Sander van der Linden

33.1k total citations · 28 hit papers
215 papers, 14.7k citations indexed

About

Sander van der Linden is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Sander van der Linden has authored 215 papers receiving a total of 14.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 167 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 45 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 38 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Sander van der Linden's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (101 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (69 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (45 papers). Sander van der Linden is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (101 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (69 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (45 papers). Sander van der Linden collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Sander van der Linden's co-authors include Jon Roozenbeek, Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Alexandra L. J. Freeman, John R. Kerr, Anne Marthe van der Bles, Claudia R. Schneider, Sarah Dryhurst, Gabriel Recchia and David Spiegelhalter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sander van der Linden

202 papers receiving 14.1k citations

Hit Papers

Risk perceptions of COVID... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2020 2020 2014 2017 2015 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world
    2020 1.3k citations Sarah Dryhurst, Claudia R. Schneider et al. Journal of Risk Research profile →
  2. Susceptibility to misinformation about COVID-19 around the world
    2020 849 citations Jon Roozenbeek, Claudia R. Schneider et al. Royal Society Open Science profile →
  3. The social-psychological determinants of climate change risk perceptions: Towards a comprehensive model
    2014 737 citations Sander van der Linden profile →
  4. Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change
    2017 582 citations Sander van der Linden, Anthony Leiserowitz et al. profile →
  5. The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change as a Gateway Belief: Experimental Evidence
    2015 429 citations Sander van der Linden, Anthony Leiserowitz et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  6. Countering Misinformation and Fake News Through Inoculation and Prebunking
    2021 375 citations Stephan Lewandowsky, Sander van der Linden profile →
  7. Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation
    2019 363 citations Jon Roozenbeek, Sander van der Linden profile →
  8. Inoculating Against Fake News About COVID-19
    2020 331 citations Sander van der Linden, Jon Roozenbeek et al. profile →
  9. Improving Public Engagement With Climate Change
    2015 315 citations Sander van der Linden, Edward Maibach et al. profile →
  10. Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media
    2021 296 citations Steve Rathje, Jay Joseph Van Bavel et al. profile →
  11. Misinformation: susceptibility, spread, and interventions to immunize the public
    2022 296 citations Sander van der Linden profile →
  12. The fake news game: actively inoculating against the risk of misinformation
    2018 277 citations Jon Roozenbeek, Sander van der Linden Journal of Risk Research profile →
  13. Communicating uncertainty about facts, numbers and science
    2019 249 citations Anne Marthe van der Bles, Sander van der Linden et al. Royal Society Open Science profile →
  14. Political polarization on COVID-19 pandemic response in the United States
    2021 226 citations John R. Kerr, Sander van der Linden et al. profile →
  15. Good News about Bad News: Gamified Inoculation Boosts Confidence and Cognitive Immunity Against Fake News
    2020 215 citations Jon Roozenbeek, Sander van der Linden et al. profile →
  16. The effects of communicating uncertainty on public trust in facts and numbers
    2020 189 citations Anne Marthe van der Bles, Sander van der Linden et al. profile →
  17. Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media
    2022 181 citations Jon Roozenbeek, Sander van der Linden et al. Science Advances profile →
  18. Long-term effectiveness of inoculation against misinformation: Three longitudinal experiments.
    2020 178 citations Rakoen Maertens, Jon Roozenbeek et al. profile →
  19. COVID-19 risk perception: a longitudinal analysis of its predictors and associations with health protective behaviours in the United Kingdom
    2021 174 citations Claudia R. Schneider, Sarah Dryhurst et al. Journal of Risk Research profile →
  20. The Paranoid Style in American Politics Revisited: An Ideological Asymmetry in Conspiratorial Thinking
    2020 170 citations Sander van der Linden et al. profile →
  21. Discussing global warming leads to greater acceptance of climate science
    2019 158 citations Matthew H. Goldberg, Sander van der Linden et al. profile →
  22. Towards psychological herd immunity: Cross-cultural evidence for two prebunking interventions against COVID-19 misinformation
    2021 155 citations Jon Roozenbeek, Fatih Uenal et al. profile →
  23. The Greta Thunberg Effect: Familiarity with Greta Thunberg predicts intentions to engage in climate activism in the United States
    2021 131 citations Anandita Sabherwal, Matthew T. Ballew et al. Journal of Applied Social Psychology profile →
  24. Psychological Inoculation against Misinformation: Current Evidence and Future Directions
    2022 92 citations Cecilie S. Traberg, Jon Roozenbeek et al. profile →
  25. Field interventions for climate change mitigation behaviors: A second-order meta-analysis
    2023 92 citations Matthew H. Goldberg, Sander van der Linden et al. profile →
  26. The Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST): A psychometrically validated measure of news veracity discernment
    2023 52 citations Rakoen Maertens, Friedrich M. Götz et al. profile →
  27. Misinformation poses a bigger threat to democracy than you might think
    2024 36 citations Jon Roozenbeek, Sander van der Linden et al. profile →
  28. Psychological booster shots targeting memory increase long-term resistance against misinformation
    2025 10 citations Rakoen Maertens, Jon Roozenbeek et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sander van der Linden United Kingdom 61 10.1k 2.7k 2.5k 1.9k 1.5k 215 14.7k
James Druckman United States 61 11.0k 1.1× 6.0k 2.2× 1.1k 0.5× 608 0.3× 807 0.5× 223 18.7k
Jon A. Krosnick United States 80 12.7k 1.3× 3.6k 1.3× 1.4k 0.6× 896 0.5× 578 0.4× 203 22.9k
Stephan Lewandowsky Australia 71 10.6k 1.1× 3.2k 1.2× 1.0k 0.4× 2.5k 1.3× 3.4k 2.2× 352 21.1k
Matthew J. Hornsey Australia 57 8.8k 0.9× 968 0.4× 2.1k 0.8× 1.1k 0.6× 277 0.2× 214 12.8k
Ellen Peters United States 65 6.0k 0.6× 724 0.3× 1.3k 0.5× 545 0.3× 527 0.3× 216 16.7k
Dietram A. Scheufele United States 63 12.0k 1.2× 8.9k 3.3× 1.1k 0.4× 560 0.3× 1.2k 0.8× 245 18.9k
Jörg Matthes Austria 50 6.8k 0.7× 4.4k 1.6× 625 0.3× 298 0.2× 803 0.5× 299 13.0k
John Cook United States 28 5.3k 0.5× 1.8k 0.7× 791 0.3× 632 0.3× 949 0.6× 77 7.1k
Dan M. Kahan United States 38 6.5k 0.6× 1.1k 0.4× 1.9k 0.8× 574 0.3× 285 0.2× 138 8.8k
Dominique Brossard United States 52 5.9k 0.6× 3.3k 1.2× 698 0.3× 390 0.2× 672 0.4× 187 9.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sander van der Linden

