OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Educational Administration is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Illustrating the power and complexity of a National Longitudinal Superintendent Database through an exploration of cross-state mobility	43
Translating team-member exchange relationships to school outcomes: the mediating role of leader-member exchange	36
Guest editorial: Organizing schools for the future: innovative conceptualizations of schools as organizations	29
Race, gender and the leadership of Black women superintendents	29
Dilemmas in district–university partnerships: examining network improvement communities as levers for systems change	27
Principals' role in teachers' knowledge-sharing beliefs, intention and behaviour in Iranian schools: exploring the impact of knowledge-sharing leadership	27
“This is not going to be a quick fix”: a grounded theory study of superintendents leading school integration through redistricting	25
Approved to fail: a case study of leadership at three new high schools	20
Using multiple leadership frames to understand how two school principals are influencing teachers' practices and achievement of Hispanic English learners	17
Transformational leadership and job satisfaction in vocational high schools in Türkiye: a multilevel mediation model of teacher professional learning and self-efficacy	12
There and back again: analyzing the characteristics of demoted principals	11
Unveiling the associations between principal self-efficacy, openness to change and transformational leadership: the mediating role of well-being	11
Interweaving resilience: leadership of continuous improvement partnerships and Mary Parker Follett's theory of relational process	10
Context, leadership and school success: Australian suburban, rural and remote cases from the ISSPP	9
Superintendents’ strategic leadership for just and equitable systemic change	9
Emotional well-being of school principals: exploring enhancement and risk factors	9
Superintendent voices: the impact of gender and race while seeking and serving in the superintendency	8
The effect of rural superintendent credibility on principal and district outcomes mediated by motivating language	8
The impact of transformational leadership on teachers' job burnout: the mediating role of social-emotional competence and student-teacher relationship	8
Socially distributed leadership in elementary schools: teacher and staff leadership practice in Denmark and the USA	8
Teachers of English learners: perceived motivators to becoming principals of high-needs schools	8
An open systems model of successful school leadership	8
Understanding self-fulfillment: principals’ perspectives in special education for complex disabilities	8
Looking back and forward: a critical review of the history and future progress of the ISSPP	7
Resilience and purpose as predictors of Portuguese school leaders' work well-being	7

Reframing crisis and crisis management: examining three urban superintendents’ COVID-19 experiences	7
Peer mentoring for professional socialisation – shaping novice principals’ leadership identity?	7
Transformational leadership for deeper learning: shaping innovative school practices for enhanced learning	7
Distributed leadership and inclusive education for underserved groups: examining the mediating role of teacher autonomy	7
A review of professional learning community (PLC) instruments	6
Co-designing a Children’s Cabinet: a school district–university partnership for youth well-being post-pandemic	6
Publisher’s Note	6
A narrative review of the research on school leaders’ emotional labor: a typology inspired by Habermas’s cognitive interests	6
School leadership during the COVID-19 crisis: a scoping review of empirical research	6
Using social media to create real time online networks of school leaders	6
Agents of change? How district leaders shape absorptive capacity within research–practice partnerships	6
United States superintendents’ experiences with professional networks and other social supports in politically contentious times	6
School leadership and achievement gaps based on socioeconomic status: a search for socially just instructional leadership	6
Struggling toward symmetry: leadership for restorative justice and deeper learning at an urban charter school	6
Successful school leadership in Scotland: a journey to sustainable improvement	6
Transformative leadership conversation: a conceptualization and empirical test of its function	5
Teacher distrust in the school principal: a mental state distinct from trust	5
Examining the relationships between instructional leadership, teacher self-efficacy and job satisfaction: a study of primary schools in India	5
Leadership coaching relationships: a qualitative examination of underlying factors	5
Guest editorial: Leading for deeper learning: moving from niche to norm	5
Understanding the relationship between teacher leadership and teacher well-being: the mediating roles of trust in leaders and teacher efficacy	5
Leading during long-term crises: an analysis of perceived effectiveness leadership in K-12 schools	5
Deeper professional learning: how leaders design for teachers to share their deeper learning practices	5