OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leadership Quarterly is 22. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Leaders affect business creation: Evidence from mayoral elections	111
How good can bad leaders be? The opportunity costs of leader selection	109
Building actionable theories: The role of causal constructs	102
Determining causal relationships in leadership research using Machine Learning: The powerful synergy of experiments and data science	99
Strategies for improving decision making of leaders with ADHD and without ADHD in combat military context	97
Measuring behaviors counterfactually	77
Racial minorities in strategic leadership: An integrative literature review and future research roadmap	76
Common methodological mistakes	73
Leadership shaping social comparison to improve performance: A field experiment	72
Difference-in-Differences with matching methods in leadership studies: A review and practical guide	63
A window into your status: Environment-based social class’s effect on virtual leadership	58
Gender and evaluations of leadership behaviors: A meta-analytic review of 50 years of research	58
The effects of the charisma signal and voice pitch in female leader selection	56
Editorial Board	55
Strategic leadership in a non-WEIRD context: An integrative review of strategic leaders in China	55
Birds of a feather?: Firm sales growth and narcissism in the upper echelons at the CEO-TMT interface	53
What explains, what works, and what we can claim: Seven cases of rigorous review research	52
The triangulation of ethical leader signals using qualitative, experimental, and data science methods	51
A meta-analysis of humble leadership: Reviewing individual, team, and organizational outcomes of leader humility	50
Using structural topic modeling to gain insight into challenges faced by leaders	49
Editorial Board	48
When the going gets tough: Board gender diversity in the wake of a major crisis	47
Credible leadership signals	43
Reconciling identity leadership and leader identity: A dual-identity framework	43
Testing the generalizability of the white leadership standard in the post-Obama era	41

Leader’s morality, prototypicality, and followers’ reactions	40
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
Gender differences in dishonesty when leaders make decisions on behalf of their team	37
Effects of women on corporate boards: An integrative review from a political capital perspective	35
Using customized, conversational AI agents in leadership and management research: Benefits, practical illustrations, and best practices	33
Editorial Board	32
Corpus linguistics for leadership studies: Bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide	31
Seeing with counterfactual lenses: Alternative assumptions at the intersection of leadership and identity	30
Leadership in the digital era: A review of who, what, when, where, and why	30
Eye gaze and visual attention as a window into leadership and followership: A review of empirical insights and future directions	27
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	27
Are women less convincing or perceivers biased? Understanding differential reactions towards men and women’s intentions to exert influence	26
No access? No problem! Taking stock of unobtrusive measures for executives’ deep-level characteristics	26
Bringing the cognitive revolution forward: What can team cognition contribute to our understanding of leadership?	25
Defining, assessing, and reporting saturation in qualitative research: Review and recommendations	24
The business case for demographic diversity in strategic leadership teams: A systematic and critical review of the causal evidence	24
Causal inference with observational data: A tutorial on propensity score analysis	23
Gender stereotypes explain different mental prototypes of male and female leaders	23
Ecology, culture and leadership: Theoretical integration and review	22
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	22