"Popularity effect" in user-generated content: Evidence from online product reviews

Information Systems Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 222-238

  Goes, Paulo B ^a   Lin, Mingfeng ^a   Yeung, Ching man Au ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Axon Labs Limited   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Matching; Online community; Opinion leader; Popularity; Product reviews; Social media; Text mining; User generated content

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

MATCHING; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; OPINION LEADERS; POPULARITY; PRODUCT REVIEWS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TEXT MINING; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84903882787     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2013.0512     Document Type: Article

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