...Elaine Kong Purpose This paper reviews how trust, credibility, and cognitive authority are understood in research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) information practices among Chinese immigrant cancer survivors. It argues that this literature is best understood as a process...

...://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Trust Credibility Cognitive authority Academic web profiles Academic social networking sites Researchers Framework ResearchGate Academia.edu Researchers, as well as many other professional groups, experience expectations from their employers...

.../licences/by/4.0/legalcode This study examines the information literacy practices of young video bloggers, focusing on the ways in which they construct their cognitive authority through a health-related information creation process. This study draws upon socially oriented information...

...Noora Hirvonen; Alisa Tirroniemi; Terttu Kortelainen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of one particular online discussion forum as a potentially authoritative health information source for its users. The concept of cognitive authority is used as a starting point...