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Internet forums as influential sources of consumer information

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Interactive Marketing (John Wiley & Sons), August 2001
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (78th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Internet forums as influential sources of consumer information
Published in
Journal of Interactive Marketing (John Wiley & Sons), August 2001
DOI 10.1002/dir.1014
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Germany 7 <1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
United States 3 <1%
Portugal 3 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
China 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
Other 7 <1%
Unknown 1121 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 193 17%
Student > Bachelor 143 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 130 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 52 5%
Researcher 34 3%
Other 138 12%
Unknown 462 40%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 369 32%
Social Sciences 89 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 57 5%
Computer Science 45 4%
Engineering 21 2%
Other 79 7%
Unknown 492 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 12 October 2026.
All research outputs
#6,093,122
of 34,360,889 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Interactive Marketing (John Wiley & Sons)
#96
of 438 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,433
of 59,879 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Interactive Marketing (John Wiley & Sons)
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,360,889 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 438 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% 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 59,879 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 78% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 2 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