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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Call for Nominations: Editor in Chief123
Erratum to: Market Work and the Formation of the Omnivorous Consumer Subject100
Call for Nominations: Editor in Chief98
Dominance Effects in the Wild73
How the Materials of Objects Shape Consumption: An Affordance Theory Perspective67
When Language Matters59
Consumer Information Processing and Decision-Making: Origins, Findings, Applications, and Future Directions51
Race in Consumer Research: Past, Present, and Future49
On or Off Track: How (Broken) Streaks Affect Consumer Decisions46
In the Company of Strangers: Social Influence from Anonymous Peers in Online Game Settings45
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 Inequality39
What Makes Consumption Experiences Feel Special? A Multimethod Integrative Analysis39
What Do You Do Outside of Work? When and Why Disclosing Eudaimonic Leisure Activities Increases Competence Perceptions and Consumer Choice38
A Word of Thanks37
Gendered Consumer Responsibilization: The Constitution of Menopausal Women as Responsible Feminine Consumer Subjects37
Giving Suggestions: Using Quantity Requests to Increase Donations35
People, Peace, Prosperity, and the Planet: A Journey toward Sustainable Development in Consumer Research35
Consumers’ Mental Representation of Expenditures: Implications for Spending and Savings Decisions34
How Algorithms Constrain Consumer Experience34
When and Why Consumers (Erroneously) Believe Income Impacts the Enjoyment of Consumption Experiences33
I Really Know You: How Influencers Can Increase Audience Engagement by Referencing Their Close Social Ties32
Correction to: Dynamics of Communicator and Audience Power: The Persuasiveness of Competence versus Warmth31
Does Cash Really Mean Trash? An Empirical Investigation into the Effect of Retailer Price Promotions on Household Food Waste31
From Order to Chaos: How Consumers Lose Control of Risks (and of Themselves)31
Using Cultural Repertoires during Unsettled Times30
Improving Our Scientific Understanding of Consumer Behavior29
How Verb Tense Shapes Persuasion28
Why and How Consumers Perform Online Reviewing Differently28
Final Price Neglect in Multi-Product Promotions: How Non-Integrated Price Reductions Promote Higher-Priced Products27
Not Just about Price: How Benefit Focus Determines Consumers’ Retailer Pricing Strategy Preference27
Dominated Cosmopolitanism: Consumer Habitus Dynamics among Low-Resource Migrants26
Starting Positive: The Impact of Self-Presentation Concerns on Consumer Reviews26
The Future of Consumer Research Methods: Lessons of a Prospective Retrospective25
Experiential and Analytical Price Evaluations: How Experiential Product Description Affects Prices25
2025 JCR Awards Announcements24
Who Am I Here? Care Consumers’ Identity Processes and Family Caregiver Interventions in the Elderscape23
“Kind of Mine, Kind of Not”: Digital Possessions and Affordance Misalignment23
Origin versus Substance: Competing Determinants of Disruption in Duplication Technologies22
Identities without Products: When the Preference for Self-Linked Products Weakens22
How Low Socioeconomic Status Hinders Organ Donation: An Extended Self Account21
2022 JCR Awards Announcements21
Are Apologies Always the Best Policy? Apologies for Service Failures Backfire When Consumers Are Not Aware of the Failure21
The Genesis Effect: Digital Goods in the Metaverse20
The Use and Usefulness of Attention Checks in Behavioral Research20
Brand Teasing: How Brands Build Strong Relationships by Making Fun of Their Consumers19
Why Are Donors More Generous with Time Than Money? The Role of Perceived Control over Donations on Charitable Giving19
Fairness Perceptions in Demographic Targeting18
Pre-Registered Interim Analysis Designs (PRIADs): Increasing the Cost-Effectiveness of Hypothesis Testing18
Wealth in People and Places: Understanding Transnational Gift Obligations18
The (Better) Road Not Taken: Setting a Goal Reduces Switching to More Effective Alternatives18
The Influence of Budgets on Consumer Spending17
