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

BackgroundSocial media has been extensively used for the communication of health-related information and consecutively for the potential spread of medical misinformation. Conventional systematic reviews have been published on this topic to identify original articles and to su...

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Published in:	Journal of Medical Internet Research
Main Authors:	Andy Wai Kan Yeung, Anela Tosevska, Elisabeth Klager, Fabian Eibensteiner, Christos Tsagkaris, Emil D Parvanov, Faisal A Nawaz, Sabine Völkl-Kernstock, Eva Schaden, Maria Kletecka-Pulker, Harald Willschke, Atanas G Atanasov
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	JMIR Publications 2022-01-01
Online Access:	https://www.jmir.org/2022/1/e28152

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