Ian Kuchman answered 11/5/2010 What Is Academic Credibility? How Does It Relate To Critical Thinking? How Does Referring To, Or Citing, The Experts In Any Field Enhance Your Academic Credibility? Read More: What Is Academic Credibility? How Does It Relate To Critical Thinking I would just look up the two terms seperatly then Combined the definitions logically. It might not come to the same exact meaning but then again that is what your looking for.