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The Meaning of Distraction: How Metacognitive Inferences from Distraction during Multitasking Affect Brand Evaluations

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Consumer Research, August 2019
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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 (86th percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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1 news outlet
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3 X users
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1 Facebook page

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129 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Meaning of Distraction: How Metacognitive Inferences from Distraction during Multitasking Affect Brand Evaluations
Published in
Journal of Consumer Research, August 2019
DOI 10.1093/jcr/ucz035
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 129 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 20%
Student > Master 13 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 9%
Lecturer 6 5%
Student > Bachelor 6 5%
Other 10 8%
Unknown 57 44%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 43 33%
Psychology 7 5%
Social Sciences 5 4%
Decision Sciences 2 2%
Engineering 2 2%
Other 5 4%
Unknown 65 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 28 June 2026.
All research outputs
#3,218,696
of 33,039,569 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Consumer Research
#736
of 1,711 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#51,069
of 381,729 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Consumer Research
#9
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,039,569 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 1,711 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 41.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 56% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 14 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 35th percentile – i.e., 35% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.