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Leadership Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 19.1), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 1048-9843Verify ISSN ↗1873-3409Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,330 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 4 / 1530 | 99th | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 6 / 258 | 97th | Q1 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 6 / 254 | 97th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 15 / 456 | 96th | Q1 |
| Stage | Typical time |
|---|---|
| Submission → first decision | 3 days |
| Acceptance → online publication | 19 days |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 19.1.
Leadership Quarterly is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 4 of 1530), Q1 in Applied Psychology (rank 6 of 258) and Q1 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 6 of 254), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Leadership Quarterly is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 19.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 6.124, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 214.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,330 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Leadership Quarterly is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 1048-9843 and its online ISSN is 1873-3409.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 4 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Organisation Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Leadership Quarterly has an h-index of 277 and a 2-year mean of 7.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 19.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Leadership Quarterly published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 78. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 90 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (26.1%), United Kingdom (12.2%) and Germany (10.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 13 retracted papers are recorded (6.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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