Journal of Consumer Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Consumer Research is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Call for Nominations: Editor in Chief149
Erratum to: Market Work and the Formation of the Omnivorous Consumer Subject92
Call for Nominations: Editor in Chief68
Dominance Effects in the Wild67
Race in Consumer Research: Past, Present, and Future59
On or Off Track: How (Broken) Streaks Affect Consumer Decisions56
When Language Matters55
Consumer Information Processing and Decision-Making: Origins, Findings, Applications, and Future Directions54
Creating Responsible Subjects: The Role of Mediated Affective Encounters53
How the Materials of Objects Shape Consumption: An Affordance Theory Perspective47
When Connection Turns to Anger: How Consumer–Brand Relationship and Crisis Type Moderate Language on Social Media45
A Word of Thanks41
After 50 Years, It Is Time to Talk about Value Hierarchy and Inequality36
Tweets We Like Aren’t Alike: Time of Day Affects Engagement with Vice and Virtue Tweets35
In the Company of Strangers: Social Influence from Anonymous Peers in Online Game Settings34
People, Peace, Prosperity, and the Planet: A Journey toward Sustainable Development in Consumer Research33
What Makes Consumption Experiences Feel Special? A Multi-Method Integrative Analysis33
A Word of Thanks33
What Do You Do Outside of Work? When and Why Disclosing Eudaimonic Leisure Activities Increases Competence Perceptions and Consumer Choice33
Gendered Consumer Responsibilization: The Constitution of Menopausal Women as Responsible Feminine Consumer Subjects33
Giving Suggestions: Using Quantity Requests to Increase Donations32
Consumers’ Mental Representation of Expenditures: Implications for Spending and Savings Decisions31
How Algorithms Constrain Consumer Experience31
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
Correction to: Dynamics of Communicator and Audience Power: The Persuasiveness of Competence versus Warmth28
I Really Know You: How Influencers Can Increase Audience Engagement by Referencing Their Close Social Ties28
Dominated Cosmopolitanism: Consumer Habitus Dynamics among Low-Resource Migrants27
Not Just about Price: How Benefit Focus Determines Consumers’ Retailer Pricing Strategy Preference27
How Verb Tense Shapes Persuasion27
Using Cultural Repertoires during Unsettled Times27
Improving Our Scientific Understanding of Consumer Behavior27
From Order to Chaos: How Consumers Lose Control of Risks (and of Themselves)26
Three Themes for the Future of Brands in a Changing Consumer Marketplace26
Why and How Consumers Perform Online Reviewing Differently26
Final Price Neglect in Multi-Product Promotions: How Non-Integrated Price Reductions Promote Higher-Priced Products26
Experiential and Analytical Price Evaluations: How Experiential Product Description Affects Prices26
“Kind of Mine, Kind of Not”: Digital Possessions and Affordance Misalignment25
Mapping Consumers’ Context-Dependent Consumption Preferences: A Multidimensional Unfolding Approach25
Origin versus Substance: Competing Determinants of Disruption in Duplication Technologies25
Identities without Products: When the Preference for Self-Linked Products Weakens24
Who Am I Here? Care Consumers’ Identity Processes and Family Caregiver Interventions in the Elderscape23
Brand Teasing: How Brands Build Strong Relationships by Making Fun of Their Consumers23
The Future of Consumer Research Methods: Lessons of a Prospective Retrospective23
2022 JCR Awards Announcements23
Social Emotions and the Legitimation of the Fertility Technology Market22
Why Are Donors More Generous with Time Than Money? The Role of Perceived Control over Donations on Charitable Giving22
The Genesis Effect: Digital Goods in the Metaverse21
Is Your Sample Truly Mediating? Bayesian Analysis of Heterogeneous Mediation (BAHM)21
How Low Socioeconomic Status Hinders Organ Donation: An Extended Self Account21
A Liberating-Engagement Theory of Consumer Fun21
The Visual Complexity = Higher Production Cost Lay Belief21
