Educational Management Administration & Leadership

Papers
(The median citation count of Educational Management Administration & Leadership 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Principal professional identity: Giving voice to children in a vulnerable Spanish context51
Female school principals in Arab communities47
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times33
From the best practices of successful school leaders: Developing and validating the principal competencies inventory in South Korea30
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar28
Developing contextualised literature-informed competency frameworks for middle managers in education26
Learning–centred leadership and student achievement: Understanding the mediating effect of the teacher professional community and parental involvement24
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction24
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust23
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice21
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore21
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 202119
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?16
Mapping trends in educational-leadership research: A longitudinal examination of knowledge production, approaches and locations16
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers15
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey15
Promoting gender equity in school leadership appointments: A comparison of male and female headteachers’ instructional leadership practices in Ghana15
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education14
Promoting team learning in schools: considering the role of team-based HRM practices (THRM)14
Literature review of transformational school leadership: models and effects on student achievement (2006–2019)14
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana14
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?14
Succession planning for school principals: System control or leader agency?14
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan13
The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model13
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs13
Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas: Examining the influence of principal instructional leadership on instructional quality in Chinese rural schools12
Instructional Boundary Management during COVID-1912
Effect of E-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam12
EMAL is 50: Celebrating half a century disseminating high quality research and scholarship12
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria12
School principals’ emotionally draining situations and student discipline issues in the context of work intensification11
How instructional leaders promote social justice11
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation11
Leadership for equality in education: 50 years marching forward or marching on the spot?11
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership11
Integrating Distributed with Ecological Leadership: Through the Lens of Activity Theory11
Leading educational reconstruction in post-conflict Cambodia: Perspectives of primary school leaders10
New managerialism in educational administration in Greece: The education directors’ perceived roles10
“I’m trying to help”: How do mentors affect principals' person–organization fit during organizational socialization?10
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher well-being: The mediating roles of organisational trust10
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?10
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts10
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait9
Distributed leadership and micropolitics9
Participative decision-making in the Arab educational system in Israel: The implications for teachers’ organizational commitment and school violence9
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature9
Professional development of school principals – how do experienced school leaders make sense of their professional learning?9
Is leadership a myth? A ‘new wave’ critical leadership-focused research agenda for recontouring the landscape of educational leadership8
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity8
Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences8
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 20228
A review of literature on women’s leadership in higher education in developed countries and in Vietnam: Barriers and enablers8
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts8
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital8
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration8
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong8
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges8
What are we missing? An alternative way to explore distributed leadership effectiveness7
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice7
Finding the missing link: Do principal qualifications make a difference in student achievement?7
The mental health of leaders in Australian government schools: Stress and burnout over a decade (2011–2020)7
Principals’ perceptions of school autonomy and educational leadership7
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?7
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals7
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being: A bibliometric analysis and literature review6
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study6
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition6
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance6
A global perspective on school leadership: Evidence from a latent class analysis on OECD TALIS data6
Modeling the relationship between principal leadership and teacher professional learning in Kuwait: The mediating effects of Trust and Teacher Agency6
Expressions of loneliness: Different perspectives of loneliness among school deputy principals6
Transformational leadership and teacher work performance: Mediating effect of job autonomy and trust in school principal – insights from senior secondary school data in India6
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition6
Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system6
Human-Machine symbiosis in educational leadership in the era of artificial intelligence (AI): Where are we heading?6
Leading in lockdown: Community, communication and compassion in response to the COVID-19 crisis5
Exploring the moderation role of teacher cultural value profiles on the association between transformational leadership and teacher job satisfaction: Evidence from Turkish education context5
Supporting teacher professional learning in Oman: The effects of principal leadership, teacher trust, and teacher agency5
New perspectives on middle leadership in schools in England – Persistent tensions and emerging possibilities5
Does middle leaders’ learning-centred leadership matter in promoting teacher professional learning? A partial least squares analysis5
Philanthropic emotional work: Papering over the cracks of unprecedented public education reform5
Promoting leadership for learning in Nigeria: The interplay of leadership mastery experience and leader self-efficacy5
Unpacking the linkages between beliefs and behavioural intention for curriculum reform: A cognitive approach for school middle leaders5
Fostering collaboration through inclusive leadership: Exploring the behaviour of childcare and school leaders in Dutch child centres5
Principals’ sense-making and sense-giving of their professional role tensions: School leaders’ professionalism and creative mediation strategies during Covid-19 crisis5
OfSTED from within: Inspectors’ views on challenges and future direction5
Race and educational leadership: The influence of research methods and critical theorising in understanding representation, roles and ethnic disparities5
Pathways to the school principalship: An international scoping review5
Gender, networks and academic leadership: A systematic review5
