Infodemiology and Infoveillance
American Journal of Preventive MedicinePublished 25 April 2011Open access
Günther Eysenbach
Citations417
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SJR score2.08
SNIP1.50
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Abstract
Infodemiology, an emerging area of research at the crossroads of consumer health informatics and public health informatics, as well as infometrics and web analytics tools, can be defined as the science of distribution and determinants of information in an electronic medium, specifically the Internet, with the ultimate aim to inform public health and public policy. Infodemiology data (derived from unstructured, textual, openly accessible information produced and consumed by the public on the Internet, such as blogs, websites, and query and navigation data) can be collected and analyzed in near real-time.
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