Misinformation, believability, and vaccine acceptance over 40 countries: Takeaways from the initial phase of the COVID-19 infodemic

• Karandeep Singh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karandeep Singh, Gabriel Lima

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea

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• Gabriel Lima ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karandeep Singh, Gabriel Lima

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea, School of Computing, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

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• Meeyoung Cha ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mcha@ibs.re.kr (MC); chiyoung@ewha.ac.kr (CC)

  Affiliations Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea, School of Computing, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4085-9648

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• Chiyoung Cha ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mcha@ibs.re.kr (MC); chiyoung@ewha.ac.kr (CC)

  Affiliation College of Nursing, Graduate Program in System Health Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0115-1348

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• Juhi Kulshrestha,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

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• Yong-Yeol Ahn,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States of America, Indiana University Network Science Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States of America, Connection Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Onur Varol

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

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