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COVID-19 Vaccine and Social Media in the U.S.: Exploring Emotions and Discussions on Twitter.

Amir Karami, Michael Zhu, Bailey Goldschmidt, Hannah R Boyajieff, Mahdi M Najafabadi

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Article in Vaccines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
5.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Amir KaramiSchool of Information Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1936-7497
Michael ZhuDepartment of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
Bailey GoldschmidtCollege of Nursing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4237-7183
Hannah R BoyajieffDarla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
Mahdi M NajafabadiGraduate School of Public Health, City University of New York, New York, NY 10010, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6095-8120
University of South Carolina · USCity University of New York · US

Funding

Big Data Health Science Center, University of South Carolina 0000000
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The understanding of the public response to COVID-19 vaccines is the key success factor to control the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand the public response, there is a need to explore public opinion. Traditional surveys are expensive and time-consuming, address limited health topics, and obtain small-scale data. Twitter can provide a great opportunity to understand public opinion regarding COVID-19 vaccines. The current study proposes an approach using computational and human coding methods to collect and analyze a large number of tweets to provide a wider perspective on the COVID-19 vaccine. This study identifies the sentiment of tweets using a machine learning rule-based approach, discovers major topics, explores temporal trend and compares topics of negative and non-negative tweets using statistical tests, and discloses top topics of tweets having negative and non-negative sentiment. Our findings show that the negative sentiment regarding the COVID-19 vaccine had a decreasing trend between November 2020 and February 2021. We found Twitter users have discussed a wide range of topics from vaccination sites to the 2020 U.S. election between November 2020 and February 2021. The findings show that there was a significant difference between tweets having negative and non-negative sentiment regarding the weight of most topics. Our results also indicate that the negative and non-negative tweets had different topic priorities and focuses. This research illustrates that Twitter data can be used to explore public opinion regarding the COVID-19 vaccine.

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COVID-19sentiment analysissocial mediatext miningtopic modelingvaccine

Identifiers

PMID34696167
PMCPMC8540945
OpenAlexW3187787078

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