Educational Management Administration & Leadership

Article	Citations
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	71
Female school principals in Arab communities	47
From the best practices of successful school leaders: Developing and validating the principal competencies inventory in South Korea	47
Pressure management: Factors influencing the turnover intentions of school middle leaders in Scotland	44
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	34
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	31
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	31
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana	27
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	25
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice	25
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust	24
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	22
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers	22
Principal instructional leadership and teacher collaboration: A longitudinal study of the influence on pupil achievement	21
Literature review of transformational school leadership: models and effects on student achievement (2006–2019)	19
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	19
Promoting gender equity in school leadership appointments: A comparison of male and female headteachers’ instructional leadership practices in Ghana	19
Succession planning for school principals: System control or leader agency?	18
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education	17
Promoting team learning in schools: considering the role of team-based HRM practices (THRM)	17
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs	17
The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model	16
Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas: Examining the influence of principal instructional leadership on instructional quality in Chinese rural schools	16
Leadership at the boundaries of schools: Navigating the complexities of collaboration	16
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	16

Does school inspection lead to school improvement? A case study	16
EMAL is 50: Celebrating half a century disseminating high quality research and scholarship	15
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	15
Instructional Boundary Management during COVID-19	15
De-mystifying the 'Cinderella' leadership model: Premia in the practice of curriculum leadership	14
Distributed pedagogical leadership and transformative change	14
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership	14
Effect of e-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam	14
Planning, assessment, and development time through the lens of teacher leadership – Perceptions of Finnish early childhood education teachers	14
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation	14
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria	13
Crisis-resilient school leadership and the role of job crafting: Insights from Finnish principals	13
“I’m trying to help”: How do mentors affect principals' person–organization fit during organizational socialization?	12
From leaking pipe to leadership: Career pathways of women academics in Pakistani higher education	12
New managerialism in educational administration in Greece: The education directors’ perceived roles	12
Leadership for equality in education: 50 years marching forward or marching on the spot?	12
Transformational leadership and teacher burnout in Türkiye: The moderated mediation role of organisational support, teacher resilience and teacher workload	12
Integrating Distributed with Ecological Leadership: Through the Lens of Activity Theory	12
How instructional leaders promote social justice	11
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature	11
Distributed leadership and micropolitics	11
School principals’ emotionally draining situations and student discipline issues in the context of work intensification	11
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts	11
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?	11
First-year teachers’ perspectives on the roles school leaders enact	11
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher well-being: The mediating roles of organisational trust	11
Identifying and coping with the dilemmatic goals of university performance measurement systems in Finland	11
School leadership models: Global interest in western perspectives	11
Professional development of school principals – how do experienced school leaders make sense of their professional learning?	10
Protecting instructional time: Insights from Israeli principals	10
Headteacher engagement with Pupil Equity Funding: Autonomy, evidence and networks	10
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Is instructional leadership a retention factor? Cross-cultural examination of teacher turnover intentions in four selected Latin American countries	10
Participative decision-making in the Arab educational system in Israel: The implications for teachers’ organizational commitment and school violence	10
Support for generative artificial intelligence as a predictor of middle leaders’ generative artificial intelligence self-efficacy, valuing, and integration in school leadership work	9
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	9
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait	9
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice	9
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts	9
Crisis leadership: Developing and validating a scale for school principals’ crisis management in Israel	9
Is leadership a myth? A ‘new wave’ critical leadership-focused research agenda for recontouring the landscape of educational leadership	9
Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences	8
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration	8
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 2022	8
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity	8
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges	7
