Journal article
Harnessing Twitter data to survey public attention and attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines in the UK
- Abstract:
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Attitudes to COVID-19 vaccination vary considerably within and between countries. Although the contribution of socio-demographic factors to these attitudes has been studied, the role of social media and how it interacts with news about vaccine development and efficacy is uncertain. We examined around 2 million tweets from 522,893 persons in the UK from November 2020 to January 2021 to evaluate links between Twitter content about vaccines and major scientific news announcements about vaccines....
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Wellcome Trust
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- Publisher:
- Springer Nature Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Scientific Reports Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 23402
- Publication date:
- 2021-12-14
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-11-16
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2045-2322
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1226072
- Local pid:
- pubs:1226072
- Deposit date:
- 2021-12-20
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- Fazel et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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