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Journal of Consumer Affairs

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2023
Entity authorityQ6295026 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Journal of Consumer Affairs is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1967 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Council on Consumer Interests. It covers research on consumer behavior, consumer and household decision making, and the implications of practices and policies on consumers' wellbeing. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.860.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1967-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Journal, Consumer and Affairs can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as journal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q6295026. 5 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1967 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Consumer Affairs” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.