Leaving this here in case someone from this community is interested: emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/AJIM-11-2021-0345/full/…

"Online community development in the early stages: the life cycle model application to Medical Sciences Stack Exchange"

@curious Thanks - unfortunately seems not particularly accessible to the public in that journal.

@BryanKrause Yea it's not but I figured some of the folks on this site might have access through their universities

@BryanKrause I was able to get it at mine... it's quite recent though I think, got a google scholar alert literally yesterday