Dr Artur Strzelecki and Mariia Rizun, Department of Computer Science of the University of Economics in Katowice won the International Journal of Online Engineering Award for the article “Infodemiological Study Using Google Trends on Coronavirus Epidemic in Wuhan, China”.

The article discusses the information behavior of Google users in obtaining information on the spreading Coronavirus disease (at the time of publication, the name COVID-19 did not exist yet). The dissertation describes the situation in China, shows the timeline of the growing interest towards the coronavirus and the distribution of interest in individual regions of China.

The authors of the text compared the data from China with the global perspective, which was small until the outbreak in Italy, what was revealed by the presented data. information. The published draft of the tekst was the first article in the world to present data on the interest in the coronavirus visible in Google Trends.