The Visual Complexity = Higher Production Cost Lay Belief17
Consumers Prefer Products That Work Using Directionally Consistent Causal Chains16
2023 JCR Awards Announcements16
Is Your Sample Truly Mediating? Bayesian Analysis of Heterogeneous Mediation (BAHM)16
Corrigendum to: Social Class Shapes Donation Allocation Preferences16
How Do Physical Disability Cues Influence Assumptions about Consumer Tastes? Unpacking the Disability Preference Stereotype15
Relevance—Reloaded and Recoded15
Tournaments of Destruction: Consumers Battling for Visibility14
Intergenerational Effects of Lay Beliefs: How Parents’ Unhealthy = Tasty Intuition Influences Their Children’s Food Consumption and Body Mass Index14
Source Memory Is More Accurate for Opinions than for Facts14
Design-Mediated Morality: The Transformative Potential of Aesthetic Objects14
The Impact of Green Energy Production on Healthiness Perceptions and Preferences13
When Fields Are Destabilized: Mobilizing Gendered Capital to Resolve Hysteresis13
Brand Faith: How Spiritual Relationships Develop Between Consumers and Brands13
Social-Jetlagged Consumers and Decreased Conspicuous Consumption13
Days-of-the-Week Effect in Temporal Judgments13
The One-Man Show: The Effect of Joint Decision-Making on Investor Overconfidence13
Refund Psychology12
Consuming Regardless of Preference: Consumers Overestimate the Impact of Liking on Consumption12
How Sensory Language Shapes Influencer’s Impact12
The Confirmation Nudge: Prompts to Change or Confirm Initial Preferences Steer Consumer Choice12
2021 JCR Awards Announcements12
Taking the Full Measure: Integrating Replication into Research Practice to Assess Generalizability12
The Magnitude Heuristic: Larger Differences Increase Perceived Causality12
Distance and Alternative Signals of Status: A Unifying Framework11
Correction to: The Upscaling Effect: How the Decision Context Influences Tradeoffs between Desirability and Feasibility11
Vocalizing Search: How Voice Technologies Alter Consumer Search Processes and Satisfaction11
Painful Prices: The Moral Harm Model of Price Fairness11
Understanding and Improving Consumer Reactions to Service Bots11
Erratum to: The Pursuit of Meaning and the Preference for Less Expensive Options11
Learning to Live with an Unruly Consuming Body11
Does Using a Pink Product Increase Men’s Support for Women? How Product Usage Influences Perspective-Taking10
A Turn of the Tables: Psychological Contracts and Word of Mouth about Sharing Economy Platforms When Consumers Get Reviewed10
The Beneficent and Maleficent Effects of Simplification on Retirement Savings10
How Do Consumers Read and Encode a Price?10
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
More Options for Authors: Expanding the Paper Formats Considered at JCR9
This Article Is Not for Everyone: The Impact of Dissuasive Framing on Consumer Response to Product Messages9
When Is Digital Censorship Permissible? A Conversation Norms Account9
Insiders Only: Are Our Ideas About What Makes “Good Theory” Holding Us Back?9
Intel Inside: The Linguistic Properties of Effective Slogans9
Doing Family over Time: The Multilayered and Multitemporal Nature of Intergenerational Caring through Consumption9
The Asymmetry of Gender-Fluid Trends9
We Do What We Are: Representation of the Self-Concept and Identity-Based Choice9
Why Horizontal Organizations Don’t Fall Flat: Organizational Structure Shapes Perceptions of Egalitarianism and Company Warmth8
Been There, Done That: How Episodic and Semantic Memory Affects the Language of Authentic and Fictitious Reviews8
Cross-Period Impatience: Subjective Financial Periods Explain Time-Inconsistent Choices8
A Word of Thanks8
Midrange, Differential, Meaningful, and Multidisciplinary: Reflections onJCR’s Epistemic Culture8
‘Woman-Owned Business’ Labels Enhance Perceived Competence8
Epistemological Jangle and Jingle Fallacies in the Consumer–Brand Relationship Subfield: A Call to Action8
Bundle Selection and Variety Seeking: The Importance of Combinatorics8
Serving with a Smile on Airbnb: Analyzing the Economic Returns and Behavioral Underpinnings of the Host’s Smile8
