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Age Differences in Information Processing: Understanding Deficits in Young and Elderly Consumers

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Consumer Research, December 1986
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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 (96th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Age Differences in Information Processing: Understanding Deficits in Young and Elderly Consumers
Published in
Journal of Consumer Research, December 1986
DOI 10.1086/209070
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Brazil 2 2%
United States 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Unknown 115 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 19%
Student > Master 20 16%
Professor > Associate Professor 12 10%
Lecturer 8 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 7%
Other 21 17%
Unknown 31 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 53 43%
Social Sciences 14 11%
Psychology 9 7%
Computer Science 4 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 3%
Other 6 5%
Unknown 33 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 16 June 2020.
All research outputs
#3,001,610
of 23,177,498 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Consumer Research
#687
of 1,384 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,412
of 45,485 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Consumer Research
#2
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,177,498 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,384 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 37.7. This one is in the 48th percentile – i.e., 48% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 45,485 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 96% 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 2 of them.