Egocentric Processing: The Advantages of Person-Related Features in Consumers’ Product Decisions21
The Influence of Budgets on Consumer Spending20
2023 JCR Awards Announcements20
Wealth in People and Places: Understanding Transnational Gift Obligations20
Pre-Registered Interim Analysis Designs (PRIADs): Increasing the Cost-Effectiveness of Hypothesis Testing20
Corrigendum to: Social Class Shapes Donation Allocation Preferences20
Intergenerational Effects of Lay Beliefs: How Parents’ Unhealthy = Tasty Intuition Influences Their Children’s Food Consumption and Body Mass Index19
Relevance—Reloaded and Recoded18
Let Me Show You What I Did versus What I Have: Sharing Experiential versus Material Purchases Alters Authenticity and Liking of Social Media Users18
The Threshold-Crossing Effect: Just-Below Pricing Discourages Consumers to Upgrade18
How Do Physical Disability Cues Influence Assumptions about Consumer Tastes? Unpacking the Disability Preference Stereotype18
Consumers Prefer Products That Work Using Directionally Consistent Causal Chains17
The One-Man Show: The Effect of Joint Decision-Making on Investor Overconfidence16
Days-of-the-Week Effect in Temporal Judgments16
Social-Jetlagged Consumers and Decreased Conspicuous Consumption15
When Fields Are Destabilized: Mobilizing Gendered Capital to Resolve Hysteresis15
Tournaments of Destruction: Consumers Battling for Visibility14
The Impact of Green Energy Production on Healthiness Perceptions and Preferences14
Source Memory Is More Accurate for Opinions than for Facts14
How Sensory Language Shapes Influencer’s Impact13
Call For Papers: Special Anniversary Issue: 50 Years of JCR13
The Magnitude Heuristic: Larger Differences Increase Perceived Causality13
2021 JCR Awards Announcements13
Taking the Full Measure: Integrating Replication into Research Practice to Assess Generalizability13
Learning to Live with an Unruly Consuming Body13
Refund Psychology13
Understanding and Improving Consumer Reactions to Service Bots12
Expression Modalities: How Speaking Versus Writing Shapes Word of Mouth12
Consuming Regardless of Preference: Consumers Overestimate the Impact of Liking on Consumption12
Vocalizing Search: How Voice Technologies Alter Consumer Search Processes and Satisfaction12
Distance and Alternative Signals of Status: A Unifying Framework12
Retail Karma: How Our Shopping Sins Influence Evaluation of Service Failures11
Painful Prices: The Moral Harm Model of Price Fairness11
Erratum to: The Pursuit of Meaning and the Preference for Less Expensive Options11
A Turn of the Tables: Psychological Contracts and Word of Mouth about Sharing Economy Platforms When Consumers Get Reviewed11
How Do Consumers Read and Encode a Price?11
Correction to: The Upscaling Effect: How the Decision Context Influences Tradeoffs between Desirability and Feasibility11
He Loves the One He Has Invested In: The Effects of Mating Cues on Men’s and Women’s Sunk Cost Bias10
Does Using a Pink Product Increase Men’s Support for Women? How Product Usage Influences Perspective-Taking10
Intel Inside: The Linguistic Properties of Effective Slogans10
The Beneficent and Maleficent Effects of Simplification on Retirement Savings10
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 JCR9
We Do What We Are: Representation of the Self-Concept and Identity-Based Choice9
This Paper Is Not for Everyone: The Impact of Dissuasive Framing on Consumer Response to Product Messages9
When Is Digital Censorship Permissible? A Conversation Norms Account9
Cross-Period Impatience: Subjective Financial Periods Explain Time-Inconsistent Choices8
Epistemological Jangle and Jingle Fallacies in the Consumer–Brand Relationship Subfield: A Call to Action8
A Word of Thanks8
Serving with a Smile on Airbnb: Analyzing the Economic Returns and Behavioral Underpinnings of the Host’s Smile7
Consumer Timework7
Bundle Selection and Variety Seeking: The Importance of Combinatorics7
Midrange, Differential, Meaningful, and Multidisciplinary: Reflections onJCR’s Epistemic Culture7
An Aversion to Intervention: How the Protestant Work Ethic Influences Preferences for Natural Healthcare7
