OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Educational Administration is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
From climate to community: a new approach to conceptualizing the relational element of organizational learning	35
Guest editorial: Organizing schools for the future: innovative conceptualizations of schools as organizations	27
How should leaders “sustain the legacy” of urban catholic schools? An exploration of catholic school and system leader perspectives	24
Labor market impact of the Massachusetts state licensure performance assessment for leaders	22
“Contingency”, an overlooked factor by school leadership: evidence from primary urban schools in Chile	21
Explaining variation in the implementation of observational processes by school leaders: evidence from a Tennessee-based researcher–practitioner partnership	20
Distributed leadership and teachers' emotional labour: the mediating role of teacher autonomy	17
Commentary – Research on successful school principalship: progress on a secure front	16
Outlier leadership in Alabama: resource challenged schools and principal practices	16
A narrative review of the research on school leaders’ emotional labor: a typology inspired by Habermas’s cognitive interests	13
Translating team-member exchange relationships to school outcomes: the mediating role of leader-member exchange	12
Struggling toward symmetry: leadership for restorative justice and deeper learning at an urban charter school	10
Using social media to create real time online networks of school leaders	7
Reframing crisis and crisis management: examining three urban superintendents’ COVID-19 experiences	7
Culture–leadership intersections in support of deeper learning at a career and technical education center	7
Weathering fluctuations in teacher commitment: leaders relational failures, with improvement prospects	6
Relinquishing power: creating space for youth of color leaders	6
Understanding educational leadership during times of crises: a scoping review	6
Successful school leadership for social justice in Spain	6
Failure is not final: principals’ perspectives on creating inclusive schools for students with disabilities	6
Tensions in data use for mission: academic data within holistic education	6
Commentary: On the road to deeper learning	5
Partnering through pandemic recovery: an examination of a research-practice partnership in Guilford County Schools	5
Emotional well-being and performance of middle leaders: the role of organisational trust in early childhood education	5
Do teacher beliefs mediate leadership and teacher behaviors? Testing teacher self-efficacy's mediation role between leadership for learning and teacher outcomes	5

Co-designing a Children’s Cabinet: a school district–university partnership for youth well-being post-pandemic	5
Following the data: an analysis of two schools' use of social emotional data	5
Examining a district-union-university partnership for professionalizing teachers to lead school improvement efforts	5
A ripple effect in strengths use? Linking principals' use of personal strengths with teachers' strengths use and engagement	5
School–university partnership for school renewal: reflections on three large, federally funded projects	4
Dilemmas in district–university partnerships: examining network improvement communities as levers for systems change	4
Collective teacher efficacy beliefs: testing measurement invariance using alignment optimization among four cultures	4
Smart collaborative ecosystem: leading complex school systems	4
School leadership during the COVID-19 crisis: a scoping review of empirical research	4
The impact of head teacher incivility on teacher engagement and safety behavior in secondary schools: the mediating role of perceived insider status	4
Psychometric properties of the successful school leadership survey	4
Building agency in school–university partnerships: lessons from collaborative research during the pandemic	4
Principals' role in teachers' knowledge-sharing beliefs, intention and behaviour in Iranian schools: exploring the impact of knowledge-sharing leadership	4
For what purpose? Swedish superintendents' perspectives of professional development for principals	4
Profiling teacher leaders through entrepreneurial behaviours: a cluster analysis	4
“This is not going to be a quick fix”: a grounded theory study of superintendents leading school integration through redistricting	4
A review of professional learning community (PLC) instruments	4
Leveraging co-teaching in pre-service teacher education to enhance classroom management skills of pre-service teachers in China: effects and implications	4
A framework of justice-centered leadership practice: a qualitative, multidistrict study	4
School leadership and achievement gaps based on socioeconomic status: a search for socially just instructional leadership	4
Are resources and demands from accountability policies productive? How leaders build district capacity in response to school turnaround policy	3
Examining the demands of teacher evaluation: time use, strain and turnover among Tennessee school administrators	3
String theory and knots: a 50 year journey through organizational studies	3
Principal systems thinking and senior management team effectiveness: the mediating role of senior management team learning	3
Opening the black box of leadership coaching: an examination of coaching behaviors	3
