Social physics

M Jusup, P Holme, K Kanazawa, M Takayasu, I Romić… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Twitter and research: A systematic literature review through text mining

A Karami, M Lundy, F Webb, YK Dwivedi - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Researchers have collected Twitter data to study a wide range of topics. This growing body
of literature, however, has not yet been reviewed systematically to synthesize Twitter-related …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting COVID-19 incidence through analysis of google trends data in Iran: data mining and deep learning pilot study

SM Ayyoubzadeh, SM Ayyoubzadeh… - JMIR public health …, 2020 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background: The recent global outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is affecting
many countries worldwide. Iran is one of the top 10 most affected countries. Search engines …

An early warning approach to monitor COVID-19 activity with multiple digital traces in near real time

NE Kogan, L Clemente, P Liautaud, J Kaashoek… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Given still-high levels of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) susceptibility and
inconsistent transmission-containing strategies, outbreaks have continued to emerge across …

[HTML][HTML] The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles

H Piwowar, J Priem, V Larivière, JP Alperin, L Matthias… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Despite growing interest in Open Access (OA) to scholarly literature, there is an unmet need
for large-scale, up-to-date, and reproducible studies assessing the prevalence and …

A machine learning methodology for real-time forecasting of the 2019-2020 COVID-19 outbreak using Internet searches, news alerts, and estimates from mechanistic …

D Liu, L Clemente, C Poirier, X Ding… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
We present a timely and novel methodology that combines disease estimates from
mechanistic models with digital traces, via interpretable machine-learning methodologies, to …

[HTML][HTML] Big data's role in precision public health

S Dolley - Frontiers in public health, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Precision public health is an emerging practice to more granularly predict and understand
public health risks and customize treatments for more specific and homogeneous …

Harnessing social media for health information management

L Zhou, D Zhang, CC Yang, Y Wang - Electronic commerce research and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The remarkable upsurge of social media has dramatic impacts on health care research and
practice. Social media are reshaping health information management in a variety of ways …

[HTML][HTML] Spain's Hesitation at the Gates of a COVID-19 Vaccine

H Eguia, F Vinciarelli, M Bosque-Prous, T Kristensen… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: This study aims to delineate a pattern on vaccine hesitancy in a sample of
the Spanish population, considering age groups and status as healthcare workers.(2) …

[HTML][HTML] Recommended reporting items for epidemic forecasting and prediction research: The EPIFORGE 2020 guidelines

S Pollett, MA Johansson, NG Reich, D Brett-Major… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background The importance of infectious disease epidemic forecasting and prediction
research is underscored by decades of communicable disease outbreaks, including COVID …