Journal of Consumer Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Consumer Research is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Call for Nominations: Editor in Chief132
Erratum to: Market Work and the Formation of the Omnivorous Consumer Subject113
Call for Nominations: Editor in Chief74
Dominance Effects in the Wild54
How the Materials of Objects Shape Consumption: An Affordance Theory Perspective53
Consumer Information Processing and Decision-Making: Origins, Findings, Applications, and Future Directions49
When Language Matters48
Creating Responsible Subjects: The Role of Mediated Affective Encounters47
When Connection Turns to Anger: How Consumer–Brand Relationship and Crisis Type Moderate Language on Social Media47
Race in Consumer Research: Past, Present, and Future41
On or Off Track: How (Broken) Streaks Affect Consumer Decisions39
A Word of Thanks38
After 50 Years, It Is Time to Talk about Value Hierarchy and Inequality35
Gendered Consumer Responsibilization: The Constitution of Menopausal Women as Responsible Feminine Consumer Subjects34
Tweets We Like Aren’t Alike: Time of Day Affects Engagement with Vice and Virtue Tweets34
What Do You Do Outside of Work? When and Why Disclosing Eudaimonic Leisure Activities Increases Competence Perceptions and Consumer Choice33
In the Company of Strangers: Social Influence from Anonymous Peers in Online Game Settings33
Can Consumers Learn Price Dispersion? Evidence for Dispersion Spillover across Categories31
A Word of Thanks31
When and Why Consumers (Erroneously) Believe Income Impacts the Enjoyment of Consumption Experiences30
Does Cash Really Mean Trash? An Empirical Investigation into the Effect of Retailer Price Promotions on Household Food Waste28
Giving Suggestions: Using Quantity Requests to Increase Donations28
People, Peace, Prosperity, and the Planet: A Journey toward Sustainable Development in Consumer Research27
How Algorithms Constrain Consumer Experience27
I Really Know You: How Influencers Can Increase Audience Engagement by Referencing Their Close Social Ties26
Correction to: Dynamics of Communicator and Audience Power: The Persuasiveness of Competence versus Warmth25
Erratum: Reviewing Experts’ Restraint from Extremes and Its Impact on Service Providers25
Experiential and Analytical Price Evaluations: How Experiential Product Description Affects Prices25
Using Cultural Repertoires during Unsettled Times24
Why and How Consumers Perform Online Reviewing Differently24
From Order to Chaos: How Consumers Lose Control of Risks (and of Themselves)23
Not Just about Price: How Benefit Focus Determines Consumers’ Retailer Pricing Strategy Preference23
Final Price Neglect in Multi-Product Promotions: How Non-Integrated Price Reductions Promote Higher-Priced Products23
Improving Our Scientific Understanding of Consumer Behavior23
How Verb Tense Shapes Persuasion22
Who Am I Here? Care Consumers’ Identity Processes and Family Caregiver Interventions in the Elderscape22
Dominated Cosmopolitanism: Consumer Habitus Dynamics among Low-Resource Migrants22
Mapping Consumers’ Context-Dependent Consumption Preferences: A Multidimensional Unfolding Approach22
Three Themes for the Future of Brands in a Changing Consumer Marketplace22
Origin versus Substance: Competing Determinants of Disruption in Duplication Technologies22
Consumers Value Effort over Ease When Caring for Close Others21
2022 JCR Awards Announcements21
Brand Teasing: How Brands Build Strong Relationships by Making Fun of Their Consumers21
“Kind of Mine, Kind of Not”: Digital Possessions and Affordance Misalignment21
How Low Socioeconomic Status Hinders Organ Donation: An Extended Self Account21
Identities without Products: When the Preference for Self-Linked Products Weakens21
The Future of Consumer Research Methods: Lessons of a Prospective Retrospective21
The Genesis Effect: Digital Goods in the Metaverse20
Why Are Donors More Generous with Time Than Money? The Role of Perceived Control over Donations on Charitable Giving20
Pre-Registered Interim Analysis Designs (PRIADs): Increasing the Cost-Effectiveness of Hypothesis Testing19
Social Emotions and the Legitimation of the Fertility Technology Market19
Is Your Sample Truly Mediating? Bayesian Analysis of Heterogeneous Mediation (BAHM)19
The Influence of Budgets on Consumer Spending19
Wealth in People and Places: Understanding Transnational Gift Obligations19
