ArticleCurrent opinion in psychology2016
Social Media, Big Data, and Mental Health: Current Advances and Ethical Implications.
Article in Current opinion in psychology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
76 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 247 citations in OpenAlex.
- Methodologies for Monitoring Mental Health on Twitter: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- Social media based surveillance systems for healthcare using machine learning: A systematic review.Journal of biomedical informatics · 2020Pooled it
- Toward an Ethical Framework for the Text Mining of Social Media for Health Research: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in digital health · 2020Pooled it
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- The Structure of Psychopathology on Reddit: Network Analysis of Mental Health Communities in Relation to the ICD Diagnostic System.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- 5 Years of bipolar disorder conversations on Reddit: Methods, key topics and future directions.PloS one · 2026Article
- Diagnostic digital phenotyping in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: a systematic review.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
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- Considerations and Challenges When Using Clinical and Vital Record Review for Suicide Research.Journal of patient safety · 2025Article
- Stigma and Behavior Change Techniques in Substance Use Recovery: Qualitative Study of Social Media Narratives.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Exploring the Views of Young People, Including Those With a History of Self-Harm, on the Use of Their Routinely Generated Data for Mental Health Research: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey Study.JMIR mental health · 2025Article
- Unveiling the Complexities of Medications, Substance Abuse, and Plants for Recreational and Narcotic Purposes: An In-Depth Analysis.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- AI for Analyzing Mental Health Disorders Among Social Media Users: Quarter-Century Narrative Review of Progress and Challenges.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Review
- Determinants of adoption of household water treatment in Haiti using two analysis methods: logistic regression and machine learning.Journal of water and health · 2024Article
- Reporting of Ethical Considerations in Qualitative Research Utilizing Social Media Data on Public Health Care: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
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- Toward Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI for Social Media and Health Care: Scoping Review.JMIR medical informatics · 2024Article
- Synthesizing perspectives: Crafting an Interdisciplinary view of social media's impact on young people's mental health.PloS one · 2024Article
- Wildfires and social media discourse: exploring mental health and emotional wellbeing through Twitter.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
Mental health (including substance abuse) is the fifth greatest contributor to the global burden of disease, with an economic cost estimated to be US $2.5 trillion in 2010, and expected to double by 2030. Developing information systems to support and strengthen population-level mental health monitoring forms a core part of the World Health Organization's Comprehensive Action Plan 2013-2020. In this paper, we review recent work that utilizes social media "big data" in conjunction with associated technologies like natural language processing and machine learning to address pressing problems in population-level mental health surveillance and research, focusing both on technological advances and core ethical challenges.
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