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Journal of Service Research Template

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About the Journal of Service Research format

Journal of Service Research is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Customer Service Quality and Loyalty, Service and Product Innovation, Consumer Retail Behavior Studies. Over its lifetime it has published 983 papers, which have received 138,369 citations.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Service Research, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inCustomer Service Quality and Loyalty Service and Product Innovation Consumer Retail Behavior Studies Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification Digital Marketing and Social Media
ISSN1094-6705
Citation impact (2-yr)8.27
h-index185
i10-index788
Top institutions publishing hereMaastricht University
Journal websitewww.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Journal of Service Research per year

36
2014
35
2015
35
2016
33
2017
30
2018
34
2019
47
2020
37
2021
32
2022
54
2023
37
2024
31
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Service Research by publication year

5.5K
2014
4.6K
2015
4K
2016
2.7K
2017
5K
2018
2.4K
2019
5.3K
2020
1.9K
2021
2.1K
2022
1.3K
2023
540
2024
156
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of Service Research

E-S-QUAL

A. Parasuraman, Valarie A. Zeithaml, Arvind Malhotra · 30 Dec 2004

Using the means-end framework as a theoretical foundation, this article conceptualizes, constructs, refines, and tests a multiple-item scale (E-S-QUAL) for measuring the service quality delivered by Web sites on which customers shop online. Two stages of empirical data collection revealed that two different scales were necessary for capturing electronic service quality. The basic E-S-QUAL scale…

3,869 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Customer Engagement

Roderick J. Brodie, Linda D. Hollebeek, Biljana Jurić et al. · 6 Jul 2011

In today’s highly dynamic and interactive business environment, the role of “customer engagement” (CE) in cocreating customer experience and value is receiving increasing attention from business practitioners and academics alike. Despite this interest, systematic scholarly inquiry into the concept and its conceptual distinctiveness from other, associated relational concepts has been limited to date. This article…

3,488 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Artificial Intelligence in Service

Ming‐Hui Huang, Roland T. Rust · 5 Feb 2018

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly reshaping service by performing various tasks, constituting a major source of innovation, yet threatening human jobs. We develop a theory of AI job replacement to address this double-edged impact. The theory specifies four intelligences required for service tasks—mechanical, analytical, intuitive, and empathetic—and lays out the way firms should decide between…

3,321 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Technology Readiness Index (Tri)

A. Parasuraman · 1 May 2000

The role of technology in customer-company interactions and the number of technology-based products and services have been growing rapidly. Although these developments have benefited customers, there is also evidence of increasing customer frustration in dealing with technology-based systems. Drawing on insights from the extant literature and extensive qualitative research on customer reactions to technology, this…

3,197 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Understanding Relationship Marketing Outcomes

Thorsten Hennig‐Thurau, Kevin P. Gwinner, Dwayne D. Gremler · 1 Feb 2002

The importance of developing and maintaining enduring relationships with customers of service businesses is generally accepted in the marketing literature. A key challenge for researchers is to identify and understand how managerially controlled antecedent variables influence important relationship marketing outcomes (e.g., customer loyalty and word-of-mouth communication). Relational benefits, which have a focus on the benefits…

2,274 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

Journal of Service Research template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Journal of Service Research format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Journal of Service Research template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official SAGE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Journal of Service Research use?
Journal of Service Research uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Service Research, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Journal of Service Research?
No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready Journal of Service Research document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Journal of Service Research template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Journal of Service Research format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
What is Journal of Service Research?
SAGE journal (sagej). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by SAGE.
Can I export a submission-ready Journal of Service Research PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Journal of Service Research template (the sagej class) that is ready to submit to SAGE, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
How much does the Journal of Service Research template cost?
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