OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leadership Quarterly is 23. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Leaders affect business creation: Evidence from mayoral elections	114
Building actionable theories: The role of causal constructs	111
Racial minorities in strategic leadership: An integrative literature review and future research roadmap	104
Determining causal relationships in leadership research using Machine Learning: The powerful synergy of experiments and data science	104
Measuring behaviors counterfactually	99
Strategies for improving decision making of leaders with ADHD and without ADHD in combat military context	82
How good can bad leaders be? The opportunity costs of leader selection	82
Common methodological mistakes	80
Leadership shaping social comparison to improve performance: A field experiment	75
Difference-in-Differences with matching methods in leadership studies: A review and practical guide	67
A window into your status: Environment-based social class’s effect on virtual leadership	61
Gender and evaluations of leadership behaviors: A meta-analytic review of 50 years of research	60
The effects of the charisma signal and voice pitch in female leader selection	59
Using structural topic modeling to gain insight into challenges faced by leaders	57
Editorial Board	56
Strategic leadership in a non-WEIRD context: An integrative review of strategic leaders in China	54
Birds of a feather?: Firm sales growth and narcissism in the upper echelons at the CEO-TMT interface	53
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
A meta-analysis of humble leadership: Reviewing individual, team, and organizational outcomes of leader humility	52
Editorial Board	50
When the going gets tough: Board gender diversity in the wake of a major crisis	49
Reconciling identity leadership and leader identity: A dual-identity framework	44
Testing the generalizability of the white leadership standard in the post-Obama era	43
Credible leadership signals	43

Leader’s morality, prototypicality, and followers’ reactions	42
The renaissance of management: When regular employees become multi-level managers of AI agents	41
Editorial Board	38
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
Effects of women on corporate boards: An integrative review from a political capital perspective	36
Gender differences in dishonesty when leaders make decisions on behalf of their team	36
Using customized, conversational AI agents in leadership and management research: Benefits, practical illustrations, and best practices	32
Seeing with counterfactual lenses: Alternative assumptions at the intersection of leadership and identity	30
Corpus linguistics for leadership studies: Bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide	30
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	29
Leadership in the digital era: A review of who, what, when, where, and why	29
Are women less convincing or perceivers biased? Understanding differential reactions towards men and women’s intentions to exert influence	27
Eye gaze and visual attention as a window into leadership and followership: A review of empirical insights and future directions	27
Defining, assessing, and reporting saturation in qualitative research: Review and recommendations	25
Bringing the cognitive revolution forward: What can team cognition contribute to our understanding of leadership?	25
No access? No problem! Taking stock of unobtrusive measures for executives’ deep-level characteristics	25
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
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	23
Leadership science beyond questionnaires	23
From humble beginnings to a critical juncture: redirecting research on humble leadership	23