''The Leadership Quarterly'' is a bimonthly

peer-review Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

ed multidisciplinary

social science Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soc ...

journal. It is dedicated to the scientific study of

leadership Leadership, both as a research area and as a practical skill, encompasses the ability of an individual, group or organization to "lead", influence or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations. The word "leadership" often gets view ...

. The journal has a broad focus and publishers papers from various fields of

(

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

, political science, sociology) as well as of biological science (e.g.,

evolutionary psychology Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evolv ...

). The journal also publishes methodological advances. The journal was established in 1990 by JAI Press. It is currently published by

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, which acquired JAI Press in 1998. The current

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John Antonakis John Antonakis (born March 29, 1969) is a professor of organizational behavior at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne and current editor-in-chief of '' The Leadership Quarterly''. Life He was born and raised in Sou ...

(

University of Lausanne The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzer ...

). According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as i ...

of 10.517 which puts it in the first quartile in management (11 out of 226 journals) and applied psychology (4 out of 83). It has a CiteScore of 13.200 (akin to a 3-year impact factor). According to various journal quality lists, ''The Leadership Quarterly'' is highly ranked. Its acceptance rate is historically below 10%, and in the latest editorial it was reported to be 7% Former editors include: * Leanne E. Atwater, University of Houston, USA, 2010-2016 * Michael D. Mumford, University of Oklahoma, USA, 2005-2010 * James G. Hunt, Texas Tech University, USA, 1999-2004 * Francis Yammarino, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA, 1992-1998 * Henry L. Tosi, Jr., University of Florida, 1991-1992 * Robert J. House, University of Pennsylvania, 1991-1992 *

Bernard M. Bass Bernard Morris Bass (June 11, 1925 – October 11, 2007) was an American scholar in the fields of leadership studies and organizational behavior. He was distinguished professor emeritus in the School of Management at Binghamton University, where ...

, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1990

Awards

The journal was recently distinguished by one of its recent articles, which won the 2018

Ig Nobel The Ig Nobel Prize ( ) is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. Its aim is to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The name of ...

prize in Economics.

References

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