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Customer Service Quality and Loyalty

Customer Service Quality and Loyalty is a research topic within Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Science Explorer counts 52k research works in it since 1950. 32.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the effects of customer relationships, satisfaction, service quality, perceived value, and emotional responses on behavior and loyalty. It delves into topics such as relationship marketing, switching costs, trust, commitment, and service recovery in both consumer and business-to-business contexts.

  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Service Quality
  • Perceived Value
  • Relationship Marketing
  • Customer Loyalty
  • Switching Costs
  • Trust and Commitment
  • Service Recovery
  • Emotional Responses
  • Business-to-Business Relationships
Research works
52k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
17k
per year above
Top-10% rate
32.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+17%
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Which countries lead Customer Service Quality and Loyalty research?

By volume, Indonesia and China publish the most (1.9k and 869 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Indonesia 1.9k works
  2. 2 China 869 works
  3. 3 India 790 works
  4. 4 United States 774 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 490 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 358 works
  7. 7 South Korea 271 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 244 works
  9. 9 Vietnam 205 works
  10. 10 Taiwan 185 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Indonesia: 30.7%China: 14.4%India: 13.1%United States: 12.8%6 others listed: 29.0%31%largest
Indonesia1,855 · 30.7%China869 · 14.4%India790 · 13.1%United States774 · 12.8%6 others listed1,753 · 29.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Customer Service Quality and Loyalty research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Binus University publishes the most Customer Service Quality and Loyalty research, followed by Universitas Patria Artha and Universiti Teknologi MARA.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Binus UniversityIndonesia 59 works
  2. 2 Universitas Patria ArthaIndonesia 56 works
  3. 3 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 53 works
  4. 4 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 53 works
  5. 5 Pelita Harapan UniversityIndonesia 45 works
  6. 6 Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 38 works
  7. 7 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 37 works
  8. 8 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 32 works
  9. 9 Universitas Esa UnggulIndonesia 32 works
  10. 10 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Customer Service Quality and Loyalty?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Customer Service Quality and Loyalty include Marko Sarstedt, Christian M. Ringle and Jörg Henseler.

  1. 1 Marko Sarstedt Germany 11k citations
  2. 2 Christian M. Ringle Germany 11k citations
  3. 3 Jörg Henseler Netherlands 7.6k citations
  4. 4 Leonard L. Berry United States 7.5k citations
  5. 5 A. Parasuraman United States 7.1k citations
  6. 6 Valarie A. Zeithaml United States 6.2k citations
  7. 7 Shelby D. Hunt United States 5.5k citations
  8. 8 Robert C. Ford United States 3.7k citations
  9. 9 Joseph F. Hair United States 3.7k citations
  10. 10 J. Joseph Cronin United States 3.3k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Customer Service Quality and Loyalty research done?

The largest centres of Customer Service Quality and Loyalty research in 2022–2025 are Jakarta (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia), Surabaya (Indonesia) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kota Bharu and Petaling Jaya.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Jakarta Indonesia 334 works
  2. 2 Bandung Indonesia 183 works
  3. 3 Surabaya Indonesia 161 works
  4. 4 Seoul South Korea 151 works
  5. 5 Malang Indonesia 112 works
  6. 6 Beijing China 111 works
  7. 7 Istanbul Türkiye 108 works
  8. 8 Makassar Indonesia 95 works
  9. 9 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam 93 works
  10. 10 Bangkok Thailand 88 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Kota BharuMY · 20.1 works11×
  2. Petaling JayaMY · 25.1 works9.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Customer Service Quality and Loyalty than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Customer Service Quality and Loyalty?

Among universities, judged by research, City University of Macau, Sunway University and University of Business and Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%25%50%75%mean 47.16%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →City University of Macau: 18, 44.2%Sunway University: 9, 56.4%University of Business and Technology: 13, 48.4%University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City: 20, 43.9%Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa: 8, 61.5%Sejong University: 14, 64.0%Taylor's University: 11, 48.8%National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology: 10, 65.8%Pelita Harapan University: 45, 5.6%National Economics University: 11, 33.0%Sunway UniversityUniversity of Busine…City University of M…University of Econom…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 City University of MacauMacau 77.344.2%12.3×18 +352.5%
2 Sunway UniversityMalaysia 75.256.4%10.0×9 +217.0%
3 University of Business and TechnologySaudi Arabia 72.848.4%14.0×13 +135.9%
4 University of Economics Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam 71.943.9%26.9×20 +189.9%
5 Iscte – Instituto Universitário de LisboaPortugal 69.761.5%9.5×8 +188.7%
6 Sejong UniversitySouth Korea 68.164.0%7.9×14 +89.3%
7 Taylor's UniversityMalaysia 67.948.8%13.5×11 +146.7%
8National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology?? 66.065.8%11.3×10
9 Pelita Harapan UniversityIndonesia 60.25.6%15.6×45 +255.1%
10 National Economics UniversityVietnam 59.733.0%20.0×11 +342.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Customer Service Quality and Loyalty research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 17% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Customer Service Quality and Loyalty.

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Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.