MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W4249122391 · doi:10.7189/jogh.10.010101

Helping global health topics go viral online

2020· editorial· en· W4249122391 on OpenAlexaff
Iain H. Campbell, Igor Rudan

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Global Health · 2020
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMisinformation and Its Impacts
Canadian institutionsCentre for Global Health Research
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMisinformationGossipPublic relationsEntertainmentContext (archaeology)Public healthInternet privacyPopulationHealth communicationPopulation healthPolitical sciencePsychologyMedicineComputer scienceSocial psychologyHistoryEnvironmental health

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

lobal health is a rapidly evolving field of biomedical science, but it also has a social, political and economic dimension that tends to capture people's imagination.This makes global health research amenable to community engagement and popularization among general public.However, it is difficult to know which strategies would work best to attract a large number of viewers to video materials that convey accurate global health information.This is particularly important in recent years, where it became apparent that any reliable information online could soon get its seductive, but inaccurate counterpart in an effort to enhance someone's personal "click bait" rate [1].Humans seem to be quite receptive to alternative views, especially when they are surprising, shocking or spectacular, or when they seem to be contrary to long-held popular beliefs or common knowledge [1,2].Such news always tends to be more interesting to broad population than the stories that merely consolidate or confirm the existing knowledge [1,2].But this also poses a potential danger when the creators of alternative and fake news "attack" an important public health issue and cause confusion among the population, thus risking reversal in many hard-achieved gains in population health [3].Anti-vaccine movements and are probably the most striking example of this risk [4].Increasingly, the scientists involved in global health, but also all other areas of science, are beginning to realise that moving forward and generating more knowledge for humanity is not our only task; in fact, it may no longer be our main task, either.Communicating the knowledge that has been generated to broad

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.028
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.030
Threshold uncertainty score0.099

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.028
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0040.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0040.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.003
Scholarly communication0.0110.006
Open science0.0030.002
Research integrity0.0160.017
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0300.018

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.440
Teacher spread0.409 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEditorial

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

Quick stats

Citations9
Published2020
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

Explore more

Same venueJournal of Global HealthSame topicMisinformation and Its ImpactsFrench-language works237,207