In recent years, social media misinformation has become a growing problem worldwide. Researchers in various fields have been investigating the most effective and acceptable ways to counter fake news online. This scoping review paper conducts a bibliometric analysis of relevant papers to provide policymakers and academics with a contextual background on the state of the literature in this field. The analysis reveals that several types of interventions are studied much more frequently than others, and the literature focuses almost exclusively on the effectiveness of interventions without considering the critical metric of user acceptance. Furthermore, publication venues in this field have primarily remained clustered by discipline, although several collaborative and multidisciplinary publications have emerged in recent years. These findings highlight the need for increased collaboration and a greater focus on user-centered approaches in future research.

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