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Why are consumers following social media influencers on Instagram? Exploration of consumers’ motives for following influencers and the role of materialism

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Advertising, August 2021
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (54th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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3 X users

Citations

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Title
Why are consumers following social media influencers on Instagram? Exploration of consumers’ motives for following influencers and the role of materialism
Published in
International Journal of Advertising, August 2021
DOI 10.1080/02650487.2021.1964226
Authors

Jung Ah Lee, Sabitha Sudarshan, Kristen L. Sussman, Laura F. Bright, Matthew S. Eastin

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 321 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 321 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 24 7%
Student > Master 23 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 5%
Student > Bachelor 13 4%
Researcher 10 3%
Other 45 14%
Unknown 191 60%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 49 15%
Unspecified 23 7%
Social Sciences 17 5%
Arts and Humanities 6 2%
Psychology 5 2%
Other 23 7%
Unknown 198 62%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 31 October 2023.
All research outputs
#14,359,967
of 24,715,720 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Advertising
#178
of 300 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#188,483
of 423,909 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Advertising
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,715,720 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 41st percentile – i.e., 41% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 300 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.2. This one is in the 40th percentile – i.e., 40% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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