R0007/2026-03-19/C001/S01
WebSearch — O'Boyle Aguinis 2012 power law study parameters and output concentration
Summary
| Field |
Value |
| Source/Database |
WebSearch |
| Query terms |
O'Boyle Aguinis 2012 power law distribution individual performance "five studies" "633,263" |
| Filters |
None |
| Results returned |
10 |
| Results selected |
4 |
| Results rejected |
6 |
Selected Results
| Result |
Title |
URL |
Rationale |
| S01-R01 |
THE BEST AND THE REST - Semantic Scholar |
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/THE-BEST-AND-THE-REST:-REVISITING-THE-NORM-OF-OF-O%E2%80%99Boyle-Aguinis/4213613c2a55119eaa8a646d626f60d066e67ccf |
Primary academic database entry with abstract and citation data |
| S01-R02 |
PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY 2012, 65, 79-119 (PDF) |
https://www.hermanaguinis.com/pdf/PPsych2012.pdf |
Direct PDF of the paper from author's website |
| S01-R03 |
Wiley Online Library entry |
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2011.01239.x |
Publisher's abstract page |
| S01-R04 |
Atlas of Public Management - Power Laws |
https://www.atlas101.ca/pm/concepts/power-laws-pareto-distributions-and-performance/ |
Secondary summary of findings |
Rejected Results
| Result |
Title |
URL |
Rationale |
| S01-R05 |
LessWrong discussion |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RDokeedGWxHGggvAh/ |
Forum discussion, not primary or authoritative secondary source |
| S01-R06 |
ERIC entry |
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ974970 |
Duplicate of Wiley entry, no additional information |
| S01-R07 |
ResearchGate - Distribution of Job Performance |
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259555034 |
Different paper (Beck et al. 2014), critique not primary verification |
| S01-R08 |
CPHR PDF summary |
https://cphr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/True-Picture-of-Job-Performance-Research-Results.pdf |
Secondary summary, PDF not extractable |
| S01-R09 |
ResearchGate - O'Boyle Aguinis |
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263263095 |
Duplicate of Semantic Scholar entry |
| S01-R10 |
Power law distributions in entrepreneurship (PDF) |
https://www.hermanaguinis.com/pdf/JBV2015.pdf |
Different paper, tangential to this specific claim |
Notes
The paper PDF was fetched but could not be extracted to readable text due to encoding. The specific output concentration percentages (30% top decile, >50% top quartile) were not found in any accessible secondary source.