OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leadership Quarterly is 21. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Call for Papers: The Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review (LQYR) for 2024	180
How good can bad leaders be? The opportunity costs of leader selection	143
Measuring behaviors counterfactually	141
Racial minorities in strategic leadership: An integrative literature review and future research roadmap	120
Strategies for improving decision making of leaders with ADHD and without ADHD in combat military context	116
Determining causal relationships in leadership research using Machine Learning: The powerful synergy of experiments and data science	110
Leaders affect business creation: Evidence from mayoral elections	65
Common methodological mistakes	61
Leadership shaping social comparison to improve performance: A field experiment	60
Gender and evaluations of leadership behaviors: A meta-analytic review of 50 years of research	57
Crisis leadership: A review and future research agenda	56
A window into your status: Environment-based social class’s effect on virtual leadership	52
Difference-in-Differences with matching methods in leadership studies: A review and practical guide	52
Polynomial regression analysis and response surface methodology in leadership research	49
Using structural topic modeling to gain insight into challenges faced by leaders	48
A meta-analysis of humble leadership: Reviewing individual, team, and organizational outcomes of leader humility	47
The triangulation of ethical leader signals using qualitative, experimental, and data science methods	42
Editorial Board	41
Editorial Board	40
Birds of a feather?: Firm sales growth and narcissism in the upper echelons at the CEO-TMT interface	39
The effects of the charisma signal and voice pitch in female leader selection	39
Editorial Board	38
When the going gets tough: Board gender diversity in the wake of a major crisis	38
Where power resides in committees	37
Testing the generalizability of the white leadership standard in the post-Obama era	37

Do followers mind the pay gap? An experimental test of the impact of the vertical pay gap on leader effectiveness	35
Editorial Board	35
Reconciling identity leadership and leader identity: A dual-identity framework	35
Leader’s morality, prototypicality, and followers’ reactions	35
The language of power and authority in leadership	33
CEO political liberalism, stakeholders, and firms’ support for LGBT employees	33
Effects of women on corporate boards: An integrative review from a political capital perspective	32
Eye gaze and visual attention as a window into leadership and followership: A review of empirical insights and future directions	31
Seeing with counterfactual lenses: Alternative assumptions at the intersection of leadership and identity	31
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	30
Leadership in the digital era: A review of who, what, when, where, and why	30
No access? No problem! Taking stock of unobtrusive measures for executives’ deep-level characteristics	29
Bringing the cognitive revolution forward: What can team cognition contribute to our understanding of leadership?	29
What is strategic leadership? Developing a framework for future research	29
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	27
Nurturing overconfidence: The relationship between leader power, overconfidence and firm performance	27
Leadership science beyond questionnaires	26
The business case for demographic diversity in strategic leadership teams: A systematic and critical review of the causal evidence	26
Gender stereotypes explain different mental prototypes of male and female leaders	25
Ecology, culture and leadership: Theoretical integration and review	25
State extraversion and emergent leadership: Do introverts emerge as leaders when they act like extraverts?	24
Causal inference with observational data: A tutorial on propensity score analysis	23
Managerial commitment to the status quo and corporate divestiture: Can power motivate openness to change?	23
Leaders’ influence on collective action: An identity leadership perspective	23
Chief executive officers' appearance predicts company performance, or does it? A replication study and extension focusing on CEO successions	23
A juggling act: CEO polychronicity and firm innovation	23
Editorial Board	21
A conceptual replication of ambidextrous leadership theory: An experimental approach	21
Editorial Board	21
Board diversity’s antecedents and consequences: A review and research agenda	21