From Second-Hand to Third-Hand: Reuse and Resale Cycle8
Are “10 Grams of Protein” Better than “Ten Grams of Protein”? How Digits versus Number Words Influence Consumer Judgments8
The Emergence and Evolution of Consumer Language Research7
Beyond Neoliberalism: The Role of Community in the Responsibilization of Citizen-Consumers During the Great Recession7
The Upscaling Effect: How the Decision Context Influences Tradeoffs between Desirability and Feasibility7
Beyond Scarcity: A Social Value-Based Lens for NFT Pricing7
How Political Ideology Shapes Preferences for Observably Inferior Products7
An Aversion to Intervention: How the Protestant Work Ethic Influences Preferences for Natural Healthcare7
How Do Consumers React to Production Waste?7
Why (and When) Are Uncertain Price Promotions More Effective Than Equivalent Sure Discounts?6
Get Your Science Out of Here: When Does Invoking Science in the Marketing of Consumer Products Backfire?6
Mixed Couples, Mixed Attitudes: How Interracial Couples in Marketing Appeals Influence Brand Outcomes6
Price Partitioning of Socio-Moral Surcharges6
Consumer-Driven Memorialization6
Unveiling the Mind of the Machine6
Class Conflict and Spatial Domination in the Neoliberal City6
Digital Therapy for Negative Consumption Experiences: The Impact of Emotional and Rational Reviews on Review Writers6
Divergent Effects of Budgeting for Gifts versus Personal Purchases6
Correction to: Dynamics of Communicator and Audience Power: The Persuasiveness of Competence versus Warmth6
Concealing Prices: How Delayed Price Disclosure Influences Consumer Purchase Decisions6
Reparative Consumption: The Role of Racial Identity and White Guilt in Consumer Preferences6
Beauty as a Goal: Creating Harmony Between Health and Taste6
Better Together: How Clustering Can Attenuate Hedonic Decline6
Liquid Consumer Security6
Haptic Rewards: How Mobile Vibrations Shape Reward Response and Consumer Choice6
How Do Consumers React to Ads That Meddle in Out-Party Primaries?5
No Bandwidth to Self-Gift: How Feeling Constrained Discourages Self-Gifting5
Consumer Dirtwork: What Extraordinary Consumption Reveals about the Usefulness of Dirt5
Transnational Market Navigation: Living and Consuming across Borders5
The Effect of Pursuing Self-Regulatory Goals on Variety Seeking5
When Learning Negative Brand Associations Leads to Positive Evaluations of Effectiveness5
Search or Scroll: How Credibility versus Likability Premiums Shape Consumers’ Following Decisions5
Cyclical Time Is Greener: The Impact of Temporal Perspective on Pro-Environmental Behavior5
Market Work and the Formation of the Omnivorous Consumer Subject5
Retraction of: Super Size Me: Product Size as a Signal of Status5
Extremeness Aversion and Choice Set Composition: Exposure to Multiple Extreme Options Reduces Extremeness Aversion5
The Discomfort of Things! Tidying-up and Decluttering in Consumers’ Homes5
The Color of Status: Color Saturation, Brand Heritage, and Perceived Status of Luxury Brands4
More Gamer, Less Girl: Gendered Boundaries, Tokenism, and the Cultural Persistence of Masculine Dominance4
AI Companions Reduce Loneliness4
Post-Colonial Consumer Respect and the Framing of Neocolonial Consumption in Advertising4
Undermining Desire: Reducing Unhealthy Choices by Highlighting Short-Term (vs. Long-Term) Costs4
Dysplacement and the Professionalization of the Home4
Expression of Concern: Super Size Me: Product Size as a Signal of Status4
On Breaking Functional Fixedness: How the Aha! Moment Enhances Perceived Product Creativity and Product Appeal4
Appearance for Females, Functionality for Males? The False Lay Belief about Gender Difference in Product Preference4
Seeking Structure in Collections: Desire for Control Motivates Engagement in Collecting4
Distributions Distract: How Distributions on Attribute Filters and Other Tools Affect Consumer Judgments4
Becoming Nature: Classifying Encounters in Interspecies Contact Zones4
The “Confidence” Trap: When the Likelihood Is Low, Forecasters Look Less Competent When They Refer to Their Confidence in an Outcome Rather Than Its Probability4
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