Has there been any academic research using Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange?

Yes, see http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/134496/178179 (as of now contains 45 references): 2014 Bogdan Vasilescu, Alexander Serebrenik, Prem Devanbu and Vladimir Filkov. 2014. How social Q&A sites are changing knowledge sharing in open source software communities In 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2014)ACM http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531659 https://gist.github.com/bvasiles/4987059#file-stackoverflow-bib http://www.win.tue.nl/~bvasiles/papers/cscw14.pdf Alexander Halavais, K Hazel Kwon, Shannon Havener and Jason Striker. 2014. Badges of Friendship: Social Influence and Badge Acquisition on Stack Overflow. In 47th Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-47 2014). IEEE https://gist.github.com/bvasiles/4987059#file-stackoverflow-bib http://altcred.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/halavais-2014-badges-of-friendship.pdf 2013 Shaowei Wang, David Lo and Lingxiao Jiang. 2013. An Empirical Study on Developer Interactions in StackOverflow. In 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. ACM, pages 1019-1024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2480362.2480557 https://gist.github.com/bvasiles/4987059#file-stackoverflow-bib http://www.mysmu.edu/faculty/lxjiang/papers/sac13stackoverflow.pdf Dennis Schenk and Mircea Lungu. 2013. Geo-Locating the Knowledge Transfer in Stack Overflow. In International Workshop on Social Software Engineering. ACM, pages 21-24. http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2501535.2501540https://gist.github.com/bvasiles/4987059#file-stackoverflow-bib http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Sche13a-GeolocatingStackOverflow.pdf Bogdan Vasilescu, Andrea Capiluppi and Alexander Serebrenik. 2013. Gender, representation and online participation: A quantitative study Interacting with Computers. 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