
Academic Journal
Q1Journal of Services Marketing
About Journal of Services Marketing
Journal of Services Marketing is a scholarly journal published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 1.536 and H-index of 137.
Coverage: 1987-2026. Research categories: Marketing (Q1).
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Topics in published research
Customer Service Quality and Loyalty; Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification; Consumer Retail Behavior Studies; Service and Product Innovation; Digital Marketing and Social Media; Technology Adoption and User Behaviour.
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2026-09-29 · DOI: 10.1108/jsm-10-2025-0768How older consumers perceive AI disclosure in advertising: relatability and trustworthiness across utilitarian and hedonic service contexts
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Yu-Tse Lin
2026-09-03 · DOI: 10.1108/jsm-12-2025-0880Guest editorial: Reconsidering the customer’s role in decent work: value co-creation and co-destruction in service encounters
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Luisa Fernanda Fariño Espitia, Mark S. Rosenbaum, Germán Contreras-Ramírez
2026-08-28 · DOI: 10.1108/jsm-05-2026-0417When AI service appearance backfires: form-based expectations and trust fragility
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2026-08-28 · DOI: 10.1108/jsm-11-2025-0823Technology and decent work in elderly care: a case study
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Shili Chen, Yimin Zhu, Xiaolin Li
2026-08-18 · DOI: 10.1108/jsm-09-2024-0488Crisis governance, legitimacy, and consumer ethics in service systems
Nikolaos Iason Koufodontis, Prachi Gala
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2026-08-17 · DOI: 10.1108/jsm-10-2025-0735Reviews
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