[agents] [IJERPH] [CFP] COVID-19 / Special Issue "Health Misinformation on Social Media" / Indexed on Scopus

[Marco Viviani]

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    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health --
Open Access Journal

                          SPECIAL ISSUE: "Health Misinformation on Social
Media"

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SPECIAL ISSUE INFORMATION:

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Special Issue entitled: "Health Misinformation on
Social Media" in
the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The
venue is a
peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles and communications
in the
interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health.
For detailed
information on the journal, please refer to
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.

Today, the success of the Social Web and the massive use of social media is
making an
increasingly large number of people rely on information diffused on these
applications.
In fact, in recent years, we have witnessed the explosion of so-called
User-Generated
Content (UGC), i.e., content diffused by users on social media without
almost any
traditional form of control of its quality or veracity by reputable third
parties.
This can represent a problem especially in the health scenario, in which a
large
portion of people seeks health-related information. This is particularly
true in the current
situation, characterized by the spread of unverified and low-credibility
content about
the *COVID-19* pandemic.

Prior research indicates that medical professionals do not author an
extensive amount
of health-related information available on social media. This creates the
conditions for
spreading false, inaccurate or misleading health-related information,
thereby
potentially leading ill people away from proper care.

Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to address and investigate this
problem by
assessing perceptions of credibility about health-related information found
on social
media, under different perspectives. For example, by analyzing the Social
Web for
identifying suitable sources of health-related information (blogs,
microblogs,
question-answering systems, etc.); evaluating the impact of health
misinformation;
studying and implementing models for the credibility assessment of the
acquired
health-related information from social media; and studying and implementing
models
for the prevention of health misinformation diffusion in social media.

This Special Issue is aimed at scholars and researchers involved in
different research
areas, from medical informatics to sociology to medicine, confirming the
interdisciplinary character of the journal.

WEB PAGE:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/Health_Misinformation

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TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- COVID-19 and health misinformation about the pandemic
- Crowdsourcing and health information/misinformation assessment
- Decision-making in dealing with health information/misinformation
- Filter bubbles and echo chambers in the diffusion of health misinformation
- Health and media literacy
- Health information retrieval
- Impact of health misinformation in social media
- Knowledge-bases applied to health information credibility
- Models and technologies for health information credibility assessment
- Models and technologies to prevent health misinformation diffusion
- Recommending genuine health information
- Social Web and health information diffusion

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MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and
logging
into this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the
submission form.
Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be
peer-reviewed.
Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as
accepted)
and  will be listed together on the special issue website. Research
articles, review
articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a
title and
short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for
announcement
on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be
under
consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings
papers).
All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review
process.
A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of
manuscripts is
available on the Instructions for Authors page.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an
international
peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a
manuscript.
The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open-access
journal is
1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use
good English.
Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or
during author revisions.

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for manuscript submissions: January 31, 2021.

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GUEST EDITOR:

Dr. Marco Viviani (Assistant Professor)
University of Milano-Bicocca
Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication (DISCo)

Interests: social media analytics; information retrieval; trust and
reputation systems;
information credibility assessment; social computing; multicriteria
decision making;
aggregation operators.

http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/

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VISIBILITY:

The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is
indexed by the
Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Social Sciences Citation
Index
(Web of Science), MEDLINE (PubMed), Scopus (Elsevier), and other databases.

-- 
*Marco Viviani* (Assistant Professor)
University of Milano-Bicocca
Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication (DISCo)
Viale Sarca, 336 - 20126 Milan (Italy)
e-mail: marco.viviani at unimib.it
url: http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/
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