Using multiple leadership frames to understand how two school principals are influencing teachers' practices and achievement of Hispanic English learners	3
(In)effective leadership? Exploring the interplay of challenges, goals and measures in the context of school improvement	3
Building experience and retention: the influence of principal tenure on teacher retention rates	3
The experience of loneliness among school principals: episodic loneliness versus persistent day-to-day loneliness	3
Commentary: Celebrating 60 years of knowledge mobilization: a historical descriptive analysis of the Journal of Educational Administration	3
Transformational leadership and job satisfaction in vocational high schools in Türkiye: a multilevel mediation model of teacher professional learning and self-efficacy	3
Building a climate of faculty trust in students through principal support of student psychological needs	3
Principals' perspectives of inclusive education involving students with autism spectrum conditions – a Swedish case study	3
Approved to fail: a case study of leadership at three new high schools	3
Commentary – Can educational leadership researchers and school leaders both learn from failure? Yes, we can if together!	3
School leaders' preferences for teacher applicant characteristics in a large urban school district	3
Transformative leadership conversation: a conceptualization and empirical test of its function	3
Successful principal leadership in challenging American public schools: a brief history of ISSPP research in the United States and its major findings	3
Contextual imperatives for effective shared instructional leadership: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	3
Unveiling the associations between principal self-efficacy, openness to change and transformational leadership: the mediating role of well-being	3
Psychological contract breach and teachers' organizational commitment: mediating roles of job embeddedness and leader-member exchange	3
How authentic principal leadership influences teacher organisational identification via teacher academic optimism and collective responsibility: a moderated-mediation analysis	2
Guest editorial The International Successful School Principalship Project: reflections and possibilities	2
Teacher distrust in the school principal: a mental state distinct from trust	2
Brokering school improvement through a school–university partnership: a longitudinal social network analysis of middle leadership development	2
Understanding the relationship between teacher leadership and teacher well-being: the mediating roles of trust in leaders and teacher efficacy	2
Putting fit together	2
Adapting a school improvement partnership before and during COVID-19: a case study of the resilience of improvement science to complexity	2
The differences in the implications of participative decision-making and paternalistic leadership for teachers' perceived stress in the education system of the Israeli Arab minority	2
Leadership coaching relationships: a qualitative examination of underlying factors	2

Examining the relationships between instructional leadership, teacher self-efficacy and job satisfaction: a study of primary schools in India	1
Interweaving resilience: leadership of continuous improvement partnerships and Mary Parker Follett's theory of relational process	1
There and back again: analyzing the characteristics of demoted principals	1
Exploring trust: culturally responsive and positive school leadership	1
Commentary – A time for recoding school	1
Emotional well-being of school principals: exploring enhancement and risk factors	1
Distributed leadership practices and student science performance through the four-path model: examining failure in underprivileged schools	1
Schooling for equitable excellence: principles of systemic design	1
Sowing seeds of flourishing: the mediating role of trust in the impact of resilience on school principals across career stages	1
Reconceptualizing principal well-being: state, measurement and consequences	1
Pedagogical gaps in the bridge from classroom to field for pre-service principal competence development	1
The role of self-efficacy on feelings of burnout among Flemish school principals during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Successful, coasting and low-performing school principals in Israel: an explanatory model	1
Commentary – Why aren't more educational leadership scholars researching technology?	1
Deeper professional learning: how leaders design for teachers to share their deeper learning practices	1
Knowing your audience: understanding urban superintendents' process of framing equitable change	1
Guest editorial: Leading for deeper learning: moving from niche to norm	1
Responsibility, stress and the well-being of school principals: how principals engaged in self-care during the COVID-19 crisis	1
Leading during long-term crises: an analysis of perceived effectiveness leadership in K-12 schools	1
Leading teacher instructional practices in Türkiye: do inner school conditions matter?	1
Democratic governing ideals and the power of intervening spaces as prerequisite for student learning	1
Professional identity and career aspirations as mediators between principals’ authentic leadership and teachers’ intentions and behaviors	1
Leading from equity: changing and organizing for deeper learning	1