Egocentric Processing: The Advantages of Person-Related Features in Consumers’ Product Decisions18
How Do Physical Disability Cues Influence Assumptions about Consumer Tastes? Unpacking the Disability Preference Stereotype18
Corrigendum to: Social Class Shapes Donation Allocation Preferences18
2023 JCR Awards Announcements18
A Liberating-Engagement Theory of Consumer Fun18
The Visual Complexity = Higher Production Cost Lay Belief18
Let Me Show You What I Did versus What I Have: Sharing Experiential versus Material Purchases Alters Authenticity and Liking of Social Media Users17
Consumers Prefer Products That Work Using Directionally Consistent Causal Chains17
Relevance—Reloaded and Recoded17
Intergenerational Effects of Lay Beliefs: How Parents’ Unhealthy = Tasty Intuition Influences Their Children’s Food Consumption and Body Mass Index17
Building Brands for the Emerging Bicultural Market: The Appeal of Paradox Brands17
The Threshold-Crossing Effect: Just-Below Pricing Discourages Consumers to Upgrade15
Corrigendum: Preference Reversals in Willingness to Pay and Choice15
Multitasking as Consumer Compensatory Control15
Social-Jetlagged Consumers and Decreased Conspicuous Consumption15
When Fields Are Destabilized: Mobilizing Gendered Capital to Resolve Hysteresis14
The One-Man Show: The Effect of Joint Decision-Making on Investor Overconfidence14
Days-of-the-Week Effect in Temporal Judgments14
Tournaments of Destruction: Consumers Battling for Visibility13
How Sensory Language Shapes Influencer’s Impact13
Source Memory Is More Accurate for Opinions than for Facts13
The Impact of Green Energy Production on Healthiness Perceptions and Preferences13
2021 JCR Awards Announcements13
Taking the Full Measure: Integrating Replication into Research Practice to Assess Generalizability12
Refund Psychology12
Expression Modalities: How Speaking Versus Writing Shapes Word of Mouth12
The Magnitude Heuristic: Larger Differences Increase Perceived Causality12
Call For Papers: Special Anniversary Issue: 50 Years of JCR12
Vocalizing Search: How Voice Technologies Alter Consumer Search Processes and Satisfaction12
Learning to Live with an Unruly Consuming Body12
Consuming Regardless of Preference: Consumers Overestimate the Impact of Liking on Consumption11
Distance and Alternative Signals of Status: A Unifying Framework11
Correction to: The Upscaling Effect: How the Decision Context Influences Tradeoffs between Desirability and Feasibility10
Corrigendum: Makeup Who You Are: Self-Expression Enhances the Perceived Authenticity and Public Promotion of Beauty Work10
Understanding and Improving Consumer Reactions to Service Bots10
How Do Consumers Read and Encode a Price?10
Retail Karma: How Our Shopping Sins Influence Evaluation of Service Failures10
Does Using a Pink Product Increase Men’s Support for Women? How Product Usage Influences Perspective-Taking10
Erratum to: The Pursuit of Meaning and the Preference for Less Expensive Options10
He Loves the One He Has Invested In: The Effects of Mating Cues on Men’s and Women’s Sunk Cost Bias9
When Is Digital Censorship Permissible? A Conversation Norms Account9
The Beneficent and Maleficent Effects of Simplification on Retirement Savings9
A Turn of the Tables: Psychological Contracts and Word of Mouth about Sharing Economy Platforms When Consumers Get Reviewed9
From Mix-and-Match to Head-to-Toe: How Brand Combinations Affect Observer Trust9
Doing Family over Time: The Multilayered and Multitemporal Nature of Intergenerational Caring through Consumption8
More Options for Authors: Expanding the Paper Formats Considered at JCR8
We Do What We Are: Representation of the Self-Concept and Identity-Based Choice8
Intel Inside: The Linguistic Properties of Effective Slogans8
Serving with a Smile on Airbnb: Analyzing the Economic Returns and Behavioral Underpinnings of the Host’s Smile7
A Word of Thanks7
Cross-Period Impatience: Subjective Financial Periods Explain Time-Inconsistent Choices7
‘Woman-Owned Business’ Labels Enhance Perceived Competence7
Are “10 Grams of Protein” Better than “Ten Grams of Protein”? How Digits versus Number Words Influence Consumer Judgments7
Loved As-Is: How God Salience Lowers Interest in Self-Improvement Products6
Price Partitioning of Socio-Moral Surcharges6
The Upscaling Effect: How the Decision Context Influences Tradeoffs between Desirability and Feasibility6
