Online community influence: A study using the hirsch metric and social network analysis

Michael Cuellar, Robert Sainsbury, Brett Young, Hirotoshi Takeda

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Abstract

This study looks at small to medium sized online community (OC) and tries to identify ways to measure impact of the contributions of the users of the OC. OC's are dependent on contributions of their users to maintain the health of the OC. Measuring the health of an OC by identifying those users that have most influence and thus create more activity and finally more people the visit the OC is an important activity to the stakeholders in the OC. In order to measure these high end users we are extending previous research to include a two part measure. First, using the Hirsch metrics to measure the productivity and impact of user contributions and second, using social network analysis to see those users that have high centrality measures in the network of posters and readers of the OC. This study looks at one University sports fan site to measure the influence of their users and found some correlation between the Hirsch measures and the centrality measures.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication19th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2013 - Hyperconnected World
Subtitle of host publicationAnything, Anywhere, Anytime
Pages2574-2581
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 2013
Event19th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2013 - Chicago, IL, United States
Duration: Aug 15 2013Aug 17 2013

Publication series

Name19th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2013 - Hyperconnected World: Anything, Anywhere, Anytime
Volume4

Conference

Conference19th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago, IL
Period08/15/1308/17/13

Keywords

  • Hirsch index
  • Influence
  • Online community
  • Online identity
  • Replies
  • Threads
  • User status
  • Views
  • Virtual community

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