Table 1.
The literature on information credibility.
| Source | Context | Predictors of information credibility |
|---|---|---|
| Online information credibility | ||
| Fogg (2003) | Online information credibility | Message content: involvement, topic, task, and experience Other factors: assumptions in users’ minds, skill/knowledge, and context |
| Cheung et al. (2009) | Credibility of electronic word-of-mouth | Message content: argument strength, recommendation framing, recommendation sidedness, and confirmation with prior beliefs Sender-related factor: source credibility Normative determinants: recommendation consistency, and recommendation rating |
| Cheung et al. (2012) | Online review credibility | Message content: argument quality, review consistency, and review sidedness Sender-related factor: source credibility |
| Qiu et al. (2012) | Credibility of electronic word-of-mouth | Message content: conflicting aggregated rating |
| Jung et al. (2016) | Online diet-nutrition information credibility web sites | Message content: message accuracy Sender-related factor: source expertise |
| Thon and Jucks (2017) | Online health information credibility | Sender-related factor: medical vs. nonmedical, authors’ language use (technical vs. every day) |
| Information credibility on social media | ||
| Xie et al. (2016) | Information credibility on microblogs | Sender-related factor: gatekeeping behavior of microblog users |
| Shariff et al. (2017) | Credibility evaluation of news on Twitter | Readers’ features: educational background and geo-location Message content: topic keyword, alert phrase, and writing style |
| Borah and Xiao (2018) | Health information credibility on Facebook | Message content: message framing (gain vs. loss), and social endorsement (high vs. low) Sender-related factor: expert vs. non-expert |
| Yin et al. (2018) | Microblog information credibility | Sender-related factor: microblog platform credibility, source credibility, and social endorsement Message format: vividness |
| Aladhadh et al. (2019) | Information credibility on social media | Sender-related factor: the distance between an information source and the event |
| Cooley and Parks-Yancy (2019) | Product information credibility on social media | Sender-related factor: celebrities, influencers, and people whom consumers know |
| Song, Zhao, Song and Zhu (2019) | Credibility of health rumors on social media | Message content: quality cues, attractiveness cues, and affective polarity |