{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,26]],"date-time":"2025-06-26T06:02:11Z","timestamp":1750917731489},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["J. Info. Know. Mgmt."],"abstract":"<jats:p> This study investigates the impact of global infection rates on social media posts during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study analysed over 179 million tweets posted between March 22 and April 13, 2020 and the global COVID-19 infection rates using evolutionary clustering analysis. Results showed six clusters constructed for each term type, including three-level [Formula: see text]-grams (unigrams, bigrams and trigrams). The frequent occurrences of unigrams (\u201cCOVID-19\u201d, \u201cvirus\u201d, \u201cgovernment\u201d, \u201cpeople\u201d, etc.), bigrams (\u201cCOVID 19\u201d, \u201cCOVID-19 cases\u201d, \u201ctimes share\u201d, etc.) and trigrams (\u201cCOVID 19 crisis\u201d, \u201cthings help stop\u201d and \u201ctrying times share\u201d) were identified. The results demonstrated that the unigram trends on Twitter were up to about two times and 54 times more common than the bigram terms and trigram terms, respectively. Unigrams like \u201chome\u201d or \u201cneed\u201d also became important as these terms reflected the main concerns of people during this period. Taken together, the present findings confirm that many tweets were used to broadcast people\u2019s prevalent topics of interest during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the results indicate that the number of COVID-19 infections had a significant effect on all clusters, being strong on 86% of clusters and moderate on 16% of clusters. The downward slope in global infection rates reflected the start of the trending of \u201csocial distancing\u201d and \u201cstay at home\u201d. These findings suggest that infection rates have had a significant impact on social media posting during the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1142\/s0219649221500386","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,21]],"date-time":"2021-06-21T04:41:17Z","timestamp":1624250477000},"page":"2150038","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["An Evolutionary Clustering Analysis of Social Media Content and Global Infection Rates During the COVID-19 Pandemic"],"prefix":"10.1142","author":[{"given":"Ibrahim","family":"Arpaci","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology, Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University, 60250 Tokat, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shadi","family":"Alshehabi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Turkish Aeronautical Association University, Etimesgut, 06790 Ankara, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ibrahim","family":"Mahariq","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Egaila, Kuwait"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ahmet E.","family":"Topcu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Egaila, Kuwait"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"219","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,19]]},"container-title":["Journal of Information &amp; Knowledge Management"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.worldscientific.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1142\/S0219649221500386","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,21]],"date-time":"2021-06-21T04:41:20Z","timestamp":1624250480000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.worldscientific.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1142\/S0219649221500386"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,19]]},"references-count":0,"alternative-id":["10.1142\/S0219649221500386"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1142\/s0219649221500386","relation":{},"ISSN":["0219-6492","1793-6926"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0219-6492","type":"print"},{"value":"1793-6926","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,19]]}}}