R0007/2026-03-20/C001/S01
WebSearch — O'Boyle Aguinis 2012 power law performance distribution
Summary
| Field |
Value |
| Source/Database |
WebSearch |
| Query terms |
O'Boyle Aguinis 2012 "power law" performance distribution Personnel Psychology |
| Filters |
None |
| Results returned |
10 |
| Results selected |
4 |
| Results rejected |
6 |
Selected Results
| Result |
Title |
URL |
Rationale |
| S01-R01 |
The Best and the Rest — Wiley Online Library |
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2011.01239.x |
Primary paper abstract — authoritative source |
| S01-R02 |
Personnel Psychology 2012, 65, 79-119 (PDF) |
https://www.hermanaguinis.com/pdf/PPsych2012.pdf |
Full paper PDF from author's website |
| S01-R03 |
Semantic Scholar entry |
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/THE-BEST-AND-THE-REST:-REVISITING-THE-NORM-OF-OF-O%E2%80%99Boyle-Aguinis/4213613c2a55119eaa8a646d626f60d066e67ccf |
Citation metrics and abstract |
| S01-R04 |
Atlas of Public Management — Power Laws |
https://www.atlas101.ca/pm/concepts/power-laws-pareto-distributions-and-performance/ |
Secondary source summarizing findings |
Rejected Results
| Result |
Title |
URL |
Rationale |
| S01-R05 |
ERIC entry |
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ974970 |
Duplicate bibliographic record |
| S01-R06 |
ResearchGate — Distribution of Job Performance |
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259555034 |
Different paper (Beck et al. 2014) |
| S01-R07 |
ResearchGate — O'Boyle & Aguinis |
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263263095 |
Duplicate bibliographic record |
| S01-R08 |
Personnel Psychology 2014 (Beck et al.) |
https://gwern.net/doc/economics/2013-beck.pdf |
Different paper — moved to S02 |
| S01-R09 |
CPHR summary |
https://cphr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/True-Picture-of-Job-Performance-Research-Results.pdf |
Practitioner summary, low added value |
| S01-R10 |
Hyper-Performing Employees blog |
https://employee-performance.com/blog/hyper-performing-employees-the-new-normal/ |
Blog post, not primary evidence |
Notes
Search returned direct access to the primary paper and its metadata. The Wiley abstract and author-hosted PDF provided sufficient detail to verify study parameters.