Mary Jo Bitner: h-index, Total Citations, and Citation Map
Mary Jo Bitner's h-index is 72 (111 i10-index, 117,801+ total citations across 5+ publications) according to Google Scholar as of June 2026. Mary Jo Bitner is affiliated with Professor Emeritus of Marketing, Arizona State University.
Mary Jo Bitner is a researcher affiliated with Professor Emeritus of Marketing, Arizona State University, specializing in marketing, service marketing, service encounters. Their work has been cited 117,801 times. This profile visualizes their global influence, highlighting strong citation networks in United States.
Mary Jo Bitner's Citation Metrics
Bibliometric impact based on 5 indexed publications.
- H-Index
- 72
- i10-Index
- 111
- Total Citations
- 117,801
- Citing Countries
- 20
As of June 2026.
Mary Jo Bitner has an h-index of 72 and 117,801 total citations across 5 publications, with research cited by institutions in 20 countries.
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Services marketing: Integrating customer focus across the firm
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The researcher established a foundational framework for evaluating how physical surroundings and employee responses jointly shape service encounter outcomes.
The researcher established a foundational framework for integrating customer focus across the firm, fundamentally reshaping services marketing strategy through a seminal, highly cited publication.
The researcher established a foundational framework for understanding customer satisfaction in technology-based service encounters, significantly advancing the study of self-service technologies.
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About Mary Jo Bitner's research
Mary Jo Bitner is a researcher in marketing, service marketing and service encounters at Professor Emeritus of Marketing, Arizona State University. Their work has been cited 117,801 times across 5 publications (h-index 72), according to Google Scholar.
Their most-cited work, “Services marketing: Integrating customer focus across the firm” (2000), has accumulated 29,568 citations. Other influential works include “Servicescapes: The Impact of Physical Surroundings on Customers and Employees” (1992) with 14,737 citations and “Evaluating service encounters: The effects of physical surroundings and employee responses” (1990) with 10,746 citations.
Citations of Mary Jo Bitner's research come primarily from United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom, reflecting international research impact across 5+ countries. The interactive citation map above shows the full geographic distribution of the institutions citing this work.
