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Gordon Pennycook

Active 2011–2026

87
Papers
29,159
Citations
55
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Citations

Citations per year for Gordon Pennycook1938: 9 citations1983: 1 citations1985: 1 citations2000: 1 citations2004: 1 citations2005: 2 citations2007: 1 citations2009: 1 citations2012: 15 citations2013: 49 citations2014: 23 citations2015: 70 citations2016: 48 citations2017: 105 citations2018: 147 citations2019: 502 citations2020: 1,263 citations2021: 1,611 citations2022: 1,296 citations2023: 1,059 citations2024: 1,116 citations2025: 818 citations2026: 226 citations2027: 2 citations1939–1982: no citations, so these years are not shown1984: no citations, so this year is not shown1986–1999: no citations, so these years are not shown2001–2003: no citations, so these years are not shown2006: no citations, so this year is not shown2008: no citations, so this year is not shown2010–2011: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,912 citing papers, 23.3% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 680 citing papers, 8.3% of this breakdownChina: 515 citing papers, 6.3% of this breakdownGermany: 446 citing papers, 5.4% of this breakdownCanada: 350 citing papers, 4.3% of this breakdownAustralia: 333 citing papers, 4.1% of this breakdownItaly: 307 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownSpain: 223 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownNetherlands: 209 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownIndia: 186 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownFrance: 185 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 143 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Social Sciences60.5%
  • Psychology9.5%
  • Computer Science9.1%
  • Neuroscience4.1%
  • Medicine3.9%
  • Decision Sciences2.8%
  • Other10.1%

Topics

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts19.5%
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection6%
  • Social Media and Politics5.7%
  • Spam and Phishing Detection4.8%
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment4%
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health2.8%
  • Other57.2%

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  1. The science of fake news

    Authors: David M. J. Lazer, Matthew A. Baum, Yochai Benkler, Adam J. Berinsky, Kelly M. Greenhill, Filippo Menczer, Miriam J. Metzger, Brendan Nyhan, Gordon Pennycook, David M. Rothschild, Michael Schudson, Steven A. Sloman, Cass R. Sunstein, Emily A. Thorson, Duncan J. Watts, Jonathan L. Zittrain - Science 2018 cited by 3,924

  2. Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning

    Authors: Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand - Cognition 2018 cited by 1,985

  3. The Psychology of Fake News

    Authors: Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2020 cited by 1,200

  4. Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online

    Authors: Gordon Pennycook, Ziv Epstein, Mohsen Mosleh, Antonio A. Arechar, Dean Eckles, David G. Rand - Nature 2019 cited by 1,133

  5. The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings

    Authors: Gordon Pennycook, Adam Bear, Evan T. Collins, David G. Rand - Management Science, Manag. Sci. 2020 cited by 721

  6. Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention

    Authors: Gordon Pennycook, Jonathon McPhetres, Yunhao Zhang, Jackson G. Lu, David G. Rand - Psychological Science 2020 cited by 1,742

  7. Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality

    Authors: Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019 cited by 939

  8. Using Social and Behavioural Science to Support COVID-19 Pandemic Response

    Authors: Jay Joseph Van Bavel, Katherine Baicker, Paulo S. Boggio, Valerio Capraro, Aleksandra Cichocka, Mina Cikara, Molly J. Crockett, Alia J. Crum, Karen M. Douglas, James Druckman, John Drury, Oeindrila Dube, Naomi Ellemers, Eli J. Finkel, James H. Fowler, Michele J. Gelfand, Shihui Han, S. Alexander Haslam, Jolanda Jetten, Shinobu Kitayama, Dean Mobbs, Lucy E. Napper, Dominic J. Packer, Gordon Pennycook, Ellen Peters, Richard E. Petty, David G. Rand, Steve Reicher, Simone Schnall, Azim Shariff, Linda J. Skitka, Sandra Susan Smith, Cass R. Sunstein, Nassim Tabri, Joshua A. Tucker, Sander van der Linden, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Kim A. Weeden, Michael J. A. Wohl, Jamil Zaki, Sean R. Zion, Robb Willer - Nature Human Behaviour 2020 cited by 5,060

