Reporting incentives and biases in online review forums

ACM Transactions on the Web

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Jurca, Radu ^a   Garcin, Florent ^b   Talwar, Arjun ^b   Faltings, Boi ^b  

^a GOOGLE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Online reviews; Reputation mechanisms

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL RATING; PRODUCTS AND SERVICES; REPORTING BIAS; REPUTATION MECHANISM; REPUTATION MECHANISMS; TIME SEQUENCES; UNDERLYING FACTORS;

EID: 77951896342     PISSN: 15591131     EISSN: 1559114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1734200.1734202     Document Type: Article

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