Journal of Services Marketing

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Services Marketing is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Here today, gone tomorrow: services and their potential for permanent perishability52
Commentary: “Back to the future” or “trapped in the future”? The future of services practice and research51
In this together: the long-term effect of a collective crisis on the retail and service sector48
Improving health service design and delivery for men: does gender targeting matter?46
Editorial: the “nip and tuck” service framework: bright and dark side of beautification/modification services44
Invisible rules: how institutional voids in base-of-the-pyramid markets influence adoption and diffusion of transformative service innovations43
WOW, the make-up AR app is impressive: a comparative study between China and South Korea40
Drivers of the experience value of mobile money transfer service: Senegaleseuser perspectives40
In-store augmented reality experiences and its effect on consumer perceptions and behaviour36
User-defined ecosystems in health and social care36
From service to social innovation with a service-dominant logic approach33
Enhanced review facilitation service for C2C support: machine learning approaches33
A bicultural perspective on professional service providers’ pro bono motivations33
Usage behavior of mHealth service users in Australia: do user demographics matter?32
The impact of AI recommendation quality on service satisfaction: the moderating roles of standardization and customization31
Multisensory healing: transformative service encounters in nonpharmacological therapies for cancer patients’ well-being31
The sorrows of methods researchers29
A voice for the silent: uncovering service exclusion practices28
Service experience lies in the eye of the beholder: contextualizing extant literature toward integrating eye-tracking in service research27
Service encounter and value co-creation in fundraising activities at the NPO sector26
Witnessing justice in action: how emotions, moral identity and commitment shape third-party reactions to service recovery25
SDG commentary: service ecosystems with the planet - weaving the environmental SDGs with human services24
Patient-centered care in practice: hospital and online primary care settings22
Unveiling barriers and opportunities for LGBTQIA+ customer’s financial well-being22
Experience identification: connecting online engagement to offline loyalty22
Viewpoint: advancing service design with practitioners’ insights22
Digital transformation for crisis preparedness: service employees’ perspective21
Linking person–job fit and intrinsic motivation to salespeople’s service innovative behavior21
Customer captivity, negative word of mouth and well-being: a mixed-methods study21
How customer incivility affects organization citizenship behavior: roles of depersonalization, resilience, and caring climate21
Authenticity matters: investigating virtual tours’ impact on curiosity and museum visit intentions21
Robotic technologies and well-being for older adults living at home20
Viewpoint: shaping resilient service ecosystems in times of crises – a trans-Tasman perspective19
Customer engagement in online service brand communities18
Customer service co-creation literacy for better service value: evidence from the health-care sector18
Neurophysiological responses to robot–human interactions in retail stores18
Working it out: service displacement and the dynamics of consumer adaptation17
Editorial: The limits of a service-dominated economy: the case for reindustrialization17
Commentary – The ServCollab Perspective on Elevating Human Experience17
Service inclusion for tourists with disabilities: scale development and validation17
Viewpoint: plotting a way forward for service research in and out of Africa16
Chatbots, service failure recovery, and online customer experience through lenses of frustration – aggression theory and signaling theory16
Research note: conceptualizing agentic luxury in luxury services16
The interplay between physical and social servicescape: investigating negative CCI15
The service empowerment model: a collaborative approach to reducing vulnerability15
A conceptual framework for transformative gamification services15
Resistance of facial recognition payment service: a mixed method approach15
The impact of social media use on customer experiences within physical service environments15
Editorial: Interdisciplinary research in services marketing15
Professionals’ interpersonal communications style: does it matter in building client psychological comfort?15
The impact of value co-creation in sustainable services: understanding generational differences14
Editorial: The end of an era: the decline of retail tourism in American cities14
The role of information for the customer journey in mobile food ordering apps14
Online value co-creation during the “dreaming” phase, brand image and uncertainty avoidance14
The gloomy side of value co-creation for service employees14
Addressing customer misbehavior contagion in access-based services13
Patients’ experience sharing with online social media communities: a bottom-of-the-pyramid perspective13
