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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Guest editorial: Organizing schools for the future: innovative conceptualizations of schools as organizations	62
Illustrating the power and complexity of a National Longitudinal Superintendent Database through an exploration of cross-state mobility	40
Translating team-member exchange relationships to school outcomes: the mediating role of leader-member exchange	20
Dilemmas in district–university partnerships: examining network improvement communities as levers for systems change	19
Race, gender and the leadership of Black women superintendents	18
Principals' role in teachers' knowledge-sharing beliefs, intention and behaviour in Iranian schools: exploring the impact of knowledge-sharing leadership	18
“This is not going to be a quick fix”: a grounded theory study of superintendents leading school integration through redistricting	17
A case study of successful leadership by an elementary school principal in Japan	17
Transformational leadership and job satisfaction in vocational high schools in Türkiye: a multilevel mediation model of teacher professional learning and self-efficacy	15
How principals communicate expectations for raising academic performance and closing the achievement gap: evidence from Florida	14
Unveiling the associations between principal self-efficacy, openness to change and transformational leadership: the mediating role of well-being	14
Context, leadership and school success: Australian suburban, rural and remote cases from the ISSPP	13
Superintendents’ strategic leadership for just and equitable systemic change	12
Interweaving resilience: leadership of continuous improvement partnerships and Mary Parker Follett's theory of relational process	12
Emotional well-being of school principals: exploring enhancement and risk factors	11
Teachers of English learners: perceived motivators to becoming principals of high-needs schools	11
There and back again: analyzing the characteristics of demoted principals	11
Understanding self-fulfillment: principals’ perspectives in special education for complex disabilities	10
Peer mentoring for professional socialisation – shaping novice principals’ leadership identity?	9
Distributed leadership and inclusive education for underserved groups: examining the mediating role of teacher autonomy	9
Boosting novice teachers’ retention intention: international evidence on the role of mentoring via job satisfaction and organizational commitment	9
Amplifying women's voices in educational leadership: a third space approach	9
“Connecting the dots”: a social network study of inter-organizational partnerships for designing equity-centered principal preparation programs	9
Transformational leadership for deeper learning: shaping innovative school practices for enhanced learning	9
Superintendent voices: the impact of gender and race while seeking and serving in the superintendency	9

Reflections on a decade of a school–university partnership: graduates’ perceptions of long-term program influence	9
Mentor principals as key facilitators in aspiring leaders’ residency programs: the role of school–university partnerships in effective principal preparation	9
Resilience and purpose as predictors of Portuguese school leaders' work well-being	9
Publisher’s Note	8
Struggling toward symmetry: leadership for restorative justice and deeper learning at an urban charter school	8
Reframing crisis and crisis management: examining three urban superintendents’ COVID-19 experiences	8
Agents of change? How district leaders shape absorptive capacity within research–practice partnerships	8
Co-designing a Children’s Cabinet: a school district–university partnership for youth well-being post-pandemic	8
Using social media to create real time online networks of school leaders	8
A narrative review of the research on school leaders’ emotional labor: a typology inspired by Habermas’s cognitive interests	8
Successful school leadership in Scotland: a journey to sustainable improvement	7
United States superintendents’ experiences with professional networks and other social supports in politically contentious times	7
From confidence to impact: how school leaders’ self-efficacy moderates the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational learning in K-12 schools	7
Superintendent resilience: a qualitative exploration of resilience leadership skills	7
Developing and sustaining school partnerships in a networked improvement community: the TAMAM project	6
Teacher distrust in the school principal: a mental state distinct from trust	6
Enacting and sustaining resilience in school leadership: lessons from New Jersey principals during overlapping crises	6
School leadership during the COVID-19 crisis: a scoping review of empirical research	6
Examining the relationships between instructional leadership, teacher self-efficacy and job satisfaction: a study of primary schools in India	5
Leading during long-term crises: an analysis of perceived effectiveness leadership in K-12 schools	5
Understanding the relationship between teacher leadership and teacher well-being: the mediating roles of trust in leaders and teacher efficacy	5