From Second-Hand to Third-Hand: Reuse and Resale Cycle6
Bundle Selection and Variety Seeking: The Importance of Combinatorics6
Hiding in the Crowd: Secrecy Compels Consumer Conformity6
Midrange, Differential, Meaningful, and Multidisciplinary: Reflections onJCR’s Epistemic Culture6
Better Together: How Clustering Can Attenuate Hedonic Decline6
Epistemological Jangle and Jingle Fallacies in the Consumer–Brand Relationship Subfield: A Call to Action6
How Resource Scarcity Influences the Preference for Counterhedonic Consumption6
Divergent Effects of Budgeting for Gifts versus Personal Purchases6
Erratum: Audio Mining: The Role of Vocal Tone in Persuasion6
Consumer Timework6
Been There, Done That: How Episodic and Semantic Memory Affects the Language of Authentic and Fictitious Reviews6
Beyond Scarcity: A Social Value-Based Lens for NFT Pricing5
Liquid Consumer Security5
Mixed Couples, Mixed Attitudes: How Interracial Couples in Marketing Appeals Influence Brand Outcomes5
An Aversion to Intervention: How the Protestant Work Ethic Influences Preferences for Natural Healthcare5
Really Rewarding Rewards: Strategic Licensing in Long-Term Healthy Food Consumption5
Correction to: Dynamics of Communicator and Audience Power: The Persuasiveness of Competence versus Warmth5
The Emergence and Evolution of Consumer Language Research5
How Do Consumers React to Production Waste?5
How Political Ideology Shapes Preferences for Observably Inferior Products5
Consumers Believe That Products Work Better for Others5
Unveiling the Mind of the Machine4
Digital Therapy for Negative Consumption Experiences: The Impact of Emotional and Rational Reviews on Review Writers4
Consumer-Driven Memorialization4
Courtesy Stigma Management: Social Identity Work among China’s “Leftover Women”4
Market Work and the Formation of the Omnivorous Consumer Subject4
Haptic Rewards: How Mobile Vibrations Shape Reward Response and Consumer Choice4
The Effect of Pursuing Self-Regulatory Goals on Variety Seeking4
Charismatic Entrainment: How Brand Leaders and Consumers Co-Create Charismatic Authority in the Marketplace4
Get Your Science Out of Here: When Does Invoking Science in the Marketing of Consumer Products Backfire?4
How Do Consumers React to Ads That Meddle in Out-Party Primaries?4
Class Conflict and Spatial Domination in the Neoliberal City4
Mining Consumer Minds: Downstream Consequences of Host Motivations for Home-Sharing Platforms4
Reparative Consumption: The Role of Racial Identity and White Guilt in Consumer Preferences4
The Color of Status: Color Saturation, Brand Heritage, and Perceived Status of Luxury Brands3
Cyclical Time Is Greener: The Impact of Temporal Perspective on Pro-Environmental Behavior3
Consumer Dirtwork: What Extraordinary Consumption Reveals about the Usefulness of Dirt3
Retraction of: Super Size Me: Product Size as a Signal of Status3
Seeking Structure in Collections: Desire for Control Motivates Engagement in Collecting3
Becoming Nature: Classifying Encounters in Interspecies Contact Zones3
Undermining Desire: Reducing Unhealthy Choices by Highlighting Short-Term (vs. Long-Term) Costs3
Appearance for Females, Functionality for Males? The False Lay Belief about Gender Difference in Product Preference3
The Discomfort of Things! Tidying-up and Decluttering in Consumers’ Homes3
Erratum: On My Own: The Aversion to Being Observed during the Preference-Construction Stage3
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in theJournal of Consumer Research: A Curation and Research Agenda3
No Bandwidth to Self-Gift: How Feeling Constrained Discourages Self-Gifting3
Dysplacement and the Professionalization of the Home3
More Gamer, Less Girl: Gendered Boundaries, Tokenism, and the Cultural Persistence of Masculine Dominance3
On Breaking Functional Fixedness: How the Aha! Moment Enhances Perceived Product Creativity and Product Appeal3
Social Class Shapes Donation Allocation Preferences3
When Learning Negative Brand Associations Leads to Positive Evaluations of Effectiveness3
Transnational Market Navigation: Living and Consuming across Borders3
Expression of Concern: Super Size Me: Product Size as a Signal of Status3
Distributions Distract: How Distributions on Attribute Filters and Other Tools Affect Consumer Judgments3
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