The Leadership Quarterly AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Leadership Quarterly is the top field journal publishing high-quality and high-impact research dedicated to the scientific study of leadership. The importance afforded to leadership is growing as is the quest to educate and develop leaders. We provide some key information here, which recognizes and valorizes the journal, and request your help to get the journal added to the coveted journal FT-50 list.
AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY
The Leadership Quarterly is a social-science journal dedicated to advancing our understanding of leadership as a phenomenon and its practical implications. The journal is broad with an interdisciplinary focus and seeks contributions from various fields including psychology, management, strategy, political science, economics, sociology, evolution, anthropology, and methodology among others.
QUALITY AND IMPACT
The journal is highly selective; over the last year, the acceptance rate of the journal is about 6%. Its 2019 two-year Impact Factor is 6.642. The journal is ranked 5th out of 84 journals in Clarivate’s Applied Psychology category, and 11th out of 226 in the Management category, placing it in the top 95th percentiles. Scopus gives it a CiteScore of 11.80, putting it in the top 97th to 99th percentiles across four social sciences disciplines. We expect that both the Impact Factor and CiteScore should continue to increase in 2021.
Moreover, the journal is highly regarded by various expert-ranking systems (e.g., ABDC—Australian Business Deans Council list (A*), the UK Academic Journal Guide (4), the Chinese FMS Journal Rating Guide (A), and many others).
The Leadership Quarterly articles are downloaded over 1.5 million times each year. The top 3 downloaded articles receive over 20,000 downloads each per year.
REASONS THE LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE FT-50 LIST
The Leadership Quarterly is a strong candidate for inclusion in the FT top-50 journal list because:
1. The FT top-50 journal list does not have any journals dedicated to the science of leadership 2. On the basis of objective data (i.e., two-year Impact Factor), The Leadership Quarterly stands out as very highly ranked as compared to the journals already in the FT-50 list (see table on next page) 3. Leadership is a mainstay and most-often a key focus at business schools both from a research and practice point of view 4. The importance of leadership in consequential settings is a ubiquitous topic, whether in business, politics, government or non-government organizations, sports teams, the military, and elsewhere.
COMPARISON OF THE LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY TO THE TOP-RANKED FT JOURNALS
The journal ranks 11th out of the 50 journals currently on the FT list on the basis of the two-year Impact Factor. Below are the top 20 FT journals ordered according to 2019 two-year Impact Factor:
Rank Journal Name Impact factor 1 Quarterly Journal of Economics 11.375 2 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 10.750 3 Journal of International Business Studies 9.158 4 Journal of Management 8.852 5 Academy of Management Review 8.365 6 Administrative Science Quarterly 8.304 7 Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 7.959 8 Journal of Business Venturing 7.590 9 Academy of Management Journal 7.525 10 Journal of Finance 6.813 The Leadership Quarterly 6.642 11 Journal of Consumer Research 6.207 12 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 6.200 13 Journal of Applied Psychology 5.818 14 Journal of Financial Economics 5.731 15 Harvard Business Review 5.694 16 American Economic Review 5.558 17 Journal of Political Economy 5.504 18 Strategic Management Journal 5.463 19 MIS Quarterly 5.361 20 Research Policy 5.351
The journal is, by a large margin, the most influential one dedicated to scientific study of leadership and is one of the top-ranked journals in management studies.
UNIQUE SELLING POINTS OF THE JOURNAL
The journal publishes basic and applied research that employs robust research designs and methods. The journal is one of the first in management to ensure: 1. Open science—publishes registered reports, results masked reviews, ensures transparent reporting 2. Causal identification—expects correctly causally identified designs that are endogeneity free and consequential 3. Robust and reliable science—conducts thorough methods checks via dedicated methods advisors
EDITORIAL TEAM AND CONTACT
The editorial team of 25 editors is diverse and has substantial publishing and editorial experience in various social sciences disciplines (e.g., management, psychology, evolution, political science, and economics). The editorial board includes 179 world-class experts from a broad spectrum of leadership research.
Editor in Chief, John Antonakis [email protected] Senior Publisher, Caroline Moors c.moors@elsevier.com Editorial team and board https://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-leadership-quarterly/editorial-board Journal homepage https://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-leadership-quarterly
Prepared 2 December 2020 p. 2