Jevin D. West
Jevin West

Jevin West
I am an Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington and currently a visiting associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Information. I co-founded the Center for an Informed Public. I study the Science of Science and worry about the spread of misinformation. My laboratory consists of the millions of scholarly papers and public posts about science. I develop knowledge discovery tools to facilitate and study science, with a particular interest in how sociological and economic factors drive and slow the evolution of science.

Center for an Informed PublicCenter for an Informed Public
Calling BullshitCalling Bullshit
Science of ScienceEigenfactor.org

Announcements
  • I am a visiting professor at UC Berkeley Winter Semester, 2024.
  • I am always looking for students and postdocs to join the lab. Please feel free to email me and we can discuss open positions.
Publications
  • Perceived experts are prevalent and influential within an antivaccine community on Twitter. (2024) PNAS Nexus. PDF
  • Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation. (2022) Nature Human Behavior. PDF and accompanying Perspective.
  • Auditing Google's Search Headlines as a Potential Gateway to Misleading Content: Evidence from the 2020 US Election. (2022) Journal of Online Trust and Safety. PDF
  • Misinformation in and about science. (2021) Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. PDF
  • How do you solve a problem like misinformation? (2021) Science Advances. PDF
  • The chatbot era: Better or worse off? (2023) Seattle Times. HTML
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