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kyrychenko, Yara, et al.. (2025). Mapping the online manipulation economy. Science. 390(6778). 1112–1114.
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Rathje, Steve, Clara Pretus, Jon Roozenbeek, et al.. (2025). Unfollowing hyperpartisan social media influencers durably reduces out-party animosity. 1 indexed citations
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Maertens, Rakoen, Jon Roozenbeek, Jon S. Simons, et al.. (2025). Psychological booster shots targeting memory increase long-term resistance against misinformation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2062–2062. 10 indexed citations breakdown →
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Roozenbeek, Jon, Jana Lasser, Melanie Marks, et al.. (2025). Misinformation interventions and online sharing behaviour: lessons learned from two pre-registered field studies. Royal Society Open Science. 12(11). 251377–251377.
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Berger, Sebastian, et al.. (2025). Measuring belief in climate change with a single item. PsychOpen Gold (Leibniz Institute for Psychology). 3.
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Götz, Friedrich M., Rakoen Maertens, Sahil Loomba, & Sander van der Linden. (2023). Let the algorithm speak: How to use neural networks for automatic item generation in psychological scale development.. Psychological Methods. 29(3). 494–518. 27 indexed citations
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Kerr, John R., Anne Marthe van der Bles, Sarah Dryhurst, et al.. (2023). The effects of communicating uncertainty around statistics, on public trust. Royal Society Open Science. 10(11). 230604–230604. 9 indexed citations
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Roozenbeek, Jon, Cecilie S. Traberg, & Sander van der Linden. (2022). Technique-based inoculation against real-world misinformation. Royal Society Open Science. 9(5). 211719–211719. 34 indexed citations
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Goldberg, Matthew H., Abel Gustafson, Sander van der Linden, Seth A. Rosenthal, & Anthony Leiserowitz. (2022). Communicating the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: Diverse Audiences and Effects Over Time. Environment and Behavior. 54(7-8). 1133–1165. 24 indexed citations
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Schneider, Claudia R., Alexandra L. J. Freeman, David Spiegelhalter, & Sander van der Linden. (2022). The effects of communicating scientific uncertainty on trust and decision making in a public health context. Judgment and Decision Making. 17(4). 849–882. 13 indexed citations
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Roozenbeek, Jon, Sander van der Linden, Beth Goldberg, Steve Rathje, & Stephan Lewandowsky. (2022). Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media. Science Advances. 8(34). eabo6254–eabo6254. 181 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schneider, Claudia R., Alexandra L. J. Freeman, David Spiegelhalter, & Sander van der Linden. (2021). The effects of quality of evidence communication on perception of public health information about COVID-19: Two randomised controlled trials. PLoS ONE. 16(11). e0259048–e0259048. 16 indexed citations
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Sabherwal, Anandita, Matthew T. Ballew, Sander van der Linden, et al.. (2021). The Greta Thunberg Effect: Familiarity with Greta Thunberg predicts intentions to engage in climate activism in the United States. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 51(4). 321–333. 131 indexed citations breakdown →
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Uenal, Fatih, Jim Sidanius, & Sander van der Linden. (2021). Social and ecological dominance orientations: Two sides of the same coin? Social and ecological dominance orientations predict decreased support for climate change mitigation policies. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 25(6). 1555–1576. 12 indexed citations
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Dryhurst, Sarah, Claudia R. Schneider, John R. Kerr, et al.. (2020). Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world. Journal of Risk Research. 23(7-8). 994–1006. 1254 indexed citations breakdown →
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Linden, Sander van der, Edward Maibach, John Cook, et al.. (2017). Culture versus cognition is a false dilemma. Nature Climate Change. 7(7). 457–457. 31 indexed citations
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Linden, Sander van der, et al.. (2016). Changing Norms by Changing Behavior: The Princeton Drink Local Program. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Linden, Sander van der, et al.. (2015). Why the "new statistics" isn't new. Psychologist. 28(8). 2 indexed citations
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Linden, Sander van der, et al.. (2015). Within, Between, or Both? Unbiased Estimation of Experimental Treatment Effects Using the Difference in Difference (DiD) Estimator. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Linden, Sander van der. (2013). What a Hoax: Why people believe in conspiracy theories. Scientific American Mind. 24(4). e059915–e059915. 7 indexed citations

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