Eric von Hippel

Active 1976–2023

67
Papers
42,406
Citations
56
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Citations

Citations per year for Eric von Hippel1957: 1 citations1977: 2 citations1978: 3 citations1979: 4 citations1980: 1 citations1981: 2 citations1982: 1 citations1983: 1 citations1984: 3 citations1985: 7 citations1986: 15 citations1987: 3 citations1988: 13 citations1989: 13 citations1990: 18 citations1991: 19 citations1992: 36 citations1993: 30 citations1994: 29 citations1995: 70 citations1996: 50 citations1997: 48 citations1998: 56 citations1999: 61 citations2000: 133 citations2001: 146 citations2002: 199 citations2003: 291 citations2004: 314 citations2005: 289 citations2006: 424 citations2007: 380 citations2008: 503 citations2009: 572 citations2010: 709 citations2011: 633 citations2012: 677 citations2013: 567 citations2014: 497 citations2015: 495 citations2016: 525 citations2017: 395 citations2018: 323 citations2019: 366 citations2020: 343 citations2021: 279 citations2022: 198 citations2023: 214 citations2024: 150 citations2025: 68 citations2026: 17 citations1958–1976: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,890 citing papers, 25.1% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 661 citing papers, 8.8% of this breakdownGermany: 633 citing papers, 8.4% of this breakdownItaly: 316 citing papers, 4.2% of this breakdownNetherlands: 306 citing papers, 4.1% of this breakdownFrance: 290 citing papers, 3.8% of this breakdownChina: 281 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownDenmark: 262 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownSweden: 259 citing papers, 3.4% of this breakdownFinland: 243 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownCanada: 224 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 208 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Business, Management and Accounting36.9%
  • Computer Science33.2%
  • Social Sciences14.1%
  • Decision Sciences4.8%
  • Engineering3.2%
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance3%
  • Other4.8%

Topics

  • Open Source Software Innovations13.8%
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management10.3%
  • Knowledge Management and Sharing6.5%
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media3.2%
  • Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development3.1%
  • Service and Product Innovation3%
  • Other60.1%

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  1. Lead Users: A Source of Novel Product Concepts

    Authors: - Management Science 1986 cited by 4,618

  2. Democratizing Innovation

    Authors: - The MIT Press eBooks 2005 cited by 3,689

  3. “Sticky Information” and the Locus of Problem Solving: Implications for Innovation

    Authors: - Management Science 1994 cited by 3,744

  4. The Promise of Research on Open Source Software

    Authors: , - Management Science, Manag. Sci. 2006 cited by 601

  5. CROSSROADS - Identifying Viable "Need-Solution Pairs": Problem Solving Without Problem Formulation

    Authors: , - Organization Science, Organ. Sci. 2015 cited by 233

  6. User toolkits for innovation

    Authors: - Journal of Product Innovation Management 2001 cited by 512

  7. The User Innovation Paradigm: Impacts on Markets and Welfare

    Authors: , , - Management Science, Manag. Sci. 2016 cited by 225

  8. Performance Assessment of the Lead User Idea-Generation Process for New Product Development

    Authors: , , , , - Management Science, Manag. Sci. 2002 cited by 999

  9. Finding Commercially Attractive User Innovations: A Test of Lead‐User Theory*

    Authors: , , - Journal of Product Innovation Management 2006 cited by 761

  10. Next-generation consumer innovation search: Identifying early-stage need-solution pairs on the web

    Authors: , - Research Policy 2020 cited by 69

  11. Profiting from voluntary information spillovers: how users benefit by freely revealing their innovations

    Authors: , , - Research Policy 2003 cited by 752

  12. Customers As Innovators: A New Way to Create Value

    Authors: , - Harvard business review 2002 cited by 1,017

  13. The Situated Nature of Adaptive Learning in Organizations

    Authors: , - Organization Science 1997 cited by 552

  14. Lead User Analyses for the Development of New Industrial Products

    Authors: , - Management Science 1988 cited by 1,141

  15. Economics of Product Development by Users: The Impact of “Sticky” Local Information

    Authors: - Management Science 1998 cited by 874

  16. Impacts of Hedonic and Utilitarian User Motives on the Innovativeness of User‐Developed Solutions

    Authors: , , - Journal of Product Innovation Management 2014 cited by 119

  17. Democratizing Innovation: The Evolving Phenomenon of User Innovation

    Authors: - International Journal of Innovation Science 2005 cited by 789

  18. FROM EXPERIENCE: Developing New Product Concepts Via the Lead User Method: A Case Study in a “Low‐Tech” Field

    Authors: , - Journal of Product Innovation Management 1992 cited by 639

  19. Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

    Authors: , - Organization Science, Organ. Sci. 2010 cited by 341

  20. Free revealing and the private-collective model for innovation incentives

    Authors: , - R and D Management 2006 cited by 336

  21. Shifting Innovation to Users via Toolkits

    Authors: , - Management Science, Manag. Sci. 2002 cited by 144

  22. Profiting from Data Commons: Theory, Evidence, and Strategy Implications

    Authors: , , , - Strategy Science 2023 cited by 24

  23. Task partitioning: An innovation process variable

    Authors: - Research Policy 1990 cited by 504

  24. Special issue on open source software development

    Authors: , - Research Policy 2003 cited by 233