Finding influential users of online health communities: a new metric based on sentiment influence.

Kang ZhaoJohn YenGreta GreerBaojun QiuPrasenjit MitraKenneth Portier

Published in: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA (2014)

Using the dataset from a popular OHC, the research demonstrated that the proposed metric is highly effective in identifying influential users. In addition, combining the metric with other traditional measures further improves the identification of influential users.

Keyphrases

health information
healthcare
public health
mental health
social media
health promotion
human health