Steve Blank

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Steve Blank is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation and Management Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Steve Blank has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Strategy and Management, 3 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation and 2 papers in Management Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Steve Blank's work include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (3 papers), Big Data and Business Intelligence (2 papers) and Business Strategies and Innovation (2 papers). Steve Blank is often cited by papers focused on Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (3 papers), Big Data and Business Intelligence (2 papers) and Business Strategies and Innovation (2 papers). Steve Blank collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Steve Blank's co-authors include Bob Dorf, Jon Eckhardt and Jim Euchner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery and Journal of Management.

In The Last Decade

Steve Blank

12 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything 2012 2026 2016 2021 2013 2012 250 500 750
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. Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
    2013 811 citations Steve Blank Harvard business review profile →
  2. The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
    2012 524 citations Steve Blank, Bob Dorf profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Steve Blank United States 6 738 601 261 242 172 13 1.4k
Moreno Muffatto Italy 21 981 1.3× 407 0.7× 155 0.6× 293 1.2× 176 1.0× 52 1.5k
Kristel Miller United Kingdom 21 862 1.2× 923 1.5× 150 0.6× 145 0.6× 285 1.7× 43 1.7k
Pierluigi Rippa Italy 16 568 0.8× 470 0.8× 134 0.5× 157 0.6× 182 1.1× 40 1.3k
Isabelle Reymen Netherlands 20 794 1.1× 598 1.0× 249 1.0× 176 0.7× 191 1.1× 55 1.8k
Lois S. Peters United States 15 563 0.8× 677 1.1× 246 0.9× 98 0.4× 234 1.4× 44 1.3k
Hans van der Bij Netherlands 16 496 0.7× 674 1.1× 219 0.8× 110 0.5× 207 1.2× 26 1.4k
Ferran Giones Germany 17 647 0.9× 363 0.6× 113 0.4× 227 0.9× 310 1.8× 43 1.4k
John Mullins United States 16 565 0.8× 401 0.7× 294 1.1× 145 0.6× 201 1.2× 52 1.4k
Lawrence Dooley Ireland 19 639 0.9× 728 1.2× 97 0.4× 107 0.4× 210 1.2× 43 1.5k
S. Ramakrishna Velamuri China 13 465 0.6× 712 1.2× 231 0.9× 164 0.7× 170 1.0× 33 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Steve Blank

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steve Blank

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Steve Blank. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Steve Blank. The network helps show where Steve Blank may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steve Blank

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

All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Blank, Steve. (2024). A Lasting Model for Change: How the Lean Startup Was Born. Journal of Management. 50(8). 3008–3011. 2 indexed citations
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Blank, Steve & Jon Eckhardt. (2023). The Lean Startup as an Actionable Theory of Entrepreneurship. Journal of Management. 50(8). 3012–3034. 53 indexed citations
3.
Blank, Steve. (2023). AI and ChatGPT Will Revolutionize Customer Discovery. 1 indexed citations
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Euchner, Jim & Steve Blank. (2021). Lean Startup and Corporate Innovation. Research-Technology Management. 64(5). 11–17. 3 indexed citations
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Blank, Steve & Jim Euchner. (2018). The Genesis and Future of Lean Startup: An Interview with Steve Blank. Research-Technology Management. 61(5). 15–21. 15 indexed citations
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Blank, Steve & Bob Dorf. (2015). El camino a la Epifanía del Señor: El Modelo de Desarrollo de Clientes. 0(94). 119–119. 1 indexed citations
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Blank, Steve. (2014). Steve Blank. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 13(8). 570–570. 3 indexed citations
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Blank, Steve & Bob Dorf. (2013). Le Manuel du créateur de start-up : Etape par étape, bâtissez une entreprise formidable !. 1 indexed citations
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Blank, Steve. (2013). Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything. Harvard business review. 91(5). 63–72. 811 indexed citations breakdown →
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Blank, Steve, et al.. (2013). "Lean" Is Shaking Up the Entrepreneurial Landscape: Interaction. Harvard business review. 91(7). 14–15. 6 indexed citations
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Blank, Steve. (2011). Embrace failure to start up success. Nature. 477(7363). 133–133. 15 indexed citations
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Blank, Steve, et al.. (1981). COMMODITY FUTURES PRICE THEORY FOR SEMI-STORABLE PRODUCTS. AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA). 1 indexed citations

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