Educational Management Administration & Leadership

Article	Citations
From the best practices of successful school leaders: Developing and validating the principal competencies inventory in South Korea	55
Developing contextualised literature-informed competency frameworks for middle managers in education	37
Learning–centred leadership and student achievement: Understanding the mediating effect of the teacher professional community and parental involvement	33
Pressure management: Factors influencing the turnover intentions of school middle leaders in Scotland	29
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	27
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	24
Female school principals in Arab communities	24
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	23
Literature review of transformational school leadership: models and effects on student achievement (2006–2019)	21
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust	19
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice	18
Promoting gender equity in school leadership appointments: A comparison of male and female headteachers’ instructional leadership practices in Ghana	18
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	17
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	17
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana	16
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers	16
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	16
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	14
Promoting team learning in schools: considering the role of team-based HRM practices (THRM)	14
Does school inspection lead to school improvement? A case study	14
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education	14
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	14
Leadership at the boundaries of schools: Navigating the complexities of collaboration	14
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs	14
Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas: Examining the influence of principal instructional leadership on instructional quality in Chinese rural schools	13

Succession planning for school principals: System control or leader agency?	13
The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model	13
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	12
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria	12
EMAL is 50: Celebrating half a century disseminating high quality research and scholarship	12
Instructional Boundary Management during COVID-19	12
From leaking pipe to leadership: Career pathways of women academics in Pakistani higher education	11
Planning, assessment, and development time through the lens of teacher leadership – Perceptions of Finnish early childhood education teachers	11
School principals’ emotionally draining situations and student discipline issues in the context of work intensification	11
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation	11
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership	11
Effect of E-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam	11
Transformational leadership and teacher burnout in Türkiye: The moderated mediation role of organisational support, teacher resilience and teacher workload	10
Leadership for equality in education: 50 years marching forward or marching on the spot?	10
New managerialism in educational administration in Greece: The education directors’ perceived roles	10
Integrating Distributed with Ecological Leadership: Through the Lens of Activity Theory	10
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher well-being: The mediating roles of organisational trust	9
How instructional leaders promote social justice	9
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature	9
Distributed leadership and micropolitics	9
“I’m trying to help”: How do mentors affect principals' person–organization fit during organizational socialization?	9
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts	9
Participative decision-making in the Arab educational system in Israel: The implications for teachers’ organizational commitment and school violence	9
Leading educational reconstruction in post-conflict Cambodia: Perspectives of primary school leaders	9
Crisis-resilient school leadership and the role of job crafting: Insights from Finnish principals	9
Headteacher engagement with Pupil Equity Funding: Autonomy, evidence and networks	8
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	8
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?	8
Protecting instructional time: Insights from Israeli principals	8
Professional development of school principals – how do experienced school leaders make sense of their professional learning?	8
Identifying and coping with the dilemmatic goals of university performance measurement systems in Finland	8
Is leadership a myth? A ‘new wave’ critical leadership-focused research agenda for recontouring the landscape of educational leadership	8
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait	8
First-year teachers’ perspectives on the roles school leaders enact	8
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts	7
Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences	7
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges	7
Principals’ perceptions of school autonomy and educational leadership	7
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity	7
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital	7
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice	7