Transformational school leadership: a systematic review of research in a centralized education system	5
Working together towards school success in a rural school context: “It works well but we are not satisfied”	5
Deeper professional learning: how leaders design for teachers to share their deeper learning practices	5
Transformative leadership conversation: a conceptualization and empirical test of its function	5
Leading for equity: how principals experience professional learning	5
By Māori, for Māori: community partnerships for culturally sustaining schools	5
Guest editorial: Leading for deeper learning: moving from niche to norm	5
Leadership coaching relationships: a qualitative examination of underlying factors	5
Exploring middle-level school leadership styles through role-play simulations	5
A rickety bridge: the complexities of vice-principals' interactions with principals and teachers in Israel	5
Talking about data: an analysis of data-team conversations and principals’ influence on them	5
The language game of principal leadership for learning	4
Tensions in data use for mission: academic data within holistic education	4
Challenges to the sustainability of Irish post-primary school leadership: the role of distributed leadership	4
Understanding principals' perspectives about school improvement planning	4
Culture–leadership intersections in support of deeper learning at a career and technical education center	4
Time is ticking: the dynamics of education reform in the Covid-era	4
Leading through a crisis: caring, supportive, and social justice leadership of school principals in Israel’s minority Arab society	4
Beyond leadership: unpacking trust and psychological climate in teachers’ knowledge sharing practices	4
Student trust in school peers: a relational condition for optimal school functioning	4
Unaccounted work of women leaders – the experience and impact of providing emotional labour on women leaders	3
The experience of loneliness among school principals: episodic loneliness versus persistent day-to-day loneliness	3
Leveraging co-teaching in pre-service teacher education to enhance classroom management skills of pre-service teachers in China: effects and implications	3
Building agency in school–university partnerships: lessons from collaborative research during the pandemic	3
How authentic principal leadership influences teacher organisational identification via teacher academic optimism and collective responsibility: a moderated-mediation analysis	3
For what purpose? Swedish superintendents' perspectives of professional development for principals	3
Examining application and hiring patterns of superintendents	3
Commentary: On the road to deeper learning	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
Following the data: an analysis of two schools' use of social emotional data	3
Crossing the ocean virtually: a pilot exchange between universities in the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
Leading teacher instructional practices in Türkiye: do inner school conditions matter?	2
Principal systems thinking and senior management team effectiveness: the mediating role of senior management team learning	2
The paradox of leading amidst uncertainty: maintaining balance on an unstable beam	2
Unveiling leadership priorities: a comparative study of principal time use across high school types	2
A descriptive study of aspiring principals’ interactions with students	2
Examining a district-union-university partnership for professionalizing teachers to lead school improvement efforts	2
Leaders' advice networks over time: the role of beliefs and organizational learning during change implementation	2
Impact of school climate and resources on principal workload stress and job satisfaction: multinational evidence from TALIS 2018 data	2
Between Scylla and Charybdis. Navigating the governance regime to sustain school success	2
Pandemic memoranda: how school district and teachers' union administrators modified collective bargaining agreements during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
A systematic review of research on school leadership in Hong Kong, 2015–2025	2
How should leaders “sustain the legacy” of urban catholic schools? An exploration of catholic school and system leader perspectives	2
Distributed leadership strengthening the role of transformational leadership in enhancing teacher psychological capital and well-being	2
Wartime leadership: the role of displaced school principals during war	2
Commentary: Navigating the complexity, bridging the gap: the role of school-university partnership in sustaining school improvement during the post-pandemic era	2
Building a positive school culture using continuous improvement: leadership development in a research–practice partnership	2
Explaining variation in the implementation of observational processes by school leaders: evidence from a Tennessee-based researcher–practitioner partnership	2
Black and Latina educational leaders’ motherwork: a reflection of identity, radical care and collective love	2
Leading for deeper learning: international perspectives	2