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Social Comparison, Advertising, and Consumer Discontent

Overview of attention for article published in American Behavioral Scientist, February 1995
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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 (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
7 news outlets

Readers on

mendeley
116 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Social Comparison, Advertising, and Consumer Discontent
Published in
American Behavioral Scientist, February 1995
DOI 10.1177/0002764295038004009
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 116 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
South Africa 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 114 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 18%
Student > Master 16 14%
Student > Bachelor 13 11%
Lecturer 7 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 4%
Other 20 17%
Unknown 34 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 33 28%
Psychology 21 18%
Social Sciences 15 13%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 3%
Computer Science 1 <1%
Other 2 2%
Unknown 40 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 58. 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 17 September 2026.
All research outputs
#920,768
of 34,343,841 outputs
Outputs from American Behavioral Scientist
#107
of 1,952 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#422
of 111,060 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Behavioral Scientist
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,343,841 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 1,952 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 111,060 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them