Journal profile
Journal of Leadership in Organizations
ISSN 2656-8829 · eISSN 2656-8810 · Universitas Gadjah Mada · Indonesia
Journal of Leadership in Organizations: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 30 weeks (community reports); 10 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Leadership in Organizations is published by Universitas Gadjah Mada. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Leadership and Management in Organizations, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior and Employee Performance and Leadership, together about 46% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
An objective of the Journal of Leadership in Organizations (JLO) is to promote the wide dissemination of the results of systematic scholarly inquiries into the broad field of leadership research. The JLO is intended to be the journal for publishing articles reporting the results of research on the issues of leadership in varied organizations. In addition, the JLO invites the studies of the relationship of leaders and followers, traits of leadership, organizational performance in varied environments. Topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Approaches of leadershipCoaching and leadershipCross-culture and leadershipCultural leadershipDevelopment of leaders and leadershipEthics and LeadershipGender and leadershipGovernanceLeadership and organizational performanceLeadership and Innovation (Knowledge Management)Leading ChangeLeadership in modern organizationsLeadership in public organizationsLeadership in sportLeadership in TeamsMethodology of research in studies of leadershipMindfulness and LeadershipPolitic and LeadershipRelation of leaders and followersSpirituality and leadershipSuccession in leadershipTop Management and PerformanceTraits of leadership
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief C. Budi SantosoPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Indonesia 9, South Africa 3, Malaysia 2, United States 1, United Kingdom 1 (20 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Leadership and Management in OrganizationsBusiness, Management and Accounting18%
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorBusiness, Management and Accounting14%
- Employee Performance and LeadershipBusiness, Management and Accounting14%
- Employee Performance and ManagementSocial Sciences11.5%
- Workplace Spirituality and LeadershipSocial Sciences6%
- School Leadership and Teacher PerformanceSocial Sciences5.5%
- Team Dynamics and PerformancePsychology3.5%
- Global and Cross-Cultural ManagementSocial Sciences3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Dimensions, Garba Rujukan Digital (GARUDA), Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources (ROAD), Accredited in SINTA 2Publisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 15OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 22OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.43OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 84 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 10 | 10 | 44 |
| 2025 | 10 | 10 | 66 |
| 2024 | 10 | 10 | 143 |
| 2023 | 10 | 10 | 166 |
| 2022 | 12 | 12 | 107 |
| 2021 | 12 | 12 | 68 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 30 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 30 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-SA | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 150–250 words
- Keywords
- 3–5
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 9,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
- Templates
- Word
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism
- License & copyright Copyright Notice
<p>Articles published in JLO are licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>. You are free to copy, transform, or redistribute articles for any lawful purpose in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and JLO, link to the license, indicate if changes…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
All submitted manuscripts are read by the editorial staff. Those manuscripts evaluated by editors to be inappropriate to journal criteria are rejected promptly without external review. Manuscripts evaluated to be of potential interest to our readership are sent to blind peer reviewers. The editors then make a decision based on the reviewer’s recommendation from among several possibilities: rejecte…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Screening for plagiarism
Plagiarism screening with software; directly reject plagiarized texts Model summary
The manuscript that is submitted to JLO will be screened for similarity check using Turnitin. Manuscript found to contain a similarity index percentage higher than 20% (including self-plagiarism) will be rejected.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Universitas Gadjah Mada
- Country or region
- Indonesia
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2656-8829
- Electronic ISSN
- 2656-8810
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Leadership in Organizations
How long does peer review take at Journal of Leadership in Organizations?
Authors report an average review time of about 30 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Journal of Leadership in Organizations?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 150–250 words; Keywords: 3–5; Manuscript length: ≤ 9,000 words; Reference style: APA; Templates: Word. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Leadership in Organizations based?
Of the 20 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Indonesia (9), South Africa (3) and Malaysia (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Leadership in Organizations?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Leadership in Organizations is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Journal of Leadership in Organizations open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Leadership in Organizations is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .