Reflections: Reviews, reviewers

Author's Response to Reviews Dear Editors and Reviewers

1.Very minimal information included on results and conclusions. Would suggest limiting background and adding in additional details on results and more specific study conclusions. Response: The abstract is revised as suggested. Introduction 2. Would define extreme weight control behaviors or offer an example to help readers to understand what these behaviors are. Response: We have offered exampl...

All Reviews are Not Created Equal: The Disaggregate Impact of Reviews and Reviewers at Amazon.com

Online product review networks help to transmit information that customers can use to evaluate product quality. The prior literature has found that, in the aggregate, better product reviews lead to higher sales. However, product review networks increasingly include an explicit social component that allows consumers to evaluate individual reviews based on the status of the reviewer and on the “h...

Essays on Online Reviews: the Relationships between Reviewers, Reviews, and Product Sales, and the Temporal Patterns of Online Reviews

Interpersonal conversation, or word-of-mouth (WOM), is one of the important factors in affecting product sales (e.g. Herr et al. 1991, Laczniak et al. 2001). Potential buyers can gather information on the quality of the product through other consumers' WOM. WOM can not only increase product awareness among potential buyers but can also affect their buying decisions. With the development of onli...

REVIEWS

NewsTrust Xplorer: Content-based Rating Visualization for Exploring News Reviews and Reviewers

NewsTrust is a non-partisan, nonprofit news service that uses a volunteer community of reviewers to rate the latest news articles on the web. The reviews consist of ratings in 18 different categories, including “facts”, “trust”, “fairness”, and “recommendation”. We obtained over 30,000 reviews spanning more than one year, covering over 15,000 unique news articles. We downloaded every full artic...