Crowdsourcing, attention and productivity

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 758-765

  Huberman, Bernardo A ^a,c   Romero, Daniel M ^b   Wu, Fang ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Social attention

Indexed keywords

MASSIVE DATA; POSITIVE DEPENDENCE; SHOW THROUGH; YOUTUBE;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 70849099704     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551509346786     Document Type: Article

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