Journal of Services Marketing

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Services Marketing is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Commentary: “Back to the future” or “trapped in the future”? The future of services practice and research80
Here today, gone tomorrow: services and their potential for permanent perishability69
Customer incivility, surface acting, burnout and well-being in gen Z hairdressers66
Towards a conceptualization of becoming an unexpected transformative service mediator: a process view in educational services54
Different shades of sharing in the sharing economy: a prototype theory approach52
Discerning authenticity through symbolic and natural stimuli: an integrated servicescape model for AI service apps49
Improving health service design and delivery for men: does gender targeting matter?47
In-store augmented reality experiences and its effect on consumer perceptions and behaviour38
When AI becomes afterlife: psychological factors driving acceptance of thanabots services38
Invisible rules: how institutional voids in base-of-the-pyramid markets influence adoption and diffusion of transformative service innovations38
SDG commentary: service ecosystems with the planet - weaving the environmental SDGs with human services36
The sorrows of methods researchers36
Unveiling barriers and opportunities for LGBTQIA+ customer’s financial well-being36
A bicultural perspective on professional service providers’ pro bono motivations34
Usage behavior of mHealth service users in Australia: do user demographics matter?33
Editorial: Marketing and consumer research at the intersection of services and public policy32
A voice for the silent: uncovering service exclusion practices32
Service encounter and value co-creation in fundraising activities at the NPO sector31
Service experience lies in the eye of the beholder: contextualizing extant literature toward integrating eye-tracking in service research31
Experience identification: connecting online engagement to offline loyalty30
Multisensory healing: transformative service encounters in nonpharmacological therapies for cancer patients’ well-being30
Enhancing phygital employee experience in high-involvement professional service organizations30
Viewpoint: advancing service design with practitioners’ insights30
Enhanced review facilitation service for C2C support: machine learning approaches29
Patient-centered care in practice: hospital and online primary care settings29
Witnessing justice in action: how emotions, moral identity and commitment shape third-party reactions to service recovery29
Linking person–job fit and intrinsic motivation to salespeople’s service innovative behavior27
Can service technologies make you feel justice like human agents?27
The impact of AI recommendation quality on service satisfaction: the moderating roles of standardization and customization27
Robotic technologies and well-being for older adults living at home25
How customer incivility affects organization citizenship behavior: roles of depersonalization, resilience, and caring climate24
Transformative service research for human well-being: contextual challenges, place-based framework and SDGs24
Unexpected utilization of servicescape dimensions to support customers experiencing vulnerabilities24
Emotional AI as a facilitator of co-created service value in a health-care ecosystem: a collective framework24
Value destruction: the ugly side of virtual agents23
Authenticity matters: investigating virtual tours’ impact on curiosity and museum visit intentions23
Editorial: The limits of a service-dominated economy: the case for reindustrialization23
Working it out: service displacement and the dynamics of consumer adaptation22
The service empowerment model: a collaborative approach to reducing vulnerability20
Human-centric experience in phygital retail: a sentiment-based comparison of hybrid and traditional touchpoints20
How and for whom does customer incivility affect employee outcomes? A three-wave survey20
Editorial: Well-being in service research: positioning decent work at the heart of sustainable service ecosystems19
Circular service innovation: a value co-creation practices approach19
Research note: conceptualizing agentic luxury in luxury services19
Unveiling the drivers of remote employees’ intentions to use home as a service consumption hub: a configurational approach18
The impact of social media use on customer experiences within physical service environments18
Chatbots, service failure recovery, and online customer experience through lenses of frustration – aggression theory and signaling theory18
When service becomes surveillance: pressures in FLE guardianship18
Social mindfulness as an institutional arrangement to promote service employee well-being18
The interplay between physical and social servicescape: investigating negative CCI17
Understanding frontline employee phygital experiences through service-dominant logic and job demands-resources model17
Transformative phygital service research (TPSR): an agenda for future research17
Online value co-creation during the “dreaming” phase, brand image and uncertainty avoidance17
Revisiting consumer socialization: a conceptual framework for phygital services16
The gloomy side of value co-creation for service employees16
Greenwashing and brand avoidance: examining green scepticism, green perceived risk, and green consumer confusion16
The role of information for the customer journey in mobile food ordering apps16
Resistance of facial recognition payment service: a mixed method approach16
Editorial: The end of an era: the decline of retail tourism in American cities15
Editorial: Interdisciplinary research in services marketing15
Wither vulnerable consumers? Meaningful dialogue about marketplace vulnerability14
Antecedents and consequences of consumer hope for digital payment apps services14
Permissibility vs. Feasibility: AI in service from a CX perspective14
An exploration of financial services digital encounters in developing countries13
