Luis Rubalcaba

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Luis Rubalcaba is a scholar working on Marketing, Economics and Econometrics and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Luis Rubalcaba has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Marketing, 28 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 25 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Luis Rubalcaba's work include Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (23 papers), Service and Product Innovation (21 papers) and Innovation and Knowledge Management (16 papers). Luis Rubalcaba is often cited by papers focused on Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (23 papers), Service and Product Innovation (21 papers) and Innovation and Knowledge Management (16 papers). Luis Rubalcaba collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and France. Luis Rubalcaba's co-authors include Robert van der Have, Jorge Gallego, Henk L.M. Kox, Juan R. Cuadrado‐Roura, Faı̈z Gallouj, Andrés Maroto, Christiane Hipp, Paul Windrum, Varun Gupta and Metka Stare and has published in prestigious journals such as Research Policy, Journal of Business Research and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Luis Rubalcaba

84 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Author						Papers	Cites
Luis Rubalcaba	707	614	541	501	415	89	2.1k
Olivier Weinstein	428 0.6×	885 1.4×	779 1.4×	379 0.8×	335 0.8×	22	1.8k
Cristina Rossi‐Lamastra	830 1.2×	671 1.1×	688 1.3×	1.6k 3.2×	398 1.0×	63	3.1k
Pim den Hertog	569 0.8×	1.4k 2.2×	971 1.8×	658 1.3×	417 1.0×	28	2.6k
Tim Vorley	886 1.3×	583 0.9×	143 0.3×	734 1.5×	475 1.1×	68	2.4k
Esteban Lafuente	1.3k 1.8×	1.1k 1.7×	498 0.9×	843 1.7×	328 0.8×	96	3.0k
Yancy Vaillant	887 1.3×	789 1.3×	503 0.9×	485 1.0×	263 0.6×	73	2.1k
Oana Branzei	416 0.6×	836 1.4×	371 0.7×	314 0.6×	376 0.9×	58	1.9k
Pedro Manuel García Villaverde	537 0.8×	930 1.5×	292 0.5×	341 0.7×	494 1.2×	72	1.8k
Silvia Rita Sedita	482 0.7×	845 1.4×	251 0.5×	601 1.2×	200 0.5×	65	1.7k
David Pickernell	1.0k 1.4×	717 1.2×	112 0.2×	530 1.1×	451 1.1×	112	2.3k

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Gallego, Jorge, et al.. (2025). Social innovation and Nelson’s evolutionary legacy on social technologies. Journal of Industrial and Business Economics. 53(1). 23–34.

Ongaro, Edoardo, et al.. (2025). The ideational bases of public value co-creation and the philosophy of personalism: Why a relational conception of person matters for solving public problems. Public Policy and Administration. 40(3). 429–451. 2 indexed citations

Gupta, Varun, Chetna Gupta, Luis Rubalcaba, et al.. (2023). Foreign Embassies Internationalization Support for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Need to Balance Innovation Strategy and Innovation Support Policies. IEEE Engineering Management Review. 51(2). 63–74.

Gupta, Varun, Luis Rubalcaba, & Chetna Gupta. (2023). Connecting Dots Between Entrepreneurs, Research Publishers, and Software Engineering Researchers: An Outcome of Mixed Methods Empirical Research. IT Professional. 25(1). 68–80. 3 indexed citations

Rubalcaba, Luis, et al.. (2022). Insights on Value Co-Creation, Living Labs and Innovation in the Public Sector. Administrative Sciences. 12(1). 42–42. 6 indexed citations

Røhnebæk, Maria, et al.. (2022). Public service logic and the creation of value propositions through framing. Public Management Review. 26(2). 399–420. 14 indexed citations

Hansen, Anne Vorre, Lars Fuglsang, Luis Rubalcaba, et al.. (2021). Living Labs for Public Sector Innovation: insights from a European case study. Technology Innovation Management Review. 11(9/10). 47–58. 6 indexed citations

Rubalcaba, Luis, et al.. (2020). How Governance Paradigms and Other Drivers Affect Public Managers Acceptance of Innovation Practices. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2020(1). 20024–20024. 1 indexed citations

Gallouj, Faı̈z, Luis Rubalcaba, Marja Toivonen, & Paul Windrum. (2018). Understanding social innovation in services industries. Industry and Innovation. 25(6). 551–569. 42 indexed citations

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Hipp, Christiane, Jorge Gallego, & Luis Rubalcaba. (2013). Shaping innovation in European knowledge-intensive business services. Service Business. 9(1). 41–55. 29 indexed citations

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Bryson, John R., Luis Rubalcaba, & Patrik Ström. (2012). Services, innovation, employment and organisation: research gaps and challenges for the next decade. Service Industries Journal. 32(4). 641–655. 15 indexed citations

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Merino, Fernando & Luis Rubalcaba. (2012). Are Knowledge-Intensive Services Highly Concentrated?: Evidence from European Regions. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Rubalcaba, Luis, Stefan Michel, Jon Sundbo, Stephen Brown, & Javier Reynoso. (2012). Shaping, organizing, and rethinking service innovation: a multidimensional framework. Journal of service management. 23(5). 696–715. 124 indexed citations

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Rubalcaba, Luis, Faı̈z Gallouj, Andreas Pyka, et al.. (2011). ServPPIN: a review of scientific findings. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations

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Schaffers, Hans, et al.. (2010). Sectoral Innovation Performance in the Wholesale and Retail Trade Sector. Final report. Task 1:. TNO Repository. 1 indexed citations

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Stare, Metka & Luis Rubalcaba. (2009). International Outsourcing of Services: What Role for Central and East European Countries?. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. 45(5). 31–46. 17 indexed citations

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Rubalcaba, Luis, et al.. (2008). Towards a European Strategy in Support of Innovation in Services A review of key evidence and policy issues. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations

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Hertog, Pim den, et al.. (2008). Is there a rationale for services R&D and innovation policies?. International Journal of Services Technology and Management. 9(3/4). 334–334. 11 indexed citations

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Kox, Henk L.M. & Luis Rubalcaba. (2007). Business services and the changing structure of European economic growth. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 17 indexed citations

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García‐Goñi, Manuel, Andrés Maroto, & Luis Rubalcaba. (2007). Innovation and motivation in public health professionals. Health Policy. 84(2-3). 344–358. 44 indexed citations

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