Quantifying Public Engagement With Science and Malinformation on COVID-19 Vaccines: Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical journals are critical vanguards of research, and previous years have seen increasing public interest in and engagement with medicoscientific findings. How findings propagate and are understood and what harms erroneous claims might cause to public health remain unclear, especially on publicly contentious topics like COVID-19 vaccines. Gauging the engagement of the public with medical science and quantifying propagation patterns of medicoscientific papers are thus important undertakings. In contrast to misinformation and disinformation, which pivot on falsehood, the more nuanced issue of malinformation, where ostensibly true information is presented out of context or selectively curated to cause harm and misconception, has been less researched. As findings and fact

SUBMITTER: Grimes DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11971574 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature