A substantial impediment to widespread Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination is vaccine hesitancy. Many researchers across scientific disciplines have presented countless studies in favor of COVID-19 vaccination, but misinformation on social media could hinder vaccination efforts and increase vaccine hesitancy. Nevertheless, studying people's perceptions on social media to understand their sentiment presents a powerful medium for researchers to identify the causes of vaccine hesitancy and therefore develop appropriate public health messages and interventions. To the best of the authors' knowledge, previous studies have presented vaccine hesitancy in specific cases or within one scientific discipline (
i.e., social, medical, and technological
). No previous study has presented findings via sentiment analysis for multiple scientific disciplines as follows: (
1
) social, (
2
) medical, public health, and (
3
) technology sciences. Therefore, this research aimed to review and analyze articles related different vaccine hesitancy cases in the last 11 years and understand the application of sentiment analysis on the most important literature findings. Articles were systematically searched in
Web of Science
,
Scopus
,
PubMed
,
IEEEXplore
,
ScienceDirect
, and
Ovid
from January 1, 2010, to July 2021. A total of
30
articles were selected on the basis of inclusion and exclusion criteria. These articles were formed into a taxonomy of literature, along with challenges, motivations, and recommendations for social, medical, and public health and technology sciences. Significant patterns were identified, and opportunities were promoted towards the understanding of this phenomenon.
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