Are Turkish school principals ready to use artificial intelligence? Exploring the roles of growth mindset, self-efficacy and openness to change	7
Grow to lead: The case of Cyprus primary schools	7
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	7
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition	7

Transformational leadership and teacher work performance: Mediating effect of job autonomy and trust in school principal – insights from senior secondary school data in India	7
Finding the missing link: Do principal qualifications make a difference in student achievement?	7
A bibliometric review of research on digital leadership, 1991–2025: Implications for digital leadership in education	7
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital	7
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition	7
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education?	7
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being: A bibliometric analysis and literature review	7
Bolman and Deal lens on school innovation: Navigating challenges and strategies for school leaders in Saudi Arabia	6
A global perspective on school leadership: Evidence from a latent class analysis on OECD TALIS data	6
The mental health of leaders in Australian government schools: Stress and burnout over a decade (2011–2020)	6
Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system	6
Integrative educational leadership: Foundations, core concepts and principles for practice	6
‘It's like we’re in two different schools’: Contrasting stories of teacher and leader autonomy within a distributed approach to leadership	6
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals	6
What are we missing? An alternative way to explore distributed leadership effectiveness	6
Does middle leaders’ learning-centred leadership matter in promoting teacher professional learning? A partial least squares analysis	6
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study	6
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance	6
Principal social justice leadership: A systematic review of 20 years of research, 2005–2024	5
A systematic review of instructional leadership research conducted with the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS), 1983–2024	5
Fostering collaboration through inclusive leadership: Exploring the behaviour of childcare and school leaders in Dutch child centres	5
Principals’ sense-making and sense-giving of their professional role tensions: School leaders’ professionalism and creative mediation strategies during Covid-19 crisis	5
New perspectives on middle leadership in schools in England – Persistent tensions and emerging possibilities	5
Promoting leadership for learning in Nigeria: The interplay of leadership mastery experience and leader self-efficacy	5
Betwixt and between: A narrative inquiry into Chinese university leaders’ intercultural competence in leadership	5
Pathways to the school principalship: An international scoping review	5
Going beyond creativity: Primary headteachers as social intrapreneurs?	5
Supporting teacher professional learning in Oman: The effects of principal leadership, teacher trust, and teacher agency	5
Review of systematic reviews in educational leadership and management: Methods used, topics explored and geographies covered	5
Senior leaders’ theories of action for managing subject departments as a school improvement strategy	5
Human-Machine symbiosis in educational leadership in the era of artificial intelligence (AI): Where are we heading?	5
Internal financial control processes in public schools: A prerequisite for effective financial management	5
Unpacking the linkages between beliefs and behavioural intention for curriculum reform: A cognitive approach for school middle leaders	5
Exploring the moderation role of teacher cultural value profiles on the association between transformational leadership and teacher job satisfaction: Evidence from Turkish education context	5
OfSTED from within: Inspectors’ views on challenges and future direction	5
How school leadership practices relate to student outcomes: Insights from a three-level meta-analysis	4
Transformational school leadership and the COVID-19 pandemic: Perceptions of teachers in Cyprus	4
Reviewers 2022–2023	4
Linking school leaders’ core practices to organizational school climate and student achievements in Norwegian high-performing and low-performing rural schools	4
Signature pedagogies and professionalism: An exploratory study on novice principal mentoring	4
Challenges of leading change in higher education institutions: Evidence from Nigeria	4
Supporting change in Polish higher education: Academic middle leaders’ perspectives	4
Brand advantage, risk mitigation, and the illusion of democracy: Approaches to school governance	4
Importance of clarity, hierarchy, and trust in implementing distributed leadership in higher education	4
“My supervisors first check school cleanliness”: Factors inhibiting instructional leadership practices in Northern Sindh, Pakistan	4
Principals’ perspectives on the shift to short-cycle school improvement planning	4
Middle leadership and school improvement: Interpreting external and internal mandates	4
Authentic leadership as a predictor of organizational citizenship behaviour and teachers’ burnout: What's ‘quiet quitting’ got to do with it?	4
Group coaching integrated into national school leadership programs for professional development of school leaders: A similar, yet different approach at a Norwegian and Swedish university	4
Reviewers 2023-2024	4
Factors affecting educational leader wellbeing: Sources of stress and self-care	4
Academic leaders: In-role perceptions and developmental approaches	4
Principals’ systems thinking and school effectiveness: The mediating role of collective teacher efficacy	4
‘Being happy means doing it together’: Exploring the interpersonal emotion regulation of kindergarten principals	4
The roles of middle leaders in reinforcing academic optimism	4