Decent yet indecent! Unveiling dual realities of fairwork in India’s ride-hailing sector13
Co-creating customer experiences in service ecosystems: a study in a tourist destination13
From self-motivated trials to risk-taking: how older consumers change after engaging with innovative technologies13
Service robot acceptance in museums: an empirical study using the service robot acceptance model (sRAM)13
From anxiety to assurance: a mixed-methods journey into service innovation, trust and customer relationships12
Editorial: Why human experience matters for service research12
From static to smart: AI-generated dynamic scales for contextual marketing measurement12
Can corporate social responsibility and recovery justice restore customer identification following service failure?12
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 type12
Alexa, may I adopt you? The role of voice assistant empathy and user-perceived risk in customer service delivery12
Examining online reviews and ratings by B2C and B2B customers: do digital service failure type and customer experience matter?12
Unpacking task-technology fit: how hotel booking mobile applications’ agility and resilience strengthen trust and stickiness12
Phygital service research (PSR): advancing FSR and TSR toward human-first experience design in hybrid physical-digital ecosystems12
Online shopping acceptance among elderly consumers in Latin America12
Erratum: Unpacking task–technology fit: how hotel booking mobile applications’ agility and resilience strengthen trust and stickiness12
Reimagining the servicescape: a systematic review and multi-stakeholderconceptual framework12
Investigating the role of metaverse influencers’ attributes for the next generation of services12
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
Co-creating inclusive public services with customers experiencing vulnerability11
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
Seeking thrills during a crisis? A TSR and hierarchy of effects perspective of the transformative potential of travel11
Elevating service research in Africa11
Which loyalty program do customers prefer: a coalition program or a single-firm program?11
Viewpoint: from Star Trek to “Service Trek”: these are the voyages of the service community10
Empowering African student workers in Poland’s fast-food industry: pathways to fair and supportive work10
Flirting in service encounters: does the server’s sex matter?10
Helping the organization but harming customers: a social identity perspective of unethical pro-organizational behavior10
Sustainable influencer services meet luxury: a risky match10
Out of the public eye: the art of redirection in webcare apologies10
The impact of perceived crowding on customers’ desire for revenge in service failure situations and its underlying mechanisms10
Immigrant customers’ service encounters: a thematic analysis and fsQCA study10
The inclusion delusion: service research’s dangerous disconnect from disabled reality10
Critical examination of academic marketing and service research’s philosophical foundation10
Service-informed marketing reform10
Men’s transformative health service use: rethinking customer experience of vulnerability10
Seeking the resilience of service firms: a strategic learning process based on digital platform capability9
Addressing spillover dynamics: an actionable framework for tackling brand free-riding on P2P service platforms9
The well-being outcomes of multi-actor inter-organisational value co-creation and co-destruction within a service ecosystem9
Marketing inclusive banking services to financially vulnerable consumers: a service design approach9
Lifetime deals: the role of software service offering in convincing consumers9
How do service innovation practices develop frontline employee resilience capabilities in not-for-profits?8
Comprehending roles of virtual service assistant’s warmth and competence for service co-creation versus service recovery8
Publisher’s note8
Biophilia in servicescapes – review, reconciliation and reflections8
The hidden power of anticipated regret: how it shapes switching barrier-based service retention decisions8
Liminal digital birthspaces: social media and consumer proactivity for well-being8
AI-enhanced literature reviews: liberating scholars for impact in service marketing8
Can Alexa serve customers better? AI-driven voice assistant service interactions8
How can service organizations build resilience by leveraging capabilities and service worker team knowledge?8
Digital unity or tribal echo chambers? Paradoxes in online residential communities8
Call it robot: anthropomorphic framing and failure of self-service technologies8
Exploring servicescape experiences across museum types8
Effective complaint management on social networks: the impact of response strategy, type and account on consumer reactions8
Reimagining third places: the role of GenAI robots in shaping interaction and trust in a polarized society8
Enhancing CSR and purchase intent in service recovery: investigating the interplay of prosocial compensation, hedonic and luxury purchases8
From search to support: the role of UGC in stigmatized consumers’ mental health treatment journeys7
Receive help from friends: the buffer effect of social support on backfires of gamification7
Digitalization of service delivery and patient engagement in healthcare: a complementarity perspective7
Actor’s personality traits and value co-creation (VCC) – evidence from the service sector7
Service mega-disruptions: a conceptual model and research agenda7
Subordinated service environments: how branding can create unintentional service exclusion7
Managing phygital experiences in grassroots esports: human-centered orchestration in the Swedish LAN-scape7
Editorial: Reimagine service research and practice: spotlight on Kennesaw State University research7
Editorial: Stop saying “vulnerable consumers/customers”!7
Editorial: Designing for complexity and regeneration: new perspectives in service design7
