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The Rich Kids of Instagram: Luxury Travel, Transport Modes, and Desire

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Travel Research, October 2021
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (77th percentile)

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policy
1 policy source
twitter
13 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
107 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Rich Kids of Instagram: Luxury Travel, Transport Modes, and Desire
Published in
Journal of Travel Research, October 2021
DOI 10.1177/00472875211037748
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 107 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 8%
Student > Master 9 8%
Lecturer 8 7%
Researcher 5 5%
Other 4 4%
Other 14 13%
Unknown 58 54%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 19 18%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 4%
Unspecified 3 3%
Psychology 3 3%
Other 6 6%
Unknown 61 57%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 08 February 2025.
All research outputs
#2,803,298
of 32,777,751 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Travel Research
#82
of 721 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#51,052
of 458,397 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Travel Research
#4
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,777,751 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 721 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 458,397 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 18 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% of its contemporaries.