Leadership Quarterly

Aims & Scope

The Leadership Quarterly is a social-science journal dedicated to advancing our understanding of leadership as a phenomenon, how to study it, as well as its practical implications.

The journal seeks contributions from various disciplinary perspectives, including psychology broadly defined (i.e., industrial-organizational, social, evolutionary, biological, differential), management (i.e., organizational behavior, strategy, organizational theory), political science, sociology, economics (i.e., personnel, behavioral, labor), anthropology, history, and methodology.

Equally desirable are contributions from multidisciplinary perspectives.

The aim of the journal is to publish scholarly research, theory, and developmental application from diverse fields of inquiry about leadership.

The journal will consider studies of leaders from all walks of social life, including formal or informal leaders of any type of group or organization; non-human leadership will also be considered.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	9.7

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	262

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1772

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	5.393

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	202

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Business, Management and Accounting, Psychology and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Relationship-based approach to leadership: Development of leader-member exchange (LMX) theory of leadership over 25 years: Applying a multi-level multi-domain perspective

  Citation: 4623

  Authors: George B., Mary

• Authentic leadership development: Getting to the root of positive forms of leadership

  Citation: 3579

  Authors: Bruce J., William L.

• Transformational leader behaviors and their effects on followers' trust in leader, satisfaction, and organizational citizenship behaviors

  Citation: 3448

  Authors: Philip M., Scott B., Robert H., Richard

• Ethical leadership: A review and future directions

  Citation: 2477

  Authors: Michael E., Linda K.

• The effects of leader and follower emotional intelligence on performance and attitude

  Citation: 2103

  Authors: Chi-Sum, Kenneth S

• On making causal claims: A review and recommendations

  Citation: 1840

  Authors: John, Samuel, Philippe, Rafael

• Effectiveness correlates of transformational and transactional leadership: A meta-analytic review of the mlq literature

  Citation: 1584

  Authors: Kevin B., K.Galen, Nagaraj

• Ethics, character, and authentic transformational leadership behavior

  Citation: 1455

  Authors: Bernard M, Paul

• Unlocking the mask: a look at the process by which authentic leaders impact follower attitudes and behaviors

  Citation: 1399

  Authors: Bruce J., William L., Fred O., Fred, Douglas R.

• Toward a theory of spiritual leadership

  Citation: 1384

  Authors: Louis W

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