《領導力季刊》是一本社會科學期刊，致力于增進我們對領導力作為一種現象的理解，以及如何研究它，以及它的實際意義。該雜志從各個學科的角度尋求貢獻，包括廣義的心理學(即心理學)。、工業組織、社會、進化、生物、差異、管理(即、組織行為學、戰略、組織理論、政治學、社會學、經濟學(即人類學、歷史學和方法論。同樣可取的是多學科觀點的貢獻。該雜志的目的是出版學術研究，理論和發展應用，從不同領域的研究領導。該雜志將考慮社會生活各個階層的領導人的研究，包括任何類型的團體或組織的正式或非正式領導人;非人類的領導也將被考慮。

The Leadership Quarterly is a social-science journal dedicated to advancing our understanding of leadership as a phenomenon, how to study it, as well as its practical implications.The journal seeks contributions from various disciplinary perspectives, including psychology broadly defined (i.e., industrial-organizational, social, evolutionary, biological, differential), management (i.e., organizational behavior, strategy, organizational theory), political science, sociology, economics (i.e., personnel, behavioral, labor), anthropology, history, and methodology. Equally desirable are contributions from multidisciplinary perspectives.The aim of the journal is to publish scholarly research, theory, and developmental application from diverse fields of inquiry about leadership. The journal will consider studies of leaders from all walks of social life, including formal or informal leaders of any type of group or organization; non-human leadership will also be considered.