Herman Aguinis

Herman Aguinis was born in Rio Cuarto, Cordoba (Argentina).{{Cite web|date=2021-04-15|title=Frontline IB: Herman Aguinis|url=https://www.aib.world/frontline-ib/herman-aguinis/|access-date=2021-04-18|website=Academy of International Business (AIB)|language=en-US}} He is the son of the Argentine author Marcos Aguinis and University of Buenos Aires School of Law professor Ana Maria "Marita" Aguinis (deceased).Books by professor Ana Maria "Marita" Aguinis (deceased), https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Ana+Maria+M.+de+Aguinis&search-alias=books&field-author=Ana+Maria+M.+de+Aguinis&sort=relevancerank He attended high school at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos AiresAguinis, H. (2006). From Río Cuarto to Denver. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 43(4), 57-61. before receiving a Bachelor and master's degree in psychology from the University of Buenos Aires. He spent part of his high school years in New York City. Still, following his schooling in Argentina, he moved to the United States to study Industrial and Organizational Psychology, earning a Master's and then a PhD degree from the University at Albany, State University of New York in 1993.

Aguinis' research, teaching, and consulting are about acquiring and deploying talent in organizations and organizational research methods (i.e., behavioral science and data science). He has written extensively on the topics of star performance, corporate social responsibility & business sustainability, domestic and international workforce diversity, leadership, staffing, training and development, performance management, and innovative methodological approaches for developing and testing theories. His research has been featured by the media worldwide, including the Wall Street Journal {{Cite news |last=Fuhrmans |first=Vanessa |title=CEO Pay and Performance Often Don't Match Up |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/ceo-pay-and-performance-dont-match-up-1526299200?ns=prod/accounts-wsj |access-date=2024-06-05 |work=WSJ |language=en-US}} and Forbes,{{cite web | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelletravis/2024/09/10/3-ways-to-combat-the-think-star-think-men-gender-bias/ | title=3 Ways to Combat the 'Think Star, Think Men' Gender Bias | website=Forbes }} and in U.S. Supreme Court cases.RICCI v. DESTEFANO, https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/2010/12/28/ricci_sctdec.pdf He served as Editor-in-Chief of Organizational Research Methods (2005–2007) and has served or serves on the editorial board of 26 journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Forbes and in U.S. Supreme Court cases. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Organizational Research Methods (2005–2007) and has served or serves on the editorial board of 26 journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of International Business Studies.Editorships and Editorial Board Memberships, http://www.hermanaguinis.com/sactive.htm#ProfessionReviewer {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180527023054/http://www.hermanaguinis.com/sactive.htm#ProfessionReviewer |date=2018-05-27 }}

Aguinis has delivered about 300 keynote addresses and presentations at professional conferences,Keynote Addresses & Presentations at Professional Meetings, https://www.hermanaguinis.com/speaking.html delivered about 150 invited presentations in all seven continents except for Antarctica,Invited Presentations, https://www.hermanaguinis.com/speaking.html and raised about $5MM for his research and teaching endeavors from private foundations and federal sources (e.g., National Science Foundation).Understanding the Gender Performance Gap among Star Performers in STEM Fields, https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1643075

