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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Call for Nominations: Editor in Chief142
Erratum to: Market Work and the Formation of the Omnivorous Consumer Subject122
Call for Nominations: Editor in Chief79
Dominance Effects in the Wild61
How the Materials of Objects Shape Consumption: An Affordance Theory Perspective59
Race in Consumer Research: Past, Present, and Future53
When Connection Turns to Anger: How Consumer–Brand Relationship and Crisis Type Moderate Language on Social Media53
When Language Matters52
On or Off Track: How (Broken) Streaks Affect Consumer Decisions51
Creating Responsible Subjects: The Role of Mediated Affective Encounters46
Consumer Information Processing and Decision-Making: Origins, Findings, Applications, and Future Directions42
A Word of Thanks39
After 50 Years, It Is Time to Talk about Value Hierarchy and Inequality36
Gendered Consumer Responsibilization: The Constitution of Menopausal Women as Responsible Feminine Consumer Subjects35
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 Choice34
In the Company of Strangers: Social Influence from Anonymous Peers in Online Game Settings34
A Word of Thanks30
When and Why Consumers (Erroneously) Believe Income Impacts the Enjoyment of Consumption Experiences29
How Algorithms Constrain Consumer Experience29
Giving Suggestions: Using Quantity Requests to Increase Donations28
Does Cash Really Mean Trash? An Empirical Investigation into the Effect of Retailer Price Promotions on Household Food Waste27
Consumers’ Mental Representation of Expenditures: Implications for Spending and Savings Decisions27
I Really Know You: How Influencers Can Increase Audience Engagement by Referencing Their Close Social Ties27
People, Peace, Prosperity, and the Planet: A Journey toward Sustainable Development in Consumer Research27
Experiential and Analytical Price Evaluations: How Experiential Product Description Affects Prices26
Correction to: Dynamics of Communicator and Audience Power: The Persuasiveness of Competence versus Warmth26
Not Just about Price: How Benefit Focus Determines Consumers’ Retailer Pricing Strategy Preference25
Why and How Consumers Perform Online Reviewing Differently25
Using Cultural Repertoires during Unsettled Times25
Final Price Neglect in Multi-Product Promotions: How Non-Integrated Price Reductions Promote Higher-Priced Products25
From Order to Chaos: How Consumers Lose Control of Risks (and of Themselves)24
Dominated Cosmopolitanism: Consumer Habitus Dynamics among Low-Resource Migrants24
How Verb Tense Shapes Persuasion24
Improving Our Scientific Understanding of Consumer Behavior23
Identities without Products: When the Preference for Self-Linked Products Weakens23
Origin versus Substance: Competing Determinants of Disruption in Duplication Technologies23
Consumers Value Effort over Ease When Caring for Close Others23
Three Themes for the Future of Brands in a Changing Consumer Marketplace23
Mapping Consumers’ Context-Dependent Consumption Preferences: A Multidimensional Unfolding Approach23
“Kind of Mine, Kind of Not”: Digital Possessions and Affordance Misalignment22
Who Am I Here? Care Consumers’ Identity Processes and Family Caregiver Interventions in the Elderscape22
The Future of Consumer Research Methods: Lessons of a Prospective Retrospective22
2022 JCR Awards Announcements21
How Low Socioeconomic Status Hinders Organ Donation: An Extended Self Account21
Why Are Donors More Generous with Time Than Money? The Role of Perceived Control over Donations on Charitable Giving21
Social Emotions and the Legitimation of the Fertility Technology Market20
Brand Teasing: How Brands Build Strong Relationships by Making Fun of Their Consumers20
Is Your Sample Truly Mediating? Bayesian Analysis of Heterogeneous Mediation (BAHM)19
The Genesis Effect: Digital Goods in the Metaverse19
Egocentric Processing: The Advantages of Person-Related Features in Consumers’ Product Decisions19
The Influence of Budgets on Consumer Spending19
Wealth in People and Places: Understanding Transnational Gift Obligations19
A Liberating-Engagement Theory of Consumer Fun19
The Visual Complexity = Higher Production Cost Lay Belief19
Pre-Registered Interim Analysis Designs (PRIADs): Increasing the Cost-Effectiveness of Hypothesis Testing19
