Introduction Citation-based bibliometric indicators are increasingly being used for evaluating research. This reflects the need of decision-makers to increase the efficiency of allocating resources to research institutions and scientists, while also keeping manageable and cost-effective the evaluation process that grounds the allocation of resources. There often is much room of improvement in h...

We examine the effect of online consumer reviews on the sales of video games. An inherent problem in measuring the influence of reviews on demand is that products receiving good reviews tend to be of high quality, and it is difficult to determine whether the review or the quality is responsible for the high demand. To circumvent this problem, we consider video games that are developed for both ...

Online product reviews are a major source of business intelligence (BI) that helps managers and market researchers make important decisions on product development and promotion. However, the large volume of online product review data creates significant information overload problems, making it difficult to analyze users’ concerns. In this paper, we employ a design science paradigm to develop a ...

BACKGROUND Although numerous efficacy studies in recent years have found internet-based interventions for depression to be effective, there has been scant consideration of therapeutic process factors in the online setting. In face-to face therapy, the quality of the working alliance explains variance in treatment outcome. However, little is yet known about the impact of the working alliance in ...

While the static magnitude of thermal pain perception has been shown to follow a power-law function of the temperature, its dynamical features have been largely overlooked. Due to the slow temporal experience of pain, multiple studies now show that the time evolution of its magnitude can be captured with continuous online ratings. Here we use such ratings to model quantitatively the temporal dy...

Facebook profiles are routinely viewed and judged by others. We examined the categories of information that are utilized by observers and we tested the predictive validity of personality ratings based on Facebook Info pages. Raters made personality judgments of target individuals, either based on full Facebook Info pages or single categories of information (e.g., profile picture, interests, mus...

Humor ratings are provided for 4,997 English words collected from 821 participants using an online crowd-sourcing platform. Each participant rated 211 words on a scale from 1 (humorless) to 5 (humorous). To provide for comparisons across norms, words were chosen from a set common to a number of previously collected norms (e.g., arousal, valence, dominance, concreteness, age of acquisition, and ...