Infodemiology and infoveillance tracking online health information and cyberbehavior for public health.

By Gunther Eysenbach. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2011

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Social Media: A Review and Tutorial of Applications in Medicine and Health Care (2014, background): “Examples of social media applications in health include (but are not limited to) access to educational resources by clinicians and patients [1-3], generation of content rich reference resources (eg, Wikipedia) [4], evaluation and reporting of real-time flu trends [5], catalyzing outreach during (pub”
Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact (2011, background): “In analogy to the applications for public health 2.0 [17], economics, and other areas [19], there is an obvious application of infodemiology or infoveillance for scientometrics 2.0 [24], which is to study the buzz around scientific publications to measure or even predict the impact of research.”
Google Trends in Infodemiology and Infoveillance: Methodology Framework (2019, background): “…and determinants of information in an electronic medium, specifically the Internet, or in a population, with the ultimate aim to inform public health and public policy” [1], and “Infoveillance,” defined as “the longitudinal tracking of infodemiology metrics for surveillance and trend analysis” [2].”