What difficulties did the college students encountered in information seeking during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Kun Huang, Xiaoyu Wang, Shichao Luo, Qiuping Su, Lei Li

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Article in Data and information management, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed

5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

Infodemic: Challenges and solutions in topic discovery and data process.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2023
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"Do as I say but not as I do": Influence of political leaders' populist communication styles on public adherence in a crisis using the global case of COVID-19 movement restrictions.Data and information management · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kun HuangSchool of Government, Beijing Normal University, No.19, Xinjiekouwai St, Haidian District, Beijing, 100875, China.

Xiaoyu WangSchool of Government, Beijing Normal University, No.19, Xinjiekouwai St, Haidian District, Beijing, 100875, China.

Shichao LuoSchool of Government, Beijing Normal University, No.19, Xinjiekouwai St, Haidian District, Beijing, 100875, China.

Qiuping SuSchool of Government, Beijing Normal University, No.19, Xinjiekouwai St, Haidian District, Beijing, 100875, China.

Lei LiSchool of Government, Beijing Normal University, No.19, Xinjiekouwai St, Haidian District, Beijing, 100875, China.

Beijing Normal University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To better promote information service and fight the infodemic, this paper investigated the difficulties that Chinese college students encountered in information seeking during the COVID-19 pandemic. We collected data in two stages. In the first stage in November 2020, we collected data from

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College studentsCOVID-19 pandemicDifficult reasonInformation seeking

Identifiers

PMID35464600

DOI10.1016/j.dim.2022.100005

PMCPMC9015718

OpenAlexW4224302160

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