Mark Conley

837 total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 524 citations indexed

About

Mark Conley is a scholar working on Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science and Accounting. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Conley has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 524 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation, 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Accounting. Recurrent topics in Mark Conley's work include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (5 papers), Private Equity and Venture Capital (3 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (2 papers). Mark Conley is often cited by papers focused on Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (5 papers), Private Equity and Venture Capital (3 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (2 papers). Mark Conley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and United Kingdom. Mark Conley's co-authors include Dana Kanze, E. Tory Higgins, Laura Huang, Damon J. Phillips, Jennifer Merluzzi, Tyler G. Okimoto, Sarah Jack, Scott Shane, David Clingingsmith and James Green and has published in prestigious journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Scientific Reports and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Mark Conley

13 papers receiving 499 citations

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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.

We Ask Men to Win and Women Not to Lose: Closing the Gender Gap in Startup Funding

2017 392 citations Dana Kanze, Laura Huang et al. Academy of Management Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Conley United States	7	269	161	141	134	106	13	524
Dana Kanze United States	5	270 1.0×	158 1.0×	139 1.0×	133 1.0×	104 1.0×	11	497
Lakshmi Balachandra United States	11	505 1.9×	287 1.8×	309 2.2×	200 1.5×	197 1.9×	20	867
Alice Wieland United States	8	285 1.1×	87 0.5×	175 1.2×	89 0.7×	72 0.7×	14	463
Chaim Letwin United States	10	164 0.6×	170 1.1×	139 1.0×	45 0.3×	217 2.0×	15	571
Paola Rovelli Italy	14	402 1.5×	269 1.7×	452 3.2×	78 0.6×	49 0.5×	30	699
Cheryl Mitteness United States	9	452 1.7×	410 2.5×	239 1.7×	64 0.5×	184 1.7×	12	869
A. Banu Goktan United States	5	388 1.4×	74 0.5×	244 1.7×	82 0.6×	89 0.8×	10	561
Brian G. Nagy United States	10	226 0.8×	162 1.0×	145 1.0×	24 0.2×	76 0.7×	12	494
François Neville Canada	9	167 0.6×	212 1.3×	148 1.0×	53 0.4×	62 0.6×	16	534
Parshotam Dass Canada	9	142 0.5×	80 0.5×	170 1.2×	149 1.1×	56 0.5×	21	508

Countries citing papers authored by Mark Conley

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark Conley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Conley

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mark Conley. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mark Conley 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 Mark Conley. Mark Conley is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Nicolaou, Nicos, et al.. (2025). Founder smiles increase investor trust and funding. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 27912–27912. 1 indexed citations

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Conley, Mark, et al.. (2025). Neruda through copper-coloured glasses: the role of place attachment in the embeddedness of Chilean entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. 37(7-8). 956–982. 2 indexed citations

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Clingingsmith, David, Mark Conley, & Scott Shane. (2021). How Pitch Order Affects Investor Interest. Journal of Innovation Economics & Management. N° 37(1). 139–175. 1 indexed citations

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Kanze, Dana, Mark Conley, Tyler G. Okimoto, Damon J. Phillips, & Jennifer Merluzzi. (2020). Evidence that investors penalize female founders for lack of industry fit. Science Advances. 6(48). 44 indexed citations

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Conley, Mark. (2019). Asymmetric issue evolution in the American gun rights debate. Social Science Research. 84. 102317–102317. 15 indexed citations

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Kanze, Dana, Mark Conley, & E. Tory Higgins. (2019). The motivation of mission statements: How regulatory mode influences workplace discrimination. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 166. 84–103. 28 indexed citations

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Costello, Cory, Ruben C. Arslan, Anatolia Batruch, et al.. (2019). Directory of free, open psychological datasets. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Kanze, Dana, Mark Conley, & E. Tory Higgins. (2018). The Motivation of Mission Statements: How Regulatory Mode Influences Workplace Discrimination. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2018(1). 11801–11801. 2 indexed citations

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Conley, Mark & E. Tory Higgins. (2018). Value from Fit with Distinct Motivational Field Environments. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 40(2). 61–72. 10 indexed citations

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Kanze, Dana, Laura Huang, Mark Conley, & E. Tory Higgins. (2017). We Ask Men to Win and Women Not to Lose: Closing the Gender Gap in Startup Funding. Academy of Management Journal. 61(2). 586–614. 392 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kanze, Dana, Laura Huang, Mark Conley, & E. Tory Higgins. (2017). Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs —and It Affects How Much Funding They Get. 12 indexed citations

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Kanze, Dana, Laura Huang, Mark Conley, & E. Tory Higgins. (2017). We Ask Men to Win & Women Not to Lose: Closing the Gender Gap in Startup Funding. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2017(1). 10010–10010. 15 indexed citations

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Conley, Mark, et al.. (2016). Evidence of Query Theory as a Tool to Assist Restrained Eaters. American Journal of Health Behavior. 41(1). 33–41. 1 indexed citations

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