OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Leadership Quarterly is 8. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Abusive supervision: A systematic review and fundamental rethink	106
A critique of the Leader-Member Exchange construct: Back to square one	88
Estimating the causal effect of measured endogenous variables: A tutorial on experimentally randomized instrumental variables	81
Careless responding in questionnaire measures: Detection, impact, and remedies	73
What is strategic leadership? Developing a framework for future research	72
Ethical leadership: Mapping the terrain for concept cleanup and a future research agenda	71
Crisis leadership: A review and future research agenda	71
Country differences in the relationship between leadership and employee engagement: A meta-analysis	67
Authentic leadership theory: The case for and against	63
Four decades of CEO–TMT interface research: A review inspired by role theory	61
A bibliometric review of the leadership development field: How we got here, where we are, and where we are headed	58
Upbeat leadership: A recipe for – or against – “successful” leadership studies	56
Effects of charismatic leadership and rewards on individual performance	47
Advancing the science of 21st-century leadership development: Theory, research, and practice	37
Testing the babble hypothesis: Speaking time predicts leader emergence in small groups	34
Developing the theory and practice of leadership development: A relational view	32
How follower traits and cultural values influence the effects of leadership	30
Just what do we think we are doing? Learning outcomes of leader and leadership development	30
Investigating evolutionary models of leadership among recently settled Ethiopian hunter-gatherers	28
The evolution of leadership: Leadership and followership as a solution to the problem of creating and executing successful coordination and cooperation enterprises	26
Inequality rules: Resource distribution and the evolution of dominance- and prestige-based leadership	26
Follower behavior renders leader behavior endogenous: The simultaneity problem, estimation challenges, and solutions	25
From genes to minds to cultures: Evolutionary approaches to leadership	25
The diversity gap in leadership: What are we missing in current theorizing?	25
Nurturing overconfidence: The relationship between leader power, overconfidence and firm performance	23

A neuroscience-based model of why and when CEO social values affect investments in corporate social responsibility	23
CEO proactiveness, innovation, and firm performance	23
Leadership in the digital era: A review of who, what, when, where, and why	23
How to prevent leadership hubris? Comparing competitive selections, lotteries, and their combination	22
Polynomial regression analysis and response surface methodology in leadership research	22
Knowing me, knowing us: Personal and collective self-awareness enhances authentic leadership and leader endorsement	22
Achieving leadership and success: A 28-year follow-up of college women leaders	22
Seeing is not believing: Leader humility, hypocrisy, and their impact on followers' behaviors	22
Obstacles and opportunities for female leadership in mammalian societies: A comparative perspective	21
Instrumental variables estimation: Assumptions, pitfalls, and guidelines	21
The perks of narcissism: Behaving like a star speeds up career advancement to the CEO position	21
How (not) to motivate online workers: Two controlled field experiments on leadership in the gig economy	20
Let’s agree about nice leaders: A literature review and meta-analysis of agreeableness and its relationship with leadership outcomes	20
The XX factor: Female managers and innovation in a cross-country setting	20
A conceptual replication of ambidextrous leadership theory: An experimental approach	20
Where is “behavior” in organizational behavior? A call for a revolution in leadership research and beyond	20
Effect of charismatic signaling in social media settings: Evidence from TED and Twitter	19
Virtues-centered moral identity: An identity-based explanation of the functioning of virtuous leadership	18
The pandemic that shocked managers across the world: The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on leadership behavior	18
Opening the black box: Uncovering the leader trait paradigm through machine learning	18
Does power corrupt the mind? The influence of power on moral reasoning and self-interested behavior	18
The impact of leader communication on free-riding: An incentivized experiment with empowering and directive styles	18
Reconciling identity leadership and leader identity: A dual-identity framework	18
Does leadership still not need emotional intelligence? Continuing “The Great EI Debate”	18
In pursuit of causality in leadership training research: A review and pragmatic recommendations	18
Virtual charismatic leadership and signaling theory: A prospective meta-analysis in five countries	18
Building cross-disciplinary bridges in leadership: Integrating top executive personality and leadership theory and research	18
Do you remember? Rater memory systems and leadership measurement	17
Leader development for adolescent girls: State of the field and a framework for moving forward	17
A juggling act: CEO polychronicity and firm innovation	17
The military imprint: The effect of executives’ military experience on firm pollution and environmental innovation	17
