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Craig J. Thompson publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Craig J. Thompson sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 118 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Craig J. Thompson D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Craig J. Thompson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 47 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Craig J. Thompson is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines including Medicine, Marketing, Food Science, Hepatology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Epidemiology
  • Marketing
  • Food Science
  • Hepatology
  • Sociology and Political Science

Key topics covered in their research are:

  • Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
  • Culinary Culture and Tourism
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies

Craig J. Thompson has authored several papers with notable works published in respected journals. Recent publications include:

  • "Analyzing the Cultural Contradictions of Authenticity: Theoretical and Managerial Insights from the Market Logic of Conscious Capitalism" (2022), Journal of Marketing
  • "Towards an ontology of consumers as distributed networks (or the end of 'consumer research' as we know it?): retrospective insights from the praxeomorphism of Russell Belk's 'extended self'" (2024), Journal of Marketing Management
  • "Beyond existential and neoliberal explanations of consumers' embodied risk-taking: CrossFit as an articulation of reflexive modernization" (2021), Journal of Consumer Culture
  • "Transcending paradigmatic schisms and building ontological bridges: How Russ Belk's "extended self" became canonical consumer research" (2024), Marketing Theory

The scientist's frequent collaborators include:

  • Stuart McPherson
  • Juliet B. Schor
  • Amy Johnson
  • Jessica Shearer
  • Ryan Jelley

Publication venues where Craig J. Thompson has frequently published are:

  • Journal of Marketing Management
  • Journal of Viral Hepatitis
  • Preprints.org
  • Journal of Marketing
  • Journal of Consumer Culture

In addition to journal articles, Thompson has also published books. One notable book published through Yale University Press is Sustainable Lifestyles and the Quest for Plenitude (2020).

Best Publications

  • Consumer Culture Theory (Cct): Twenty Years of Research

    Eric J. Arnould;Craig J. Thompson

  • Putting Consumer Experience Back into Consumer Research: The Philosophy and Method of Existential-Phenomenology

    Craig J. Thompson;William B. Locander;Howard R. Pollio

  • Interpreting Consumers: A Hermeneutical Framework for Deriving Marketing Insights from the Texts of Consumers’ Consumption Stories:

    Craig J. Thompson

  • Speaking of Fashion: Consumers' Uses of Fashion Discourses and the Appropriation of Countervailing Cultural Meanings

    Craig J. Thompson;Diana L. Haytko

  • Emotional Branding and the Strategic Value of the Doppelgänger Brand Image

    Craig J. Thompson;Aric Rindfleisch;Zeynep Arsel

  • The Phenomenology of Everyday Life: Empirical Investigations of Human Experience

    Howard R. Pollio;Tracy B. Henley;Craig J. Thompson

  • The Starbucks Brandscape and Consumers' (Anticorporate) Experiences of Glocalization

    Craig J. Thompson;Zeynep Arsel

  • Understanding the Socialized Body: A Poststructuralist Analysis of Consumers' Self-Conceptions, Body Images, and Self-Care Practices

    Craig J. Thompson;Elizabeth C. Hirschman

  • Man‐of‐Action Heroes: The Pursuit of Heroic Masculinity in Everyday Consumption

    Douglas B. Holt;Craig J. Thompson

  • Trying to Be Cosmopolitan

    Craig J. Thompson;Siok Kuan Tambyah

  • The Lived Meaning of Free Choice: An Existential-Phenomenological Description of Everyday Consumer Experiences of Contemporary Married Women

    Craig J. Thompson;William B. Locander;Howard R. Pollio

  • Caring Consumers: Gendered Consumption Meanings and the Juggling Lifestyle

    Craig J. Thompson

  • The Spoken and the Unspoken: A Hermeneutic Approach to Understanding the Cultural Viewpoints That Underlie Consumers' Expressed Meanings

    Craig J. Thompson;Howard R. Pollio;William B. Locander

  • Marketplace Mythology and Discourses of Power

    Craig J. Thompson

  • Why Media Matter: Toward a Richer Understanding of Consumers' Relationships with Advertising and Mass Media

    Elizabeth C. Hirschman;Craig J. Thompson

  • Consumer Value Systems in the Age of Postmodern Fragmentation: The Case of the Natural Health Microculture

    Craig J. Thompson;Maura Troester

  • Countervailing market responses to corporate co-optation and the ideological recruitment of consumption communities

    Craig J. Thompson;Gokcen Coskuner-Balli

  • Demythologizing Consumption Practices: How Consumers Protect Their Field-Dependent Identity Investments from Devaluing Marketplace Myths

    Zeynep Arsel;Craig J. Thompson

  • Consumer Identity Work as Moral Protagonism: How Myth and Ideology Animate a Brand-Mediated Moral Conflict

    Marius K. Luedicke;Craig J. Thompson;Markus Giesler

  • Consumer Culture Theory (And We Really Mean Theoretics

    Eric Arnould;Craig Thompson

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Arnould
Eric J. Arnould Aalto University
William B. Locander
William B. Locander Louisiana Tech University
Barbara B. Stern
Barbara B. Stern Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Elizabeth C. Hirschman
Elizabeth C. Hirschman University of Virginia
Morris B. Holbrook
Morris B. Holbrook Columbia University
Jagdish N. Sheth
Jagdish N. Sheth Emory University
Deborah J. MacInnis
Deborah J. MacInnis University of Southern California
Russell W. Belk
Russell W. Belk York University
Eileen Fischer
Eileen Fischer York University
Aric Rindfleisch
Aric Rindfleisch University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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