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The Door-in-the-Face Persuasive Message Strategy: A Meta-Analysis of the First 35 Years

Overview of attention for article published in Communication Monographs, September 2012
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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 (91st percentile)

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3 Wikipedia pages

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Article details
Title
The Door-in-the-Face Persuasive Message Strategy: A Meta-Analysis of the First 35 Years
Published in
Communication Monographs, September 2012
DOI 10.1080/03637751.2012.697631
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 4%
Netherlands 1 1%
Unknown 75 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 16 20%
Student > Master 13 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 5%
Other 12 15%
Unknown 16 20%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 22 28%
Social Sciences 16 20%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 14%
Arts and Humanities 5 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 5%
Other 6 8%
Unknown 15 19%
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 14 March 2025.
All research outputs
#2,578,610
of 28,583,110 outputs
Outputs from Communication Monographs
#86
of 450 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,167
of 196,234 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Communication Monographs
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,583,110 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 450 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its peers.
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