Sustainability of Stack Exchange Q&A communities: the role of trust

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dc.citation.issue1
dc.citation.rankM21
dc.citation.spage4
dc.citation.volume12
dc.contributor.authorVranić, Ana
dc.contributor.authorTomašević, Aleksandar
dc.contributor.authorAlorić, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorMitrović Dankulov, Marija
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-22T12:19:27Z
dc.date.available2023-03-22T12:19:27Z
dc.date.issued2023-02-24
dc.description.abstractKnowledge-sharing communities are fundamental elements of a knowledge-based society. Understanding how different factors influence their sustainability is of crucial importance. We explore the role of the social network structure and social trust in their sustainability. We analyze the early evolution of social networks in four pairs of active and closed Stack Exchange communities on topics of physics, astronomy, economics, and literature and use a dynamical reputation model to quantify the evolution of social trust in them. In addition, we study the evolution of two active communities on mathematics topics and two closed communities about startups and compare them with our main results. Active communities have higher local cohesiveness and develop stable, better-connected, trustworthy cores. The early emergence of a stable and trustworthy core may be crucial for sustainable knowledge-sharing communities.
dc.identifier.doi10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00381-x
dc.identifier.issn2193-1127
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85149010644
dc.identifier.urihttps://pub.ipb.ac.rs/handle/123456789/11
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC
dc.relation.ispartofEPJ Data Science
dc.relation.ispartofabbrEPJ Data Sci.
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.titleSustainability of Stack Exchange Q&A communities: the role of trust
dc.typeArticle
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