Published on in Vol 5, No 2 (2016): Apr-Jun

Measuring Health Information Dissemination and Identifying Target Interest Communities on Twitter: Methods Development and Case Study of the @SafetyMD Network

Measuring Health Information Dissemination and Identifying Target Interest Communities on Twitter: Methods Development and Case Study of the @SafetyMD Network

Measuring Health Information Dissemination and Identifying Target Interest Communities on Twitter: Methods Development and Case Study of the @SafetyMD Network

Venk Kandadai   1 * , MPH ;   Haodong Yang   2 * , MS ;   Ling Jiang   2 * , MS ;   Christopher C. Yang   2 * , PhD ;   Linda Fleisher   1 * , MPH,PhD ;   Flaura Koplin Winston   1, 3 * , MD, PhD

1 Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States

2 College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States

3 Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

*all authors contributed equally

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  • Christopher C. Yang, PhD
  • College of Computing and Informatics
  • Drexel University
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