Prevalence of Third-party Tracking on Medical Journal Websites

JAMA Health Forum. 2022 Mar 18;3(3):e220167. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2022.0167. eCollection 2022 Mar.

Ravi Gupta^{1

2

3}, Ari B Friedman^{3

4

5}, Matthew S McCoy^{3

5}

¹ National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania and Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
³ Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
⁵ Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study investigates web tracking prevalence and characteristics on medical journal websites.