Aguinis' research has placed him as one of the world's most influential and prolific contemporary management professors.{{cite journal |last1=Podsakoff |first1=Philip M. |last2=MacKenzie |first2=Scott B. |last3=Podsakoff |first3=Nathan P. |last4=Bachrach |first4=Daniel G. |title=Scholarly Influence in the Field of Management: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Determinants of University and Author Impact in the Management Literature in the Past Quarter Century |journal=Journal of Management |date=30 January 2008 |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=641–720 |doi=10.1177/0149206308319533 |s2cid=143858009 }}{{cite journal |last1=Van Fleet |first1=David D. |last2=Bedeian |first2=Arthur G. |title=The Journal of Management's First 40 Years: A Look Back |journal=Journal of Management |date=27 October 2015 |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=349–356 |doi=10.1177/0149206315609403 |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Aguinis |first1=Herman |last2=Suárez-González |first2=Isabel |last3=Lannelongue |first3=Gustavo |last4=Joo |first4=Harry |title=Scholarly Impact Revisited |journal=Academy of Management Perspectives |date=May 2012 |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=105–132 |doi=10.5465/amp.2011.0088 }}{{cite journal |last1=Aguinis |first1=Herman |last2=Ramani |first2=Ravi S. |last3=Campbell |first3=P. Knight |last4=Bernal-Turnes |first4=Paloma |last5=Drewry |first5=Josiah M. |last6=Edgerton |first6=Brett T. |title=Most Frequently Cited Sources, Articles, and Authors in Industrial-Organizational Psychology Textbooks: Implications for the Science–Practice Divide, Scholarly Impact, and the Future of the Field |journal=Industrial and Organizational Psychology |date=30 October 2017 |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=507–557 |doi=10.1017/iop.2017.69 |s2cid=148860324 }}{{Cite web|url=https://hcr.clarivate.com/|title=Highly Cited Researchers - The Most Influential Scientific Minds|website=HCR|access-date=2019-09-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220122703/https://hcr.clarivate.com/|archive-date=2019-02-20|url-status=dead}} Every year since 2018, he has been ranked among the top-100 most impactful researchers in the world in economics and business (based on multiple articles published in the preceding decade ranked in the top 1% by citations), “demonstrating significant influence among their peers, this top 1% of the global research community represent magnets in their respective discipline.” The September 2024 edition of the Stanford U. "top 2% researchers in the world" ranked him as the world’s #45 most impactful business and management researcher based on total career-long impact (and #28 based on the year 2023).{{cite book | chapter-url=https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7 | doi=10.17632/btchxktzyw.7 | date=2024 | last1=Ioannidis | first1=John P.A. | title=August 2024 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" | chapter=Bibliometrics | volume=7 | publisher=Elsevier Data Repository }}

A 2023 Journal of Business Research article ranked as the #4 most dominant researcher in the area of strategic leadership from 1980 to 2020, the #4 most productive between 2011 and 2020, and the #12 most productive between 1980 and 2020 based on the Scopus database.{{Cite journal |last1=Singh |first1=Anjali |last2=Lim |first2=Weng Marc |last3=Jha |first3=Sumi |last4=Kumar |first4=Satish |last5=Ciasullo |first5=Maria Vincenza |date=March 2023 |title=The state of the art of strategic leadership |journal=Journal of Business Research |volume=158 |pages=113676 |doi=10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113676 |s2cid=256125623 |issn=0148-2963|doi-access=free }} Another 2023 study ranked among the world's top 20 most impactful researchers in corporate social performance based on articles published between 1975 and 2023 in 35 journals and books in business, management, accounting, economics, econometrics, finance, and social sciences.{{cite journal | url=https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JAMR-02-2023-0051/full/html | doi=10.1108/JAMR-02-2023-0051 | title=Evolution and assessment of corporate social performance through the lens of top category journals: A theoretical structural analysis | date=2023 | last1=Singh | first1=Nidhi | last2=Kumar | first2=Surender | journal=Journal of Advances in Management Research | pages=855–882 | volume=20 | issue=5 | s2cid=259461538 }} A study conducted in November 2022 involving 166,880 scientists ranked as the #38 best researcher in Business and Management in the United States and #68 in the world based on the D-index (Discipline H-index), which includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline.{{Cite web |title=World's Best Business and Management Scientists: H-Index Business and Management Science Ranking 2023 {{!}} Research.com |url=https://research.com/scientists-rankings/business-and-management |access-date=2023-02-18 |website=Research.com |language=en-US}} Another article published in 2019 in Journal of Business Research article ranked him as the #1 most cited and prolific (i.e., based on h-index) researcher in the field of human resources training based on all publications between 1975 and 2016.{{cite journal |last1=Danvila-del-Valle |first1=Ignacio |last2=Estévez-Mendoza |first2=Carlos |last3=Lara |first3=Francisco J. |title=Human resources training: A bibliometric analysis |journal=Journal of Business Research |volume=101 |pages=627–636 |date=March 2019 |doi=10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.02.026 |s2cid=159117891 |hdl=20.500.12466/3675 |hdl-access=free }} A 2019 Leadership Quarterly article as the world's #2 most influential researcher in the field of leadership based on all articles published in 10 highly prestigious academic journals between 2011 and 2017.{{Cite journal|last1=Zhao|first1=Hao|last2=Li|first2=Chaoping|date=2019-08-01|title=A computerized approach to understanding leadership research|journal=The Leadership Quarterly|volume=30|issue=4|pages=396–416|doi=10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.06.001|s2cid=198610493|issn=1048-9843}} A 2017 Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education article ranked him among the top 100 most published authors in business and management education (BME) out of 7,209 unique authors who published at least one article in 17 BME journals from 2005 to 2014.{{cite journal |last1=Arbaugh |first1=J. B. |last2=Asarta |first2=Carlos J. |last3=Hwang |first3=Alvin |last4=Fornaciari |first4=Charles J. |last5=Bento |first5=Regina F. |last6=Dean |first6=Kathy Lund |title=Key Authors in Business and Management Education Research: Productivity, Topics, and Future Directions |journal=Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education |date=July 2017 |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=268–302 |doi=10.1111/dsji.12131 }} A 2016 Journal of Management (JOM) article published to celebrate the journal's 40th anniversary ranked him as the #5 most published author from 1975 to 2014 out of 2,270 different individuals who published at least one article each.{{cite journal | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0149206315609403 | doi=10.1177/0149206315609403 | title=The Journal of Management 's First 40 Years | date=2016 | last1=Van Fleet | first1=David D. | last2=Bedeian | first2=Arthur G. | journal=Journal of Management | volume=42 | issue=2 | pages=349–356 }} Based on Google Scholar, his work has received about 65,000 citations (h-index = 105), he is the world's #1 ranked researcher in the category "workforce diversity," #1 in “talent management,” #1 in “people analytics,” #1 in "business sustainability," and #3 in “corporate social responsibility”.See [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VbMNUXoAAAAJ&hl=en https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VbMNUXoAAAAJ&hl=en] for his Google Scholar profile Based on Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics, his work has received about 24,000 citations.See [https://publons.com/researcher/1641441/herman-aguinis/] for his Clarivate Analytics profile His [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119557658 Performance Management for Dummies] book has been recognized as one of “The 15 Best HR Books of All Time”{{cite web | url=https://www.bamboohr.com/blog/best-hr-books | title=The 15 Best HR Books of All Time (Including New Releases and Classics) }} and one of “The 10 Best HR Books You Should Read in 2024”.{{cite web | url=https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7148682053239177218/ | title=Andrew Swiler on LinkedIn: #hr #leadership #peopleanalytics | 36 comments }} He has more than 31,000 LinkedIn followers.https://www.linkedin.com/in/herman-aguinis-66417016/ {{Self-published source|date=June 2022}}

He is a fellow of the Academy of Management (and also served as Deputy Dean of the Academy of Management Fellows),Fellows Group of the Academy of Management, http://aom.org/fellows.aspx American Psychological Association, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and Association for Psychological Science and has received many awards such as:

• Losey Award by the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation for lifetime achievement in human resource researchHerman Aguinis Named 2017 Losey Research Award Winner, https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-news/Pages/Herman-Aguinis-Named-2017-Losey-Research-Award-Winner.aspx {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121224209/https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-news/Pages/Herman-Aguinis-Named-2017-Losey-Research-Award-Winner.aspx |date=2022-01-21 }}
• Academy of Management Research Methods Division Distinguished Career Award for lifetime contributions

Award Winners, http://rmdiv.org/?page_id=20

• Academy of Management Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Division Distinguished Career Award for lifetime contributions

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• Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Scientific Contributions Award for lifetime contributions{{Cite web|title=Herman Aguinis receives Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award|url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/sfia-har051021.php|access-date=2021-04-18|website=|language=en}}
• Academy of Management Practice Theme Committee Scholar Practice Impact Award recognizing an outstanding scholar who has affected policy-making and managerial and organizational practicesPTC Awards and Panels of Judges, http://www.ptc-aom.com/index.php/awards/aom-ptc-practice-impact-award {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817204041/http://ptc-aom.com/index.php/awards/aom-ptc-practice-impact-award |date=2018-08-17 }}
• IACMR-Responsible Research in Management Award recognizing excellent scholarship that focuses on important issues for business and society using sound research methods with credible resultsThe Second IACMR-RRBM Award for Responsible Research in Management, https://rrbm.network/taking-action/awards/2018-responsible-research-in-management-award-winners/
• Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division IDEA Thought Leader Award

IDEA Thought Leader Awards, https://ent.aom.org/awards

• Academy of Management Research Methods Division Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award
• Inducted into The PhD Project Hall of Fame.
• Nine best article of the year awards from the journals Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior (twice), Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Learning and Education,Organizational Research Methods, Business Horizons, and Management Research.{{cite web |url=http://www.hermanaguinis.com/ |title=Home |website=hermanaguinis.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/authors/literati/awards.htm?year=2019|title=Emerald: Outstanding Paper Awards|website=www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com|access-date=2019-09-21}}

