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D-Index
124
Citations
101108
World Ranking
209
National Ranking
132

Paul E. Spector publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paul E. Spector sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 368 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

Paul E. Spector D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paul E. Spector sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 124 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Paul E. Spector is affiliated with the University of South Florida in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas primarily within Business, Management, and Accounting as well as Social Sciences. They have contributed extensively to subfields such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, General Health Professions, and Strategy and Management.

The main topics Paul E. Spector has engaged with include:

  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Workplace Violence and Bullying
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Workaholism, burnout, and well-being
  • Emotional Labor in Professions

Notable recent publications featuring Paul E. Spector and his frequent coauthors include:

  • "Mastering the Use of Control Variables: the Hierarchical Iterative Control (HIC) Approach," 2020, Journal of Business and Psychology
  • "Do social features help in video-centric online learning platforms? A social presence perspective," 2020, Computers in Human Behavior (by Stephanie A. Andel)
  • "AI Literacy - Towards Measuring Human Competency in Artificial Intelligence," 2023, Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (by Triparna de Vreede)
  • "Job satisfaction and firm performance: Can employees' job satisfaction change the trajectory of a firm's performance?" 2020, Journal of Applied Social Psychology (by Stacey R. Kessler)
  • "Workdays are not created equal: Job satisfaction and job stressors across the workweek," 2020, Human Relations (by Shani Pindek)

Frequent coauthors working with Paul E. Spector include:

  • Shani Pindek
  • Stacey R. Kessler
  • David Howard
  • Triparna de Vreede
  • Gert-Jan de Vreede

The scientist's work is often published in venues such as:

  • Industrial and Organizational Psychology
  • Journal of Business and Psychology
  • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • Work & Stress
  • International Journal of Stress Management

Paul E. Spector has also contributed to academic book publications through Cambridge University Press, including:

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect (2020)
  • Organizational Stress and Well-Being (2023)

Recognition for their contributions includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Job Satisfaction: Application, Assessment, Causes, and Consequences

    Paul E. Spector

  • The Role of Justice in Organizations: A Meta-Analysis

    Yochi Cohen-Charash;Paul E. Spector

  • Method Variance in Organizational Research Truth or Urban Legend

    Paul E. Spector

  • Measurement of human service staff satisfaction: Development of the Job Satisfaction Survey

    Paul E. Spector

  • Summated rating scale construction

    Paul E. Spector

  • Development of four self-report measures of job stressors and strain: Interpersonal Conflict at Work Scale, Organizational Constraints Scale, Quantitative Workload Inventory, and Physical Symptoms Inventory

    Paul E. Spector;Steve M. Jex

  • Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Research and Practice

    Paul E. Spector

  • Perceived Control by Employees: A Meta-Analysis of Studies Concerning Autonomy and Participation at Work

    Paul E. Spector

  • Counterproductive work behavior (CWB) in response to job stressors and organizational justice: Some mediator and moderator tests for autonomy and emotions

    Suzy Fox;Paul E. Spector;Don Miles

  • The dimensionality of counterproductivity: Are all counterproductive behaviors created equal?

    Paul E. Spector;Suzy Fox;Lisa M. Penney;Kari Bruursema

  • An emotion-centered model of voluntary work behavior: Some parallels between counterproductive work behavior and organizational citizenship behavior

    Paul E Spector;Suzy Fox

  • Behavior in organizations as a function of employee's locus of control.

    Paul E. Spector

  • Development of the Work Locus of Control Scale

    Paul E. Spector

  • Using self‐report questionnaires in OB research: A comment on the use of a controversial method

    Paul E. Spector

  • Causes of employee turnover: A test of the Mobley, Griffeth, Hand, and Meglino model.

    Charles E. Michaels;Paul E. Spector

  • A model of work frustration–aggression

    Suzy Fox;Paul E. Spector

  • Method variance as an artifact in self-reported affect and perceptions at work: Myth or significant problem?

    Paul E. Spector

  • Job Stress, Incivility, and Counterproductive Work Behavior (CWB): The Moderating Role of Negative Affectivity

    Lisa M. Penney;Paul E. Spector

  • Methodological urban legends: The misuse of statistical control variables

    Paul E. Spector;Michael T. Brannick

  • Using the Job-Related Affective Well-Being Scale (JAWS) to investigate affective responses to work stressors.

    P T Van Katwyk;S Fox;P E Spector;E K Kelloway

  • Unemployment, job satisfaction, and employee turnover: A meta-analytic test of the Muchinsky model.

    Jeanne M. Carsten;Paul E. Spector

Frequent Co-Authors

Cary L. Cooper
Cary L. Cooper University of Manchester
Juan I. Sanchez
Juan I. Sanchez Florida International University
Oi Ling Siu
Oi Ling Siu Lingnan University
Michael P. O'Driscoll
Michael P. O'Driscoll University of Waikato
Tammy D. Allen
Tammy D. Allen University of South Florida
Luo Lu
Luo Lu National Taiwan University
Michael T. Brannick
Michael T. Brannick University of South Florida
Paula Brough
Paula Brough Griffith University
Laurenz L. Meier
Laurenz L. Meier University of Neuchâtel
Jesús F. Salgado
Jesús F. Salgado University of Santiago de Compostela

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