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The Bad Can Be Good: When Benign and Malicious Envy Motivate Goal Pursuit

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Consumer Research, December 2018
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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 (94th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (66th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
3 news outlets
twitter
6 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

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mendeley
170 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Bad Can Be Good: When Benign and Malicious Envy Motivate Goal Pursuit
Published in
Journal of Consumer Research, December 2018
DOI 10.1093/jcr/ucy077
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 170 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 19%
Student > Master 20 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 9%
Student > Bachelor 7 4%
Lecturer 5 3%
Other 17 10%
Unknown 73 43%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 48 28%
Psychology 19 11%
Social Sciences 9 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 3%
Sports and Recreations 2 1%
Other 7 4%
Unknown 80 47%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 34. 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 19 October 2023.
All research outputs
#1,436,778
of 32,464,683 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Consumer Research
#449
of 1,692 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#25,854
of 474,515 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Consumer Research
#4
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,464,683 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,692 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 41.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 12 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 66% of its contemporaries.