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From Waste to Taste: How “Ugly” Labels Can Increase Purchase of Unattractive Produce

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Marketing, April 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#49 of 1,550)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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19 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
3 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages

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mendeley
298 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
From Waste to Taste: How “Ugly” Labels Can Increase Purchase of Unattractive Produce
Published in
Journal of Marketing, April 2021
DOI 10.1177/0022242920988656
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 298 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 42 14%
Student > Bachelor 18 6%
Student > Master 16 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 11 4%
Other 34 11%
Unknown 163 55%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 72 24%
Social Sciences 13 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 9 3%
Psychology 8 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 2%
Other 16 5%
Unknown 174 58%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 159. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 October 2026.
All research outputs
#324,680
of 34,591,678 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Marketing
#49
of 1,550 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,562
of 484,566 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Marketing
#2
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,591,678 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,550 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 27.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 484,566 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 27 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its contemporaries.