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Papers

(The TQCC of Leadership Quarterly is 20. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The romance of leadership: Rekindling the fire through replication of Meindl and Ehrlich	176
Eight puzzles of leadership science	139
Editorial Board	136
Editorial Board	131
Leader decision speed as a signal of honesty	108
Editorial Board	107
Call for Papers: The Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review (LQYR) for 2024	105
The private life of CEOs; A strategic leadership perspective	62
Determining causal relationships in leadership research using Machine Learning: The powerful synergy of experiments and data science	60
Editorial Board	55
Editorial Board	53
Female CHRO appointments: A crack in the glass ceiling?	50
Leadership in the digital era: A review of who, what, when, where, and why	49
Measuring behaviors counterfactually	47
Racial minorities in strategic leadership: An integrative literature review and future research roadmap	46
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	42
When subordinates do not follow: A typology of subordinate resistance as perceived by leaders	41
Leading-by-example in public goods experiments: What do we know?	40
Is there a prototype leader look? Evidence from the photos of Chinese local leaders	39
Should knowledge be distorted? Managers' knowledge distortion strategies and organizational learning in different environments	38
Dictators’ facial characteristics and foreign direct investment	37
The effect of charismatic leaders on followers’ memory, error detection, persuasion and prosocial behavior: A cognitive science approach	36
Leadership with Imperfect Monitoring	35
How good can bad leaders be? The opportunity costs of leader selection	35
A neuroscience-based model of why and when CEO social values affect investments in corporate social responsibility	35

Eye gaze and visual attention as a window into leadership and followership: A review of empirical insights and future directions	34
How being rooted in the past can shape the future: The role of social identity continuity in the wish for a strong leader	34
Human-robot collaboration: A multilevel and integrated leadership framework	34
Women in academic publishing: Descriptive trends from authors to editors across 33 years of management science	34
CEO childhood trauma, social networks, and strategic risk taking	33
Putting leader (follower) behavior back into transformational leadership: A theoretical and empirical course correction	32
Leaders affect business creation: Evidence from mayoral elections	30
Exogenous shocks: Definitions, types, and causal identification issues	30
Seeing with counterfactual lenses: Alternative assumptions at the intersection of leadership and identity	30
The perks of narcissism: Behaving like a star speeds up career advancement to the CEO position	28
Regulation and the trickle-down effect of women in leadership roles	28
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
A bibliometric review of the leadership development field: How we got here, where we are, and where we are headed	27
What is strategic leadership? Developing a framework for future research	27
Strategies for improving decision making of leaders with ADHD and without ADHD in combat military context	26
In pursuit of causality in leadership training research: A review and pragmatic recommendations	25
Where is “behavior” in organizational behavior? A call for a revolution in leadership research and beyond	25
A chronotype circadian model of charismatic leadership expressions and perceptions	25
Common methodological mistakes	24
Leadership shaping social comparison to improve performance: A field experiment	24
Editorial Board	23
Becoming a leader with clipped wings: The role of early-career unemployment scarring on future leadership role occupancy	22
Editorial Board	21
Editorial Board	21
Are we on the same page? Leader-follower value congruence as a boundary condition in the emergence of charismatic effects	20
No access? No problem! Taking stock of unobtrusive measures for executives’ deep-level characteristics	20
The face of wrongdoing? An expectancy violations perspective on CEO facial characteristics and media coverage of misconducting firms	20
Difference-in-Differences with matching methods in leadership studies: A review and practical guide	20
Call for proposals: The Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review (LQYR) for 2026	20