OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Service Research is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Improving Blood Donor Retention and Donor Relationships with Past Donation Use Appeals	198
Aesthetic Work as Cultural Competence: Chasing Beauty in the Coproduction of Aesthetic Services	123
Brexit and the Services Trade—A Longitudinal Analysis	110
Point Redemption in Loyalty Programs: The Role of Customer Relationship Characteristics and Their Implications for Service Providers	95
Not My Circus, Not my Monkeys? Frontline Employee Perceptions of Customer Deviant Behaviors and Service Firms’ Guardianship Policies	93
How Smart Should a Service Robot Be?	84
Exposure to Structured Service Environments as a Proactive Strategy for Handling Service Failures	67
Personalized Communication as a Platform for Service Inclusion? Initial Insights Into Interpersonal and AI-Based Personalization for Stigmatized Consumers	61
The AR Cloud: Navigating Metaverse Augmentation Technologies for Enhanced Co-Creation of Value Within Services	56
To go or to let it go: A regulatory focus perspective on Bundle Consumption	51
Thirty Years of Service Failure and Recovery Research: Thematic Development and Future Research Opportunities From a Social Network Perspective	48
Vital Service Captivity: Coping Strategies and Identity Negotiation	48
AI Patent Approvals in Service Firms, Patent Radicalness, and Stock Market Reaction	45
Unlocking the Full Potential of Transformative Service Research by Embedding Collaboration Throughout the Research Process	43
Designing Collaborative Intelligence Systems for Employee-AI Service Co-Production	40
Cultivating Resilience in Organizational Frontline Employees	39
Gamification Myopia: Satiation Effects in Gamified Activities	33
Stopping the Spread: How Blame Attributions Drive Customer-to-Customer Misbehavior Contagion and What Frontline Employees Can Do to Curb It	33
The Future of Work: Understanding the Effectiveness of Collaboration Between Human and Digital Employees in Service	31
Free-to-Fee Transformation of Industrial Services	30
Glocalization in Service Cultures: Tensions in Customers’ Service Expectations and Experiences	30
How Online Incivility Affects Consumer Engagement Behavior on Brands’ Social Media	29
Improving How Clinicians Communicate With Patients: An Integrative Review and Framework	29
Pushing Forward the Transition to a Circular Economy by Adopting an Actor Engagement Lens	28
Putting Data Privacy Regulation into Action: The Differential Capabilities of Service Frontline Interfaces	28

Pathways to Service System Smartness for Firms	27
Food Experience Design to Prevent Unintended Consequences and Improve Well-being	27
Visual Modality of Engagement: Conceptualization, Typology of Forms, and Outcomes	26
Transformative Service Initiatives: Enabling Access and Overcoming Barriers for People Experiencing Vulnerability	25
Optimizing Service Productivity With Substitutable and Limited Resources	25
Shaping Circular Service Ecosystems	24
Healing the Digital Divide With Digital Inclusion: Enabling Human Capabilities	24
Customer Perceptions of Firm Innovativeness and Market Performance: A Nation-Level, Longitudinal, Cross-Industry Examination	24
Commentary: The Bumpy Road to Achieving High-Quality Cancer Conversations	23
How Do Institutional Forces Promote Social Actions in Life-Threatening Events?	19
Consumers’ Intentions to Spread Negative Word of Mouth About Dynamic Pricing for Services: Role of Confusion and Unfairness Perceptions	19
Conscious Empathic AI in Service	18
Artificial Intelligence as a Service, Economic Growth, and Well-Being	18
Seeing Personhood in Machines: Conceptualizing Anthropomorphism of Social Robots	17
Customer–Salesperson Price Negotiations During Exceptional Demand Contractions	17
Design Principles for Virtual Reality Applications Used in Collaborative Service Encounters	17
Customer Engagement in Utilitarian vs. Hedonic Service Contexts	17
Building Reflexivity Using Service Design Methods	16
Customer Perceived Value: A Comprehensive Meta-analysis	15
Customer Experience: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Application in Omnichannel Environments	15
The Service Robot Customer Experience (SR-CX): A Matter of AI Intelligences and Customer Service Goals	14
Interfaces, Interactions, Time, and the Frontline Nexus: Foundational Constructs and Focus for the Field of Organizational Frontlines	14
Work Characteristics Needed by Middle Managers When Leading AI-Integrated Service Teams	14
Humanitarian Crises: The (Un)Certainty of Servicescapes and Their Impact on Frontline Actors	12
Using Information-Seeking Argument Mining to Improve Service	12
Frontline Employee Passion: A Multistudy Conceptualization and Scale Development	12
Social Media Communication and Company Value: The Moderating Role of Industry Competitiveness	12
Persistence of Contested Value Cocreation Practices	12
From Managers to Employees to Customers: The Hidden Toll of Technology-Induced Workload	11
Spinning the Wheel: The Effectiveness of Gamification in Service Recovery	11
Drivers and Hinderers of (Un)Sustainable Service: A Systems View	11
Unlocking Service Provider Excellence: Expanding the Touchpoints, Context, Qualities Framework	11
Moving Service Research Forward	10
A Lagged Experience Sampling Methodology Study on Spillover Effects of Customer Mistreatment	9
Can (A)I Give You a Ride? Development and Validation of the CRUISE Framework for Autonomous Vehicle Services	9
The Role of Customer Relationship Vulnerability in Service Recovery	9
It is Really Not a Game: An Integrative Review of Gamification for Service Research	9
The Influence of Employee Accent on Customer Participation in Services	9
The Negative Effect of Name: Mentions of Frontline Service Employee Name Reduce Online Review Persuasiveness	9
The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Stakeholders in Different Business Contexts	9
Actor Ecosystem Readiness: Understanding the Nature and Role of Human Abilities and Motivation in a Service Ecosystem	8
Corporate Digital Responsibility in Service Firms and Their Ecosystems	8
Multilevel Value Co-Creation Within Key Accounts	8
Just Name it: The Act of Naming Humanoid Service Robots Decreases Perceived Eeriness and Increases Repurchase Intent	7
A Common Identity Intervention to Improve Service Quality for Consumers Experiencing Vulnerabilities	7
The Effect of Delivery Time on Repurchase Behavior in Quick Commerce	7
A Framework of Foreseen and Unforeseen Harms in Transformative Service Systems	7
Dying to Understand How Electronic Word of Mouth Legitimates Sustainable Innovations in Stigmatized Markets	6
Uncovering the Hidden “Where” of Sustainable Service Ecosystems: The Role of Spaces and Places	6
Constructive Resistance in the Frontlines: How Frontline Employees’ Resistance to Customer Incivility Affects Customer Observers	6

In Reply: Where Reshaping Communications in Healthcare Service Begins	6
Human-Machine Engagement (HME): Conceptualization, Typology of Forms, Antecedents, and Consequences	6
From Premium to Mass: How Service Robots Shift Brand Premiumness	6
Despotic Leadership and Front-Line Employee Deviant Work Behaviors in Service Organizations: The Roles of Moral Disengagement and Moral Identity	6
Steady Hand at the Wheel: How Perceived Movement Influences Consumer Responses to Brand Failures	5
Does the Label Fit the Channel? How “Bricks” and “Clicks” Influence Demand for Environmental and Social Sustainability Labels	5
Unintended Consequences in Transformative Service Research: Helping Without Harming	5
Commentary: Perceiving Innovation: Unveiling the Impact on Market Performance	5
Sustainable Service	5
Unlocking the Predictive Value of Excess and Deficit Customer Patronization Intentions	5
Have We Got a Deal for You: Do You Want the Good News or Bad News First?	5