OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Leadership Quarterly is 9. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Leaders affect business creation: Evidence from mayoral elections	207
Common methodological mistakes	172
Determining causal relationships in leadership research using Machine Learning: The powerful synergy of experiments and data science	171
How good can bad leaders be? The opportunity costs of leader selection	144
Call for Papers: The Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review (LQYR) for 2024	134
Strategies for improving decision making of leaders with ADHD and without ADHD in combat military context	82
Racial minorities in strategic leadership: An integrative literature review and future research roadmap	80
Gender and evaluations of leadership behaviors: A meta-analytic review of 50 years of research	77
Measuring behaviors counterfactually	77
A window into your status: Environment-based social class’s effect on virtual leadership	71
Crisis leadership: A review and future research agenda	68
Difference-in-Differences with matching methods in leadership studies: A review and practical guide	61
Leadership shaping social comparison to improve performance: A field experiment	59
The effects of the charisma signal and voice pitch in female leader selection	59
Birds of a feather?: Firm sales growth and narcissism in the upper echelons at the CEO-TMT interface	58
Editorial Board	58
The triangulation of ethical leader signals using qualitative, experimental, and data science methods	56
Using structural topic modeling to gain insight into challenges faced by leaders	54
A meta-analysis of humble leadership: Reviewing individual, team, and organizational outcomes of leader humility	47
Polynomial regression analysis and response surface methodology in leadership research	47
Editorial Board	45
Testing the generalizability of the white leadership standard in the post-Obama era	44
When the going gets tough: Board gender diversity in the wake of a major crisis	44
Leader’s morality, prototypicality, and followers’ reactions	42
Reconciling identity leadership and leader identity: A dual-identity framework	42

Do followers mind the pay gap? An experimental test of the impact of the vertical pay gap on leader effectiveness	40
Effects of women on corporate boards: An integrative review from a political capital perspective	38
CEO political liberalism, stakeholders, and firms’ support for LGBT employees	38
Editorial Board	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	35
What is strategic leadership? Developing a framework for future research	34
No access? No problem! Taking stock of unobtrusive measures for executives’ deep-level characteristics	34
Eye gaze and visual attention as a window into leadership and followership: A review of empirical insights and future directions	34
Leadership in the digital era: A review of who, what, when, where, and why	34
Seeing with counterfactual lenses: Alternative assumptions at the intersection of leadership and identity	34
Does it matter how I behave before I step into the leader role? Intrapersonal behavioral shift in temporary leadership role transition and its effect on perceived leadership effectiveness	33
Bringing the cognitive revolution forward: What can team cognition contribute to our understanding of leadership?	33
Gender stereotypes explain different mental prototypes of male and female leaders	32
A juggling act: CEO polychronicity and firm innovation	31
Causal inference with observational data: A tutorial on propensity score analysis	31
Leadership science beyond questionnaires	31
The business case for demographic diversity in strategic leadership teams: A systematic and critical review of the causal evidence	30
Ecology, culture and leadership: Theoretical integration and review	29
Chief executive officers' appearance predicts company performance, or does it? A replication study and extension focusing on CEO successions	28
Leader state emotions in organizations	27
A conceptual replication of ambidextrous leadership theory: An experimental approach	26
Board diversity’s antecedents and consequences: A review and research agenda	24
Managerial commitment to the status quo and corporate divestiture: Can power motivate openness to change?	23
Leading with pride: An interdisciplinary integrative review on LGBTIQ + leadership and an agenda for future research	23
Editorial Board	23
Leaders’ influence on collective action: An identity leadership perspective	23
Editorial Board	22
Editorial Board	22
Is there a prototype leader look? Evidence from the photos of Chinese local leaders	22
Exogenous shocks: Definitions, types, and causal identification issues	21
CEO childhood trauma, social networks, and strategic risk taking	21
A chronotype circadian model of charismatic leadership expressions and perceptions	21
Eight puzzles of leadership science	21
The romance of leadership: Rekindling the fire through replication of Meindl and Ehrlich	21
Editorial Board	21
Call for proposals: The Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review (LQYR) for 2026	21
Editorial Board	20
Becoming a leader with clipped wings: The role of early-career unemployment scarring on future leadership role occupancy	19
CEO proactiveness, innovation, and firm performance	17
Does leadership still not need emotional intelligence? Continuing “The Great EI Debate”	17
Is white always the standard? Using replication to revisit and extend what we know about the leadership prototype	16
Traversing the storm: An interdisciplinary review of crisis leadership	16
Zombie leadership: Dead ideas that still walk among us	16
Leader self-projection and collective role performance: A consideration of visionary leadership	16
Is the transition to formal leadership caused by trait extraversion? A counterfactual hazard analysis using two large panel datasets	16
CEO health	15
Dirty looks: Politicians’ appearance and unethical behaviour	15
Editorial Board	15
Editorial Board	15
New ways of seeing: Four ways you have not thought about Registered Reports yet	15

Leadership selection: Can changing the default break the glass ceiling?	14
Tweet, like, subscribe! Understanding leadership through social media use	14
When conflict fuels negativity. A large-scale comparative investigation of the contextual drivers of negative campaigning in elections worldwide	14
Is a disease leader attractive? Six tests of whether the COVID-19 pandemic affected follower preferences for attractiveness, health and other traits in political and non-political leaders	14
Regulation and the trickle-down effect of women in leadership roles	13
Female CHRO appointments: A crack in the glass ceiling?	13
Women in academic publishing: Descriptive trends from authors to editors across 33 years of management science	13
Editorial Board	13
Editorial Board	13
A neuroscience-based model of why and when CEO social values affect investments in corporate social responsibility	12
Beyond efficiency: How artificial intelligence (AI) will reshape scientific inquiry and the publication process	12
Human-robot collaboration: A multilevel and integrated leadership framework	12
When subordinates do not follow: A typology of subordinate resistance as perceived by leaders	12
Too young to lead? Role incongruity explains age bias against young leaders	12
Call for proposals: The 2027 Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review (LQYR) issue	11
Authentic leadership theory: The case for and against	10
The face of wrongdoing? An expectancy violations perspective on CEO facial characteristics and media coverage of misconducting firms	10
Editorial Board	10
Exemplifying “Us”: Integrating social identity theory of leadership with cognitive models of categorization	9
The value of leadership: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment	9
Four decades of CEO–TMT interface research: A review inspired by role theory	9
Top management team constellations and their implications for strategic decision making	9
Extending the boundaries of strategic leadership research	9
The XX factor: Female managers and innovation in a cross-country setting	9
LQYR introduction	9