OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Leadership Quarterly is 10. 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
Do followers mind the pay gap? An experimental test of the impact of the vertical pay gap on leader effectiveness	38
Editorial Board	38
CEO political liberalism, stakeholders, and firms’ support for LGBT employees	38
Gender differences in dishonesty when leaders make decisions on behalf of their team	36
Effects of women on corporate boards: An integrative review from a political capital perspective	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
Ecology, culture and leadership: Theoretical integration and review	22
Gender stereotypes explain different mental prototypes of male and female leaders	22
Leader state emotions in organizations	20
Board diversity’s antecedents and consequences: A review and research agenda	20
Chief executive officers' appearance predicts company performance, or does it? A replication study and extension focusing on CEO successions	20
Leaders’ influence on collective action: An identity leadership perspective	20
A conceptual replication of ambidextrous leadership theory: An experimental approach	19
Leading with pride: An interdisciplinary integrative review on LGBTIQ + leadership and an agenda for future research	19
Editorial Board	19
Is there a prototype leader look? Evidence from the photos of Chinese local leaders	18
Editorial Board	18
Editorial Board	18
CEO childhood trauma, social networks, and strategic risk taking	17
Exogenous shocks: Definitions, types, and causal identification issues	17
Eight puzzles of leadership science	16
Editorial Board	16
The romance of leadership: Rekindling the fire through replication of Meindl and Ehrlich	16
Becoming a leader with clipped wings: The role of early-career unemployment scarring on future leadership role occupancy	16
Call for proposals: The Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review (LQYR) for 2026	16
Does leadership still not need emotional intelligence? Continuing “The Great EI Debate”	16
Commanding corporate narratives: How military-experienced leaders shape corporate communication	15
Research questions matter: A five-criterion framework for centering decisions in congruence research	15
CEO health	14
Is white always the standard? Using replication to revisit and extend what we know about the leadership prototype	14
Zombie leadership: Dead ideas that still walk among us	14
Leadership in layers: An integrative review on skip-level leadership and an agenda for future research	14
Leader self-projection and collective role performance: A consideration of visionary leadership	14
Editorial Board	14

Traversing the storm: An interdisciplinary review of crisis leadership	14
Editorial Board	13
Editorial Board	13
New ways of seeing: Four ways you have not thought about Registered Reports yet	13
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	13
Women in academic publishing: Descriptive trends from authors to editors across 33 years of management science	12
When subordinates do not follow: A typology of subordinate resistance as perceived by leaders	12
Measuring CEO responsible leadership: Development and validation of a linguistic-based instrument	12
Female CHRO appointments: A crack in the glass ceiling?	12
Regulation and the trickle-down effect of women in leadership roles	12
Beyond efficiency: How artificial intelligence (AI) will reshape scientific inquiry and the publication process	12
Too young to lead? Role incongruity explains age bias against young leaders	11
Call for proposals: The 2027 Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review (LQYR) issue	11
Editorial Board	11
Exemplifying “Us”: Integrating social identity theory of leadership with cognitive models of categorization	11
The face of wrongdoing? An expectancy violations perspective on CEO facial characteristics and media coverage of misconducting firms	11
LQYR introduction	10
Political promotion of CEOs of state-controlled firms in China: A state capitalism view	10
The face of leadership: inferences, impressions, and behavioral consequences	10
The value of leadership: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment	10
Changes in top management teams: A review and future research	10