Published on in Vol 6, No 3 (2020): Jul-Sep

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/17175, first published .
Identifying Influential Factors in the Discussion Dynamics of Emerging Health Issues on Social Media: Computational Study

Identifying Influential Factors in the Discussion Dynamics of Emerging Health Issues on Social Media: Computational Study

Identifying Influential Factors in the Discussion Dynamics of Emerging Health Issues on Social Media: Computational Study

Lida Safarnejad   1 , MSc ;   Qian Xu   2 , PhD ;   Yaorong Ge   1 , PhD ;   Arunkumar Bagavathi   3 , PhD ;   Siddharth Krishnan   1 , PhD ;   Shi Chen   4 , PhD

1 College of Computing and Informatics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States

2 School of Communications, Elon University, Elon, NC, United States

3 Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, OK, United States

4 College of Health and Human Services, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States

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  • Shi Chen, PhD
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