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Luxury or ‘lock-in’? An exploration of unsustainable consumption in the UK: 1968 to 2000

Overview of attention for article published in Ecological Economics, December 2008
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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 (84th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (59th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Luxury or ‘lock-in’? An exploration of unsustainable consumption in the UK: 1968 to 2000
Published in
Ecological Economics, December 2008
DOI 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.01.026
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 2%
United States 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Latvia 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 171 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 40 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 32 17%
Student > Master 25 14%
Student > Bachelor 9 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 9 5%
Other 36 20%
Unknown 32 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 37 20%
Social Sciences 32 17%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 24 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 13 7%
Engineering 9 5%
Other 28 15%
Unknown 40 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 01 January 2022.
All research outputs
#6,349,920
of 33,059,767 outputs
Outputs from Ecological Economics
#1,779
of 5,148 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#35,110
of 236,415 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ecological Economics
#22
of 54 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,059,767 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 79th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,148 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 64% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 54 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 59% of its contemporaries.