The Leadership Quarterly is a bimonthly peer-reviewed multidisciplinary social science journal.

[1][2] Under the editorship of John Antonakis the journal made a major strategic turn in 2017 toward Open science and robust causal designs having policy implications.

The current editor-in-chief, George C. Banks (University of N. Carolina, Charlotte), is further pushing in this direction.

According to various journal quality lists, The Leadership Quarterly is highly ranked.

[3] Its acceptance rate is historically below 10%,[4] and in the latest editorial it was reported to be 7% [5] Former editors include:[6] The journal was recently distinguished by one of its recent articles,[7] which won the 2018 Ig Nobel prize in Economics.