  9. Who falls for fake news? The roles of bullshit receptivity, overclaiming, familiarity, and analytic thinking

    Authors: Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand - Journal of Personality 2019 cited by 812

  10. Reliance on emotion promotes belief in fake news

    Authors: Cameron Martel, Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand - Cognitive Research Principles and Implications 2020 cited by 447

  11. Fake news, fast and slow: Deliberation reduces belief in false (but not true) news headlines.

    Authors: Bence Bagó, David G. Rand, Gordon Pennycook - Journal of Experimental Psychology General 2019 cited by 560

  12. Scaling Up Fact-Checking Using the Wisdom of Crowds

    Authors: Jennifer Allen, Antonio A. Arechar, Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand - Science Advances 2020 cited by 182

  13. Accuracy prompts are a replicable and generalizable approach for reducing the spread of misinformation

    Authors: Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand - Nature Communications 2022 cited by 244

  14. Exploring Lightweight Interventions at Posting Time to Reduce the Sharing of Misinformation on Social Media

    Authors: Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Amy X. Zhang, Adam J. Berinsky, Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand, David R. Karger - on Human-Computer Interaction, Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 2021 cited by 111

  15. Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation

    Authors: Anastasia Kozyreva, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Stefan M. Herzog, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ralph Hertwig, Ayesha Ali, Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Sarit Barzilai, Melisa Basol, Adam J. Berinsky, Cornelia Betsch, John Cook, Lisa K. Fazio, Michael Geers, Andrew M. Guess, Haifeng Huang, Horacio Larreguy, Rakoen Maertens, Folco Panizza, Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand, Steve Rathje, Jason Reifler, Philipp Schmid, Mark D. Smith, Briony Swire‐Thompson, Paula Szewach, Sander van der Linden, Sam Wineburg - Nature Human Behaviour 2024 cited by 160

  16. Timing matters when correcting fake news

    Authors: Nadia M. Brashier, Gordon Pennycook, Adam J. Berinsky, David G. Rand - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021 cited by 205

  17. A Practical Guide to Doing Behavioral Research on Fake News and Misinformation

    Authors: Gordon Pennycook, Jabin Binnendyk, Christie Newton, David G. Rand - Collabra Psychology 2021 cited by 168

  18. On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit

    Authors: Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek J. Koehler, Jonathan A. Fugelsang - Judgment and Decision Making 2015 cited by 556

  19. The brain in your pocket: Evidence that Smartphones are used to supplant thinking

    Authors: Nathaniel Barr, Gordon Pennycook, Jennifer A. Stolz, Jonathan A. Fugelsang - Computers in Human Behavior, Comput. Hum. Behav. 2015 cited by 311

  20. The social media context interferes with truth discernment

    Authors: Ziv Epstein, Nathaniel Sirlin, Antonio A. Arechar, Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand - Science Advances 2023 cited by 101

  21. What makes us think? A three-stage dual-process model of analytic engagement

    Authors: Gordon Pennycook, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, Derek J. Koehler - Cognitive Psychology 2015 cited by 483

  22. Intuition, reason, and metacognition

    Authors: Valerie A. Thompson, Jamie A. Prowse Turner, Gordon Pennycook - Cognitive Psychology 2011 cited by 694

  23. News from Generative Artificial Intelligence Is Believed Less

    Authors: Chiara Longoni, Andrey Fradkin, Luca Cian, Gordon Pennycook - ACM Conference on Fairness, FAccT 2021 cited by 101

  24. Will the Crowd Game the Algorithm?: Using Layperson Judgments to Combat Misinformation on Social Media by Downranking Distrusted Sources

    Authors: Ziv Epstein, Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand - CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019 cited by 67