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Table 2 Total number and Percentage of websites which are in compliance with each criterion of HONcode

From: Persian language health websites on Ebola disease: less credible than you think?

Criteria

Search Engines

Total

Yahoo

N = 15

Google

N = 25

Bing

N = 22

Authority

2 [13%]

5 [20%]

3 [14%]

10 [16%]

Complementarity

12 [80%]

19 [76%]

18 [82%]

49 [79%]

Privacy

10 [66%]

16 [64%]

13 [59%]

39 [63%]

Attribution

6 [40%]

10 [40%]

14 [64%]

30 [48%]

Justifiability

12 [80%]

21 [84%]

22 [100%]

55 [89%]

Transparency

4 [27%]

5 [20%]

4 [18%]

13 [21%]

Financial disclosure

6 [40%]

7 [28%]

9 [41%]

22 [35%]

Advertising policy

9 [60%]

13[52%]

13 [59%]

35 [56%]

Total

61/120 [51%]

96/200 [48%]

96/176 [54%]

253/496 [51%]