Talk:Infodemiology
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Request for deletion
[edit]This article seems to have two major issues. First, a Google search for "Infodemiology" only seems to list this wikipedia article and a bunch of papers and talks by one person, Gunther_Eysenbach. Second, it appears that most of this article was also written by Eysenbach and the article seems to be more of a biography and/or promotion of him more than actually discussing Infodemiology.
130.203.123.188 (talk) 14:42, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
- I agree, but it need not be deleted, just merged back into the bio article. Both infoveillance and infodemiology could be merged. The Gunther Eysenbach article could be proposed for deletion also; it seems like a self-serving vanity piece written by the subject. ~Amatulić (talk) 07:02, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
- I admit that I (Gunther Eysenbach) wrote the initial stub in 2006, and the article was immediately deleted. Today, a Google search should show you that meanwhile there are nearly 10.000 articles with the term infodemiology on the web, and they are certainly not all written by me (I am productive, but not THAT productive). I guess according to your notability guidelines it is now warranted to have this page, but it wasn't me who recreated / revived this page. I agree that the work of others should be added here (eg. http://www.jmir.org/themes/69), and I would love to do it, but given the stringent COI policy I won't touch the article at all, even though I am certainly qualified to do so. In fact, the policy of Wikipedia is very off-putting to academics like myself. If we edit anything where we think we are qualified to comment on because we have done research in the area, we are accused of being conflicted. Therefore, I haven't edited anything in Wikipedia for years. So do what you want - delete it again if you want... I also have zero objections if you delete the Gunther Eysenbach page (again, Google shows my name only 123.000 times, so it must be a "vanity" page of somebody who isn't notable) --Eysen (talk) 07:30, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
- Yes. Some undergraduate 'pulls rank' on the scholar and lifetime academic researcher. MaynardClark (talk) 15:49, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
Criticism
[edit]I think that the article requires a 'criticism' section of the implementation of (so called) 'infodemiology' (how factual and balanced is such 'health communications'?). MaynardClark (talk) 15:49, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
Citation needed tag (April 2024) on the SARS-CoV-2 clause in § Application
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I have a conflict of interest here and am requesting rather than making this edit.
The issue: The first sentence of § Application carries a {{Citation needed}} tag dated April 2024. In the wikitext the tag sits inside the list, immediately after the SARS-CoV-2 clause: especially [[SARS-CoV-2]] {{Citation needed|date=April 2024}} during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]],. Every other item in that list carries a reference; the SARS-CoV-2 clause is the only one that does not, which is what the tag is asking for.
Proposed change: Replace
especially [[SARS-CoV-2]] {{Citation needed|date=April 2024}} during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], and [[influenza]],
with
especially [[SARS-CoV-2]] during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Chen|first1=Emily|last2=Jiang|first2=Julie|last3=Chang|first3=Ho-Chun Herbert|last4=Muric|first4=Goran|last5=Ferrara|first5=Emilio|date=2022|title=Charting the Information and Misinformation Landscape to Characterize Misinfodemics on Social Media: COVID-19 Infodemiology Study at a Planetary Scale|journal=JMIR Infodemiology|volume=2|issue=1|pages=e32378|doi=10.2196/32378}}</ref> and [[influenza]],
This clears the tag and leaves the rest of the sentence untouched.
Source: Chen, Emily; Jiang, Julie; Chang, Ho-Chun Herbert; Muric, Goran; Ferrara, Emilio (2022). "Charting the Information and Misinformation Landscape to Characterize Misinfodemics on Social Media: COVID-19 Infodemiology Study at a Planetary Scale". JMIR Infodemiology 2(1): e32378. doi:10.2196/32378 {{doi}}: unflagged free DOI (link)
Disclosure: This citation is to work I co-authored, and I have a declared conflict of interest — see User:Safety-researcher. Any other peer-reviewed COVID-19 infodemiology study would clear the tag equally well; the clause being unsourced is the point rather than which source fixes it.
Happy for this to be declined or reworded; I will not make the edit myself. Safety-researcher (talk) 02:05, 27 July 2026 (UTC)