Understanding consumers’ value co-creation and value co-destruction with augmented reality service marketing7
How do influencers’ characteristics affect followers’ stickiness and well-being in the social media context?6
Digital pathways to inclusion: the role of social media usage and FOMO in shaping service inclusion and disabled tourists’ well-being6
Beyond generations: an extended lifespan approach to service segmentation6
Research progress in service automation: a critical review of consumer behavior in tourism and hospitality6
Augmented reality as a supplementary service in the phygital marketplace: Evidence of hedonic primacy and social influence variability6
Where is customer experience (CX) research heading? A personal commentary6
Strategising for the circular economy through servitisation6
Service work, gender, and well-being: the role of customer behaviour in shaping the experiences of female drivers6
Psychological comfort and customer engagement in services: mediating role of relationship quality6
Customer evaluation formation in airline ticket blind box services: the moderating role of destination uncertainty on value cues6
Feeding trust: exploring key drivers, moderators and consequences related to food app usage6
Filling in the gaps: a service ecosystem perspective on purchase groups as interstitial markets6
Smiles that persuade: the power of perceived status and source6
Psychological strain in service robot encounters: dual pathways to customer value co-destruction6
Enhancing affective commitment through gamified services of luxury brands: role of game mechanics and self-congruity6
Consumer response to failure by service robots: the role of anticipatory guilt5
I can’t get satisfaction: examining the moderating role of service brand authenticity in the relationship of imperfect experiences and satisfaction5
Service system resilience under resource scarcity: from vulnerability to balanced centricity5
The role of organizational resilience in SME service innovation and value cocreation5
Macroservicing: a commentary on services as constructive engagement for sustainable peace, prosperity and well-being5
Utilitarian motivations to engage with travel websites: an interactive technology adoption model5
Reimagining service provider influence: how they embrace and promote sustainability5
Caregivers as transformative service mediators: navigating vulnerability and well-being5
Exploring the role of service modularity in facilitating value co-creation: insights from knowledge-intensive business services5
The impact of physical doll companions on solo diners’ restaurant attachment5
Viewpoint: the evolving landscape of peer review5
The transformative potential of AI-enabled personalization across cultures5
Does status demotion in hierarchical loyalty programs foster relationship fading?5
Unpacking complaint contagion in social networks: the moderating roles of network prominence and customer dependence5
The effects of influencer endorsement services on crowdfunding campaigns5
Responding to illegitimate negative reviews: how defensive responses affect purchase intentions5
Visual servicescape analytics: design style and demand in Airbnb from unstructured data4
Phygital museum experiences for Gen Z: investigating cultural engagement drivers across physical and digital domains4
Unmanned, not unmanaged: phygital service design for enhanced retail experience and well-being4
AI integration in service delivery: enhancing business and sustainability performance amid challenges4
Consumer vulnerability within digital platforms as service ecosystems4
How does service description contribute to peer-to-peer service satisfaction? Consumer clout matters4
Decoding influencer authenticity: the CueSphere model of extrinsic cues4
Reducing front-line service providers’ economic vulnerability: online customer acquisition in the sex trade4
SDG commentary: collaboration services for sustainable development goal (SDG) partnerships4
Service employees’ flirting type and customers’ outcomes in luxury and non-luxury restaurants4
Exploring interactions between commuters with disabilities and transport service providers4
Engraving customer experiences through digital technologies4
Service employees’ STARA awareness and proactive service performance4
Low-income consumers’ informal and formal financial service experiences: perceptions of access, inclusion, and social dependence3
The Reasonable Accommodation Management Plan (RAMP) to greater service experience for vulnerable consumers3
Guest editorial: Critiques and conflicts in service research: suggestions for redefining the marketing of goods and services as a business discipline3
Contemplative mindfulness and its influence on firm service performance: a configurational analysis3
Employee delight: a multi-study conceptualization and scale development3
Never too old to learn: the transformational power of technology3
Digital co-waiting: humour, camaraderie and emotional flux during Fortnite’s Black Hole event3
The possibilities of resilience for service organisations3
The influence of the physical work environment on retail employees3
Decent work and core labour standards: how to achieve effectiveness?3
AI isn’t everything: a call for human-centric service research3
Comparing human and synthetic data in service research: using augmented language models to study service failures and recoveries3
Can you ask “too much” of your customers?3
Customer engagement behaviors on physical and virtual engagement platforms3
Guest editorial: The Triple-A framework for serving humanity with service research3
Cite me! Perspectives on coercive citation in reviewing3
Understanding sustainable service ecosystems: a meso-level perspective3
Impacts of humour use and humour-endorsing climate on job stress and satisfaction among frontline healthcare service employees3
Corrigendum: The impact of physical doll companions on solo diners’ restaurant attachment3
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