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This editorial provides an overview of the key statistics for Volume 5 (2024) of the HKS Misinformation Review, including submission and acceptance rates, accepted article types, publication speed and frequency, citation impact, most-viewed articles, engagement and readership, as well as author and reviewer demographics.

In this editorial, we share some of the journal’s key statistics for 2021, including acceptance rate, processing and publication times, and other useful data. 

By Natascha Chtena

Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University, USA

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In 2021, we received 109 submissions in total, which included 85 research articles, 18 commentaries, and 6 research notes.

Addendum to HKS Misinformation Review “Research note: Examining potential bias in large-scale censored data” (https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-74), published on July 26, 2021.

By Jennifer Allen

Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Markus Mobius

Microsoft Research, USA

David M. Rothschild

Microsoft Research, USA

Duncan J.

The HKS Misinformation Review retracts the article “Disinformation creep: ADOS and the strategic weaponization of breaking news”(https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-52), which was published in the journal on January 18, 2021. 

By HKS Misinformation Review Editorial Staff

After concerns were brought to our attention by the organization that is the object of the study, challenging the validity of the findings reported by Nkonde et al.,

This special issue is designed to place our contemporary post-truth impasse in historical perspective. Drawing comparisons to the Propaganda Analysis research paradigm of the Interwar years, this essay and issue call attention to historical similarities between patterns in mass communication research then and now.

Volume 1, Issue 8 Editorial

By Natascha Chtena

Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University, USA

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As we enter 2021, the HKS Misinformation Review completes its first year as a journal dedicated to publishing work of the highest quality from across the misinformation field on a compressed publication schedule.

Volume 1, Issue 6 Editorial

By Irene Pasquetto

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The title “All disinformation is local” was inspired by a tweet of Joan Donovan, on September 29th 2020

On September 1st, the leadership of the HKS Misinformation Review officially passed to Dr.

Special Issue on COVID-19 & Misinfodemics, Guest-Editors’ Editorial.

By Meghan McGinty

Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, USA

Nat Gyenes

Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, USA

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On January 7th, 2020, Chinese authorities identified a new type of coronavirus, which was subsequently named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).1https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200121-sitrep-1-2019-ncov.pdf?sfvrsn=20a99c10_4

Volume 1, Issue 1 Editorial

By Irene Pasquetto

For the scope of this publication, we use the term “misinformation” to refer to all kinds of false or inaccurate information, independently from the fact that such information was deliberately created and spread to deceive.