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Studies of the credibility of sources is a key research focus in the communication field, especially in journalism. Given the increase in misinformation as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, source credibility is crucial for people to contrast news stories in an infodemic context. Our research, based on a demographic study (N = 2007) carried out in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic, used a multifactor news credibility indicator to explore how different types of sources affected the perceived credibility of a fake news item on COVID-19 in the written digital press format. We also performed a cluster analysis to determine the subgroups profiled according to key sociodemographic variables (age, gender, and education). Our results indicate that expert and political sources had a null effect on news credibility, while citizen and celebrity sources had a clear negative effect. Furthermore, our fake news story that did not cite sources was awarded a positive level of credibility. We also found that age, gender, and education level were statistically significant in their association with news credibility.
(2023) Martí-Danés, Aleix
; Besalú Casademont, Reinald, 1983-; Pont Sorribes, Carles
; Gómez-Puertas, LorenaResearch shows that as toddlers' vocabularies expand, words in the early lexicon become increasingly interconnected through shared phonological and semantic features. Understanding how these dimensions jointly shape lexical organization is central to theories of early spoken word recognition. The present study investigated how the simultaneous presence of phonological and semantic similarity between nouns influences lexical activation during spoken word recognition. We presented 21-month-old English monolinguals with an intermodal preferential looking task adapted to a priming paradigm while their eye movements were recorded with an eye-tracker. Participants heard a spoken noun (prime) followed by a related or unrelated spoken noun (target). The experiment included three conditions: Phonologically Related, where prime-target pairs share the initial phonemes (e.g., toe-toast); Phono-Semantically Related, where prime-target pairs share the initial phonemes and belong to the same semantic category (e.g., turkey-turtle); and Unrelated, where prime-target pairs do not share the initial phonemes and do not belong to the same semantic category (e.g ., bubble-toast and box-turtle). Results revealed two key findings: (1) Targets in the Phonologically Related condition elicited significantly fewer looks than the Unrelated condition, suggesting phonological interference. (2) Targets in the Phono-Semantically Related condition elicited significantly more looks than both the Unrelated and Phonologically Related conditions, indicating strong facilitation when both cues are present. Additionally, girls demonstrated more pronounced word recognition than boys. This study extends our understanding of the interactive roles of phonological and semantic cues, as well as sex differences, in mental lexical organization among young toddlers.
(2026) Avila-Varela, Daniela S.; Cabiddu, Francesco; Escrichs, Anira
; Luegi, Paula; Veríssimo, João
; Jones, Gary Este informe, enmarcado en el Objetivo de monitorización de la ciencia abierta de la Línea 2 de REBIUN para el 2025, presenta la Medición del Acceso Abierto en las universidades españolas y en el CSIC del periodo 2020-2024. Los datos del período 2020-2024 indican que la publicación en acceso abierto en España está claramente consolidada, oscilando de forma sostenida en un rango del 70–80 %. En 2024, el porcentaje alcanzó el 75,6 %, un valor alineado con los años precedentes, aunque ligeramente inferior al máximo de 2022 con un 81%. Al igual que en resultados anteriores, esta tendencia se ve impulsada por diversos factores: el marco legislativo y las políticas de fomento de la Ciencia Abierta, los acuerdos transformativos CRUE-CSIC iniciados en 2021, y los firmados por universidades o consorcios con otras editoriales. Asimismo, los nuevos criterios de las agencias de financiación introducidos en 2023 están reforzando positivamente esta evolución. Como en el estudio anterior (2024), se usan los datos extraídos de OpenAlex a partir del identificador de cada universidad y de los centros del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). En esta edición se ha empleado la versión Walden, operativa desde principios de noviembre de 2025, que ofrece un volumen de resultados muy superior y una mayor frecuencia de actualización. De acuerdo con la tendencia de años anteriores y los datos referentes al periodo 2020-2024 puede decirse que el acceso abierto a las publicaciones resultado de la investigación de las universidades y CSIC está claramente consolidado. Todos los conjuntos de datos (datasets) y código están disponibles en acceso abierto en el repositorio e-cienciaDatos en la siguiente URI: https://doi.org/10.21950/SDYKFX
(2026) Amigot, Ana; Bonora, Laura; Calzas, Isabel; Casaldàliga Riera, Anna; Losada Yáñez, Marina; Melero, Reme; Moreno, Alexis; Ortiz Uceta, Eva; Pallarès, Jordi; Ribes, Inma; Rovira Fernàndez, Anna; Santanach López, Bruna (2026) Corbella, Joan M
(2026) José i Solsona, Carles