Leadership as Practice: a bibliometric study

The objective of this paper is to present the developments made in the literature regarding leadership as
practice. A bibliometric analysis was thus performed on articles published on Web of Science, SCOPUS,
EBSCO and SCIELO between 2006 and 2016. A total of 11 articles have been selected, written by 18 authors affiliated to 11 institutions from 7 countries. It is important to highlight that no Brazilian or South American articles have been found in the Web of Science, SCOPUS, EBSCO and SCIELO databases in relation to these topics. This study has also enabled the identification of a profile of studies performed on these issues through a broad retrospective panorama of publications. Results found portray a continuous interest by the international scientific community in studying leadership as practice.