Richard Bolden

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Richard Bolden is a scholar working on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Education and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Bolden has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, 20 papers in Education and 14 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Richard Bolden's work include Management and Organizational Studies (19 papers), Higher Education Governance and Development (14 papers) and Organizational Learning and Leadership (11 papers). Richard Bolden is often cited by papers focused on Management and Organizational Studies (19 papers), Higher Education Governance and Development (14 papers) and Organizational Learning and Leadership (11 papers). Richard Bolden collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Tanzania. Richard Bolden's co-authors include Jonathan Gosling, Georgy Petrov, Toby D. Wall, Clare E. Haynes, Jo E. Rick, Philip Kirk, Chris Clegg, Chris Stride, Antonio Marturano and Jean Moscarola and has published in prestigious journals such as The British Journal of Psychiatry, BMC Public Health and International Journal of Production Research.

In The Last Decade

Richard Bolden

70 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Distributed Leadership in Organizations: A Review of Theory and Research

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard Bolden United Kingdom	23	1.1k	924	529	395	393	74	3.0k
Ronald A. Heifetz United States	12	892 0.8×	965 1.0×	351 0.7×	319 0.8×	324 0.8×	24	3.0k
Bahaudin G. Mujtaba United States	24	1.1k 1.0×	446 0.5×	344 0.7×	516 1.3×	457 1.2×	463	3.4k
Lee G. Bolman United States	16	782 0.7×	1.4k 1.5×	237 0.4×	274 0.7×	419 1.1×	45	3.2k
James C. Sarros Australia	29	1.8k 1.6×	638 0.7×	376 0.7×	842 2.1×	833 2.1×	108	3.7k
Peter G. Northouse United States	10	1.3k 1.2×	929 1.0×	360 0.7×	571 1.4×	775 2.0×	17	3.7k
James M. Kouzes United States	26	1.5k 1.4×	923 1.0×	339 0.6×	655 1.7×	747 1.9×	66	3.8k
Joseph A. Raelin United States	27	1.4k 1.3×	864 0.9×	208 0.4×	394 1.0×	315 0.8×	133	3.1k
Julia Evetts United Kingdom	24	782 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	732 1.4×	185 0.5×	200 0.5×	70	4.0k
Jonathan Gosling United Kingdom	23	955 0.9×	704 0.8×	129 0.2×	399 1.0×	220 0.6×	58	2.3k
Luc Sels Belgium	34	2.5k 2.3×	896 1.0×	632 1.2×	723 1.8×	704 1.8×	166	4.7k

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Bolden, Richard, et al.. (2025). Over worked and undervalued? Knotted tensions of identity, purpose, and change in contemporary higher education. Studies in Higher Education. 1–14.

Macfarlane, Bruce, Richard Bolden, & Richard Watermeyer. (2024). Three perspectives on leadership in higher education: traditionalist, reformist, pragmatist. Higher Education. 88(4). 1381–1402. 8 indexed citations

Jain, Ajay K., et al.. (2024). Antecedents and consequences of distributed leadership in Indian higher education. International Journal of Educational Management. 39(3). 689–708.

Watermeyer, Richard, Richard Bolden, Cathryn Knight, & Tom Crick. (2024). Academic anomie: implications of the ‘great resignation’ for leadership in post-COVID higher education. Higher Education. 89(5). 1215–1233. 9 indexed citations

Fisher, Joseph A., et al.. (2022). An emergent process for activating system change: insights from Golden Key Bristol. Housing Care and Support. 25(3-4). 250–261. 2 indexed citations

Bolden, Richard, et al.. (2022). Learning from collective lived experience: a case study of an experts by experience group. Housing Care and Support. 25(3-4). 223–235. 2 indexed citations

Evans, David, et al.. (2021). How do you develop systems leadership in public health? Insights from a scoping study. Public Health. 196. 24–28. 8 indexed citations

Sutherland, Neil, Gareth Edwards, Doris Schedlitzki, & Richard Bolden. (2020). Special issue of Leadership: Putting leadership in its place. Leadership. 16(1). 133–138. 8 indexed citations

Evans, David, et al.. (2020). Systems leadership in practice: thematic insights from three public health case studies. BMC Public Health. 20(1). 1735–1735. 22 indexed citations

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Isaac, Beth, et al.. (2017). Building connections: Golden key local evaluation phase 2 report. UWE Research Repository (UWE Bristol). 2 indexed citations

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Petrov, Georgy, et al.. (2016). Making the ‘third stream’, mainstream: Facilitating effective higher education-employer engagement in workforce development. UWE Research Repository (UWE Bristol). 48(3). 75–99. 4 indexed citations

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Bolden, Richard & Nicholas O’Regan. (2016). Digital Disruption and the Future of Leadership. Journal of Management Inquiry. 25(4). 438–446. 20 indexed citations

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Bolden, Richard, et al.. (2015). Developing and sustaining shared leadership in higher education. UWE Research Repository (UWE Bristol). 40 indexed citations

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Bolden, Richard, Jonathan Gosling, & Anne O’Brien. (2012). Academic leadership: Changing conceptions, identities and experiences in UK higher education, London: Leadership foundation for higher education. Toxicology. 333. 14–24. 30 indexed citations

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Bolden, Richard & Philip Kirk. (2009). African Leadership. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management. 9(1). 69–86. 83 indexed citations

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Bolden, Richard. (2007). Leadership Development in SMEs: Designing a customised solution. Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter). 9 indexed citations

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Bolden, Richard, Martin Wood, & Jonathan Gosling. (2006). Is the NHS leadership qualities framework missing the wood for the trees?. RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library). 7 indexed citations

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Bolden, Richard. (2005). What is leadership development: purpose and practice?. Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter). 20 indexed citations

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Bolden, Richard. (2004). What is Leadership. Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter). 30 indexed citations

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Wall, Toby D., Richard Bolden, Carol Borrill, et al.. (1997). Minor psychiatric disorder in NHS trust staff: Occupational and gender differences. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 171(6). 519–523. 248 indexed citations

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