Perceptions of credibility of scholarly information on the Web

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1027-1038

  Liu, Ziming ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Credibility assessment; Scholarly information; The World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENT; SCHOLARLY INFORMATION; SOURCE CREDIBILITY; WEB SYSTEMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 2942654799     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(03)00064-5     Document Type: Article

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