
Academic Journal
Q1Leadership
About Leadership
Leadership is a scholarly journal published by SAGE Publications Ltd. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 1.109 and H-index of 66.
Coverage: 2005-2026. Research categories: Sociology and Political Science (Q1); Strategy and Management (Q1).
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Topics in published research
Management and Organizational Studies; Management Theory and Practice; Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior; Organizational Learning and Leadership; Gender Diversity and Inequality; Leadership and Management in Organizations.
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Reported open-access list prices
3,650.00 USD; 2,676.00 GBP
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Magnus Larsson, Lise Dahl Arvedsen
2026-09-23 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261489319What if Bergson and Einstein’s dispute regarding time had become a dialogue? Towards leadership as temporal becoming
Dicle Kortantamer
2026-09-16 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261489397Responses to insufficient sustainability leadership: Dialectics of resistance
Markéta Svobodová
2026-09-04 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261486766Prove your leadership if you can! Digital impression management in political leadership
Rudolf Metz, Márton Bene, Veronika Kövesdi
2026-08-29 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261485711Blending and toggling: Visibility, paradox, and leadership-as-practice in Chinese underground music scenes
Anthony Ryan
2026-08-24 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261479364Emotional extraction leadership: Narcissistic power, emotional labour, and identity harm in professional work
Nurul Afiqah Zulkifly, Ismi Arif Ismail
2026-08-13 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261477468Leadership under civilizational constraint: Extending context in critical leadership studies through a comparative analysis of three (1990s) peace processes
Paul Sanders
2026-07-22 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261470857The leadership dynamics of systems change
Nicole Ferry, Eric Guthey, Sverre Spoelstra
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261467592The opening of an adaptive space: Sense practices for implementing sustainability-oriented innovation strategy
Wen Pan Fagerlin, Martin Svensson
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261465460Leadership of systems change: Towards regenerative business
Steve Kempster
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261464204Leadership as relational practice: The interplay of role attribution in a hospital context during COVID-19
Arjan Verhoeven, Erik Van De Loo, Henri Marres, Pieterbas Lalleman et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261457947From democracy to display: Albanian’s prime minister Edi Rama, symbolic power, and the leadership of authoritarian populism
Warren Noble
2026-06 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261431604Editorial: Special issues in L eadership - Reflections from previous guest editors
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2026-06 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261451230The paradox of nice leadership: An exploratory mapping of passive toxicity
Abdulfattah Yaghi
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261447997Team leadership in leisure sports groups: From followership to co-leadership
Sylvie Lacoste, Jiachen Yang
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261446550Algorithmic leadership and the game of business
Sverre Spoelstra, Nick Butler
2026-06 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261436598Leadership Special Issue: Leadership and leadership development for sustainability
Carole Elliott, Sarah Robinson, Elena Antonacopoulou
2026-04 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261436952Rethinking ethical leadership: A philosophical anthropology of moral complexity and organizational power
Devadoss Francis, RG Priyadarshini, Lalatendu Kesari Jena
2026-06 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261435530Complexity leadership theory and fostering organizational adaptability: Enabling leadership in complex systems change
Yashar Mahmud, Christina Evaldsson, Manuela Schmidt, Sofia Kjellström et al.
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1177/17427150261431137Reviews
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