One of my New Year rituals is looking back on the year’s activity for my blog. Website analytics are amazing. For 2024 I noted the dozen most popular Paul Spector articles of 2024 in terms of how many people visited the pages. This information is useful in informing the sorts of topics that I should blog about. It isn’t surprising that 7 of the top dozen were published in 2024, but on the list are articles going back to 2020. That 2020 blog is featured in my I-O psychology textbook, so likely many of its readers are students who are using my book in their Industrial-Organizational psychology class.
Most Popular Paul Spector Articles of 2024
- Theory Salting in the Organizational Sciences. (March 11, 2024)
- A Peer Reviewer Crisis in the Organizational Sciences. (February 26, 2024)
- What is the Difference Between Mediator and Moderator Variables? (May 28, 2024)
- Statistical Modeling Methods Are the Real Trojan Horse. (May 19, 2024)
- What is Employee Resenteeism in the Workplace? (April 14, 2024)
- What Is a Practitioner-Scholar? (March 20, 2023)
- What Is Work-Family Conflict? (October 3, 2022)
- How To Pick an Outlet for Academic Publishing. (May 13, 2024)
- O*NET IS a Valuable Tool for Job Analysis. (April 20, 2020)
- What Is Counterproductive Work Behavior? (July 25, 2021)
- Activism Is a Deterrent to Good Science. November 24, 2024
- Three Types of Scientific Inference. September 8, 2021
What Themes Are Most Popular?
Clearly, what is resonating most with readers are my blogs having to do with research methodology, and the current state of organizational science in I-O psychology and management. The top four fit this theme, as well as 11 which I published just a month ago and 12 that was published 3 years ago. Number 11 talks about a commentary I published with Logan Steele in the SIOP publication Industrial and Organizational Psychology about our concern that activism and personal ideology of researchers can bias their science. Also popular is my “What Is” series of articles that explain concepts from the organizational sciences. Some of these articles discuss a new concept, such as resenteeism (number 5 on the list), where others are established areas of study, such as work-family conflict (number 7). Clearly the most popular Paul Spector articles of 2024 span a wide range of topics. Expect to see more in 2025.
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