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A Theory of Social Comparison Processes

Overview of attention for article published in Human Relations, May 1954
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 1,689)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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Article details
Title
A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
Published in
Human Relations, May 1954
DOI 10.1177/001872675400700202
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 75 <1%
Germany 37 <1%
United Kingdom 36 <1%
France 14 <1%
Canada 11 <1%
Switzerland 11 <1%
Netherlands 10 <1%
Australia 7 <1%
Belgium 6 <1%
Other 52 <1%
Unknown 11211 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 1441 13%
Student > Bachelor 1275 11%
Student > Master 1130 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 530 5%
Researcher 492 4%
Other 1538 13%
Unknown 5064 44%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 2045 18%
Business, Management and Accounting 1295 11%
Social Sciences 1027 9%
Unspecified 346 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 287 3%
Other 1194 10%
Unknown 5276 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 768. 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 23 September 2026.
All research outputs
#32,085
of 34,622,316 outputs
Outputs from Human Relations
#1
of 1,689 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1
of 1,287 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Relations
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,622,316 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,689 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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