OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leadership Quarterly is 25. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Racial minorities in strategic leadership: An integrative literature review and future research roadmap	212
Measuring behaviors counterfactually	162
Strategies for improving decision making of leaders with ADHD and without ADHD in combat military context	105
Leaders affect business creation: Evidence from mayoral elections	103
Common methodological mistakes	100
How good can bad leaders be? The opportunity costs of leader selection	94
Building actionable theories: The role of causal constructs	91
Determining causal relationships in leadership research using Machine Learning: The powerful synergy of experiments and data science	88
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	73
Gender and evaluations of leadership behaviors: A meta-analytic review of 50 years of research	69
A window into your status: Environment-based social class’s effect on virtual leadership	69
The effects of the charisma signal and voice pitch in female leader selection	60
Strategic leadership in a non-WEIRD context: An integrative review of strategic leaders in China	57
Editorial Board	56
Birds of a feather?: Firm sales growth and narcissism in the upper echelons at the CEO-TMT interface	55
What explains, what works, and what we can claim: Seven cases of rigorous review research	54
Using structural topic modeling to gain insight into challenges faced by leaders	53
A meta-analysis of humble leadership: Reviewing individual, team, and organizational outcomes of leader humility	50
The triangulation of ethical leader signals using qualitative, experimental, and data science methods	50
Editorial Board	50
Testing the generalizability of the white leadership standard in the post-Obama era	49
Credible leadership signals	49
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	48

Leader’s morality, prototypicality, and followers’ reactions	43
Do followers mind the pay gap? An experimental test of the impact of the vertical pay gap on leader effectiveness	42
Editorial Board	41
CEO political liberalism, stakeholders, and firms’ support for LGBT employees	40
Effects of women on corporate boards: An integrative review from a political capital perspective	39
Gender differences in dishonesty when leaders make decisions on behalf of their team	39
Seeing with counterfactual lenses: Alternative assumptions at the intersection of leadership and identity	38
Leadership in the digital era: A review of who, what, when, where, and why	37
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
Eye gaze and visual attention as a window into leadership and followership: A review of empirical insights and future directions	33
No access? No problem! Taking stock of unobtrusive measures for executives’ deep-level characteristics	31
Bringing the cognitive revolution forward: What can team cognition contribute to our understanding of leadership?	31
What is strategic leadership? Developing a framework for future research	31
Are women less convincing or perceivers biased? Understanding differential reactions towards men and women’s intentions to exert influence	31
Defining, assessing, and reporting saturation in qualitative research: Review and recommendations	30
Chief executive officers' appearance predicts company performance, or does it? A replication study and extension focusing on CEO successions	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	29
Gender stereotypes explain different mental prototypes of male and female leaders	28
Causal inference with observational data: A tutorial on propensity score analysis	28
Leadership science beyond questionnaires	27
Ecology, culture and leadership: Theoretical integration and review	26
A juggling act: CEO polychronicity and firm innovation	26
Managerial commitment to the status quo and corporate divestiture: Can power motivate openness to change?	25
Leader state emotions in organizations	25
The business case for demographic diversity in strategic leadership teams: A systematic and critical review of the causal evidence	25