Service robot acceptance in museums: an empirical study using the service robot acceptance model (sRAM)13
Wither vulnerable consumers? Meaningful dialogue about marketplace vulnerability13
An imitation game – supervisors’ influence on customer sweethearting13
Permissibility vs. Feasibility: AI in service from a CX perspective13
Antecedents and consequences of consumer hope for digital payment apps services13
The impact of “capitalization” social support services on student-athlete well-being13
Co-creating customer experiences in service ecosystems: a study in a tourist destination13
From static to smart: AI-generated dynamic scales for contextual marketing measurement13
Investigating the role of metaverse influencers’ attributes for the next generation of services12
Seeking thrills during a crisis? A TSR and hierarchy of effects perspective of the transformative potential of travel12
Alexa, may I adopt you? The role of voice assistant empathy and user-perceived risk in customer service delivery12
To share or not to share screens with customers? Lessons from learning theories12
Advocating for consumers experiencing vulnerability: a typology and research agenda12
Can corporate social responsibility and recovery justice restore customer identification following service failure?12
Co-creating inclusive public services with customers experiencing vulnerability12
Which loyalty program do customers prefer: a coalition program or a single-firm program?11
Men’s transformative health service use: rethinking customer experience of vulnerability11
Marketing inclusive banking services to financially vulnerable consumers: a service design approach11
Elevating service research in Africa11
Out of the public eye: the art of redirection in webcare apologies11
Helping the organization but harming customers: a social identity perspective of unethical pro-organizational behavior11
“Is it all just lip service?”: on Instagram and the normalisation of the cosmetic servicescape11
Service-informed marketing reform11
Viewpoint: from Star Trek to “Service Trek”: these are the voyages of the service community11
Viewpoint: the need to evolve to a service logic mindset in Latin America10
Towards a theory of well-being in digital sports viewing behavior10
Liminal digital birthspaces: social media and consumer proactivity for well-being10
Learning from the resourceness blind spot for service innovation at the base of the pyramid10
Comprehending roles of virtual service assistant’s warmth and competence for service co-creation versus service recovery10
Flirting in service encounters: does the server’s sex matter?10
Call it robot: anthropomorphic framing and failure of self-service technologies10
Seeking the resilience of service firms: a strategic learning process based on digital platform capability10
Critical examination of academic marketing and service research’s philosophical foundation10
Lifetime deals: the role of software service offering in convincing consumers10
The well-being outcomes of multi-actor inter-organisational value co-creation and co-destruction within a service ecosystem10
Service mega-disruptions: a conceptual model and research agenda9
How do service innovation practices develop frontline employee resilience capabilities in not-for-profits?9
Longitudinal upgrades and asymmetric effects of satisfaction and perceived-value9
Viewpoint: internet revolution lessons applied to post-pandemic service delivery (a North American perspective)9
Exploring servicescape experiences across museum types9
Editorial: Stop saying “vulnerable consumers/customers”!8
Biophilia in servicescapes – review, reconciliation and reflections8
From search to support: the role of UGC in stigmatized consumers’ mental health treatment journeys8
Mixed emotions and credence service use: insights from at-risk gamblers8
Enhancing CSR and purchase intent in service recovery: investigating the interplay of prosocial compensation, hedonic and luxury purchases8
Can Alexa serve customers better? AI-driven voice assistant service interactions8
Transforming human trafficking rescue services in Nigeria: towards context-specific intersectionality and trauma-informed perspectives8
Publisher’s note8
How can service organizations build resilience by leveraging capabilities and service worker team knowledge?8
The role of reciprocity and reputation in service relationships with arts organisations8
Mental conversion: a customer service strategy impacting shopping experiences7
Consumer response to failure by service robots: the role of anticipatory guilt7
Where is customer experience (CX) research heading? A personal commentary7
Understanding consumers’ value co-creation and value co-destruction with augmented reality service marketing7
Subordinated service environments: how branding can create unintentional service exclusion7
Strategising for the circular economy through servitisation7
Feeding trust: exploring key drivers, moderators and consequences related to food app usage7
Interaction value formation spaces: configurations of practice-theory elements in service ecosystems7
Filling in the gaps: a service ecosystem perspective on purchase groups as interstitial markets7
I can’t get satisfaction: examining the moderating role of service brand authenticity in the relationship of imperfect experiences and satisfaction6
Reimagining service provider influence: how they embrace and promote sustainability6
AI integration in service delivery: enhancing business and sustainability performance amid challenges6
Enhancing affective commitment through gamified services of luxury brands: role of game mechanics and self-congruity6
Customer incivility and employee outcomes in the new service marketplace6
Macroservicing: a commentary on services as constructive engagement for sustainable peace, prosperity and well-being6
Service system resilience under resource scarcity: from vulnerability to balanced centricity6
Does status demotion in hierarchical loyalty programs foster relationship fading?6
The transformative potential of AI-enabled personalization across cultures6
Utilitarian motivations to engage with travel websites: an interactive technology adoption model6
The effects of influencer endorsement services on crowdfunding campaigns6
The role of organizational resilience in SME service innovation and value cocreation6
Viewpoint: designing transformative service to overcome eudaimonic-hedonic outcome conflict6
Reducing front-line service providers’ economic vulnerability: online customer acquisition in the sex trade6
How do influencers’ characteristics affect followers’ stickiness and well-being in the social media context?6
Viewpoint: the evolving landscape of peer review6
Decoding influencer authenticity: the CueSphere model of extrinsic cues5
How does service description contribute to peer-to-peer service satisfaction? Consumer clout matters5
Value co-creation in services for animal companions5
Understanding sustainable service ecosystems: a meso-level perspective5
Low-income consumers’ informal and formal financial service experiences: perceptions of access, inclusion, and social dependence5
Comparing human and synthetic data in service research: using augmented language models to study service failures and recoveries5
Visual servicescape analytics: design style and demand in Airbnb from unstructured data5
Engraving customer experiences through digital technologies5
Understanding consumer perceptions and attitudes toward smart retail services5
Commentary: the unintended consequences of digital service technologies5
The possibilities of resilience for service organisations5
Guest editorial: The Triple-A framework for serving humanity with service research5
Exploring interactions between commuters with disabilities and transport service providers5
SDG commentary: collaboration services for sustainable development goal (SDG) partnerships5
Service employees’ flirting type and customers’ outcomes in luxury and non-luxury restaurants5
Editorial: business education in profound disruption5
Service employees’ STARA awareness and proactive service performance5
The influence of the physical work environment on retail employees5
Guest editorial: Critiques and conflicts in service research: suggestions for redefining the marketing of goods and services as a business discipline5
Videogames-as-a-service: converting freemium- to paying-users through pop-up advertisement value4
A dignity-vulnerability approach framework to maximize well-being outcomes by transformative service initiatives (TSIs)4
Responsibilization during uncontrollable events: understanding how consumers assign and accept responsibility for service employee welfare4
Can you ask “too much” of your customers?4
Impacts of humour use and humour-endorsing climate on job stress and satisfaction among frontline healthcare service employees4
A systematic literature review of service-related research on refugees4
Transforming health-care service through consumer co-creation: directions for service design4
Viewpoint: forever young-Gay men and cosmetic medical treatments4
Viewpoint: applying pragmatism to stimulate service research and practice – a European perspective4
SDG editorial: improving life on planet earth – a call to action for service research to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs)4
Keep fighting or give up? An investigation of consumer regret over repetitive failures in weight loss services4
Cite me! Perspectives on coercive citation in reviewing4
Customer engagement behaviors on physical and virtual engagement platforms4
Beyond the individual: rethinking vulnerability across ecosystems4
Consumer effort in service encounters: the overlooked impact of surface acting4
Editorial: Embracing the future of services marketing4
SDG commentary: economic services for work and growth for all humans4
Mediating roles of frontline employees in transformative service processes4
Gift card types and willingness to spend more4
Never too old to learn: the transformational power of technology4
Viewpoint: cost-effective health care developments and research opportunities in China, India and Singapore4
Metaverse: shifting the reality of services4
Using PLS-SEM and XAI for causal-predictive services marketing research4
Resisting the market logic: surrogate mother experiences of embodied service provision4
Necessary evil: a strategy to manage dysfunctional customer behavior4
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