2026 Jan Marco Leimeister: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	66	2339	2269	97	94	747	16407
Business and Management	69	330	310	11	11	842	16738

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
2020 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Jan Marco Leimeister is affiliated with the University of Kassel in Germany. Their research spans multiple domains at the intersection of technology and management, with a particular focus on computer science, business, management, and social sciences.

Their main fields of study include:

Computer Science
Business, Management and Accounting
Social Sciences

The subfields in which they have contributed encompass areas such as:

Artificial Intelligence
Sociology and Political Science
Management Information Systems
Management of Technology and Innovation
Computer Science Applications

Their research engages with diverse topics including:

AI in Service Interactions
Digital Innovation in Industries
Big Data and Business Intelligence
Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Online Learning and Analytics
Service and Product Innovation
Technology Adoption and User Behaviour

Among their recent papers are the following works:

"Enhancing problem-solving skills with smart personal assistant technology" (2021) published in Computers & Education
"Charting the Evolution and Future of Conversational Agents: A Research Agenda Along Five Waves and New Frontiers" (2023) published in Information Systems Frontiers
"The Nature of Crowd Work and its Effects on Individuals' Work Perception" (2020) published in Journal of Management Information Systems
"Value Co-Creation in Smart Services: A Functional Affordances Perspective on Smart Personal Assistants" (2021) published in Journal of the Association for Information Systems
"Metaverse platform ecosystems" (2023) published in Electronic Markets

Frequent coauthors of Jan Marco Leimeister include:

Andreas Janson (46 coauthored works)
Mahei Manhai Li (26 coauthored works)
Matthias Söllner (24 coauthored works)
Ernestine Dickhaut (22 coauthored works)
Christoph Peters (19 coauthored works)

They have published repeatedly in notable venues such as:

SSRN Electronic Journal (24 publications)
Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (23 publications)
Journal of Information Technology (5 publications)
Alexandria (University of St.Gallen) (5 publications)
Academy of Management Proceedings (5 publications)

Jan Marco Leimeister has authored books with several publishers. Three books were published by St.Gallen University of Teacher Education in 2020, focusing on internal crowds and agile work organization. Additionally, a book titled "Dienstleistungsengineering und -managementData-driven Service Innovation" was published by Springer Nature in 2020.

The scientist was awarded the ACM Senior Member designation in 2020.

Best Publications

Leveraging Crowdsourcing: Activation-Supporting Components for IT-Based Ideas Competition

Jan Marco Leimeister;Michael Huber;Ulrich Bretschneider;Helmut Krcmar

1183
Citations
Community engineering for innovations: the ideas competition as a method to nurture a virtual community for innovations

Winfried Ebner;Jan Marco Leimeister;Helmut Krcmar

617
Citations
Does collaboration among participants lead to better ideas in IT-based idea competitions? An empirical investigation

Ivo Blohm;Ulrich Bretschneider;Jan Marco Leimeister;Helmut Krcmar

458
Citations
Business models: An information systems research agenda

Daniel Veit;Eric K. Clemons;Alexander Benlian;Peter Buxmann

412
Citations
Determinants of physicians’ technology acceptance for e-health in ambulatory care

Sebastian Dünnebeil;Ali Sunyaev;Ivo Blohm;Jan Marco Leimeister

385
Citations
Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Trust-Supporting Components in Virtual Communities for Patients

Jan Marco Leimeister;Winfried Ebner;Helmut Krcmar

361
Citations
Hybrid Intelligence.

Dominik Dellermann;Philipp Ebel;Matthias Soellner;Jan Marco Leimeister

282
Citations
Gamification - Design of IT-Based Enhancing Services for Motivational Support and Behavioral Change

Ivo Blohm;Jan Marco Leimeister

267
Citations
Not just an ego-trip: Exploring backers’ motivation for funding in incentive-based crowdfunding

Ulrich Bretschneider;Jan Marco Leimeister;Jan Marco Leimeister

256
Citations
Crowdsourcing: How to Benefit from (Too) Many Great Ideas

Ivo Blohm;Jan Marco Leimeister;Helmut Krcmar

248
Citations
Service Systems Engineering : A Field for Future Information Systems Research

Tilo Böhmann;Jan Marco Leimeister;Jan Marco Leimeister;Kathrin M. Möslein

234
Citations
Social Connectedness on Facebook - An Explorative Study on Status Message Usage

Felix Köbler;Christoph Riedl;Céline Vetter;Jan Marco Leimeister

229
Citations
AI literacy and its implications for prompt engineering strategies

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214
Citations
Kollektive Intelligenz

Jan Marco Leimeister

211
Citations
Dienstleistungsengineering und -management

Jan Marco Leimeister

210
Citations
Creating Shared Understanding in Heterogeneous Work Groups: Why It Matters and How to Achieve It

Eva Alice Christiane Bittner;Jan Marco Leimeister

208
Citations
RATING SCALES FOR COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN INNOVATION COMMUNITIES:WHY QUICK AND EASY DECISION MAKING DOES NOT GET IT RIGHT

Christoph Riedl;Ivo Blohm;Jan Marco Leimeister;Helmut Krcmar

204
Citations
An Empirical Taxonomy of Crowdfunding Intermediaries

Philipp Haas;Ivo Blohm;Jan Marco Leimeister

203
Citations
Collective Intelligence

Jan Marco Leimeister

203
Citations
Success factors of virtual communities from the perspective of members and operators: an empirical study

J.M. Leimeister;P. Sidiras;H. Krcmar

196
Citations
An empirical investigation of signaling in reward-based crowdfunding

Michael Marcin Kunz;Ulrich Bretschneider;Max Erler;Jan Marco Leimeister;Jan Marco Leimeister

195
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Helmut Krcmar Technical University of Munich

Philip Yetton Deakin University

Eric K. Clemons University of Pennsylvania

Thomas Hess Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Alexander Benlian Technical University of Darmstadt

Bernhard Sick University of Kassel

Robert Winter University of St. Gallen

Gerd Stumme University of Kassel

Lutz M. Kolbe University of Göttingen

Kristina Shea ETH Zurich

External Links

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