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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Guest editorial: Organizing schools for the future: innovative conceptualizations of schools as organizations	37
Dilemmas in district–university partnerships: examining network improvement communities as levers for systems change	27
Translating team-member exchange relationships to school outcomes: the mediating role of leader-member exchange	27
Principals' role in teachers' knowledge-sharing beliefs, intention and behaviour in Iranian schools: exploring the impact of knowledge-sharing leadership	23
Commentary – Can educational leadership researchers and school leaders both learn from failure? Yes, we can if together!	23
“This is not going to be a quick fix”: a grounded theory study of superintendents leading school integration through redistricting	21
Using multiple leadership frames to understand how two school principals are influencing teachers' practices and achievement of Hispanic English learners	20
Transformational leadership and job satisfaction in vocational high schools in Türkiye: a multilevel mediation model of teacher professional learning and self-efficacy	20
Unveiling the associations between principal self-efficacy, openness to change and transformational leadership: the mediating role of well-being	17
Approved to fail: a case study of leadership at three new high schools	13
Interweaving resilience: leadership of continuous improvement partnerships and Mary Parker Follett's theory of relational process	9
There and back again: analyzing the characteristics of demoted principals	8
Emotional well-being of school principals: exploring enhancement and risk factors	8
Socially distributed leadership in elementary schools: teacher and staff leadership practice in Denmark and the USA	7
The effect of rural superintendent credibility on principal and district outcomes mediated by motivating language	7
Commentary – Let’s switch cognitive gears: leading school improvement through learning from failures and successes	7
The impact of transformational leadership on teachers' job burnout: the mediating role of social-emotional competence and student-teacher relationship	6
Guest editorial	6
Transformational leadership for deeper learning: shaping innovative school practices for enhanced learning	6
Understanding self-fulfillment: principals’ perspectives in special education for complex disabilities	6
Looking back and forward: a critical review of the history and future progress of the ISSPP	6
Community, learning and leadership: reflections on the work of Karen Seashore Louis	6
Teachers of English learners: perceived motivators to becoming principals of high-needs schools	6
An open systems model of successful school leadership	6
Resilience and purpose as predictors of Portuguese school leaders' work well-being	6

School leadership and achievement gaps based on socioeconomic status: a search for socially just instructional leadership	5
Co-designing a Children’s Cabinet: a school district–university partnership for youth well-being post-pandemic	5
Reframing crisis and crisis management: examining three urban superintendents’ COVID-19 experiences	5
Leadership coaching relationships: a qualitative examination of underlying factors	5
A review of professional learning community (PLC) instruments	5
Struggling toward symmetry: leadership for restorative justice and deeper learning at an urban charter school	5
School leadership during the COVID-19 crisis: a scoping review of empirical research	5
Transformative leadership conversation: a conceptualization and empirical test of its function	5
Using social media to create real time online networks of school leaders	5
A narrative review of the research on school leaders’ emotional labor: a typology inspired by Habermas’s cognitive interests	5
Relation of principal instructional leadership, school climate, teacher job performance and student achievement	4
Talking about data: an analysis of data-team conversations and principals’ influence on them	4
Successful, coasting and low-performing school principals in Israel: an explanatory model	4
Guest editorial: Leading for deeper learning: moving from niche to norm	4
Psychological contract breach and teachers' organizational commitment: mediating roles of job embeddedness and leader-member exchange	4
Leading for equity: how principals experience professional learning	4
Leading during long-term crises: an analysis of perceived effectiveness leadership in K-12 schools	4
Understanding the relationship between teacher leadership and teacher well-being: the mediating roles of trust in leaders and teacher efficacy	4
How strong principals succeed: improving student achievement in high-poverty urban schools	4
Examining the relationships between instructional leadership, teacher self-efficacy and job satisfaction: a study of primary schools in India	4
Exploring middle-level school leadership styles through role-play simulations	4
Transformational school leadership: a systematic review of research in a centralized education system	4
Teacher distrust in the school principal: a mental state distinct from trust	4
Deeper professional learning: how leaders design for teachers to share their deeper learning practices	4
Challenges to the sustainability of Irish post-primary school leadership: the role of distributed leadership	4