OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Leadership Quarterly is 32. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Leaders affect business creation: Evidence from mayoral elections	114
Building actionable theories: The role of causal constructs	111
Racial minorities in strategic leadership: An integrative literature review and future research roadmap	104
Determining causal relationships in leadership research using Machine Learning: The powerful synergy of experiments and data science	104
Measuring behaviors counterfactually	99
Strategies for improving decision making of leaders with ADHD and without ADHD in combat military context	82
How good can bad leaders be? The opportunity costs of leader selection	82
Common methodological mistakes	80
Leadership shaping social comparison to improve performance: A field experiment	75
Difference-in-Differences with matching methods in leadership studies: A review and practical guide	67
A window into your status: Environment-based social class’s effect on virtual leadership	61
Gender and evaluations of leadership behaviors: A meta-analytic review of 50 years of research	60
The effects of the charisma signal and voice pitch in female leader selection	59
Using structural topic modeling to gain insight into challenges faced by leaders	57
Editorial Board	56
Strategic leadership in a non-WEIRD context: An integrative review of strategic leaders in China	54
Birds of a feather?: Firm sales growth and narcissism in the upper echelons at the CEO-TMT interface	53
The triangulation of ethical leader signals using qualitative, experimental, and data science methods	53
What explains, what works, and what we can claim: Seven cases of rigorous review research	53
A meta-analysis of humble leadership: Reviewing individual, team, and organizational outcomes of leader humility	52
Editorial Board	50
When the going gets tough: Board gender diversity in the wake of a major crisis	49
Reconciling identity leadership and leader identity: A dual-identity framework	44
Testing the generalizability of the white leadership standard in the post-Obama era	43
Credible leadership signals	43

Leader’s morality, prototypicality, and followers’ reactions	42
The renaissance of management: When regular employees become multi-level managers of AI agents	41
Editorial Board	38
CEO political liberalism, stakeholders, and firms’ support for LGBT employees	38
Do followers mind the pay gap? An experimental test of the impact of the vertical pay gap on leader effectiveness	38
Effects of women on corporate boards: An integrative review from a political capital perspective	36
Gender differences in dishonesty when leaders make decisions on behalf of their team	36
Using customized, conversational AI agents in leadership and management research: Benefits, practical illustrations, and best practices	32