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

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social 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 summarize their methodological approaches and themes. A bibliometric study could complement their findings, for instance, by evaluating the geographical distribution of the publications and determining if they were well cited and disseminated in high-impact journals.

Objective

The aim of this study was to perform a bibliometric analysis of the current literature to discover the prevalent trends and topics related to medical misinformation on social media.

Methods

The Web of Science Core Collection

SUBMITTER: Yeung AWK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8793917 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature