The online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views

By N. Johnson, N. Velásquez, N. J. Restrepo, R. Leahy, N. Gabriel, Sara El Oud, M. Zheng, P. Manrique, S. Wuchty, Yonatan Lupu. Nature, 2020

606 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Infectious Diseases, Sociology and Political Science

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How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Health

1. S. van der Linden
2. Daniel Romer
3. Kathleen Hall Jamieson
4. J. Pierre
5. J. Roozenbeek

In Infectious Diseases

1. Daniel Romer
2. Kathleen Hall Jamieson

In Sociology and Political Science

1. S. van der Linden
2. Stephan Lewandowsky
3. Daniel Romer
4. Kathleen Hall Jamieson
5. J. Pierre
6. J. Roozenbeek
7. John Cook
8. Melisa Basol

Citations in the corpus

• Conspiracy theories as barriers to controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. (2020, background): “The challenge for public health officials is compounded by the finding that anti-vaccine social media networks are highly inter-connected and likely to influence others more so than are pro-vaccination networks, which are more peripheral and less connected with other networks (Johnson et al., 2020).”
• Countering Misinformation and Fake News Through Inoculation and Prebunking (2021, background): “possibility that anti-vaccination rhetoric may dominate the online landscape within a decade (Johnson et al., 2020).”
• Mistrust and misinformation: A two-component, socio-epistemic model of belief in conspiracy theories (2020, background): “As of 2019, anti-vaccine groups on Facebook outnumbered pro-vaccine groups by more than 2:1 and were growing much faster through interaction with other groups (Johnson et al., 2020).”