How Do Physical Disability Cues Influence Assumptions about Consumer Tastes? Unpacking the Disability Preference Stereotype18
2023 JCR Awards Announcements18
Corrigendum to: Social Class Shapes Donation Allocation Preferences18
The Threshold-Crossing Effect: Just-Below Pricing Discourages Consumers to Upgrade17
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
Consumers Prefer Products That Work Using Directionally Consistent Causal Chains17
Relevance—Reloaded and Recoded17
Let Me Show You What I Did versus What I Have: Sharing Experiential versus Material Purchases Alters Authenticity and Liking of Social Media Users16
Days-of-the-Week Effect in Temporal Judgments16
When Fields Are Destabilized: Mobilizing Gendered Capital to Resolve Hysteresis16
Source Memory Is More Accurate for Opinions than for Facts15
The Impact of Green Energy Production on Healthiness Perceptions and Preferences14
The One-Man Show: The Effect of Joint Decision-Making on Investor Overconfidence14
Tournaments of Destruction: Consumers Battling for Visibility14
How Sensory Language Shapes Influencer’s Impact13
The Magnitude Heuristic: Larger Differences Increase Perceived Causality13
2021 JCR Awards Announcements13
Learning to Live with an Unruly Consuming Body13
Social-Jetlagged Consumers and Decreased Conspicuous Consumption13
Call For Papers: Special Anniversary Issue: 50 Years of JCR13
Refund Psychology13
Consuming Regardless of Preference: Consumers Overestimate the Impact of Liking on Consumption12
Taking the Full Measure: Integrating Replication into Research Practice to Assess Generalizability12
Understanding and Improving Consumer Reactions to Service Bots11
Expression Modalities: How Speaking Versus Writing Shapes Word of Mouth11
Correction to: The Upscaling Effect: How the Decision Context Influences Tradeoffs between Desirability and Feasibility11
Distance and Alternative Signals of Status: A Unifying Framework11
Erratum to: The Pursuit of Meaning and the Preference for Less Expensive Options11
Vocalizing Search: How Voice Technologies Alter Consumer Search Processes and Satisfaction11
Corrigendum: Makeup Who You Are: Self-Expression Enhances the Perceived Authenticity and Public Promotion of Beauty Work10
He Loves the One He Has Invested In: The Effects of Mating Cues on Men’s and Women’s Sunk Cost Bias10
Retail Karma: How Our Shopping Sins Influence Evaluation of Service Failures10
The Beneficent and Maleficent Effects of Simplification on Retirement Savings10
How Do Consumers Read and Encode a Price?10
A Turn of the Tables: Psychological Contracts and Word of Mouth about Sharing Economy Platforms When Consumers Get Reviewed9
Intel Inside: The Linguistic Properties of Effective Slogans9
Does Using a Pink Product Increase Men’s Support for Women? How Product Usage Influences Perspective-Taking9
Doing Family over Time: The Multilayered and Multitemporal Nature of Intergenerational Caring through Consumption9
From Mix-and-Match to Head-to-Toe: How Brand Combinations Affect Observer Trust9
More Options for Authors: Expanding the Paper Formats Considered at JCR8
A Word of Thanks8
We Do What We Are: Representation of the Self-Concept and Identity-Based Choice8
Cross-Period Impatience: Subjective Financial Periods Explain Time-Inconsistent Choices8
When Is Digital Censorship Permissible? A Conversation Norms Account8
Epistemological Jangle and Jingle Fallacies in the Consumer–Brand Relationship Subfield: A Call to Action7
From Second-Hand to Third-Hand: Reuse and Resale Cycle7
Consumer Timework7
Loved As-Is: How God Salience Lowers Interest in Self-Improvement Products7
Serving with a Smile on Airbnb: Analyzing the Economic Returns and Behavioral Underpinnings of the Host’s Smile7
Bundle Selection and Variety Seeking: The Importance of Combinatorics7
Been There, Done That: How Episodic and Semantic Memory Affects the Language of Authentic and Fictitious Reviews7
Hiding in the Crowd: Secrecy Compels Consumer Conformity6
Erratum: Audio Mining: The Role of Vocal Tone in Persuasion6
Liquid Consumer Security6
Midrange, Differential, Meaningful, and Multidisciplinary: Reflections onJCR’s Epistemic Culture6
‘Woman-Owned Business’ Labels Enhance Perceived Competence6
Better Together: How Clustering Can Attenuate Hedonic Decline6
Price Partitioning of Socio-Moral Surcharges6
