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Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1365) JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2458) Mass Media/Social Media Communication and Campaigns (466) Peer-to-Peer Support and Online Communities (646) Digital Health Meta-Research and Bibliographic Studies (38) Information Quality in Digital Media (346) Quality/Credibility of eHealth Information and Trust Issues (542) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (1660)

Published on in Vol 24, No 1 (2022): January

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/28152, first published .
Medical and Health-Related Misinformation on Social Media: Bibliometric Study of the Scientific Literature

Medical and Health-Related Misinformation on Social Media: Bibliometric Study of the Scientific Literature

Medical and Health-Related Misinformation on Social Media: Bibliometric Study of the Scientific Literature

Authors of this article:

Andy Wai Kan Yeung1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Anela Tosevska2, 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Elisabeth Klager2 Author Orcid Image ;   Fabian Eibensteiner2, 4 Author Orcid Image ;   Christos Tsagkaris5 Author Orcid Image ;   Emil D Parvanov2, 6 Author Orcid Image ;   Faisal A Nawaz7 Author Orcid Image ;   Sabine Völkl-Kernstock2 Author Orcid Image ;   Eva Schaden2, 8 Author Orcid Image ;   Maria Kletecka-Pulker2 Author Orcid Image ;   Harald Willschke2, 8 Author Orcid Image ;   Atanas G Atanasov2, 9 Author Orcid Image
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