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Sander van der Linden

Sander van der Linden

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
73
Citations
28873
World Ranking
1927
National Ranking
217

Sander van der Linden publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sander van der Linden sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 199 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Sander van der Linden D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sander van der Linden sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - BPS President’s Award, British Psychological Society
  • 2025 - Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • 2020 - Frank Prize, University of Florida
  • 2017 - Rising Star, Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Overview

Sander van der Linden is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, focusing on areas such as sociology and political science, communication, literature and literary theory, management, monitoring, policy and law, and health.

The main topics covered in their work include misinformation and its impacts, climate change communication and perception, media influence and health, environmental education and sustainability, social media and politics, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, and behavioral health and interventions.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Scientific Reports
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with van der Linden are:

  • Jon Roozenbeek
  • Rakoen Maertens
  • Claudia R. Schneider
  • Alexandra L. J. Freeman
  • John R. Kerr

Notable recent papers by van der Linden include:

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world, 2020, Journal of Risk Research
  • Susceptibility to misinformation about COVID-19 around the world, 2020, Royal Society Open Science
  • Countering Misinformation and Fake News Through Inoculation and Prebunking, 2021, European Review of Social Psychology
  • Inoculating Against Fake News About COVID-19, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology

Van der Linden has contributed to academic books, including one published by Cambridge University Press titled The Psychology of Misinformation (2024).

In 2020, van der Linden was recognized with the Frank Prize from the University of Florida.

Best Publications

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

  • Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world

    Sarah Dryhurst;Claudia R. Schneider;John Kerr;Alexandra L. J. Freeman

  • Susceptibility to misinformation about COVID-19 around the world

    Jon Roozenbeek;Claudia R. Schneider;Sarah Dryhurst;John Kerr

  • The social-psychological determinants of climate change risk perceptions: Towards a comprehensive model

    Sander van der Linden

  • Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change

    Sander van der Linden;Anthony Leiserowitz;Seth Rosenthal;Edward Maibach

  • The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change as a Gateway Belief: Experimental Evidence

    Sander L. van der Linden;Anthony A. Leiserowitz;Geoffrey D. Feinberg;Edward W. Maibach

  • Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation

    Jon Roozenbeek;Sander van der Linden

  • Countering Misinformation and Fake News Through Inoculation and Prebunking

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Sander van der Linden

  • Inoculating Against Fake News About COVID-19.

    Sander van der Linden;Jon Roozenbeek;Josh Compton

  • Improving Public Engagement With Climate Change Five “Best Practice” Insights From Psychological Science

    Sander van der Linden;Edward Maibach;Anthony Leiserowitz

  • The fake news game: actively inoculating against the risk of misinformation

    Jon Roozenbeek;Sander van der Linden

  • Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media.

    Steve Rathje;Jay J. Van Bavel;Sander van der Linden

  • Communicating uncertainty about facts, numbers and science.

    Anne Marthe van der Bles;Sander van der Linden;Alexandra L. J. Freeman;James Mitchell

  • The conspiracy-effect: Exposure to conspiracy theories (about global warming) decreases pro-social behavior and science acceptance

    Sander van der Linden

  • Good News about Bad News: Gamified Inoculation Boosts Confidence and Cognitive Immunity Against Fake News.

    Melisa Basol;Jon Roozenbeek;Sander van der Linden

  • On the relationship between personal experience, affect and risk perception:The case of climate change

    Sander van der Linden

  • Political polarization on COVID-19 pandemic response in the United States

    John Kerr;Costas Panagopoulos;Sander van der Linden

  • Replicating patterns of prospect theory for decision under risk.

    Kai Ruggeri;Kai Ruggeri;Sonia Alí;Mari Louise Berge;Giulia Bertoldo

  • The Effects of Communicating Uncertainty on Public Trust in Facts and Numbers

    Anne Marthe van der Bles;Anne Marthe van der Bles;Sander van der Linden;Alexandra L J Freeman;David J Spiegelhalter

  • On the relationship between personal experience, affect and risk perception: the case of climate change

    Sander van der Linden

  • The Paranoid Style in American Politics Revisited: An Ideological Asymmetry in Conspiratorial Thinking

    Sander van der Linden;Costas Panagopoulos;Flávio Azevedo;Flávio Azevedo;Flávio Azevedo;John T. Jost

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony Leiserowitz
Anthony Leiserowitz Yale University
Edward Maibach
Edward Maibach George Mason University
Costas Panagopoulos
Costas Panagopoulos Northeastern University
Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol
David Spiegelhalter
David Spiegelhalter UK Statistics Authority
Jennifer R. Marlon
Jennifer R. Marlon Yale University
Theresa M. Marteau
Theresa M. Marteau University of Cambridge
Veronika Eyring
Veronika Eyring University of Bremen
Richard B. Bradbury
Richard B. Bradbury University of Cambridge
Aleksandra Cichocka
Aleksandra Cichocka University of Kent

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