Assessing the Readiness of Academia in the Topic of False and Unverified Information

• DOI: 10.1145/3313788
• Publication Date: 2019-08-21T11:40:27Z
• Authors: Amir Ebrahimi Fard; Scott Cunningham
• Keywords: 05 social sciences; 0509 other social sciences

The spread of false and unverified information has the potential to inflict damage by harming reputation individuals or organisations, shaking financial markets, influencing crowd decisions in important events. This phenomenon needs be properly curbed, otherwise it can contaminate other aspects our social life. In this regard, academia as a key institution against is expected play pivotal role. Despite great deal research arena, amount progress not clear yet. lead misjudgements about performance topic interest that ultimately result wrong science policies regarding academic efforts for quelling information. research, we address issue assessing readiness To end, adopt emergence framework measure its dimensions (novelty, growth, coherence, impact) over more than 21,000 articles published Our results show current body had organic growth so far, which promising enough confronting problem tackle problem, suggest an external push strategy that, compared early stages interest, reinforces leads higher level every dimension.