OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Educational Administration is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Translating team-member exchange relationships to school outcomes: the mediating role of leader-member exchange	42
Illustrating the power and complexity of a National Longitudinal Superintendent Database through an exploration of cross-state mobility	33
Guest editorial: Organizing schools for the future: innovative conceptualizations of schools as organizations	31
Principals' role in teachers' knowledge-sharing beliefs, intention and behaviour in Iranian schools: exploring the impact of knowledge-sharing leadership	28
Dilemmas in district–university partnerships: examining network improvement communities as levers for systems change	27
Race, gender and the leadership of Black women superintendents	26
“This is not going to be a quick fix”: a grounded theory study of superintendents leading school integration through redistricting	26
Using multiple leadership frames to understand how two school principals are influencing teachers' practices and achievement of Hispanic English learners	22
Transformational leadership and job satisfaction in vocational high schools in Türkiye: a multilevel mediation model of teacher professional learning and self-efficacy	18
Approved to fail: a case study of leadership at three new high schools	14
Unveiling the associations between principal self-efficacy, openness to change and transformational leadership: the mediating role of well-being	11
Context, leadership and school success: Australian suburban, rural and remote cases from the ISSPP	11
There and back again: analyzing the characteristics of demoted principals	11
Emotional well-being of school principals: exploring enhancement and risk factors	10
Superintendents’ strategic leadership for just and equitable systemic change	9
Interweaving resilience: leadership of continuous improvement partnerships and Mary Parker Follett's theory of relational process	9
Teachers of English learners: perceived motivators to becoming principals of high-needs schools	8
The effect of rural superintendent credibility on principal and district outcomes mediated by motivating language	8
Socially distributed leadership in elementary schools: teacher and staff leadership practice in Denmark and the USA	8
Distributed leadership and inclusive education for underserved groups: examining the mediating role of teacher autonomy	7
Resilience and purpose as predictors of Portuguese school leaders' work well-being	7
An open systems model of successful school leadership	7
Peer mentoring for professional socialisation – shaping novice principals’ leadership identity?	7
Community, learning and leadership: reflections on the work of Karen Seashore Louis	7
The impact of transformational leadership on teachers' job burnout: the mediating role of social-emotional competence and student-teacher relationship	7

Understanding self-fulfillment: principals’ perspectives in special education for complex disabilities	7
Looking back and forward: a critical review of the history and future progress of the ISSPP	7
Reframing crisis and crisis management: examining three urban superintendents’ COVID-19 experiences	6
Using social media to create real time online networks of school leaders	6
A narrative review of the research on school leaders’ emotional labor: a typology inspired by Habermas’s cognitive interests	6
Agents of change? How district leaders shape absorptive capacity within research–practice partnerships	6
Struggling toward symmetry: leadership for restorative justice and deeper learning at an urban charter school	6
Publisher’s Note	6
Transformational leadership for deeper learning: shaping innovative school practices for enhanced learning	6
Successful school leadership in Scotland: a journey to sustainable improvement	6
Co-designing a Children’s Cabinet: a school district–university partnership for youth well-being post-pandemic	6
United States superintendents’ experiences with professional networks and other social supports in politically contentious times	6
School leadership during the COVID-19 crisis: a scoping review of empirical research	5
Teacher distrust in the school principal: a mental state distinct from trust	5
Leading during long-term crises: an analysis of perceived effectiveness leadership in K-12 schools	5
Examining the relationships between instructional leadership, teacher self-efficacy and job satisfaction: a study of primary schools in India	5
School leadership and achievement gaps based on socioeconomic status: a search for socially just instructional leadership	5
Understanding the relationship between teacher leadership and teacher well-being: the mediating roles of trust in leaders and teacher efficacy	5
Deeper professional learning: how leaders design for teachers to share their deeper learning practices	5
Guest editorial: Leading for deeper learning: moving from niche to norm	5
Transformative leadership conversation: a conceptualization and empirical test of its function	5