Internal financial control processes in public schools: A prerequisite for effective financial management5
‘It's like we’re in two different schools’: Contrasting stories of teacher and leader autonomy within a distributed approach to leadership5
Betwixt and between: A narrative inquiry into Chinese university leaders’ intercultural competence in leadership5
Senior leaders’ theories of action for managing subject departments as a school improvement strategy5
Middle leadership and school improvement: Interpreting external and internal mandates4
Principals’ perspectives on the shift to short-cycle school improvement planning4
Review of systematic reviews in educational leadership and management: Methods used, topics explored and geographies covered4
Importance of clarity, hierarchy, and trust in implementing distributed leadership in higher education4
Principals’ systems thinking and school effectiveness: The mediating role of collective teacher efficacy4
Supporting change in Polish higher education: Academic middle leaders’ perspectives4
Group coaching integrated into national school leadership programs for professional development of school leaders: A similar, yet different approach at a Norwegian and Swedish university4
Academic leaders: In-role perceptions and developmental approaches4
Going beyond creativity: Primary headteachers as social intrapreneurs?4
School leadership writ small: Meetings and school principal practice4
Factors affecting educational leader wellbeing: Sources of stress and self-care4
Challenges of leading change in higher education institutions: Evidence from Nigeria4
Exploring visual method in the field of educational leadership: Co-creating understandings of educational leadership and authority in school organisations4
“My supervisors first check school cleanliness”: Factors inhibiting instructional leadership practices in Northern Sindh, Pakistan4
How school leadership practices relate to student outcomes: Insights from a three-level meta-analysis4
‘Being happy means doing it together’: Exploring the interpersonal emotion regulation of kindergarten principals4
Reviewers 2022–20234
Transformational school leadership and the COVID-19 pandemic: Perceptions of teachers in Cyprus4
Authentic leadership as a predictor of organizational citizenship behaviour and teachers’ burnout: What's ‘quiet quitting’ got to do with it?4
Linking school leaders’ core practices to organizational school climate and student achievements in Norwegian high-performing and low-performing rural schools4
Boundary-spanning practices of system leaders in China: Enabling conditions and inherent tensions3
Role of ethical school leadership in shaping adolescents’ aggressive attitudes: A doubly latent multilevel SEM analysis3
The roles of middle leaders in reinforcing academic optimism3
Distributed leadership in Chinese higher education: Conceptual understanding and barriers to its implementation3
Perceptions of women senior leaders in the UK Higher Education during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Headteachers and external inspection in England3
Challenges in implementing instructional leadership: Insights from Turkish school principals3
Brand advantage, risk mitigation, and the illusion of democracy: Approaches to school governance3
Does relational context matter? Trust in principal as a moderator between distributed leadership and organisational citizenship behaviours in Turkish schools3
Combining capacity for instructional leadership with individual core practices in the Norwegian policy context3
Spanners and enhancers: The role of teacher leaders in school evolution3
Job crafting behavior and the success of senior academic women: An international study3
Instructional leadership in the 21st century: Building on the Hallinger and Murphy PIMRS model3
Leading by serving: How can servant leadership influence teacher emotional well-being?3
Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis for validating a distributed leadership inventory for secondary schools in Ethiopia3
Reviewers 2023-20243
Signature pedagogies and professionalism: An exploratory study on novice principal mentoring3
Assessing successful school leadership: What do we know?3
Lived experiences of study programme leadership in Norwegian higher education3
Shaping the leadership configuration of principals and vice-principals: The principal socialising agent3
The construction of a leadership identity based on empathy, care, and participation: María Eliana's history2
Antecedents of leadership efficacy development among novice school principals in Malaysia2
The relationship between reciprocal school-to-school collaboration and student academic achievement2
‘I have gained insight, direction, affirmation, and a network’. Examining the impact of the UK's first LGBTQ+ specific leadership development programme in higher education2
Investigating the roles of middle leaders in New South Wales public schools: Factor analyses of the Middle Leadership Roles Questionnaire2
Instructional leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Israel2
A micro-political exploration of the resignation of Hong Kong experienced kindergarten principals amidst preschool education coordinator turnover2
Distributed leadership: A normative theory for policy and practice2
A critical friend or the sword of Damocles: Headteachers’ use of micropolitical strategies in inspection2
Crisis leadership: Principals’ metaphors during COVID-192
Transformational leadership and teachers’ voice behaviour: A moderated mediation model of group voice climate and team psychological safety2
Does school leadership affect teacher work engagement in Turkish schools? Investigating the mediating effect of teacher job satisfaction: A multilevel structural equation modelling analysis2
Leadership for teaching and learning: Exploring a department-level educational leadership role at a Swedish comprehensive university2
The experiences of female headteachers of boys’ senior high schools in Ghana2
Do principals really know what their teachers believe about evaluation? Exploring principals' reactions to teachers’ beliefs in the United States2
CORRIGENDUM to “Trust in cross-sector alliances: Towards a theory of relational trust in multi-professional education networks”2
A safe space and leadership matter for innovation: Exploring the role of psychological safety in the relationship between transformational leadership and innovation radicalness in Kyrgyz classroom2
Perspectives of women as they navigate their path to principalship in Australian secondary schools2
Educational practice in Switzerland: Searching for diversity-engaged leadership2
Teacher professional commitment in the Israeli Arab education system: Principal leadership and school outcomes2
Understanding practices of UK college governing: Rethinking strategy and accountability2
Interrelations between teachers’ perceptions of school leadership group practices and collaborative school development in Finland2
Approaching principalship in Sweden: Novice principals’ recollections of their career trajectories2
Challenges to female college principals and vice principals: Patriarchal gender beliefs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan2
Offensive behaviours against school leaders: Prevalence, perpetrators and mediators in Australian government schools2
Enhancing understanding of broad-based pedagogical leadership in Finnish early childhood education through cultural artifacts2
Leadership in international schools: A scoping review2
Looking back and ahead: A bibliometric review of research on principal well-being, 1962–20222
Unplanned meetings: Shifting school principal practice 5 min at a time2
Is educational leadership (still) worth studying? An epistemic worthiness-informed analysis2
Editorial: System leadership in English schools: The long goodbye to local authorities?2
Digital instructional leadership and teaching practices in an emergency context: Evidence from Italy2
Interplay between leadership and school-level conditions: A review of literature on the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)2
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