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Misinformation and Disinformation Outbreaks and Information Prevalence Studies (40) Infoveillance and Social Listening (178) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (1556) Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1271) Quality/Credibility of eHealth Information and Trust Issues (486) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1010)

Published on in Vol 3 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/48620, first published .
The Role of Social Media in Health Misinformation and Disinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Bibliometric Analysis

The Role of Social Media in Health Misinformation and Disinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Bibliometric Analysis

The Role of Social Media in Health Misinformation and Disinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Bibliometric Analysis

Authors of this article:

Funmi Adebesin1 Author Orcid Image ;   Hanlie Smuts1 Author Orcid Image ;   Tendani Mawela1 Author Orcid Image ;   George Maramba1 Author Orcid Image ;   Marie Hattingh1 Author Orcid Image
Article Authors Cited by (2) Tweetations (5) Metrics

Funmi Adebesin   1 , BSc, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, PGCHE ;   Hanlie Smuts   1 , BSc, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD ;   Tendani Mawela   1 , BCom, HDip, MBA, PhD, PGCHE ;   George Maramba   1 , BSc, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD ;   Marie Hattingh   1 , BMil, BMil (Hons), MMil, PhD

1 Department of Informatics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Corresponding Author:

  • Funmi Adebesin, BSc, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, PGCHE
  • Department of Informatics
  • University of Pretoria
  • Information Technology Building, Level 5
  • Lynwood Road
  • Pretoria, 0028
  • South Africa
  • Phone: 27 12 420 5667 ext 5667
  • Email: funmi.adebesin@up.ac.za