AILab’s Ioannis Katakis along with Karl Aberer (EPFL), Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen (Griffith University) and Hongzhi Yin (The University of Queensland) are editing a special issue on misinformation on the web that will be published in the Journal of Information Systems, one of the top-tier journals in Databases and Data-Driven Applications. This special issue seeks high-quality and original papers that advance the concepts, methods, and theories of misinformation detection as well as address the mechanisms, strategies and techniques for misinformation interventions. Topics include:
- Fake news, social bots, misinformation, and disinformation on social data
- Misinformation, opinion dynamics and polarization in social data
- Online misbehavior (scams, deception, and click-bait) and its relation to misinformation
- Information/Misinformation diffusion
- Credibility and reputation of news sources, social data, and crowdsourced data
and many more.The timeline of the special issue is the following:
Submission: 1st August 2020
First Round Notification: 1st October 2020
First Round Revisions: 1st December 2020
Second Round Notification: 1st February 2021
Final Submission: 1st March 2021
Publication: second quarter, 2021
Please find more information or submit your paper here:
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-misinformation-on-the-web