Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies
if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the
same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average
within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research
topics.
Consumer Culture Theory (CCT): Twenty Years of Research
20052.1k citationsEric J. Arnould, Craig J. ThompsonJournal of Consumer Researchprofile →
Putting Consumer Experience Back into Consumer Research: The Philosophy and Method of Existential-Phenomenology
19891.1k citationsCraig J. Thompson et al.Journal of Consumer Researchprofile →
Interpreting Consumers: A Hermeneutical Framework for Deriving Marketing Insights from the Texts of Consumers’ Consumption Stories
1997836 citationsCraig J. ThompsonJournal of Marketing Researchprofile →
Speaking of Fashion: Consumers' Uses of Fashion Discourses and the Appropriation of Countervailing Cultural Meanings
1997583 citationsCraig J. Thompson et al.Journal of Consumer Researchprofile →
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Thompson, Craig J.. (2017). Consumer Research in the Age of Neoliberal Discontinuities: Incitements to Intellectual Edgework. ACR North American Advances.3 indexed citations
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Belk, Russell W., Jagdish N. Sheth, Craig J. Thompson, et al.. (2014). Discipline and liberation in consumption. Sage eBooks.1 indexed citations
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Thompson, Craig J., Eric J. Arnould, & Markus Giesler. (2013). Discursivity, Difference, and Disruption: Genealogical Reflections on the Consumer Culture Theory Heteroglossia. SSRN Electronic Journal.9 indexed citations
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Coskuner-Balli, Gökçen & Craig J. Thompson. (2009). Legitimatizing an Emergent Social Identity Through Marketplace Performances. ACR North American Advances.1 indexed citations
Thompson, Craig J. & Eric J. Arnould. (2005). Consumer culture theory (CCT): 20 years of research. Journal of Consumer Research.11 indexed citations
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Arnould, Eric J., Craig J. Thompson, Kent Grayson, & Jean‐Sébastien Marcoux. (2005). Cct Research: Methodological Mythologies and Future Challenges. ACR European Advances.1 indexed citations
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Thompson, Craig J. & Siok Kuan Tambyah. (1998). Special Session Summary Rethinking Theories of QConsumer CultureQ Through Postmodern Analyses of Consumption and the Production of Hybrid Cultural Forms. ACR North American Advances.5 indexed citations
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Thompson, Craig J. & Douglas B. Holt. (1997). Special Session Summary Consuming Desire and Desirous Consumption: Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Social Construction of Consumer Wants and the Nature of Consumption Symbolism. ACR North American Advances.4 indexed citations
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Thompson, Craig J.. (1997). Interpreting consumers: A hermeneutical framework for deriving marketing insights from the texts. Journal of Marketing Research. 438–455.10 indexed citations
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Thompson, Craig J. & Douglas B. Holt. (1996). Special Session Summary Communities and Consumption: Research on Consumer Strategies For Constructing Communal Relationships in a Postmodern World. ACR North American Advances.3 indexed citations
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Thompson, Craig J.. (1994). Unfulfilled Promises and Personal Confessions: a Postpositivist Inquiry Into the Idealized and Experienced Meanings of Consumer Technology. ACR North American Advances.8 indexed citations
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Thompson, Craig J.. (1994). Unfulfilled promises and personal confessions: A postpositivist inquiry into the idealized and. Advances in consumer research. 21(1). 104–108.6 indexed citations
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Thompson, Craig J.. (1991). May the Circle Be Unbroken: a Hermeneutic Consideration of How Interpretive Approaches to Consumer Research Are Understood By Consumer Researchers. ACR North American Advances.11 indexed citations
Thompson, Craig J.. (1989). The Role of Context in Consumers' Category Judgments: a Preliminary Investigation. ACR North American Advances.1 indexed citations
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Speck, Paul Surgi, David W. Schumann, & Craig J. Thompson. (1988). Celebrity Endorsements-Scripts, Schema and Roles: Theoretical Framework and Preliminary Tests. ACR North American Advances.65 indexed citations
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