Katja Rost

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
80 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Katja Rost is a scholar working on Accounting, Economics and Econometrics and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Katja Rost has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Accounting, 26 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 20 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Katja Rost's work include Corporate Finance and Governance (18 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (16 papers) and Innovation and Knowledge Management (8 papers). Katja Rost is often cited by papers focused on Corporate Finance and Governance (18 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (16 papers) and Innovation and Knowledge Management (8 papers). Katja Rost collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and France. Katja Rost's co-authors include Margit Osterloh, Antoinette Weibel, Iwan von Wartburg, Thorsten Teichert, Søren Salomo, Katrin Talke, Bruno S. Frey, Hristos Doucouliagos, T. D. Stanley and Thomas Ehrmann and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Research Policy.

In The Last Decade

Katja Rost

73 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Pay for Performance in the Public Sector--Benefits and (H... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2013 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Pay for Performance in the Public Sector--Benefits and (Hidden) Costs
    2009 358 citations Antoinette Weibel, Katja Rost et al. profile →
  2. META‐ANALYSIS OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH REPORTING GUIDELINES
    2013 351 citations Katja Rost et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Katja Rost Switzerland 19 766 729 509 499 494 80 2.6k
Jonathan Michie United Kingdom 28 1.1k 1.4× 1.6k 2.2× 417 0.8× 670 1.3× 730 1.5× 145 3.8k
Nada Kakabadse United Kingdom 31 1.5k 1.9× 358 0.5× 280 0.6× 530 1.1× 942 1.9× 202 3.8k
Brian J. Collins United States 16 1.4k 1.8× 389 0.5× 284 0.6× 554 1.1× 897 1.8× 29 3.3k
Alan Brown United Kingdom 30 1.2k 1.6× 471 0.6× 551 1.1× 511 1.0× 648 1.3× 174 3.6k
Glenn Hoetker United States 17 1.9k 2.5× 815 1.1× 656 1.3× 342 0.7× 451 0.9× 35 3.4k
Wesley Sine United States 16 1.2k 1.6× 569 0.8× 1.1k 2.2× 489 1.0× 858 1.7× 26 2.9k
Robert J. David Canada 14 1.1k 1.5× 358 0.5× 491 1.0× 339 0.7× 785 1.6× 27 2.4k
Eric Yanfei Zhao United States 19 1.2k 1.6× 622 0.9× 811 1.6× 582 1.2× 833 1.7× 35 2.9k
Eva Boxenbaum Denmark 18 913 1.2× 265 0.4× 506 1.0× 747 1.5× 1.4k 2.8× 43 3.0k
Martin Gargiulo France 11 2.0k 2.6× 389 0.5× 691 1.4× 940 1.9× 680 1.4× 21 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Katja Rost

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Fields of papers citing papers by Katja Rost

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katja Rost

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Katja Rost. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Katja Rost based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Katja Rost. Katja Rost is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Osterloh, Margit & Katja Rost. (2025). Exploring the leaky pipeline: Tokenism, status group effects, or self‐selection?. European Management Review.
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Rost, Katja, et al.. (2023). Introduction to the Special Issue: Digital Academia. Investigating Science and Higher Education in the Digital Age. Swiss Journal of Sociology. 49(3). 449–472.
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Rost, Katja, et al.. (2018). The influence of gender ratios on academic careers: Combining social networks with tokenism. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0207337–e0207337. 8 indexed citations
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Rost, Katja, Thorsten Teichert, & Alan Pilkington. (2017). Social network analytics for advanced bibliometrics: referring to actor roles of management journals instead of journal rankings. Scientometrics. 112(3). 1631–1657. 15 indexed citations
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Rost, Katja, et al.. (2017). The substitution of governance mechanisms in the evolution of family firms. Long Range Planning. 50(6). 826–839. 18 indexed citations
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Rost, Katja, et al.. (2016). Digital Social Norm Enforcement: Online Firestorms in Social Media. PLoS ONE. 11(6). e0155923–e0155923. 103 indexed citations
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Ehrmann, Thomas, et al.. (2015). Ownership, Visibility and Effort: Golf Handicaps as Proxies for Managers' Extra Effort. Kyklos. 68(2). 255–274. 2 indexed citations
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Rost, Katja & Antoinette Weibel. (2013). CEOPay from a Social Norm Perspective: The Infringement and Reestablishment of Fairness Norms. Corporate Governance An International Review. 21(4). 351–372. 30 indexed citations
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Frey, Bruno S. & Katja Rost. (2011). Quantitative and Qualitative Rankings of Scholars. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 21 indexed citations
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Rost, Katja, et al.. (2010). Back to the future - a monastic perspective on corporate governance. IJAR – International Journal of Action Research. 21(1). 38–59. 12 indexed citations
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Rost, Katja. (2010). Frauen in Führungspositionen in der Wirtschaft. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 315–344. 1 indexed citations
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Rost, Katja, Antoinette Weibel, & Margit Osterloh. (2010). Good organizational design for bad motivational dispositions?. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 107–136. 4 indexed citations
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Lettl, Christopher, Katja Rost, & Iwan von Wartburg. (2009). Why are some independent inventors ‘heroes’ and others ‘hobbyists’? The moderating role of technological diversity and specialization. Research Policy. 38(2). 243–254. 62 indexed citations
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Rost, Katja & Margit Osterloh. (2008). Unsichtbare Hand des Marktes oder unsichtbares Handschütteln? Wachstum der Managerlöhne in der Schweiz. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 207–304.
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Rost, Katja, Søren Salomo, & Margit Osterloh. (2008). CEO appointments and the loss of firm-specific knowledge - putting integrity back into hiring decisions. Corporate Ownership and Control. 5(3). 86–98. 11 indexed citations
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Osterloh, Margit, et al.. (2008). Pay without performance: Legitimationskrise variabler Vergütungssysteme für das Management. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 16(4). 28–41. 1 indexed citations
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Weibel, Antoinette, Katja Rost, & Margit Osterloh. (2007). Disziplinierung der Agenten oder Crowding-out? Gewollte und ungewollte Anreizwirkungen von variablen Löhnen. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 1055–1079. 2 indexed citations
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Rost, Katja, Benício N. Frey, & Antoinette Weibel. (2006). Why do People Cooperate in Groups?. Alexandria (UniSG) (University of St.Gallen). 5 indexed citations
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Rost, Katja, et al.. (2004). Zusammenarbeit von KMU mit Hochschulen und Transfermittlern. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 58(5). 373–395.

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