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Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior

Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior is a research topic within Marketing. Science Explorer counts 7.9k research works in it since 1951. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the influence of appearance management behavior, including cosmetics, fashion, and body image, on consumer choices. It covers topics such as the impact of social norms, corporate social responsibility, and lifestyle on purchase behavior and self-esteem related to appearance management.

  • Cosmetics
  • Fashion
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Body Image
  • Lifestyle
  • Social Norms
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Sociocultural Attitudes
  • Purchase Behavior
  • Self-esteem
Research works
7.9k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
813
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+108%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
South Korea
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior

Which countries lead Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior research?

By volume, South Korea and China publish the most (411 and 380 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 South Korea 411 works
  2. 2 China 380 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 377 works
  4. 4 India 210 works
  5. 5 United States 177 works
  6. 6 Japan 147 works
  7. 7 Malaysia 74 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 68 works
  9. 9 Egypt 43 works
  10. 10 Pakistan 38 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

South Korea: 21.4%China: 19.8%Indonesia: 19.6%India: 10.9%6 others listed: 28.4%21%largest
South Korea411 · 21.4%China380 · 19.8%Indonesia377 · 19.6%India210 · 10.9%6 others listed547 · 28.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior research?

By volume in 2022-now, Binus University publishes the most Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior research, followed by Seokyeong University and Kwangju Women's University.

What are the most cited papers in Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior?

The most cited paper in Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior is "The Impact of Celebrity Spokespersons’ Perceived Image on Consumers’ Intention to Purchase" (Roobina Ohanian, 1991), with 1,265 citations. Next come "Automatic Age Estimation Based on Facial Aging Patterns" (979) and "Body image across the adult life span: stability and change" (948).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Impact of Celebrity Spokespersons’ Perceived Image on Consumers’ Intention to Purchase Roobina Ohanian · Journal of Advertising Research Feb 1991 1,265
2 Automatic Age Estimation Based on Facial Aging Patterns Xin Geng, Zhi‐Hua Zhou, Kate Smith‐Miles · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 7 Nov 2007 979
3 Body image across the adult life span: stability and change Marika Tiggemann · Body Image 2 Dec 2003 948
4 Predicting Unethical Behavior: A Comparison of the Theory of Reasoned Action and the Theory of Planned Behavior Man Kit Chang · Journal of Business Ethics Dec 1998 852
5 Impacts of Luxury Fashion Brand’s Social Media Marketing on Customer Relationship and Purchase Intention Angella Jiyoung Kim, Eunju Ko · Journal of Global Fashion Marketing Aug 2010 720
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior research done?

The largest centres of Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior research in 2022-now are Seoul (South Korea), Jakarta (Indonesia), Tokyo (Japan) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Gwangju, Busan and Seoul.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SeoulSouth Korea 167 works
  2. 2 JakartaIndonesia 95 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 57 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 52 works
  5. 5 BandungIndonesia 43 works
  6. 6 BusanSouth Korea 42 works
  7. 7 GwangjuSouth Korea 38 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 34 works
  9. 9 SurabayaIndonesia 32 works
  10. 10 DaejeonSouth Korea 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GwangjuKR · 37.6 works30×
  2. BusanKR · 42.0 works20×
  3. SeoulKR · 167.0 works9.3×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior?

Among universities, judged by research, Binus University, Ewha Womans University and Kwangju Women's University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 11.77%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Ewha Womans UniversityHanyang UniversityKwangju Women's Univ…Binus University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Binus UniversityIndonesia 56.74.8%30.2×34 +2135.2%
2Ewha Womans UniversitySouth Korea 56.635.6%18.3×8 -17.4%
3Kwangju Women's UniversitySouth Korea 51.65.0%1699.5×25 +158.4%
4Hanyang UniversitySouth Korea 49.015.8%10.5×10 +57.0%
5Seokyeong UniversitySouth Korea 48.00.7%1405.0×28 +145.0%
6Dongguk UniversitySouth Korea 44.116.0%21.6×8 +25.2%
7Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 42.119.9%4.7×9 -27.3%
8Pukyong National UniversitySouth Korea 41.83.0%35.0×11 +240.0%
9Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 39.413.4%7.5×8 -
10Telkom UniversityIndonesia 38.03.5%9.9×11 +521.7%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior, country by country

Is Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 108% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior11.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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