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D-Index
47
Citations
28212
World Ranking
3235
National Ranking
1555

Joseph W. Alba 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 Joseph W. Alba sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 75 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joseph W. Alba 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 Joseph W. Alba 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.

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Overview

Joseph W. Alba is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within business, management, accounting, and psychology, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to consumer behavior and marketing.

The scientist's primary fields of study include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Psychology

Their work encompasses several subfields, notably:

  • Marketing
  • Applied Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Key topics addressed in their body of research cover:

  • Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Management and Marketing Education
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting

Joseph W. Alba has published papers in multiple leading academic journals, frequently contributing to:

  • Journal of Marketing
  • Marketing Letters
  • Journal of Consumer Research
  • Consumer Psychology Review

Their recent papers include:

  • Learning from Data: An Empirics-First Approach to Relevant Knowledge Generation, 2022, Journal of Marketing
  • Autonomy in consumer choice, 2020, Marketing Letters
  • Consumer Self-Control and the Biological Sciences: Implications for Marketing Stakeholders, 2020, Journal of Marketing
  • Origin versus Substance: Competing Determinants of Disruption in Duplication Technologies, 2022, Journal of Consumer Research
  • Physicalism: Implications for social equality, mutual understanding, product adoption, industry disruption, the global ecology, performance consumption, and your favorite team, 2025, Consumer Psychology Review

Frequent collaborators identified alongside Joseph W. Alba include:

  • Yanmei Zheng
  • Peter N. Golder
  • Marnik G. Dekimpe
  • Jake An
  • Harald J. van Heerde

Best Publications

  • Dimensions of Consumer Expertise

    Joseph W. Alba;J. Wesley Hutchinson

  • Interactive Home Shopping: Consumer, Retailer, and Manufacturer Incentives to Participate in Electronic Marketplaces:

    Joseph Alba;John Lynch;Barton Weitz;Chris Janiszewski

  • The Importance of the Brand in Brand Extension

    Susan M. Broniarczyk;Joseph W. Alba

  • Consumer Perceptions of Price (Un)Fairness

    Lisa E. Bolton;Luk Warlop;Joseph W. Alba

  • Is memory schematic

    Joseph W. Alba;Lynn Hasher

  • Knowledge Calibration: What Consumers Know and What They Think They Know

    Joseph W. Alba;J. Wesley Hutchinson

  • Pleasure principles: A review of research on hedonic consumption

    Joseph W. Alba;Elanor F. Williams

  • MEMORY AND DECISION MAKING

    Joseph W. Alba;Wesley Hutchinson;John G. Lynch

  • An examination of the alleged role of "fixation" in the solution of several "insight" problems.

    Robert W. Weisberg;Joseph W. Alba

  • Effects of Context and Part-Category Cues on Recall of Competing Brands:

    Joseph W. Alba;Amitava Chattopadhyay

  • Salience Effects in Brand Recall

    Joseph W. Alba;Amitava Chattopadhyay

  • Consumer Learning and Brand Equity

    Stijn M. J. van Osselaer;Joseph W. Alba

  • Taste Perception: More than Meets the Tongue

    JoAndrea Hoegg;Joseph W. Alba

  • The Influence of Prior Beliefs, Frequency Cues, and Magnitude Cues on Consumers' Perceptions of Comparative Price Data

    Joseph W. Alba;Susan M. Broniarczyk;Terence A. Shimp;Joel E. Urbany

  • Non-Conscious Influences on Consumer Choice

    Gavan J. Fitzsimons;J. Wesley Hutchinson;Patti Williams;Joseph W. Alba

  • Ignoring Irrelevant Information: Situational Determinants of Consumer Learning

    J. Wesley Hutchinson;Joseph W. Alba

  • The Role of Consumers' Intuitions in Inference Making

    Susan M. Broniarczyk;Joseph W. Alba

  • The Effect of Discount Frequency and Depth on Consumer Price Judgments

    Joseph W. Alba;Carl F. Mela;Terence A. Shimp;Joel E. Urbany

  • The Effects of Frequency Knowledge On Consumer Decision Making

    Joseph W. Alba;Howard Marmorstein

  • The Situational Importance of Recall and Inference in Consumer Decision Making

    Amitava Chattopadhyay;Joseph W. Alba

Frequent Co-Authors

Lynn Hasher
Lynn Hasher University of Toronto
Luk Warlop
Luk Warlop BI Norwegian Business School
Richard J. Lutz
Richard J. Lutz University of Florida
Robert W. Weisberg
Robert W. Weisberg Temple University
Baba Shiv
Baba Shiv Stanford University
Terence A. Shimp
Terence A. Shimp University of South Carolina
Chris Janiszewski
Chris Janiszewski University of Florida
Irwin P. Levin
Irwin P. Levin University of Iowa
Joshua Knobe
Joshua Knobe Yale University

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