Herman Aguinis has published about 225 journal articles See [http://www.hermanaguinis.com/pubs.html http://www.hermanaguinis.com/pubs.html] for a full listing of journal articles and 13 books.See [http://www.hermanaguinis.com/books.html http://www.hermanaguinis.com/books.html] for a full listing of books His "Performance Management for Dummies" book has been recognized as one of “The 15 Best HR Books of All Time”

• Aguinis, H. 2025. Research methodology: Best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. {{ISBN|978-1071871942}}.
• Aguinis, H. 2019. Performance management for dummies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. {{ISBN|978-1119557654}}.
• Aguinis, H. 2023. Performance management (5th ed.). Chicago, IL: Chicago Business Press. {{ISBN|978-1-948426-48-0}}.
• Cascio, W.F., & Aguinis, H. 2019. Applied psychology in talent management (8th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. {{ISBN|9781506375915}}.
• Aguinis, H. 2004. Regression analysis for categorical moderators. New York, NY: Guilford. {{ISBN|1572309695}}.
• Baruch, Y., Konrad, A.M., Aguinis, H., & Starbuck, W.H. (Eds.). 2008. Opening the black box of editorship. New York, NY: Palgrave-Macmillan. {{ISBN|0230013600}}.
• Aguinis, H. (Ed.). 2004. Test-score banding in human resource selection: Legal, technical, and societal issues. Westport, CT: Praeger. {{ISBN|1567205208}}.

• {{Cite journal |last1=Bradley |first1=Kyle J. |last2=Aguinis |first2=Herman |author-link2=Herman Aguinis |date=2023|title=Team Performance: Nature and Antecedents of Non-normal Distributions |journal=Organization Science |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=1266–1286 |doi=10.1287/orsc.2022.1619 |doi-access=free}}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Aguinis |first1=Herman |author-link=Herman Aguinis |last2=Gabriel |first2=Kelly P. |date=2022 |title=International Business Studies: Are We Really So Uniquely Complex? |journal=Journal of International Business Studies |volume=53 |issue=9 |pages=2023–2036 |doi=10.1057/s41267-021-00462-x |doi-access=free}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Aguinis |first1=Herman |last2=Solarino |first2=Angelo |title=Transparency and Replicability in Qualitative Research: The Case of Interviews with Elite Informants |journal=Strategic Management Journal |date=2019 |volume=40 |issue=8 |pages=1291–1315 |doi=10.1002/smj.3015 |doi-access=free}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Aguinis |first1=Herman |last2=Glavas |first2=Ante |title=On Corporate Social Responsibility, Sensemaking, and the Search for Meaningfulness Through Work |journal=Journal of Management |date=March 2019 |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=1057–1086 |doi=10.1177/0149206317691575 |s2cid=151866348}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Aguinis |first1=Herman |last2=Ji |first2=Young Hun |last3=Joo |first3=Harry |title=Gender productivity gap among star performers in STEM and other scientific fields. |journal=Journal of Applied Psychology |date=December 2018 |volume=103 |issue=12 |pages=1283–1306 |doi=10.1037/apl0000331 |pmid=30024197 |doi-access=free}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Aguinis |first1=Herman |last2=Ramani |first2=Ravi S. |last3=Alabduljader |first3=Nawaf |title=What You See Is What You Get? Enhancing Methodological Transparency in Management Research |journal=Academy of Management Annals |date=January 2018 |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=83–110 |doi=10.5465/annals.2016.0011}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Aguinis |first1=Herman |last2=O'Boyle |first2=Ernest |title=Star Performers in Twenty-First Century Organizations |journal=Personnel Psychology |date=June 2014 |volume=67 |issue=2 |pages=313–350 |doi=10.1111/peps.12054}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Aguinis |first1=Herman |last2=Joo |first2=Harry |last3=Gottfredson |first3=Ryan K. |title=Why we hate performance management—And why we should love it |journal=Business Horizons |date=November 2011 |volume=54 |issue=6 |pages=503–507 |doi=10.1016/j.bushor.2011.06.001}}

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• [http://business.gwu.edu/profiles/herman-aguinis/ Herman Aguinis George Washington University page]
• [http://www.hermanaguinis.com Herman Aguinis personal page]
• [http://www.hermanaguinis.com/pubs.html Link for downloadable pdf versions of journal articles authored by Herman Aguinis]
• [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VbMNUXoAAAAJ&hl=en Herman Aguinis Google Scholar profile and publications]
• [https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Herman+Aguinis List of books by Herman Aguinis]

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