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Papers

(The median citation count of Leadership Quarterly is 9. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Call for Papers: The Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review (LQYR) for 2024	204
Measuring behaviors counterfactually	170
Common methodological mistakes	168
Leaders affect business creation: Evidence from mayoral elections	141
Determining causal relationships in leadership research using Machine Learning: The powerful synergy of experiments and data science	135
Racial minorities in strategic leadership: An integrative literature review and future research roadmap	130
How good can bad leaders be? The opportunity costs of leader selection	85
Strategies for improving decision making of leaders with ADHD and without ADHD in combat military context	81
Difference-in-Differences with matching methods in leadership studies: A review and practical guide	75
Gender and evaluations of leadership behaviors: A meta-analytic review of 50 years of research	74
Leadership shaping social comparison to improve performance: A field experiment	74
A window into your status: Environment-based social class’s effect on virtual leadership	70
Crisis leadership: A review and future research agenda	63
The effects of the charisma signal and voice pitch in female leader selection	60
Editorial Board	58
Editorial Board	57
The triangulation of ethical leader signals using qualitative, experimental, and data science methods	57
Polynomial regression analysis and response surface methodology in leadership research	55
Using structural topic modeling to gain insight into challenges faced by leaders	55
Birds of a feather?: Firm sales growth and narcissism in the upper echelons at the CEO-TMT interface	53
A meta-analysis of humble leadership: Reviewing individual, team, and organizational outcomes of leader humility	51
Editorial Board	45
When the going gets tough: Board gender diversity in the wake of a major crisis	45
Testing the generalizability of the white leadership standard in the post-Obama era	44
Leader’s morality, prototypicality, and followers’ reactions	42

Reconciling identity leadership and leader identity: A dual-identity framework	42
Do followers mind the pay gap? An experimental test of the impact of the vertical pay gap on leader effectiveness	41
Editorial Board	40
CEO political liberalism, stakeholders, and firms’ support for LGBT employees	39
Effects of women on corporate boards: An integrative review from a political capital perspective	38
Seeing with counterfactual lenses: Alternative assumptions at the intersection of leadership and identity	36
Eye gaze and visual attention as a window into leadership and followership: A review of empirical insights and future directions	34
Leadership in the digital era: A review of who, what, when, where, and why	34
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	34
Bringing the cognitive revolution forward: What can team cognition contribute to our understanding of leadership?	33
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	33
What is strategic leadership? Developing a framework for future research	33
No access? No problem! Taking stock of unobtrusive measures for executives’ deep-level characteristics	33
Chief executive officers' appearance predicts company performance, or does it? A replication study and extension focusing on CEO successions	32
The business case for demographic diversity in strategic leadership teams: A systematic and critical review of the causal evidence	32
Leadership science beyond questionnaires	31
Ecology, culture and leadership: Theoretical integration and review	31
A juggling act: CEO polychronicity and firm innovation	29
Managerial commitment to the status quo and corporate divestiture: Can power motivate openness to change?	29
Gender stereotypes explain different mental prototypes of male and female leaders	29
Leader state emotions in organizations	29
Causal inference with observational data: A tutorial on propensity score analysis	29
Board diversity’s antecedents and consequences: A review and research agenda	27
Leaders’ influence on collective action: An identity leadership perspective	27
A conceptual replication of ambidextrous leadership theory: An experimental approach	24
Editorial Board	24
Editorial Board	23
Leading with pride: An interdisciplinary integrative review on LGBTIQ + leadership and an agenda for future research	23
A chronotype circadian model of charismatic leadership expressions and perceptions	22
Editorial Board	22
Is there a prototype leader look? Evidence from the photos of Chinese local leaders	22
The romance of leadership: Rekindling the fire through replication of Meindl and Ehrlich	22
Editorial Board	22
Eight puzzles of leadership science	21
In pursuit of causality in leadership training research: A review and pragmatic recommendations	21
CEO childhood trauma, social networks, and strategic risk taking	21
Exogenous shocks: Definitions, types, and causal identification issues	21
A bibliometric review of the leadership development field: How we got here, where we are, and where we are headed	21
Becoming a leader with clipped wings: The role of early-career unemployment scarring on future leadership role occupancy	20
Editorial Board	20
Call for proposals: The Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review (LQYR) for 2026	20
Is the transition to formal leadership caused by trait extraversion? A counterfactual hazard analysis using two large panel datasets	19
Does leadership still not need emotional intelligence? Continuing “The Great EI Debate”	19
CEO proactiveness, innovation, and firm performance	17
CEO health	17
Zombie leadership: Dead ideas that still walk among us	17
Editorial Board	17
Traversing the storm: An interdisciplinary review of crisis leadership	16
Editorial Board	16
Leader self-projection and collective role performance: A consideration of visionary leadership	16

When conflict fuels negativity. A large-scale comparative investigation of the contextual drivers of negative campaigning in elections worldwide	16
Is white always the standard? Using replication to revisit and extend what we know about the leadership prototype	16
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	15
Dirty looks: Politicians’ appearance and unethical behaviour	15
Editorial Board	14
New ways of seeing: Four ways you have not thought about Registered Reports yet	14
Tweet, like, subscribe! Understanding leadership through social media use	14
Leadership selection: Can changing the default break the glass ceiling?	14
Female CHRO appointments: A crack in the glass ceiling?	13
Editorial Board	13
Women in academic publishing: Descriptive trends from authors to editors across 33 years of management science	13
When subordinates do not follow: A typology of subordinate resistance as perceived by leaders	12
A neuroscience-based model of why and when CEO social values affect investments in corporate social responsibility	12
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	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
Editorial Board	11
Call for proposals: The 2027 Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review (LQYR) issue	11
Human-robot collaboration: A multilevel and integrated leadership framework	11
The face of wrongdoing? An expectancy violations perspective on CEO facial characteristics and media coverage of misconducting firms	11
Authentic leadership theory: The case for and against	10
Top management team constellations and their implications for strategic decision making	10
Exemplifying “Us”: Integrating social identity theory of leadership with cognitive models of categorization	10
The value of leadership: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment	9
Four decades of CEO–TMT interface research: A review inspired by role theory	9
LQYR introduction	9
Too young to lead? Role incongruity explains age bias against young leaders	9
The XX factor: Female managers and innovation in a cross-country setting	9
Extending the boundaries of strategic leadership research	9