaiken · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Nov 1980 | 5,304 |
| 8 | The Matthew effect in science. The reward and communication systems of science are considered. Robert Κ. Merton · PubMed | 5 Jan 1968 | 4,882 |
| 9 | Compliance, identification, and internalization three processes of attitude change Herbert C. Kelman · Journal of Conflict Resolution | Mar 1958 | 3,798 |
| 10 | Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks Adam D. I. Kramer, Jamie E. Guillory, Jeffrey T. Hancock · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 Jun 2014 | 3,752 |
| 11 | The Influence of Source Credibility on Communication Effectiveness Carl I. Hovland, Walter Weiss · Public Opinion Quarterly | 1951 | 3,536 |
| 12 | Fake News Detection on Social Media Kai Shu, Amy L. Sliva, Suhang Wang et al. · ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter | Sep 2017 | 3,290 |
| 13 | When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions Brendan J Nyhan, Jason Reifler · Political Behavior | 29 Mar 2010 | 3,228 |
| 14 | What Makes Online Content Viral? Jonah A. Berger, Katherine L. Milkman · Journal of Marketing Research | 22 Nov 2011 | 3,194 |
| 15 | A global survey of potential acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine Jeffrey Victor Lazarus, Scott C. Ratzan, Adam Palayew et al. · Nature Medicine | 20 Oct 2020 | 3,081 |
| 16 | The ‘digital natives’ debate: A critical review of the evidence Sue Bennett, Karl Maton, Lisa K. Kervin · British Journal of Educational Technology | 6 Feb 2008 | 2,960 |
| 17 | Misinformation and Its Correction Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Colleen M. Seifert et al. · Gothic.net | 17 Sep 2012 | 2,946 |
| 18 | Predicting Elections with Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal about Political Sentiment Andranik Tumasjan, Timm O. Sprenger, Philipp Sandner et al. · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media | 16 May 2010 | 2,691 |
| 19 | Information credibility on twitter Carlos Cortes Castillo, Marcelo Mendoza, Bárbara Poblete | 28 Mar 2011 | 2,514 |
| 20 | The spreading of misinformation online Michela Del Vicario, Alessandro Bessi, Fabiana Zollo et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 4 Jan 2016 | 2,444 |
| 21 | Cues to deception. Bella M. DePaulo, James J. Lindsay, Brian E. Malone et al. · Psychological Bulletin | 2003 | 2,429 |
| 22 | Measuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices With Incentives for Truth Telling Leslie K. John, George F. Loewenstein, Dražen Prelec · Psychological Science | 16 Apr 2012 | 2,374 |
| 23 | Vaccine hesitancy Ève Dubé, Caroline Laberge, Maryse Guay et al. · Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics | 11 Jul 2013 | 2,263 |
| 24 | The Persuasiveness of Source Credibility: A Critical Review of Five Decades' Evidence Chanthika Pornpitakpan · Journal of Applied Social Psychology | Feb 2004 | 2,225 |
| 25 | Defining “Fake News” Edson C. Tandoc, Zheng Wei Lim, Richard S. Ling · Digital Journalism | 30 Aug 2017 | 2,162 |
| 26 | Predicting the Future with Social Media Sitaram Asur, Bernardo A. Huberman | Aug 2010 | 2,074 |
| 27 | The echo chamber effect on social media Matteo Cinelli, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Alessandro Galeazzi et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 23 Feb 2021 | 2,068 |
| 28 | Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning Gordon Pennycook, David Gertler Rand · Cognition | 20 Jun 2018 | 2,066 |
| 29 | 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 | 12 Oct 2017 | 2,008 |
| 30 | Accuracy of Deception Judgments Charles F. Bond, Bella M. DePaulo · Personality and Social Psychology Review | 21 Jul 2006 | 1,978 |
| 31 | oTree—An open-source platform for laboratory, online, and field experiments Daniel L. Chen, Martin Schonger, Chris D. Wickens · Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance | 19 Jan 2016 | 1,968 |
| 32 | Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world Sarah Dryhurst, Claudia R. Schneider, John Richard Kerr et al. · Journal of Risk Research | 5 May 2020 | 1,910 |
| 33 | The Impact of COVID-19 Epidemic Declaration on Psychological Consequences: A Study on Active Weibo Users Sijia Li, Yilin Wang, Jia Xue et al. · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 19 Mar 2020 | 1,905 |
| 34 | Systematic Literature Review on the Spread of Health-related Misinformation on Social Media Yuxi Wang, Martin McKee, Aleksandra Torbica et al. · Social Science & Medicine | 18 Sep 2019 | 1,885 |
| 35 | Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA Sahil Loomba, Alexandre de Figueiredo, Simon J. Piatek et al. · Nature Human Behaviour | 5 Feb 2021 | 1,880 |
| 36 | Privacy and human behavior in the age of information Alessandro Acquisti, Laura Brandimarte, George F. Loewenstein · Science | 29 Jan 2015 | 1,879 |
| 37 | Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election Nir Grinberg, Kenneth Joseph, Lisa Friedland et al. · Science | 24 Jan 2019 | 1,870 |
| 38 | Vaccine hesitancy: the next challenge in the fight against COVID-19 Amiel A. Dror, Netanel Eisenbach, Shahar Taiber et al. · European Journal of Epidemiology | Aug 2020 | 1,792 |
| 39 | Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention Gordon Pennycook, Jonathon McPhetres, Yunhao Zhang et al. · Psychological Science | 30 Jun 2020 | 1,792 |
| 40 | Attentive Turkers: MTurk participants perform better on online attention checks than do subject pool participants David Hauser, Norbert Schwarz · Behavior Research Methods | 11 Mar 2015 | 1,791 |
| 41 | Separate but equal? A comparison of participants and data gathered via Amazon’s MTurk, social media, and face-to-face behavioral testing Krista Casler, Lydia Bickel, Elizabeth Hackett · Computers in Human Behavior | 31 May 2013 | 1,716 |
| 42 | Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips Betsy Sparrow, Jenny Liu, Daniel M. Wegner · Science | 14 Jul 2011 | 1,706 |
| 43 | Epistemic Vigilance Dan Sperber, Fabrice Clément, Christophe Heintz et al. · Mind & Language | 20 Aug 2010 | 1,697 |
| 44 | The COVID-19 social media infodemic Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi, Alessandro Galeazzi et al. · Scientific Reports | 6 Oct 2020 | 1,696 |
| 45 | Less than you think: Prevalence and predictors of fake news dissemination on Facebook Andrew M. Guess, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua Aaron Tucker · Science Advances | 4 Jan 2019 | 1,688 |
| 46 | Reputation as a sufficient condition for data quality on Amazon Mechanical Turk Eyal Peer, Joachim Vosgerau, Alessandro Acquisti · Behavior Research Methods | 19 Dec 2013 | 1,644 |
| 47 | The rise of social bots Emilio Ferrara, Onur Varol, Clayton Davis et al. · Communications of the ACM | 24 Jun 2016 | 1,620 |
| 48 | Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) Jalal Suliman Alowibdi, Abdulrahman A. Alshdadi, Ali Yusny Daud et al. · International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems | Apr 2021 | 1,618 |
| 49 | Prevalence of Health Misinformation on Social Media: Systematic Review Víctor Suárez-Lledó, Javier Álvarez‐Gálvez · Journal of Medical Internet Research | 30 Oct 2020 | 1,587 |
| 50 | Meme-tracking and the dynamics of the news cycle Jure Leskovec, Lars Bäckström, Jon Kleinberg | 28 Jun 2009 | 1,573 |
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