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration	7
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 2022	7
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance	6
Finding the missing link: Do principal qualifications make a difference in student achievement?	6
A bibliometric review of research on digital leadership, 1991–2025: Implications for digital leadership in education	6
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition	6
Support for generative artificial intelligence as a predictor of middle leaders’ generative artificial intelligence self-efficacy, valuing, and integration in school leadership work	6
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study	6

Transformational leadership and teacher work performance: Mediating effect of job autonomy and trust in school principal – insights from senior secondary school data in India	6
The mental health of leaders in Australian government schools: Stress and burnout over a decade (2011–2020)	6
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	6
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition	6
Grow to lead: The case of Cyprus primary schools	6
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education?	6
‘It's like we’re in two different schools’: Contrasting stories of teacher and leader autonomy within a distributed approach to leadership	5
Betwixt and between: A narrative inquiry into Chinese university leaders’ intercultural competence in leadership	5
What are we missing? An alternative way to explore distributed leadership effectiveness	5
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being: A bibliometric analysis and literature review	5
Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system	5
Senior leaders’ theories of action for managing subject departments as a school improvement strategy	5
Modeling the relationship between principal leadership and teacher professional learning in Kuwait: The mediating effects of Trust and Teacher Agency	5
Does middle leaders’ learning-centred leadership matter in promoting teacher professional learning? A partial least squares analysis	5
Human-Machine symbiosis in educational leadership in the era of artificial intelligence (AI): Where are we heading?	5
A global perspective on school leadership: Evidence from a latent class analysis on OECD TALIS data	5
Bolman and Deal lens on school innovation: Navigating challenges and strategies for school leaders in Saudi Arabia	5
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals	5
Supporting teacher professional learning in Oman: The effects of principal leadership, teacher trust, and teacher agency	4
A systematic review of instructional leadership research conducted with the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS), 1983–2024	4
OfSTED from within: Inspectors’ views on challenges and future direction	4
Internal financial control processes in public schools: A prerequisite for effective financial management	4
School leadership writ small: Meetings and school principal practice	4
Principals’ systems thinking and school effectiveness: The mediating role of collective teacher efficacy	4
Exploring the moderation role of teacher cultural value profiles on the association between transformational leadership and teacher job satisfaction: Evidence from Turkish education context	4
New perspectives on middle leadership in schools in England – Persistent tensions and emerging possibilities	4
Pathways to the school principalship: An international scoping review	4
Philanthropic emotional work: Papering over the cracks of unprecedented public education reform	4
Unpacking the linkages between beliefs and behavioural intention for curriculum reform: A cognitive approach for school middle leaders	4
Principals’ sense-making and sense-giving of their professional role tensions: School leaders’ professionalism and creative mediation strategies during Covid-19 crisis	4
Middle leadership and school improvement: Interpreting external and internal mandates	4
Reviewers 2022–2023	4
Principals’ perspectives on the shift to short-cycle school improvement planning	4
Review of systematic reviews in educational leadership and management: Methods used, topics explored and geographies covered	4
Gender, networks and academic leadership: A systematic review	4
Promoting leadership for learning in Nigeria: The interplay of leadership mastery experience and leader self-efficacy	4
Fostering collaboration through inclusive leadership: Exploring the behaviour of childcare and school leaders in Dutch child centres	4
Transformational school leadership and the COVID-19 pandemic: Perceptions of teachers in Cyprus	4
‘Being happy means doing it together’: Exploring the interpersonal emotion regulation of kindergarten principals	4
Academic leaders: In-role perceptions and developmental approaches	4
“My supervisors first check school cleanliness”: Factors inhibiting instructional leadership practices in Northern Sindh, Pakistan	4
Going beyond creativity: Primary headteachers as social intrapreneurs?	4
Challenges of leading change in higher education institutions: Evidence from Nigeria	3
How school leadership practices relate to student outcomes: Insights from a three-level meta-analysis	3
Reviewers 2023-2024	3
Distributed leadership in Chinese higher education: Conceptual understanding and barriers to its implementation	3
Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis for validating a distributed leadership inventory for secondary schools in Ethiopia	3
