Medical and Health-Related Misinformation on Social Media: Bibliometric Study of the Scientific Literature

Andy Wai Kan Yeung   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Anela Tosevska   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Elisabeth Klager   ² , MSc ;   Fabian Eibensteiner   ^{2, 4} , MD ;   Christos Tsagkaris   ⁵ , MD ;   Emil D Parvanov   ^{2, 6} , PhD ;   Faisal A Nawaz   ⁷ , MBBSc ;   Sabine Völkl-Kernstock   ² , PhD ;   Eva Schaden   ^{2, 8} , MD ;   Maria Kletecka-Pulker   ² , PhD ;   Harald Willschke   ^{2, 8} , MD ;   Atanas G Atanasov   ^{2, 9} , PhD

¹ Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Applied Oral Sciences and Community Dental Care, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

² Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

³ Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

⁴ Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Gastroenterology, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

⁵ Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

⁶ Department of Translational Stem Cell Biology, Medical University of Varna, Varna, Bulgaria

⁷ College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

⁸ Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

⁹ Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec, Poland