To study biomedical and health phenomena, social media data has emerged as a new paradigm. Millions of users on the most popular social media platforms are continuously generating quantitatively vast and unprecedented amounts of data. Despite many benefits that can be extracted from such big datasets, there are also challenges like methodological heterogeneity in conducting research using social media data. The significance of the research area has gained in the ongoing pandemic conditions, as many countries are adopting various social media communication strategies developed to adapt to the Covid-19 pandemic development. The present special issue is focused on publishingthe highest quality papers in the areas associated with digital health and social media research. Papers involving social media research with relevance to health and biomedical sciences, including clinical research and open innovation utilizing digital health techniques, will be considered for publication.

Keywords: Science communication, social networks, open innovation, digital health, social media, biomedical research