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Eating alone, or commensality redefined? Solo dining and the aestheticization of eating (out)

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Consumer Culture, September 2020
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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 (90th percentile)

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3 news outlets

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79 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Eating alone, or commensality redefined? Solo dining and the aestheticization of eating (out)
Published in
Journal of Consumer Culture, September 2020
DOI 10.1177/1469540520955219
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 79 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 9 11%
Student > Bachelor 8 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 8%
Professor 4 5%
Student > Master 4 5%
Other 9 11%
Unknown 39 49%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 12 15%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 11%
Arts and Humanities 6 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 3%
Other 9 11%
Unknown 38 48%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. 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 24 October 2026.
All research outputs
#2,078,063
of 34,638,563 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Consumer Culture
#55
of 470 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,620
of 454,812 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Consumer Culture
#2
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,638,563 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 470 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
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 454,812 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 90% 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.