How cultural context shapes school leadership and its effectiveness: A systematic review	4
Principal leadership practices for supporting teacher collaboration and collective teacher efficacy: A random intercept cross-lagged panel model	4
Distributed leadership in Chinese higher education: Conceptual understanding and barriers to its implementation	4
Distributed leadership: A normative theory for policy and practice	3
How identity leadership at various university hierarchy levels shapes researchers’ well-being and performance	3
Perceptions of women senior leaders in the UK Higher Education during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The importance of relationships in effectively leading schools: Using corpus linguistic analysis to identify the essential work of educational leadership from the perspective of recently retired schoo	3
Combining capacity for instructional leadership with individual core practices in the Norwegian policy context	3
Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis for validating a distributed leadership inventory for secondary schools in Ethiopia	3
Job crafting behavior and the success of senior academic women: An international study	3
Perspectives of women as they navigate their path to principalship in Australian secondary schools	3
Teacher professional commitment in the Israeli Arab education system: Principal leadership and school outcomes	3
Editorial: System leadership in English schools: The long goodbye to local authorities?	3
Lived experiences of study programme leadership in Norwegian higher education	3
Spanners and enhancers: The role of teacher leaders in school evolution	3
Leading by serving: How can servant leadership influence teacher emotional well-being?	3
Does relational context matter? Trust in principal as a moderator between distributed leadership and organisational citizenship behaviours in Turkish schools	3
Shaping the leadership configuration of principals and vice-principals: The principal socialising agent	3
Mapping local teacher and expatriate leader professional ecologies in Sub-Saharan African International Schools	3
Leadership in international schools: A scoping review	3
At the helm: A study of learning and teaching leadership by Department Chairs in higher education	3
Challenges in implementing instructional leadership: Insights from Turkish school principals	3
Educational practice in Switzerland: Searching for diversity-engaged leadership	3
Instructional leadership in the 21st century: Building on the Hallinger and Murphy PIMRS model	3
Distributed leadership as a catalyst for teacher innovativeness: A multigroup structural equation modeling approach	3

Boundary-spanning practices of system leaders in China: Enabling conditions and inherent tensions	3
Role of ethical school leadership in shaping adolescents’ aggressive attitudes: A doubly latent multilevel SEM analysis	3
Headteachers and external inspection in England	3
A micro-political exploration of the resignation of Hong Kong experienced kindergarten principals amidst preschool education coordinator turnover	3
Does school leadership affect teacher work engagement in Turkish schools? Investigating the mediating effect of teacher job satisfaction: A multilevel structural equation modelling analysis	2
Approaching principalship in Sweden: Novice principals’ recollections of their career trajectories	2
Enhancing understanding of broad-based pedagogical leadership in Finnish early childhood education through cultural artifacts	2
The relationship between reciprocal school-to-school collaboration and student academic achievement	2
Crisis leadership: Principals’ metaphors during COVID-19	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 classroom	2
Instructional leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Israel	2
Performing systematic quality work in Sweden: Frontstage and backstage practices in local education authorities	2
Unplanned meetings: Shifting school principal practice 5 min at a time	2
Looking back and ahead: A bibliometric review of research on principal well-being, 1962–2022	2
Reviewers 2024–2025	2
Challenges to female college principals and vice principals: Patriarchal gender beliefs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan	2
Interplay between leadership and school-level conditions: A review of literature on the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)	2
Offensive behaviours against school leaders: Prevalence, perpetrators and mediators in Australian government schools	2
Digital instructional leadership and teaching practices in an emergency context: Evidence from Italy	2
Investigating the roles of middle leaders in New South Wales public schools: Factor analyses of the Middle Leadership Roles Questionnaire	2
A critical friend or the sword of Damocles: Headteachers’ use of micropolitical strategies in inspection	2
CORRIGENDUM to “Trust in cross-sector alliances: Towards a theory of relational trust in multi-professional education networks”	2
The experiences of female headteachers of boys’ senior high schools in Ghana	2
Head teacher and government officials’ perceptions of teaching quality in secondary education in Rwanda	2
Antecedents of leadership efficacy development among novice school principals in Malaysia	2
The unique role of school middle leaders in enacting social justice leadership	2
Principal's leadership and teacher-to-teacher knowledge-sharing in Iranian schools: Developing and validating a multi-dimensional scale	2
Leading backwards in a forward era: Destructive middle leadership in the pursuit of Higher Education 5.0	2
Beyond the principal's shadow: Exploring the leadership roles of deputy principals in promoting teacher professional learning in Turkish schools	2
Is educational leadership (still) worth studying? An epistemic worthiness-informed analysis	2
‘I have gained insight, direction, affirmation, and a network’. Examining the impact of the UK's first LGBTQ+ specific leadership development programme in higher education	2