Are “10 Grams of Protein” Better than “Ten Grams of Protein”? How Digits versus Number Words Influence Consumer Judgments7
‘Woman-Owned Business’ Labels Enhance Perceived Competence7
Divergent Effects of Budgeting for Gifts versus Personal Purchases7
Price Partitioning of Socio-Moral Surcharges7
From Second-Hand to Third-Hand: Reuse and Resale Cycle7
Loved As-Is: How God Salience Lowers Interest in Self-Improvement Products7
Been There, Done That: How Episodic and Semantic Memory Affects the Language of Authentic and Fictitious Reviews7
Erratum: Audio Mining: The Role of Vocal Tone in Persuasion7
Liquid Consumer Security6
Beyond Neoliberalism: The Role of Community in the Responsibilization of Citizen-Consumers During the Great Recession6
Beyond Scarcity: A Social Value-Based Lens for NFT Pricing6
Consumers Believe That Products Work Better for Others6
Really Rewarding Rewards: Strategic Licensing in Long-Term Healthy Food Consumption6
How Political Ideology Shapes Preferences for Observably Inferior Products6
Why Horizontal Organizations Don’t Fall Flat: Organizational Structure Shapes Perceptions of Egalitarianism and Company Warmth6
The Emergence and Evolution of Consumer Language Research6
How Do Consumers React to Production Waste?6
Better Together: How Clustering Can Attenuate Hedonic Decline6
The Upscaling Effect: How the Decision Context Influences Tradeoffs between Desirability and Feasibility6
Consumer-Driven Memorialization6
Correction to: Dynamics of Communicator and Audience Power: The Persuasiveness of Competence versus Warmth6
Class Conflict and Spatial Domination in the Neoliberal City5
The Effect of Pursuing Self-Regulatory Goals on Variety Seeking5
Retraction of: Super Size Me: Product Size as a Signal of Status5
Mixed Couples, Mixed Attitudes: How Interracial Couples in Marketing Appeals Influence Brand Outcomes5
Digital Therapy for Negative Consumption Experiences: The Impact of Emotional and Rational Reviews on Review Writers5
Market Work and the Formation of the Omnivorous Consumer Subject5
Courtesy Stigma Management: Social Identity Work among China’s “Leftover Women”5
Why (and When) Are Uncertain Price Promotions More Effective Than Equivalent Sure Discounts?5
How Do Consumers React to Ads That Meddle in Out-Party Primaries?5
Get Your Science Out of Here: When Does Invoking Science in the Marketing of Consumer Products Backfire?5
Reparative Consumption: The Role of Racial Identity and White Guilt in Consumer Preferences5
Unveiling the Mind of the Machine5
Haptic Rewards: How Mobile Vibrations Shape Reward Response and Consumer Choice5
Erratum: On My Own: The Aversion to Being Observed during the Preference-Construction Stage4
Cyclical Time Is Greener: The Impact of Temporal Perspective on Pro-Environmental Behavior4
The Discomfort of Things! Tidying-up and Decluttering in Consumers’ Homes4
Search or Scroll: How Credibility Versus Likability Premiums Shape Consumer Following Decisions4
Appearance for Females, Functionality for Males? The False Lay Belief about Gender Difference in Product Preference4
When Learning Negative Brand Associations Leads to Positive Evaluations of Effectiveness4
No Bandwidth to Self-Gift: How Feeling Constrained Discourages Self-Gifting4
Undermining Desire: Reducing Unhealthy Choices by Highlighting Short-Term (vs. Long-Term) Costs4
On Breaking Functional Fixedness: How the Aha! Moment Enhances Perceived Product Creativity and Product Appeal4
More Gamer, Less Girl: Gendered Boundaries, Tokenism, and the Cultural Persistence of Masculine Dominance4
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in theJournal of Consumer Research: A Curation and Research Agenda4
Consumer Dirtwork: What Extraordinary Consumption Reveals about the Usefulness of Dirt4
Transnational Market Navigation: Living and Consuming across Borders4
Expression of Concern: Super Size Me: Product Size as a Signal of Status4
Dysplacement and the Professionalization of the Home4
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