When Public Health Research Meets Social Media: Knowledge Mapping From 2000 to 2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social media has substantially changed how people confront health issues. However, a comprehensive understanding of how social media has altered the foci and methods in public health research remains lacking.

Objective

This study aims to examine research themes, the role of social media, and research methods in social media-based public health research published from 2000 to 2018.

Methods

A dataset of 3419 valid studies was developed by searching a list of relevant keywords in the Web of Science and PubMed databases. In addition, this study employs an unsupervised text-mining technique and topic modeling to extract research themes of the published studies. Moreover, the role of social media and research methods adopted in those studies were analyzed.

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SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7453331 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature