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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Commentary: “Back to the future” or “trapped in the future”? The future of services practice and research76
When AI becomes afterlife: psychological factors driving acceptance of thanabots services64
Towards a conceptualization of becoming an unexpected transformative service mediator: a process view in educational services60
Invisible rules: how institutional voids in base-of-the-pyramid markets influence adoption and diffusion of transformative service innovations52
Here today, gone tomorrow: services and their potential for permanent perishability48
Improving health service design and delivery for men: does gender targeting matter?43
Different shades of sharing in the sharing economy: a prototype theory approach39
Customer incivility, surface acting, burnout and well-being in gen Z hairdressers39
From service to social innovation with a service-dominant logic approach35
SDG commentary: service ecosystems with the planet - weaving the environmental SDGs with human services34
In-store augmented reality experiences and its effect on consumer perceptions and behaviour34
The sorrows of methods researchers33
Multisensory healing: transformative service encounters in nonpharmacological therapies for cancer patients’ well-being32
Unveiling barriers and opportunities for LGBTQIA+ customer’s financial well-being31
A bicultural perspective on professional service providers’ pro bono motivations31
Enhancing phygital employee experience in high-involvement professional service organizations30
Can service technologies make you feel justice like human agents?29
Viewpoint: advancing service design with practitioners’ insights29
Usage behavior of mHealth service users in Australia: do user demographics matter?29
Editorial: Marketing and consumer research at the intersection of services and public policy28
A voice for the silent: uncovering service exclusion practices28
Patient-centered care in practice: hospital and online primary care settings27
Witnessing justice in action: how emotions, moral identity and commitment shape third-party reactions to service recovery27
Enhanced review facilitation service for C2C support: machine learning approaches27
Linking person–job fit and intrinsic motivation to salespeople’s service innovative behavior27
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
Experience identification: connecting online engagement to offline loyalty26
Value destruction: the ugly side of virtual agents24
Emotional AI as a facilitator of co-created service value in a health-care ecosystem: a collective framework24
The impact of AI recommendation quality on service satisfaction: the moderating roles of standardization and customization24
Robotic technologies and well-being for older adults living at home24
Transformative service research for human well-being: contextual challenges, place-based framework and SDGs23
Authenticity matters: investigating virtual tours’ impact on curiosity and museum visit intentions23
Unexpected utilization of servicescape dimensions to support customers experiencing vulnerabilities23
Customer service co-creation literacy for better service value: evidence from the health-care sector23
How customer incivility affects organization citizenship behavior: roles of depersonalization, resilience, and caring climate23
Editorial: Well-being in service research: positioning decent work at the heart of sustainable service ecosystems22
Chatbots, service failure recovery, and online customer experience through lenses of frustration – aggression theory and signaling theory21
Editorial: The limits of a service-dominated economy: the case for reindustrialization21
Research note: conceptualizing agentic luxury in luxury services20
Working it out: service displacement and the dynamics of consumer adaptation20
Commentary – The ServCollab Perspective on Elevating Human Experience19
Service inclusion for tourists with disabilities: scale development and validation19
How and for whom does customer incivility affect employee outcomes? A three-wave survey18
Circular service innovation: a value co-creation practices approach18
The service empowerment model: a collaborative approach to reducing vulnerability17
Revisiting consumer socialization: a conceptual framework for phygital services17
Resistance of facial recognition payment service: a mixed method approach16
Social mindfulness as an institutional arrangement to promote service employee well-being16
When service becomes surveillance: pressures in FLE guardianship16
Editorial: Interdisciplinary research in services marketing16
Online value co-creation during the “dreaming” phase, brand image and uncertainty avoidance16
The impact of social media use on customer experiences within physical service environments15
The role of information for the customer journey in mobile food ordering apps15
The gloomy side of value co-creation for service employees15
Editorial: The end of an era: the decline of retail tourism in American cities14
Greenwashing and brand avoidance: examining green scepticism, green perceived risk, and green consumer confusion14
The interplay between physical and social servicescape: investigating negative CCI14
Wither vulnerable consumers? Meaningful dialogue about marketplace vulnerability13
Permissibility vs. Feasibility: AI in service from a CX perspective13
Service robot acceptance in museums: an empirical study using the service robot acceptance model (sRAM)13
Antecedents and consequences of consumer hope for digital payment apps services13
Co-creating customer experiences in service ecosystems: a study in a tourist destination13
Decent yet indecent! Unveiling dual realities of fairwork in India’s ride-hailing sector13
Unpacking task-technology fit: how hotel booking mobile applications’ agility and resilience strengthen trust and stickiness12
Alexa, may I adopt you? The role of voice assistant empathy and user-perceived risk in customer service delivery12
Erratum: Unpacking task–technology fit: how hotel booking mobile applications’ agility and resilience strengthen trust and stickiness12
An exploration of financial services digital encounters in developing countries12
From static to smart: AI-generated dynamic scales for contextual marketing measurement12
Investigating the role of metaverse influencers’ attributes for the next generation of services12
Can corporate social responsibility and recovery justice restore customer identification following service failure?12
From self-motivated trials to risk-taking: how older consumers change after engaging with innovative technologies12
Advocating for consumers experiencing vulnerability: a typology and research agenda12
Antecedents and consequences of sustainability-oriented service innovation from the manager’s perspective: the moderating role of sector type11
To share or not to share screens with customers? Lessons from learning theories11
I am supported: the influence of social network on customers in game live streaming11
Seeking thrills during a crisis? A TSR and hierarchy of effects perspective of the transformative potential of travel11
This is my house! Exploring the differential effects of rapport on consumer space psychological ownership11
Viewpoint: rethinking segmentation for practitioners – a practice-based framework for services marketing11
Reimagining the servicescape: a systematic review and multi-stakeholderconceptual framework11
Elevating service research in Africa11
Online shopping acceptance among elderly consumers in Latin America11
From anxiety to assurance: a mixed-methods journey into service innovation, trust and customer relationships11
Co-creating inclusive public services with customers experiencing vulnerability10
Helping the organization but harming customers: a social identity perspective of unethical pro-organizational behavior10
The inclusion delusion: service research’s dangerous disconnect from disabled reality10
Phygital service research (PSR): advancing FSR and TSR toward human-first experience design in hybrid physical-digital ecosystems10
Viewpoint: from Star Trek to “Service Trek”: these are the voyages of the service community10
Out of the public eye: the art of redirection in webcare apologies10
Empowering African student workers in Poland’s fast-food industry: pathways to fair and supportive work10
Immigrant customers’ service encounters: a thematic analysis and fsQCA study10
Which loyalty program do customers prefer: a coalition program or a single-firm program?10
Service-informed marketing reform10
Sustainable influencer services meet luxury: a risky match10
The impact of perceived crowding on customers’ desire for revenge in service failure situations and its underlying mechanisms9
Men’s transformative health service use: rethinking customer experience of vulnerability9
Liminal digital birthspaces: social media and consumer proactivity for well-being9
Lifetime deals: the role of software service offering in convincing consumers9
Comprehending roles of virtual service assistant’s warmth and competence for service co-creation versus service recovery9
Addressing spillover dynamics: an actionable framework for tackling brand free-riding on P2P service platforms9
Marketing inclusive banking services to financially vulnerable consumers: a service design approach9
Critical examination of academic marketing and service research’s philosophical foundation9
Flirting in service encounters: does the server’s sex matter?9
Seeking the resilience of service firms: a strategic learning process based on digital platform capability9
Understanding consumers’ value co-creation and value co-destruction with augmented reality service marketing8
Enhancing CSR and purchase intent in service recovery: investigating the interplay of prosocial compensation, hedonic and luxury purchases8
Call it robot: anthropomorphic framing and failure of self-service technologies8
Exploring servicescape experiences across museum types8
How do service innovation practices develop frontline employee resilience capabilities in not-for-profits?8
Actor’s personality traits and value co-creation (VCC) – evidence from the service sector8
AI-enhanced literature reviews: liberating scholars for impact in service marketing8
Can Alexa serve customers better? AI-driven voice assistant service interactions8
Receive help from friends: the buffer effect of social support on backfires of gamification8
Publisher’s note8
The well-being outcomes of multi-actor inter-organisational value co-creation and co-destruction within a service ecosystem8
Editorial: Reimagine service research and practice: spotlight on Kennesaw State University research7
Biophilia in servicescapes – review, reconciliation and reflections7
Digital unity or tribal echo chambers? Paradoxes in online residential communities7
The hidden power of anticipated regret: how it shapes switching barrier-based service retention decisions7
From search to support: the role of UGC in stigmatized consumers’ mental health treatment journeys7
Service mega-disruptions: a conceptual model and research agenda7
Effective complaint management on social networks: the impact of response strategy, type and account on consumer reactions7
Reimagining third places: the role of GenAI robots in shaping interaction and trust in a polarized society6
Subordinated service environments: how branding can create unintentional service exclusion6
Where is customer experience (CX) research heading? A personal commentary6
Filling in the gaps: a service ecosystem perspective on purchase groups as interstitial markets6
Psychological comfort and customer engagement in services: mediating role of relationship quality6
Service work, gender, and well-being: the role of customer behaviour in shaping the experiences of female drivers6
How can service organizations build resilience by leveraging capabilities and service worker team knowledge?6
Editorial: Designing for complexity and regeneration: new perspectives in service design6
Feeding trust: exploring key drivers, moderators and consequences related to food app usage6
Consumer response to failure by service robots: the role of anticipatory guilt6
Beyond generations: an extended lifespan approach to service segmentation6
Viewpoint: the evolving landscape of peer review6
Editorial: Stop saying “vulnerable consumers/customers”!6
Digitalization of service delivery and patient engagement in healthcare: a complementarity perspective6
Strategising for the circular economy through servitisation6
Enhancing affective commitment through gamified services of luxury brands: role of game mechanics and self-congruity6
Psychological strain in service robot encounters: dual pathways to customer value co-destruction6
The effects of influencer endorsement services on crowdfunding campaigns5
Research progress in service automation: a critical review of consumer behavior in tourism and hospitality5
Reimagining service provider influence: how they embrace and promote sustainability5
Responding to illegitimate negative reviews: how defensive responses affect purchase intentions5
Macroservicing: a commentary on services as constructive engagement for sustainable peace, prosperity and well-being5
Viewpoint: designing transformative service to overcome eudaimonic-hedonic outcome conflict5
Utilitarian motivations to engage with travel websites: an interactive technology adoption model5
The transformative potential of AI-enabled personalization across cultures5
Consumer vulnerability within digital platforms as service ecosystems5
Does status demotion in hierarchical loyalty programs foster relationship fading?5
Smiles that persuade: the power of perceived status and source5
How do influencers’ characteristics affect followers’ stickiness and well-being in the social media context?5
Exploring the role of service modularity in facilitating value co-creation: insights from knowledge-intensive business services5
How does service description contribute to peer-to-peer service satisfaction? Consumer clout matters4
I can’t get satisfaction: examining the moderating role of service brand authenticity in the relationship of imperfect experiences and satisfaction4
Service employees’ STARA awareness and proactive service performance4
Comparing human and synthetic data in service research: using augmented language models to study service failures and recoveries4
Cite me! Perspectives on coercive citation in reviewing4
The possibilities of resilience for service organisations4
Guest editorial: The Triple-A framework for serving humanity with service research4
Contemplative mindfulness and its influence on firm service performance: a configurational analysis4
Visual servicescape analytics: design style and demand in Airbnb from unstructured data4
Service system resilience under resource scarcity: from vulnerability to balanced centricity4
Caregivers as transformative service mediators: navigating vulnerability and well-being4
The role of organizational resilience in SME service innovation and value cocreation4
AI integration in service delivery: enhancing business and sustainability performance amid challenges4
Low-income consumers’ informal and formal financial service experiences: perceptions of access, inclusion, and social dependence4
Decoding influencer authenticity: the CueSphere model of extrinsic cues4
AI isn’t everything: a call for human-centric service research4
Exploring interactions between commuters with disabilities and transport service providers4
Service employees’ flirting type and customers’ outcomes in luxury and non-luxury restaurants4
Reducing front-line service providers’ economic vulnerability: online customer acquisition in the sex trade4
The impact of physical doll companions on solo diners’ restaurant attachment4
SDG commentary: collaboration services for sustainable development goal (SDG) partnerships4
Guest editorial: Critiques and conflicts in service research: suggestions for redefining the marketing of goods and services as a business discipline4
The influence of the physical work environment on retail employees4
The Reasonable Accommodation Management Plan (RAMP) to greater service experience for vulnerable consumers4
Decent work and core labour standards: how to achieve effectiveness?4
Engraving customer experiences through digital technologies4
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