Are “10 Grams of Protein” Better than “Ten Grams of Protein”? How Digits versus Number Words Influence Consumer Judgments6
Divergent Effects of Budgeting for Gifts versus Personal Purchases6
An Aversion to Intervention: How the Protestant Work Ethic Influences Preferences for Natural Healthcare6
Really Rewarding Rewards: Strategic Licensing in Long-Term Healthy Food Consumption6
Beyond Scarcity: A Social Value-Based Lens for NFT Pricing5
Correction to: Dynamics of Communicator and Audience Power: The Persuasiveness of Competence versus Warmth5
Haptic Rewards: How Mobile Vibrations Shape Reward Response and Consumer Choice5
The Emergence and Evolution of Consumer Language Research5
The Upscaling Effect: How the Decision Context Influences Tradeoffs between Desirability and Feasibility5
Consumer-Driven Memorialization5
Unveiling the Mind of the Machine5
How Political Ideology Shapes Preferences for Observably Inferior Products5
How Do Consumers React to Production Waste?5
Consumers Believe That Products Work Better for Others5
Mixed Couples, Mixed Attitudes: How Interracial Couples in Marketing Appeals Influence Brand Outcomes5
Market Work and the Formation of the Omnivorous Consumer Subject4
Reparative Consumption: The Role of Racial Identity and White Guilt in Consumer Preferences4
Class Conflict and Spatial Domination in the Neoliberal City4
When Learning Negative Brand Associations Leads to Positive Evaluations of Effectiveness4
Get Your Science Out of Here: When Does Invoking Science in the Marketing of Consumer Products Backfire?4
Digital Therapy for Negative Consumption Experiences: The Impact of Emotional and Rational Reviews on Review Writers4
How Do Consumers React to Ads That Meddle in Out-Party Primaries?4
Retraction of: Super Size Me: Product Size as a Signal of Status4
Consumer Dirtwork: What Extraordinary Consumption Reveals about the Usefulness of Dirt4
Courtesy Stigma Management: Social Identity Work among China’s “Leftover Women”4
The Effect of Pursuing Self-Regulatory Goals on Variety Seeking4
Erratum: On My Own: The Aversion to Being Observed during the Preference-Construction Stage4
No Bandwidth to Self-Gift: How Feeling Constrained Discourages Self-Gifting4
50 Years of JCR3
How Does Time Pressure Influence Risk Preferences? Answers from a Meta-Analysis3
Distributions Distract: How Distributions on Attribute Filters and Other Tools Affect Consumer Judgments3
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in theJournal of Consumer Research: A Curation and Research Agenda3
The Discomfort of Things! Tidying-up and Decluttering in Consumers’ Homes3
Undermining Desire: Reducing Unhealthy Choices by Highlighting Short-Term (vs. Long-Term) Costs3
The Impact of Payment Frequency on Consumer Spending and Subjective Wealth Perceptions3
On Breaking Functional Fixedness: How the Aha! Moment Enhances Perceived Product Creativity and Product Appeal3
Promoting Data Richness in Consumer Research: How to Develop and Evaluate Articles with Multiple Data Sources3
Post-Colonial Consumer Respect and the Framing of Neocolonial Consumption in Advertising3
More Gamer, Less Girl: Gendered Boundaries, Tokenism, and the Cultural Persistence of Masculine Dominance3
Dysplacement and the Professionalization of the Home3
Transnational Market Navigation: Living and Consuming across Borders3
Appearance for Females, Functionality for Males? The False Lay Belief about Gender Difference in Product Preference3
Seeking Structure in Collections: Desire for Control Motivates Engagement in Collecting3
When Is HILO Low? Price Image Formation Based on Frequency versus Depth Pricing Strategies3
Correction to: Stars versus Bars: How the Aesthetics of Product Ratings “Shape” Product Preference3
Collaborating with Generative AI in Consumer Culture Research3
ONE-YEAR EXTENSION OF JCR EDITORIAL TERM3
The Color of Status: Color Saturation, Brand Heritage, and Perceived Status of Luxury Brands3
Becoming Nature: Classifying Encounters in Interspecies Contact Zones3
Cyclical Time Is Greener: The Impact of Temporal Perspective on Pro-Environmental Behavior3
Expression of Concern: Super Size Me: Product Size as a Signal of Status3
Hidden Barriers to Marketplace Disability Accessibility: An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Perceived Trade-Offs3
A Word of Thanks3
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