Analyzing the Impact of Sentiments of Scientific Articles on COVID-19 Vaccination Rates

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.08154v1
• Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 05:11:23 GMT
• Title: Analyzing the Impact of Sentiments of Scientific Articles on COVID-19 Vaccination Rates
• Authors: Sean Eugene G. Chua, Kevin Anthony S. Sison
• Abstract summary: This study investigates the correlation between article sentiments and the corresponding increase or decrease in vaccinations in the United States. Results suggest that there was a relatively weak correlation between the average sentiment score of articles and the corresponding increase or decrease in COVID vaccination rates in the US.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous countries worldwide sought to mobilize vaccination campaigns in an attempt to curb the spread and number of deaths caused by the virus. One avenue in which information regarding COVID vaccinations is propagated is that of scientific articles, which provide a certain level of credibility regarding this. Hence, this increases the probability that people who view these articles would get vaccinated if the articles convey a positive message on vaccinations and conversely decreases the probability of vaccinations if the articles convey a negative message. This being said, this study aims to investigate the correlation between article sentiments and the corresponding increase or decrease in vaccinations in the United States. To do this, a lexicon-based sentiment analysis was performed in two steps: first, article content was scraped via a Python library called BeautifulSoup, and second, VADER was used to obtain the sentiment analysis scores for each article based on the scraped text content. Results suggest that there was a relatively weak correlation between the average sentiment score of articles and the corresponding increase or decrease in COVID vaccination rates in the US.

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