OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Educational Administration is 4. 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
Outlier leadership in Alabama: resource challenged schools and principal practices	16
Commentary – Research on successful school principalship: progress on a secure front	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
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
Using social media to create real time online networks of school leaders	7
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
Weathering fluctuations in teacher commitment: leaders relational failures, with improvement prospects	6
Relinquishing power: creating space for youth of color leaders	6
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
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
“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
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