What makes articles highly cited?

Abstract

We examined drivers of article citations using 776 articles that were published from 1990-2012 in a broad-based and high-impact social sciences journal, The Leadership Quarterly. These articles had 1,191 unique authors having published and received in total (at the time of their most recent article published in our dataset) 16,817 articles and 284,777 citations, respectively. Our models explained 66.6% of the variance in citations and showed that quantitative, review, method, and theory articles were significantly more cited than were qualitative articles or agentbased simulations. As concerns quantitative articles, which constituted the majority of the sample, our model explained 80.3% of the variance in citations; some methods (e.g., use of SEM) and designs (e.g., meta-analysis), as well as theoretical approaches (e.g., use of transformational, charismatic, or visionary type-leadership theories) predicted higher article citations. Regarding the statistical conclusion validity of quantitative articles, articles having endogeneity threats received significantly fewer citations than did those using a more robust design or an estimation procedure that ensured correct causal estimation. We make several general recommendations on how to improve research practice and article citations.

Conhecimento Científico sobre Liderança: Uma Análise Bibliométrica do Acervo do The Leadership Quarterly

“…Quando um autor busca uma referência e realiza uma citação, parte-se do princípio de que os trabalhos citados são afins e, na maior parte dos casos, relevantes para o embasamento teórico e a trama argumentativa da pesquisa realizada (Serra et al, 2012). Portanto, depreende-se que, essencialmente, os trabalhos que recebem mais citações apresentam uma maior influência no desenvolvimento de uma teoria, na discussão sobre um fenômeno ou em um campo do conhecimento (Antonakis et al, 2014).…”

“…Por outro lado, a aplicação de ferramentas bibliométricas de análise à produção científica sobre o tema é mais rara, e poucos são os trabalhos que as utilizam para analisar tendências editoriais específicas (e.g. : Antonakis, Bastardoz, & Schriesheim, 2014;Fernandes & Vaz, 2010).…”

Count-Based Research in Management

“…Due to the predominate standard of displaying just the mean and standard deviation in the descriptive statistics table, it was difficult to ascertain exactly how many papers may have excess zeros, and unlike Wang et al (2010), most papers did not directly note the underlying data's characteristics. Of the few papers reporting zero-inflated models, one paper noted that nearly 90% of the observations had a value of zero (Chang, Chung, & Mahmood, 2006), whereas another paper with just 7% of the observations taking a value of zero found that the zero-inflated model provided a better fit than the more basic underlying Poisson or negative binomial (Antonakis, Bastardoz, Liu, & Schriesheim, 2014). Moreover, it is important to emphasize that changes from the most basic Poisson to zero-inflated models can be drastic.…”

Beauty is in the in-group of the beholded: Intergroup differences in the perceived attractiveness of leaders

“…In contrast with studies that rely on markers such as facial symmetry to predict ratings of attractiveness, our prediction is that followers will perceive leaders who display "good values" (i.e., leaders of their own self-selected groups) to be more physically attractive than leaders of rival groups. Most generally, our consideration of evolutionary studies of physical attractiveness in relation to questions of followership and leadership in contemporary political organizations reflects a trend towards relatively greater use of evolutionary perspectives for studying leadership (Antonakis, Bastardoz, Liu, & Schriesheim, 2014;Day & Antonakis, 2012).…”