Abstract:

Users’ demand on information access, management and service quality becomes increasingly strong because of the rapid growth of information resources on the web; the credibility evaluation of the web-based information has attracted the attention of scholars. We sort out and commented the theory, methods and applications of credibility evaluation of web-based information respectively，and propose recommendations for web-based information credibility evaluation research, and looking to the future research development direction.

Key words: Information on the web, Credibility, Evaluation