Role of ethical school leadership in shaping adolescents’ aggressive attitudes: A doubly latent multilevel SEM analysis	3
Boundary-spanning practices of system leaders in China: Enabling conditions and inherent tensions	3
Authentic leadership as a predictor of organizational citizenship behaviour and teachers’ burnout: What's ‘quiet quitting’ got to do with it?	3
Linking school leaders’ core practices to organizational school climate and student achievements in Norwegian high-performing and low-performing rural schools	3
Supporting change in Polish higher education: Academic middle leaders’ perspectives	3
The roles of middle leaders in reinforcing academic optimism	3
Brand advantage, risk mitigation, and the illusion of democracy: Approaches to school governance	3
Does relational context matter? Trust in principal as a moderator between distributed leadership and organisational citizenship behaviours in Turkish schools	3
Instructional leadership in the 21st century: Building on the Hallinger and Murphy PIMRS model	3
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	3
Factors affecting educational leader wellbeing: Sources of stress and self-care	3
Importance of clarity, hierarchy, and trust in implementing distributed leadership in higher education	3
Combining capacity for instructional leadership with individual core practices in the Norwegian policy context	3
Leading by serving: How can servant leadership influence teacher emotional well-being?	3
Signature pedagogies and professionalism: An exploratory study on novice principal mentoring	3
Shaping the leadership configuration of principals and vice-principals: The principal socialising agent	3
The experiences of female headteachers of boys’ senior high schools in Ghana	2
Unplanned meetings: Shifting school principal practice 5 min at a time	2
Understanding practices of UK college governing: Rethinking strategy and accountability	2
A micro-political exploration of the resignation of Hong Kong experienced kindergarten principals amidst preschool education coordinator turnover	2
Offensive behaviours against school leaders: Prevalence, perpetrators and mediators in Australian government schools	2
Editorial: System leadership in English schools: The long goodbye to local authorities?	2
Challenges in implementing instructional leadership: Insights from Turkish school principals	2
Perceptions of women senior leaders in the UK Higher Education during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Looking back and ahead: A bibliometric review of research on principal well-being, 1962–2022	2
The unique role of school middle leaders in enacting social justice leadership	2
Approaching principalship in Sweden: Novice principals’ recollections of their career trajectories	2
Teacher professional commitment in the Israeli Arab education system: Principal leadership and school outcomes	2
The construction of a leadership identity based on empathy, care, and participation: María Eliana's history	2
Antecedents of leadership efficacy development among novice school principals in Malaysia	2
CORRIGENDUM to “Trust in cross-sector alliances: Towards a theory of relational trust in multi-professional education networks”	2
The relationship between reciprocal school-to-school collaboration and student academic achievement	2
Perspectives of women as they navigate their path to principalship in Australian secondary schools	2

Digital instructional leadership and teaching practices in an emergency context: Evidence from Italy	2
Distributed leadership: A normative theory for policy and practice	2
Job crafting behavior and the success of senior academic women: An international study	2
Lived experiences of study programme leadership in Norwegian higher education	2
Instructional leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Israel	2
Investigating the roles of middle leaders in New South Wales public schools: Factor analyses of the Middle Leadership Roles Questionnaire	2
Interrelations between teachers’ perceptions of school leadership group practices and collaborative school development in Finland	2
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
Crisis leadership: Principals’ metaphors during COVID-19	2
Leadership for teaching and learning: Exploring a department-level educational leadership role at a Swedish comprehensive university	2
Challenges to female college principals and vice principals: Patriarchal gender beliefs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan	2
Is educational leadership (still) worth studying? An epistemic worthiness-informed analysis	2
Do principals really know what their teachers believe about evaluation? Exploring principals' reactions to teachers’ beliefs in the United States	2
Leadership in international schools: A scoping review	2
A critical friend or the sword of Damocles: Headteachers’ use of micropolitical strategies in inspection	2
Headteachers and external inspection in England	2
Spanners and enhancers: The role of teacher leaders in school evolution	2
Assessing successful school leadership: What do we know?	2
Educational practice in Switzerland: Searching for diversity-engaged leadership	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
Enhancing understanding of broad-based pedagogical leadership in Finnish early childhood education through cultural artifacts	2
Principal's leadership and teacher-to-teacher knowledge-sharing in Iranian schools: Developing and validating a multi-dimensional scale	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