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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Translating team-member exchange relationships to school outcomes: the mediating role of leader-member exchange	45
Guest editorial: Organizing schools for the future: innovative conceptualizations of schools as organizations	38
Illustrating the power and complexity of a National Longitudinal Superintendent Database through an exploration of cross-state mobility	32
Dilemmas in district–university partnerships: examining network improvement communities as levers for systems change	31
Race, gender and the leadership of Black women superintendents	30
Principals' role in teachers' knowledge-sharing beliefs, intention and behaviour in Iranian schools: exploring the impact of knowledge-sharing leadership	29
“This is not going to be a quick fix”: a grounded theory study of superintendents leading school integration through redistricting	25
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	17
Unveiling the associations between principal self-efficacy, openness to change and transformational leadership: the mediating role of well-being	13
A case study of successful leadership by an elementary school principal in Japan	12
Emotional well-being of school principals: exploring enhancement and risk factors	11
Interweaving resilience: leadership of continuous improvement partnerships and Mary Parker Follett's theory of relational process	9
Superintendents’ strategic leadership for just and equitable systemic change	9
There and back again: analyzing the characteristics of demoted principals	9
Superintendent voices: the impact of gender and race while seeking and serving in the superintendency	8
An open systems model of successful school leadership	8
The impact of transformational leadership on teachers' job burnout: the mediating role of social-emotional competence and student-teacher relationship	8
Understanding self-fulfillment: principals’ perspectives in special education for complex disabilities	8
Context, leadership and school success: Australian suburban, rural and remote cases from the ISSPP	8
Teachers of English learners: perceived motivators to becoming principals of high-needs schools	8
Distributed leadership and inclusive education for underserved groups: examining the mediating role of teacher autonomy	7
Socially distributed leadership in elementary schools: teacher and staff leadership practice in Denmark and the USA	7
Looking back and forward: a critical review of the history and future progress of the ISSPP	7
Transformational leadership for deeper learning: shaping innovative school practices for enhanced learning	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
Resilience and purpose as predictors of Portuguese school leaders' work well-being	7
Boosting novice teachers’ retention intention: international evidence on the role of mentoring via job satisfaction and organizational commitment	7
Struggling toward symmetry: leadership for restorative justice and deeper learning at an urban charter school	6
Using social media to create real time online networks of school leaders	6
Co-designing a Children’s Cabinet: a school district–university partnership for youth well-being post-pandemic	6
A narrative review of the research on school leaders’ emotional labor: a typology inspired by Habermas’s cognitive interests	6
Agents of change? How district leaders shape absorptive capacity within research–practice partnerships	6
Publisher’s Note	6
Successful school leadership in Scotland: a journey to sustainable improvement	6
A review of professional learning community (PLC) instruments	5
Understanding the relationship between teacher leadership and teacher well-being: the mediating roles of trust in leaders and teacher efficacy	5
Leadership coaching relationships: a qualitative examination of underlying factors	5
School leadership and achievement gaps based on socioeconomic status: a search for socially just instructional leadership	5
School leadership during the COVID-19 crisis: a scoping review of empirical research	5
Examining the relationships between instructional leadership, teacher self-efficacy and job satisfaction: a study of primary schools in India	5
United States superintendents’ experiences with professional networks and other social supports in politically contentious times	5
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