Beyond the ritualized use of questionnaires: Toward a science of actual behaviors and psychological states	17
The science of leadership: A journey from survey research to field experimentation	16
Tell us about your leadership style: A structured interview approach for assessing leadership behavior constructs	16
State extraversion and emergent leadership: Do introverts emerge as leaders when they act like extraverts?	16
Determining causal relationships in leadership research using Machine Learning: The powerful synergy of experiments and data science	16
Words and deeds – Experimental evidence on leading-by-example	16
What explains cultural differences in leadership styles? On the agricultural origins of participative and directive leadership	16
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	15
The language of power and authority in leadership	15
Team incentives, task assignment, and performance: A field experiment	15
Using structural topic modeling to gain insight into challenges faced by leaders	15
Human-robot collaboration: A multilevel and integrated leadership framework	14
Identity economics meets identity leadership: Exploring the consequences of elevated CEO pay	14
Economic perspectives on leadership: Concepts, causality, and context in leadership research	14
Is there potential in assessing for high-potential? Evaluating the relationships between performance ratings, leadership assessment data, designated high-potential status and promotion outcomes in a g	13
Leadership selection: Can changing the default break the glass ceiling?	13
Traits and time in leadership emergence: A longitudinal study	12
A systematic and critical review of research on respect in leadership	12
Effective leadership and the allocation and exercise of power in organizations	12

Common methodological mistakes	12
Observing leadership as behavior in teams and herds – An ethological approach to shared leadership research	12
Social movement spillover: Barriers to board gender diversity posed by contemporary governance reform	12
Making ‘my’ problem ‘our’ problem: Warfare as collective action, and the role of leader manipulation	11
Extending the boundaries of strategic leadership research	11
LMX and welfare trade-off ratios: An evolutionary perspective on leader-member relations	11
Shared leadership performance relationship trajectories as a function of team interventions and members' collective personalities	11
Democratic governors quicker to issue stay-at-home orders in response to COVID-19	11
Chief executive officers' appearance predicts company performance, or does it? A replication study and extension focusing on CEO successions	11
CEO childhood trauma, social networks, and strategic risk taking	11
Predicting leadership perception with large-scale natural language data	10
The role of leaders in inducing and maintaining cooperation: The CC strategy	10
From sovereign to subject: Applying Foucault's conceptualization of power to leading and studying power within leadership	10
Leader decision speed as a signal of honesty	10
Traversing the storm: An interdisciplinary review of crisis leadership	9
The role of CEO emotional stability and team heterogeneity in shaping the top management team affective tone and firm performance relationship	9
Effect of crises on charisma signaling: A regression discontinuity design	9
Leadership and the strategic emotional manipulation of political identity: An evolutionary perspective	9
Tweet, like, subscribe! Understanding leadership through social media use	9
The forms and use of intuition in top management teams	9
Board diversity’s antecedents and consequences: A review and research agenda	9
Why are right-wing voters attracted to dominant leaders? Assessing competing theories of psychological mechanisms	9
Physiological arousal variability accompanying relations-oriented behaviors of effective leaders: Triangulating skin conductance, video-based behavior coding and perceived effectiveness	9
Do executives’ aesthetic attributes matter to career and organizational outcomes? A critical review and theoretical integration	9
A meta-analysis of humble leadership: Reviewing individual, team, and organizational outcomes of leader humility	9
Gender stereotypes explain different mental prototypes of male and female leaders	9
When conflict fuels negativity. A large-scale comparative investigation of the contextual drivers of negative campaigning in elections worldwide	8
Is there such a thing as leadership skill? – A replication and extension of the relationship between high school leadership positions and later-life earnings	8
Testing the generalizability of the white leadership standard in the post-Obama era	8
Putting leader (follower) behavior back into transformational leadership: A theoretical and empirical course correction	8
How often do dictators have positive economic effects? Global evidence, 1858–2010	8
I can, I am: Differential predictors of leader efficacy and identity trajectories in leader development	8
On the scientific study of small samples: Challenges confronting quantitative and qualitative methodologies	8
Leader self-projection and collective role performance: A consideration of visionary leadership	8
The science of leader power	8
Eye gaze and visual attention as a window into leadership and followership: A review of empirical insights and future directions	8