The Leadership Quarterly


The Leadership Quarterly is a bimonthly peer-reviewed multidisciplinary social science journal. It is dedicated to the scientific study of leadership. The journal has a broad focus and publishers papers from various fields of social science as well as of biological science. The journal also publishes methodological advances.
The journal was established in 1990 and is published by Elsevier. The current editor-in-chief is John Antonakis. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 6.642 which puts it in the first quartile in management and applied psychology. It has a CiteScore of 11.08. 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:
The journal was recently distinguished by one of its recent articles, which won the 2018 Ig Nobel prize in Economics.