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. 2020 Dec 23;24(6):1193–1209. doi: 10.1017/S1368980020005248

Table 5.

Extracted information on disciplinary scope as listed on publication* of included studies in present rapid review

Study Platform Health, Medicine, other related Business, Informatics, Computer Science, other related
Interdisciplinary collaborations
Alhabash et al. (73) Twitter Health Computer Science, Advertising, Data Mining
Alajajian et al. (50) Twitter Culinary Arts and Food Science Mathematical and Computer Science
Huang et al. (69) Twitter Public Health Statistics, Engineering
Karami et al. (55) Twitter Public Health Information Science
Nguyen et al. (49) Twitter Health, Global Health Computing, Geography, Sociology
Nguyen et al. (52) Twitter Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Public Health Computing, Geography, Sociology
Nguyen et al. (64) Twitter Yelp Epidemiology, Health Computing, Geography, Sustainability
Shah et al. (47) Twitter Medicine Mathematics and Computer Science
Sullivan et al. (81) Amazon Biomedical Informatics Biomedical Informatics
Vydiswaran et al. (48) Twitter Public Health, Nutritional Science Information, Urban Planning
Wombacher et al. (66) Twitter Health Communication
Health-related disciplines only
Blackstone et al. (76) Facebook Public Health, Health Science x
Carrotte et al. (77) Instagram Facebook Twitter, Tumblr Health, Medicine x
Cavazos-Rehg et al. (65) Twitter Psychiatry, Medicine Assisted by external social media analytics companies
ElTayeby et al. (67) Facebook group Health Science x
Primack et al. (68) YouTube Medicine, Public Health x
Turner-McGrievy et al. (75) Twitter Health Promotion, Exercise Science, RD x
Vidal et al. (54) Twitter Psychology, Food x
Non-health-related disciplines only including business, computing and informatics
Abbar et al. (57) Twitter x Computing
Chen et al. (63) Twitter x Geography
Kershaw et al. (70) Twitter x Computing, Management Science
Ofli et al. (60) Instagram x Computing
Phan et al. (72) Instagram x Artificial Intelligence
Rahman et al. (78) Twitter Foursquare x Engineering and Technology
Rich et al. (61) Instagram x Engineering, Computer Science
Sharma et al. (62) Instagram x Technology
Silva et al. (56) Foursquare x Computer Science, Informatics, Geography
Sun et al. (51) Twitter x Computer Science, Network Computing and Security
Widener et al. (53) Twitter x Geography, Geospatial Analysis and Computation
Yan et al. (79) Koubei x Management Science and Engineering
Zhou et al. (80) Weibo x Information Management
*

Studies where author affiliation not clearly identifiable: Fried et al. (58), Mejova et al. (59), Pang et al. (71)

Presence of nutrition or dietetic discipline involvement. RD is the US credential for Registered Dietitian.