Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36714849›Full record

ArticlePNAS nexus2022

Social media behavior is associated with vaccine hesitancy.

Steve Rathje, James K He, Jon Roozenbeek, Jay J Van Bavel, Sander van der Linden

Erratum issuedOpen access · goldAbstract read
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Article in PNAS nexus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 38 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed
34.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Steve RathjeDepartment of Psychology & Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003,USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6727-571X
James K HeDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3RQ,UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1859-4914
Jon RoozenbeekDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3RQ,UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8150-9305
Jay J Van BavelDepartment of Psychology & Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003,USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2520-0442
Sander van der LindenDepartment of Psychology & Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003,USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0269-1744
New York University · USUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding how vaccine hesitancy relates to online behavior is crucial for addressing current and future disease outbreaks. We combined survey data measuring attitudes toward the COVID-19 vaccine with Twitter data in two studies (

Indexed as

echo chambermisinformationsocial mediasocial networksvaccine hesitancy

Identifiers

PMID36714849
PMCPMC9802475
OpenAlexW4297453923

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