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Editorial
. 2022 Feb 14;2(1):e37115.
doi: 10.2196/37115. eCollection 2022 Jan-Jun.

Advancing Infodemiology in a Digital Intensive Era

Tim Mackey  1   2 , Cynthia Baur  3 , Gunther Eysenbach  4   5
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Editorial

Advancing Infodemiology in a Digital Intensive Era

Tim Mackey et al. JMIR Infodemiology. .
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Twitter; conspiracy; digital epidemiology; digital health; fake news; health communication; infodemic; infodemic management; infodemiology; infoveillance; journalogy; machine learning; medical informatics; misinformation; public health; scholarly publishing; social listening; surveillance.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: TM serves as editor in chief for JMIR Infodemiology and is an employee of the startup company S-3 Research LLC. S-3 Research is a startup funded and currently supported by the National Institutes of Health–National Institute of Drug Abuse through a Small Business Innovation and Research contract for opioid-related social media research and technology commercialization. CB serves on the editorial board for JMIR Infodemiology. GE is the CEO and executive editor of JMIR Publications.

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