This study presents a retrospective of the Journal of Consumer Affairs (JCA) using bibliographic analysis between 1967 and 2019. The results indicate that both the number of JCA's publications and citations grew markedly over time. The dominant contributors to the journal are authors affiliated with U.S. institutions. Trends show increasing organizational diversity and collaboration among authors. The journal's central themes are consumer perception, consumer behavior, financial behavior, consumer spending patterns, financial literacy, consumer decision‐making processes, and marketing practices. Statistically significant relationships exist between the following article attributes and citations based on our negative binomial regression analysis. Age has a negative association with citations, but the direction of association turns positive when considering non‐linearity. A positive association exists between the number of authors, references, and U.S. affiliation. A negative relationship exists with article order, non‐academic author, top institution affiliation (FT100), funding, lead article, title length, and conceptual article.

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《消费者事务杂志》的五十年：文献计量分析

这项研究提出了一个回顾展的杂志消费者事务（JCA使用1967年和2019年之间的文献分析）结果表明，两者的数量JCA的出版物和引用随着时间的推移而显着增长。该杂志的主要贡献者是与美国机构有联系的作者。趋势表明作者之间的组织多样性和协作性不断提高。该杂志的中心主题是消费者的观念，消费者的行为，财务行为，消费者的支出模式，金融素养，消费者的决策过程和营销实践。根据我们的负面二项式回归分析，以下文章属性与引用之间存在统计上的显着关系。年龄与引文成负相关，但是考虑非线性时，关联的方向变为正。作者，推荐人和美国隶属关系之间存在正相关关系。与商品顺序存在负相关关系，