Factual accuracy and trust in information: The role of expertise

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1232-1242

  Lucassen, Teun ^a   Schraagen, Jan Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN EXPERTISE; DOMAIN EXPERTS; END USERS; INTERNET USERS; NEW MODEL; ONLINE EXPERIMENT; SEMANTIC FEATURES; SURFACE FEATURE; USER CHARACTERISTICS; WIKIPEDIA;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 79959466793     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21545     Document Type: Article

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