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The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by an infodemic of misinformation that impedes effective public health responses. This study examines relationships between socioeconomic factors and infodemic risk patterns across 37 OECD…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-27 Anna Bertani , Alessandro Cortese , Federico Pilati , Pierluigi Sacco , Riccardo Gallotti

As the COVID-19 virus quickly spreads around the world, unfortunately, misinformation related to COVID-19 also gets created and spreads like wild fire. Such misinformation has caused confusion among people, disruptions in society, and even…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Limeng Cui , Dongwon Lee

Epidemics and outbreaks present arduous challenges requiring both individual and communal efforts. Social media offer significant amounts of data that can be leveraged for bio-surveillance. They also provide a platform to quickly and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Chaimae Asaad , Imane Khaouja , Mounir Ghogho , Karim Baïna

Epidemiology and Public Health have increasingly relied on structured and unstructured data, collected inside and outside of typical health systems, to study, identify, and mitigate diseases at the population level. Focusing on infectious…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Sara Mesquita , Lília Perfeito , Daniela Paolotti , Joana Gonçalves-Sá

This study aims at modeling the universal failure in preventing the outbreak of COVID-19 via real-world data from the perspective of complexity and network science. Through formalizing information heterogeneity and government intervention…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-26 Xiaoqi Zhang , Jie Fu , Sheng Hua , Han Liang , Zi-Ke Zhang

This paper makes four scientific contributions to the area of misinformation detection and analysis on digital platforms, with a specific focus on investigating how conspiracy theories, fake remedies, and false reports emerge, propagate,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Nirmalya Thakur , Mingchen Shao , Victoria Knieling , Vanessa Su , Andrew Bian , Hongseok Jeong

The COVID-19 pandemic has profound global consequences on health, economic, social, political, and almost every major aspect of human life. Therefore, it is of great importance to model COVID-19 and other pandemics in terms of the broader…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Geoffrey C. Fox , Gregor von Laszewski , Fugang Wang , Saumyadipta Pyne

COVID-19 has caused lasting damage to almost every domain in public health, society, and economy. To monitor the pandemic trend, existing studies rely on the aggregation of traditional statistical models and epidemic spread theory. In other…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yichao Zhou , Jyun-yu Jiang , Xiusi Chen , Wei Wang

We provide an insight into the open data resources pertinent to the study of the spread of Covid-19 pandemic and its control. We identify the variables required to analyze fundamental aspects like seasonal behaviour, regional mortality…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-12 Teodoro Alamo , Daniel G. Reina , Martina Mammarella , Alberto Abella

Along with COVID-19 pandemic we are also fighting an `infodemic'. Fake news and rumors are rampant on social media. Believing in rumors can cause significant harm. This is further exacerbated at the time of a pandemic. To tackle this, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Parth Patwa , Shivam Sharma , Srinivas Pykl , Vineeth Guptha , Gitanjali Kumari , Md Shad Akhtar , Asif Ekbal , Amitava Das , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Many governments have managed to control their COVID-19 outbreak with a simple message: keep the effective '$R$ number' $R<1$ to prevent widespread contagion and flatten the curve. This raises the question whether a similar policy could…

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced public health experts to develop contingent policies to stem the spread of infection, including measures such as partial/complete lockdowns. The effectiveness of these policies has varied with geography,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Parth Asawa , Manas Gaur , Kaushik Roy , Amit Sheth

The entire world is engulfed in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a significant surge in research experiments, government policies, and social media discussions. A multi-modal information access and data visualization…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Heer Ambavi , Kavita Vaishnaw , Udit Vyas , Abhisht Tiwari , Mayank Singh

While the world has been combating COVID-19 for over three years, an ongoing "Infodemic" due to the spread of fake news regarding the pandemic has also been a global issue. The existence of the fake news impact different aspect of our daily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Chih-Yuan Li , Navya Martin Kollapally , Soon Ae Chun , James Geller

With the rapid development of COVID-19 around the world, people are requested to maintain "social distance" and "stay at home". In this scenario, extensive social interactions transfer to cyberspace, especially on social media platforms…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yong Hu , Heyan Huang , Anfan Chen , Xian-Ling Mao

The declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic has largely amplified the spread of related information on social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, and WeChat.Unlike the previous studies which focused on how to detect the misinformation or fake…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-09 Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Kaiyue Zhang , Lun Ge , Junming Huang , Zinan Zhang , Lu Wei , Gui-Quan Sun , Chuang Liu , Zi-Ke Zhang

The Covid-19 pandemic presented an unprecedented global public health emergency, and concomitantly an unparalleled opportunity to investigate public responses to adverse social conditions. The widespread ability to post messages to social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Richard Plant , Amir Hussain

The COVID-19 pandemic requires a fast response from researchers to help address biological, medical and public health issues to minimize its impact. In this rapidly evolving context, scholars, professionals and the public may need to…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Kayvan Kousha , Mike Thelwall

Timely access to accurate scientific literature in the battle with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is critical. This unprecedented public health risk has motivated research towards understanding the disease in general, identifying drugs to…

The application and successful utilization of technological resources in developing solutions to health, safety, and economic issues caused by COVID-19 indicate the importance of technology in curbing COVID-19. Also, the medical field has…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Manoj Muniswamaiah , Tilak Agerwala , Charles C. Tappert