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I Just Can’t Control Myself: A Self-Regulation Perspective on the Abuse of Deviant Employees

Overview of attention for article published in Academy of Management Journal, August 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (71st percentile)

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6 news outlets
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1 blog
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2 X users
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1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
I Just Can’t Control Myself: A Self-Regulation Perspective on the Abuse of Deviant Employees
Published in
Academy of Management Journal, August 2017
DOI 10.5465/amj.2014.0409
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 333 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 77 23%
Student > Doctoral Student 31 9%
Student > Master 29 9%
Professor 17 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 17 5%
Other 50 15%
Unknown 112 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 132 40%
Psychology 31 9%
Social Sciences 22 7%
Arts and Humanities 6 2%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 2%
Other 19 6%
Unknown 118 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 64. 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 26 August 2025.
All research outputs
#801,542
of 32,030,936 outputs
Outputs from Academy of Management Journal
#169
of 1,944 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,776
of 345,479 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Academy of Management Journal
#4
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,030,936 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,944 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 14 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its contemporaries.