Information Circulation Among Spanish-Speaking and Caribbean Communities Related to COVID-19: Social Media-Based Multidimensional Analysis.

Background: Scientific studies from North America and Europe tend to predominate the internet and benefit English-speaking users. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 death rate was high at the onset of the pandemic in Spanish-speaking countries, and information about nearby Caribbean countries was rarely highlighted. Given the rise in social media use in these regions, the web-based dissemination of scientific information related to COVID-19 must be thoroughly examined.

Global COVID-19 Policy Engagement With Scientific Research Information: Altmetric Data Study.

Background: Previous studies on COVID-19 scholarly articles have primarily focused on bibliometric characteristics, neglecting the identification of institutional actors that cite recent scientific contributions related to COVID-19 in the policy domain, and their locations.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the online citation network and knowledge structure of COVID-19 research across policy domains over 2 years from January 2020 to January 2022, with a particular emphasis on geographical frequency. Two research questions were addressed.

Discourse about higher education on Twitter in early phases of COVID-19: A crisis management social network analysis.

Unlabelled: The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic brought changes and efforts for adaption to the new environment in every industry, including higher education. The present study, drawing on crisis management theory as a framework, aimed to understand information and communication sharing behaviors of the higher education community during the pandemic by exploring patterns and discourse on social media. Such analysis provides insight into how information is gained, shared, and used.

Development of a COVID-19 Web Information Transmission Structure Based on a Quadruple Helix Model: Webometric Network Approach Using Bing.

Background: Developing an understanding of the social structure and phenomenon of pandemic information sources worldwide is immensely significant.

Objective: Based on the quadruple helix model, the aim of this study was to construct and analyze the structure and content of the internet information sources regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, considering time and space. The broader goal was to determine the status and limitations of web information transmission and online communication structure during public health emergencies.

COVID-19 in the Twitterverse, from epidemic to pandemic: information-sharing behavior and Twitter as an information carrier.

In this study, we defined a Twitter network as an information channel that includes information sources containing embedded messages. We conducted stage-based comparative analyses of Twitter networks during three periods: the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, the period when the epidemic was becoming a global phenomenon, and the beginning of the pandemic. We also analyzed the characteristics of scientific information sources and content on Twitter during the sample period.

Conversations and Medical News Frames on Twitter: Infodemiological Study on COVID-19 in South Korea.

Background: SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2) was spreading rapidly in South Korea at the end of February 2020 following its initial outbreak in China, making Korea the new center of global attention. The role of social media amid the current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has often been criticized, but little systematic research has been conducted on this issue. Social media functions as a convenient source of information in pandemic situations.

The Continuing Growth of Global Cooperation Networks in Research: A Conundrum for National Governments.

Global collaboration continues to grow as a share of all scientific cooperation, measured as coauthorships of peer-reviewed, published papers. The percent of all scientific papers that are internationally coauthored has more than doubled in 20 years, and they account for all the growth in output among the scientifically advanced countries. Emerging countries, particularly China, have increased their participation in global science, in part by doubling their spending on R&D; they are increasingly likely to appear as partners on internationally coauthored scientific papers.