Luca Cian

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Luca Cian is a scholar working on Marketing, Social Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Cian has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Marketing, 10 papers in Social Psychology and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Luca Cian's work include Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (11 papers), Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (6 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 papers). Luca Cian is often cited by papers focused on Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (11 papers), Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (6 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 papers). Luca Cian collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Türkiye. Luca Cian's co-authors include Chiara Longoni, Aradhna Krishna, Nilüfer Z. Aydınoğlu, Tatiana Sokolova, Ryan Elder, Norbert Schwarz, Ellie Kyung, Gordon Pennycook, Andrey Fradkin and Maura L. Scott and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research and Journal of Consumer Research.

In The Last Decade

Luca Cian

29 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Artificial Intelligence in Utilitarian vs. Hedonic Contex... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Artificial Intelligence in Utilitarian vs. Hedonic Contexts: The “Word-of-Machine” Effect
    2020 447 citations Chiara Longoni, Luca Cian profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Luca Cian United States 14 618 456 332 276 193 30 1.3k
Leonard Lee United States 18 984 1.6× 530 1.2× 313 0.9× 68 0.2× 203 1.1× 46 1.9k
Haiyang Yang United States 14 310 0.5× 269 0.6× 248 0.7× 78 0.3× 126 0.7× 26 952
Vignesh Yoganathan United Kingdom 18 515 0.8× 729 1.6× 268 0.8× 424 1.5× 43 0.2× 30 1.4k
Tripat Gill Canada 15 479 0.8× 380 0.8× 167 0.5× 44 0.2× 228 1.2× 30 941
Marilyn Giroux New Zealand 13 369 0.6× 512 1.1× 168 0.5× 342 1.2× 34 0.2× 23 1.0k
Noah Castelo Canada 13 191 0.3× 415 0.9× 259 0.8× 500 1.8× 62 0.3× 24 1.3k
Veena Chattaraman United States 17 672 1.1× 606 1.3× 259 0.8× 300 1.1× 60 0.3× 44 1.3k
Tom Meyvis United States 16 788 1.3× 571 1.3× 364 1.1× 47 0.2× 224 1.2× 45 1.6k
Lisa C. Wan Hong Kong 20 792 1.3× 804 1.8× 411 1.2× 296 1.1× 74 0.4× 52 1.5k
Lingyun Qiu China 14 371 0.6× 917 2.0× 290 0.9× 539 2.0× 75 0.4× 26 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Luca Cian

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Fields of papers citing papers by Luca Cian

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Cian

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Block, Lauren, et al.. (2025). Creating Equity by Design: A Conceptual Framework for Marketplace Inclusion. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing. 44(2). 214–231. 7 indexed citations
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Kyung, Ellie, et al.. (2024). AI-induced indifference: Unfair AI reduces prosociality. Cognition. 254. 105937–105937. 4 indexed citations
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Kim, Tami, et al.. (2023). Effects of ancestral information on social connectedness and life meaning. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 111. 104563–104563. 1 indexed citations
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Pandya, Sonal S., Luca Cian, & Rajkumar Venkatesan. (2023). Grocery Shopping for America: Mitigation Strategies for Threats to National Identity. Journal of Marketing Research. 61(4). 760–777. 5 indexed citations
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Longoni, Chiara, Andrey Fradkin, Luca Cian, & Gordon Pennycook. (2022). News from Generative Artificial Intelligence Is Believed Less. 97–106. 55 indexed citations
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Longoni, Chiara, Luca Cian, & Ellie Kyung. (2022). Artificial Intelligence in the Government. 446–446. 3 indexed citations
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Kim, Tami, Lalin Anik, & Luca Cian. (2021). Feedback as a two-way street: when and why rating consumers fails. Marketing Letters. 32(4). 351–362. 3 indexed citations
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Cian, Luca, Chiara Longoni, & Aradhna Krishna. (2020). Advertising a Desired Change: When Process Simulation Fosters (vs. Hinders) Credibility and Persuasion. Journal of Marketing Research. 57(3). 489–508. 36 indexed citations
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Bublitz, Melissa G., Luca Cian, Adriana V. Madzharov, et al.. (2019). Collaborative Art: A Transformational Force within Communities. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. 4(4). 313–331. 22 indexed citations
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Cian, Luca, et al.. (2018). Brand Activism at Starbucks—A Tall Order?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Krishna, Aradhna, Luca Cian, & Nilüfer Z. Aydınoğlu. (2017). Sensory Aspects of Package Design. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Krishna, Aradhna, Luca Cian, & Nilüfer Z. Aydınoğlu. (2017). Sensory Aspects of Package Design. Journal of Retailing. 93(1). 43–54. 193 indexed citations
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Krishna, Aradhna, Luca Cian, & Tatiana Sokolova. (2016). The Power of Sensory Marketing in Advertising. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Cian, Luca, Aradhna Krishna, & Norbert Schwarz. (2015). Positioning Rationality and Emotion: Rationality is Up and Emotion is Down. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations
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Cian, Luca, Aradhna Krishna, & Ryan Elder. (2015). A Sign of Things to Come: Behavioral Change through Dynamic Iconography. Journal of Consumer Research. 41(6). 1426–1446. 78 indexed citations
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Cian, Luca, et al.. (2014). Under the reputation umbrella. Corporate Communications An International Journal. 19(2). 182–199. 34 indexed citations
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Aydınoğlu, Nilüfer Z. & Luca Cian. (2014). Show me the product, show me the model: Effect of picture type on attitudes toward advertising. Journal of Consumer Psychology. 24(4). 506–519. 52 indexed citations
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Cian, Luca, Aradhna Krishna, & Ryan Elder. (2013). This Logo Moves Me: Dynamic Imagery from Static Images. Journal of Marketing Research. 51(2). 184–197. 3 indexed citations
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Cian, Luca. (2011). How to measure brand image: a reasoned review. The Marketing Review. 11(2). 165–187. 17 indexed citations

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