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Peer-to-Peer Support and Online Communities (995) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (2657) Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1985) Information Seeking, Information Needs (651)

Published on in Vol 25 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/48858, first published .
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Factors Influencing the Answerability and Popularity of a Health-Related Post in the Question-and-Answer Community: Infodemiology Study of Metafilter

Factors Influencing the Answerability and Popularity of a Health-Related Post in the Question-and-Answer Community: Infodemiology Study of Metafilter

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Jinqing Yang1 Author Orcid Image ;   Zhifeng Liu2 Author Orcid Image ;   Qicong Wang1 Author Orcid Image ;   Na Lu3 Author Orcid Image
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