Thank you Yuri and Mette! These are spot on. On October 17, 2018 at 4:54:06 AM, Юрий Рыков (rykyur@gmail.com<mailto:rykyur@gmail.com>) wrote: Hi Benjamin, There is my list of references on the topic (in alphabetical order): Carron-Arthur, B., Cunningham, J. A., & Griffiths, K. M. (2014). Describing the distribution of engagement in an Internet support group by post frequency: A comparison of the 90-9-1 Principle and Zipf’s Law. Internet Interventions, 1(4), 165–168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2014.09.003 Carron-Arthur, B., Reynolds, J., Bennett, K., Bennett, A., Cunningham, J. A., & Griffiths, K. M. (2016). Community Structure of a Mental Health Internet Support Group: Modularity in User Thread Participation. JMIR Mental Health, 3(2), e20. https://doi.org/10.2196/mental.4961 Centola, D. (2010). The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment. Science, 329(5996), 1194–1197. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1185231 Chen, L., & Shi, J. (2015). 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Information Systems and E-Business Management, 13(4), 629–645. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10257-014-0260-5 Zhao, K., Wang, X., Cha, S., Cohn, A. M., Papandonatos, G. D., Amato, M. S., … Graham, A. L. (2016). A Multirelational Social Network Analysis of an Online Health Community for Smoking Cessation. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 18(8), e233. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5985 Hope it would be useful for your work. Best regards, Yuri On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 01:28, Sugar, Benjamin N <bsugar@gatech.edu<mailto:bsugar@gatech.edu>> wrote: Hi everyone, There is a fair amount of work on interactions in these communities between individuals and the group as a collection of individuals. There is also a lot of work on networks and expertise communities (e.g. Q&A, wikipedia, open source software lists), but as some of the aforementioned work points out, expertise in OHC’s are only part of the dynamics. Any recommendations on papers that address networks and online health communities? 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