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Differences of Opinion and the Cross Section of Stock Returns

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Finance, December 2002
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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 (87th percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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Article details
Title
Differences of Opinion and the Cross Section of Stock Returns
Published in
Journal of Finance, December 2002
DOI 10.1111/0022-1082.00490
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 730 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 10 1%
France 4 <1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
China 3 <1%
Brazil 3 <1%
Korea, Republic of 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Other 8 1%
Unknown 692 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 253 35%
Student > Master 75 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 50 7%
Researcher 42 6%
Professor 41 6%
Other 118 16%
Unknown 151 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 285 39%
Business, Management and Accounting 224 31%
Social Sciences 16 2%
Computer Science 8 1%
Mathematics 6 <1%
Other 18 2%
Unknown 173 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 July 2026.
All research outputs
#5,140,457
of 34,358,242 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Finance
#1,155
of 3,705 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,496
of 177,598 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Finance
#152
of 342 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,358,242 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,705 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% of its peers.
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