OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Leadership Quarterly is 34. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Racial minorities in strategic leadership: An integrative literature review and future research roadmap	209
Measuring behaviors counterfactually	159
Strategies for improving decision making of leaders with ADHD and without ADHD in combat military context	103
Leaders affect business creation: Evidence from mayoral elections	101
Common methodological mistakes	100
Determining causal relationships in leadership research using Machine Learning: The powerful synergy of experiments and data science	92
Building actionable theories: The role of causal constructs	88
How good can bad leaders be? The opportunity costs of leader selection	87
Leadership shaping social comparison to improve performance: A field experiment	72
Gender and evaluations of leadership behaviors: A meta-analytic review of 50 years of research	71
A window into your status: Environment-based social class’s effect on virtual leadership	69
Difference-in-Differences with matching methods in leadership studies: A review and practical guide	67
The effects of the charisma signal and voice pitch in female leader selection	58
Editorial Board	57
Strategic leadership in a non-WEIRD context: An integrative review of strategic leaders in China	54
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
Birds of a feather?: Firm sales growth and narcissism in the upper echelons at the CEO-TMT interface	53
A meta-analysis of humble leadership: Reviewing individual, team, and organizational outcomes of leader humility	50
Editorial Board	49
Using structural topic modeling to gain insight into challenges faced by leaders	49
Reconciling identity leadership and leader identity: A dual-identity framework	48
Credible leadership signals	48
When the going gets tough: Board gender diversity in the wake of a major crisis	48
Testing the generalizability of the white leadership standard in the post-Obama era	48

Leader’s morality, prototypicality, and followers’ reactions	42
Do followers mind the pay gap? An experimental test of the impact of the vertical pay gap on leader effectiveness	40
Editorial Board	40
CEO political liberalism, stakeholders, and firms’ support for LGBT employees	39
Gender differences in dishonesty when leaders make decisions on behalf of their team	38
Leadership in the digital era: A review of who, what, when, where, and why	38
Effects of women on corporate boards: An integrative review from a political capital perspective	38
Seeing with counterfactual lenses: Alternative assumptions at the intersection of leadership and identity	37
Examining the role of Donald Trump and his supporters in the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol: A dual-agency model of identity leadership and engaged followership	34