The CLAIMS (Causal language and strength of inference in academic and media articles shared in social media) study is a systematic review of the state of causal inference in health research as it reaches the consumer through social media. This site serves both as a public explainer of the study and a public access repository of the full protocol, review tool, dataset generated during the review process, analysis code, reviewer profiles, and results from the CLAIMS study. In addition, we will be discussing this study and related topics in the main blog section.

The full, published version of this study is in PLOS ONE, and can be found here.

Citation: Haber N, Smith ER, Moscoe E, Andrews K, Audy R, Bell W, et al. (2018) Causal language and strength of inference in academic and media articles shared in social media (CLAIMS): A systematic review. PLOS ONE 13(5): e0196346. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196346

Please contact Noah Haber ([email protected]) for more information.

Study summary