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.
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