Sangmook Kim

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Sangmook Kim is a scholar working on Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Sangmook Kim has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Public Administration, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 14 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in Sangmook Kim's work include Public Policy and Administration Research (18 papers), Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (13 papers) and Customer Service Quality and Loyalty (8 papers). Sangmook Kim is often cited by papers focused on Public Policy and Administration Research (18 papers), Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (13 papers) and Customer Service Quality and Loyalty (8 papers). Sangmook Kim collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, Pakistan and United States. Sangmook Kim's co-authors include Wouter Vandenabeele, Chelsea C. White, Mark Edward Lewis, Jolanta Palidauskaitė, Lene Holm Pedersen, Jeannette Taylor, Céline Desmarais, Adrian Ritz, James L. Perry and Lotte Bøgh Andersen and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Public Administration Review and SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series.

In The Last Decade

Sangmook Kim

38 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Investigating the Structure and Meaning of Public Service Motivation across Populations: Developing an International Instrument and Addressing Issues of Measurement Invariance

2012 439 citations Sangmook Kim, Wouter Vandenabeele et al. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sangmook Kim South Korea	18	1.4k	1.4k	1.0k	321	305	43	2.8k
Patrick Dawson United Kingdom	23	164 0.1×	926 0.7×	449 0.4×	662 2.1×	107 0.4×	104	2.4k
Gregory A. Bigley United States	14	136 0.1×	1.4k 1.0×	876 0.9×	973 3.0×	80 0.3×	19	3.1k
James Douglas Orton United States	7	159 0.1×	589 0.4×	396 0.4×	908 2.8×	194 0.6×	15	2.2k
Jonathan Winterton United Kingdom	21	146 0.1×	723 0.5×	275 0.3×	402 1.3×	133 0.4×	71	2.3k
Leslie A. Perlow United States	19	111 0.1×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	580 1.8×	62 0.2×	32	3.1k
Phil Johnson United Kingdom	20	104 0.1×	761 0.5×	473 0.5×	416 1.3×	93 0.3×	49	1.9k
Eli Berniker United States	5	154 0.1×	408 0.3×	258 0.3×	511 1.6×	169 0.6×	9	1.7k
Eric Trist Canada	19	144 0.1×	1.0k 0.7×	766 0.8×	682 2.1×	104 0.3×	31	3.4k
Russ Marion United States	11	84 0.1×	1.0k 0.7×	297 0.3×	591 1.8×	101 0.3×	23	2.6k
Mike Bresnen United Kingdom	33	144 0.1×	774 0.5×	451 0.4×	1.8k 5.7×	112 0.4×	102	4.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sangmook Kim

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kim, Sangmook, et al.. (2024). Trust and Public Service Motivation. Public Performance & Management Review. 47(6). 1356–1375. 3 indexed citations

Lee, Gihun, et al.. (2024). FedSOL: Stabilized Orthogonal Learning with Proximal Restrictions in Federated Learning. 12512–12522. 5 indexed citations

Kim, Sangmook, et al.. (2024). Public service motivation and public sector employment in Korea. Public Administration Review. 84(5). 966–981. 6 indexed citations

Kim, Sangmook, et al.. (2020). Social trust as an individual characteristic or societal property?. International Review of Public Administration. 26(1). 1–17. 3 indexed citations

Kim, Sangmook. (2020). Education and Public Service Motivation: A Longitudinal Study of High School Graduates. Public Administration Review. 81(2). 260–272. 26 indexed citations

Kim, Sangmook. (2018). Public Service Motivation Research in Korea: Achievements and Future Directions. 24(3). 43–112. 2 indexed citations

Kim, Sangmook. (2017). Public Service Values of the Civil Servants in the Korean Central Government: Developing and Testing the Model of Public Service Values. 26(2). 1–42. 1 indexed citations

Kim, Sangmook, et al.. (2015). The Institutional Improvement Plan for Preventing Accidents from Real Estate Transaction - Focusing on the awareness investigation of a practicing licensed real estate agent in Jeollabuk-do -. 13(1). 353–365.

Kim, Sangmook. (2015). National culture and public service motivation: investigating the relationship using Hofstede’s five cultural dimensions. International Review of Administrative Sciences. 83(1_suppl). 23–40. 57 indexed citations

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Kim, Sangmook, et al.. (2015). Ethnic Differences in Social Desirability Bias: Effects on the Analysis of Public Service Motivation. Review of Public Personnel Administration. 37(4). 472–491. 8 indexed citations

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Kim, Sangmook. (2014). Societal Culture and Public Service Motivation: Comparing the Levels of Public Service Motivation among Regional Clusters of Societal Cultures. 18(4). 1–26. 1 indexed citations

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Kim, Sangmook, et al.. (2013). National Culture and Social Desirability Bias in Measuring Public Service Motivation. Administration & Society. 48(4). 444–476. 91 indexed citations

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Kim, Sangmook, Wouter Vandenabeele, Bradley E. Wright, et al.. (2012). Investigating the Structure and Meaning of Public Service Motivation across Populations: Developing an International Instrument and Addressing Issues of Measurement Invariance. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 23(1). 79–102. 439 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kim, Sangmook. (2012). Does Person‐Organization Fit Matter in the Public ‐Sector? Testing the Mediating Effect of Person‐Organization Fit in the Relationship between Public Service Motivation and Work Attitudes. Public Administration Review. 72(6). 830–840. 191 indexed citations

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Kim, Sangmook. (2009). Testing the Structure of Public Service Motivation in Korea: A Research Note. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 19(4). 839–851. 133 indexed citations

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Kim, Sangmook, et al.. (2009). Development of the Control Logic of Electronically Controlled Hydraulic Brake System for Hybrid Vehicle. SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series. 1. 17 indexed citations

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Kim, Sangmook. (2008). Revising Perry's Measurement Scale of Public Service Motivation. The American Review of Public Administration. 39(2). 149–163. 150 indexed citations

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Kim, Sangmook, et al.. (2005). Analyzing the Job Characteristics of the Government Organizations in Korea. Korean Public Administration Review. 39(2). 63–86. 4 indexed citations

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Kim, Sangmook, et al.. (2004). The Common Factors of Managerial Competency in Public Enterprises. 15(1). 1–26.

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Kim, Sangmook. (1992). The processing and aggregation of information within organizational structures. Michigan State University Libraries. 1 indexed citations

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