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. 2021 Jul 3:13:100288.
doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2021.100288. eCollection 2021 Dec.

The rise of infodemiology and infoveillance during COVID-19 crisis

Steffen Springer  1 , Michael Zieger  1 , Artur Strzelecki  2
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The rise of infodemiology and infoveillance during COVID-19 crisis

Steffen Springer et al. One Health. .

Abstract

We noticed an increase in the relative number of published papers on topics such as infoveillance, infodemiology and Google Trends. Collected PubMed data are from the period of January 2020 to March 2021 and were searched with the use of five keywords: infoveillance, infodemiology, Google Trends, diabetes and in silico. We compared an increase in the number of papers from PubMed with search interest expressed in Google Trends. Collected Google Trends data is from the same period, covering fifteen months starting January 2020 and were searched with the use of three search topics: coronavirus, lockdown and social distancing. The geographic setting for search engine users was worldwide. We propose a hypothesis that after increased interest in searches during the pandemic's initial months came an increased number of published papers on topics such as infoveillance, infodemiology and Google Trends.

Keywords: COVID-19; Google trends; Search engine data.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Increase in the number of publications per month in per cent of the total number in the previous month according to PubMed and a monthly search interest according to Google Trends (GT); PubMed and GT data accessed: 12/04/2021.
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