A review of professional learning community (PLC) instruments	5
Leadership coaching relationships: a qualitative examination of underlying factors	5
Successful, coasting and low-performing school principals in Israel: an explanatory model	5
Talking about data: an analysis of data-team conversations and principals’ influence on them	4
Transformational school leadership: a systematic review of research in a centralized education system	4
Tensions in data use for mission: academic data within holistic education	4
How strong principals succeed: improving student achievement in high-poverty urban schools	4
Leading for equity: how principals experience professional learning	4
Challenges to the sustainability of Irish post-primary school leadership: the role of distributed leadership	4
Student trust in school peers: a relational condition for optimal school functioning	4
Exploring middle-level school leadership styles through role-play simulations	4
Working together towards school success in a rural school context: “It works well but we are not satisfied”	4
Relation of principal instructional leadership, school climate, teacher job performance and student achievement	4
A rickety bridge: the complexities of vice-principals' interactions with principals and teachers in Israel	4
Leading through a crisis: caring, supportive, and social justice leadership of school principals in Israel’s minority Arab society	4
Time is ticking: the dynamics of education reform in the Covid-era	4
Leveraging co-teaching in pre-service teacher education to enhance classroom management skills of pre-service teachers in China: effects and implications	3
Are resources and demands from accountability policies productive? How leaders build district capacity in response to school turnaround policy	3
Hopeful leadership and reciprocity: one woman’s narrative as school founder, owner and leader in Bangladesh	3
For what purpose? Swedish superintendents' perspectives of professional development for principals	3
Commentary: On the road to deeper learning	3
Following the data: an analysis of two schools' use of social emotional data	3
Culture–leadership intersections in support of deeper learning at a career and technical education center	3
Building agency in school–university partnerships: lessons from collaborative research during the pandemic	3
Democratic governing ideals and the power of intervening spaces as prerequisite for student learning	2
The experience of loneliness among school principals: episodic loneliness versus persistent day-to-day loneliness	2
Leaders' advice networks over time: the role of beliefs and organizational learning during change implementation	2
Labor market impact of the Massachusetts state licensure performance assessment for leaders	2
How should leaders “sustain the legacy” of urban catholic schools? An exploration of catholic school and system leader perspectives	2

Developing aspiring principals’ critical consciousness using equity-oriented pedagogies	2
A framework of justice-centered leadership practice: a qualitative, multidistrict study	2
Pandemic memoranda: how school district and teachers' union administrators modified collective bargaining agreements during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Commentary: Navigating the complexity, bridging the gap: the role of school-university partnership in sustaining school improvement during the post-pandemic era	2
How authentic principal leadership influences teacher organisational identification via teacher academic optimism and collective responsibility: a moderated-mediation analysis	2
The paradox of leading amidst uncertainty: maintaining balance on an unstable beam	2
Explaining variation in the implementation of observational processes by school leaders: evidence from a Tennessee-based researcher–practitioner partnership	2
School leadership in a non-western context: how is paternalistic leadership related to teacher well-being and commitment in collectivist versus individualistic school cultures?	2
Examining a district-union-university partnership for professionalizing teachers to lead school improvement efforts	2
Smart collaborative ecosystem: leading complex school systems	2
Leading teacher instructional practices in Türkiye: do inner school conditions matter?	2
Examining application and hiring patterns of superintendents	2
Principal systems thinking and senior management team effectiveness: the mediating role of senior management team learning	2
Impact of school climate and resources on principal workload stress and job satisfaction: multinational evidence from TALIS 2018 data	2
Unveiling leadership priorities: a comparative study of principal time use across high school types	2
Commentary – Research on successful school principalship: progress on a secure front	2
Successful school leadership for social justice in Spain	2
Building experience and retention: the influence of principal tenure on teacher retention rates	2
Leading for deeper learning: international perspectives	2