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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar66
Too tired to lead?: How stress, mental health conditions, and sleep quality shape principals’ self-efficacy and leave intentions64
Pressure management: Factors influencing the turnover intentions of school middle leaders in Scotland63
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times42
Female school principals in Arab communities35
Culturally responsive leadership practices in secondary schools that lead to positive academic achievement for Māori and Pacific students32
Enhancing changed teacher practice in culturally diverse schools through transformational and social justice leadership: A cross-level moderated mediation model32
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey29
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction29
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore24
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana24
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice23
Principal instructional leadership and teacher collaboration: A longitudinal study of the influence on pupil achievement23
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan21
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 202121
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust21
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers21
Teacher leadership in the Arab states: A systematic review21
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?21
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs20
Promoting team learning in schools: considering the role of team-based HRM practices (THRM)20
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?20
Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas: Examining the influence of principal instructional leadership on instructional quality in Chinese rural schools19
Does school inspection lead to school improvement? A case study19
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education19
The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model18
Leadership at the boundaries of schools: Navigating the complexities of collaboration18
Planning, assessment, and development time through the lens of teacher leadership – Perceptions of Finnish early childhood education teachers18
Distributed pedagogical leadership and transformative change17
De-mystifying the 'Cinderella' leadership model: Premia in the practice of curriculum leadership17
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation16
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria16
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership15
Effect of e-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam15
The effects of instructional leadership on teachers’ instructional practices through inclusive efficacy: The moderating role of social justice leadership15
“I’m trying to help”: How do mentors affect principals' person–organization fit during organizational socialization?15
New managerialism in educational administration in Greece: The education directors’ perceived roles14
Leading policy-aligned sport in high-pressure systems: Distributed–transformational leadership, programme quality and student outcomes in secondary schools14
From leaking pipe to leadership: Career pathways of women academics in Pakistani higher education14
School principals’ emotionally draining situations and student discipline issues in the context of work intensification14
Transformational leadership and teacher burnout in Türkiye: The moderated mediation role of organisational support, teacher resilience and teacher workload13
Crisis-resilient school leadership and the role of job crafting: Insights from Finnish principals13
Rethinking knowledge production in educational leadership research: Impossibility, hybridity and epistemic inheritance12
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts12
How instructional leaders promote social justice12
Distributed leadership and micropolitics11
First-year teachers’ perspectives on the roles school leaders enact11
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?11
Addressing the gap in creative pedagogies among teachers through instructional leadership: A meta-analysis of countries in PISA 202211
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic11
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher well-being: The mediating roles of organisational trust11
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature11
Participative decision-making in the Arab educational system in Israel: The implications for teachers’ organizational commitment and school violence10
Protecting instructional time: Insights from Israeli principals10
School leadership models: Global interest in western perspectives10
Distributed leadership questionnaire – Greek adaptation: The validity and reliability study10
Leading reflective schools: Action research culture, teacher commitment and leadership for learning in Malaysia10
Identifying and coping with the dilemmatic goals of university performance measurement systems in Finland10
Headteacher engagement with Pupil Equity Funding: Autonomy, evidence and networks10
Professional development of school principals – how do experienced school leaders make sense of their professional learning?9
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity9
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 20229
Support for generative artificial intelligence as a predictor of middle leaders’ generative artificial intelligence self-efficacy, valuing, and integration in school leadership work9
Relational trust and principal well-being: Extending the job demands–resources framework in school leadership9
Shaping professional identities in turbulent times: Venezuelan female school leaders’ sensemaking of critical incidents9
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait9
Crisis leadership: Developing and validating a scale for school principals’ crisis management in Israel9
Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences9
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong9
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice9
Is instructional leadership a retention factor? Cross-cultural examination of teacher turnover intentions in four selected Latin American countries9
Principal's post-observation conversations in China: Exploring interpersonal effectiveness through a theory of action lens9
School leader well-being under pressure: Emotional and quantitative demands, resilience, and burnout in Australian schools9
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital9
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts9
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration9
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges8
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition8
Are Turkish school principals ready to use artificial intelligence? Exploring the roles of growth mindset, self-efficacy and openness to change8
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education?8
What are we missing? An alternative way to explore distributed leadership effectiveness8
A bibliometric review of research on digital leadership, 1991–2025: Implications for digital leadership in education8
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition8
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study8
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals8
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?8
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance7
Social justice directed instructional leadership: Does it make a difference for teacher professional learning7
Bolman and Deal lens on school innovation: Navigating challenges and strategies for school leaders in Saudi Arabia7
School leadership in Israel amid COVID-19: A systematic review7
Grow to lead: The case of Cyprus primary schools7
‘It's like we’re in two different schools’: Contrasting stories of teacher and leader autonomy within a distributed approach to leadership7
Integrative educational leadership: Foundations, core concepts and principles for practice7
A global perspective on school leadership: Evidence from a latent class analysis on OECD TALIS data7
The mental health of leaders in Australian government schools: Stress and burnout over a decade (2011–2020)7
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being: A bibliometric analysis and literature review7
Transformational leadership and teacher work performance: Mediating effect of job autonomy and trust in school principal – insights from senior secondary school data in India7
Principal social justice leadership: A systematic review of 20 years of research, 2005–20247
School middle leadership: Complementing solo and heroic leadership?6
A systematic review of instructional leadership research conducted with the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS), 1983–20246
Promoting leadership for learning in Nigeria: The interplay of leadership mastery experience and leader self-efficacy6
Human-Machine symbiosis in educational leadership in the era of artificial intelligence (AI): Where are we heading?6
OfSTED from within: Inspectors’ views on challenges and future direction6
Empowered to act: How leadership fosters teacher agency6
Does middle leaders’ learning-centred leadership matter in promoting teacher professional learning? A partial least squares analysis6
Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system6
Betwixt and between: A narrative inquiry into Chinese university leaders’ intercultural competence in leadership6
“My supervisors first check school cleanliness”: Factors inhibiting instructional leadership practices in Northern Sindh, Pakistan5
Principals’ systems thinking and school effectiveness: The mediating role of collective teacher efficacy5
Internal financial control processes in public schools: A prerequisite for effective financial management5
Transformational school leadership and the COVID-19 pandemic: Perceptions of teachers in Cyprus5
Unpacking the linkages between beliefs and behavioural intention for curriculum reform: A cognitive approach for school middle leaders5
Academic leaders: In-role perceptions and developmental approaches5
Worry at the top: Understanding and managing worry in elementary school leadership5
Challenges of leading change in higher education institutions: Evidence from Nigeria5
Supporting change in Polish higher education: Academic middle leaders’ perspectives5
Group coaching integrated into national school leadership programs for professional development of school leaders: A similar, yet different approach at a Norwegian and Swedish university5
Review of systematic reviews in educational leadership and management: Methods used, topics explored and geographies covered5
School leadership in the United Arab Emirates: A narrative review of research5
Going beyond creativity: Primary headteachers as social intrapreneurs?5
Principals’ sense-making and sense-giving of their professional role tensions: School leaders’ professionalism and creative mediation strategies during Covid-19 crisis5
Middle leadership and school improvement: Interpreting external and internal mandates5
How cultural context shapes school leadership and its effectiveness: A systematic review5
Factors affecting educational leader wellbeing: Sources of stress and self-care5
‘Being happy means doing it together’: Exploring the interpersonal emotion regulation of kindergarten principals5
Principals’ perspectives on the shift to short-cycle school improvement planning5
Exploring the moderation role of teacher cultural value profiles on the association between transformational leadership and teacher job satisfaction: Evidence from Turkish education context5
Destructive leadership in education: A systematic review5
Fostering collaboration through inclusive leadership: Exploring the behaviour of childcare and school leaders in Dutch child centres5
Importance of clarity, hierarchy, and trust in implementing distributed leadership in higher education5
Reviewers 2022–20235
Principal leadership practices for supporting teacher collaboration and collective teacher efficacy: A random intercept cross-lagged panel model5
Authentic leadership as a predictor of organizational citizenship behaviour and teachers’ burnout: What's ‘quiet quitting’ got to do with it?5
Higher education leadership for equity, diversity and inclusion: A systematic review of literature from 2000 to 20244
Science mapping the knowledge base on educational leadership and management in the Arab region: A bibliometric review4
School inspection: Support or surveillance?4
Does relational context matter? Trust in principal as a moderator between distributed leadership and organisational citizenship behaviours in Turkish schools 4
The roles of middle leaders in reinforcing academic optimism4
Reviewers 2023-20244
Leading schools in crisis contexts: Practice insights from a scoping review4
Perceptions of women senior leaders in the UK Higher Education during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Distributed leadership as a catalyst for teacher innovativeness: A multigroup structural equation modeling approach4
Distributed leadership in Chinese higher education: Conceptual understanding and barriers to its implementation4
Role of ethical school leadership in shaping adolescents’ aggressive attitudes: A doubly latent multilevel SEM analysis4
Brand advantage, risk mitigation, and the illusion of democracy: Approaches to school governance4
Leading by serving: How can servant leadership influence teacher emotional well-being?4
Challenges in implementing instructional leadership: Insights from Turkish school principals4
Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis for validating a distributed leadership inventory for secondary schools in Ethiopia4
Boundary-spanning practices of system leaders in China: Enabling conditions and inherent tensions4
Signature pedagogies and professionalism: An exploratory study on novice principal mentoring4
Job crafting behavior and the success of senior academic women: An international study3
Mapping local teacher and expatriate leader professional ecologies in Sub-Saharan African International Schools3
Headteachers and external inspection in England3
Unplanned meetings: Shifting school principal practice 5 min at a time3
From autonomy to digital leadership: Multilevel pathways to school improvement in OECD education systems3
Perspectives of women as they navigate their path to principalship in Australian secondary schools3
Instructional leadership in the 21st century: Building on the Hallinger and Murphy PIMRS model3
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 schoo3
Lived experiences of study programme leadership in Norwegian higher education3
Teacher professional commitment in the Israeli Arab education system: Principal leadership and school outcomes3
Performing systematic quality work in Sweden: Frontstage and backstage practices in local education authorities3
A micro-political exploration of the resignation of Hong Kong experienced kindergarten principals amidst preschool education coordinator turnover3
Distributed leadership: A normative theory for policy and practice3
Shaping the leadership configuration of principals and vice-principals: The principal socialising agent3
How identity leadership at various university hierarchy levels shapes researchers’ well-being and performance3
Spanners and enhancers: The role of teacher leaders in school evolution3
At the helm: A study of learning and teaching leadership by Department Chairs in higher education3
Editorial: System leadership in English schools: The long goodbye to local authorities?3
Leadership in international schools: A scoping review3
Head teacher and government officials’ perceptions of teaching quality in secondary education in Rwanda2
Enhancing understanding of broad-based pedagogical leadership in Finnish early childhood education through cultural artifacts2
Validating the teacher leadership scale in Oman: Implications for leadership development in Arab schools2
Investigating the roles of middle leaders in New South Wales public schools: Factor analyses of the Middle Leadership Roles Questionnaire2
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 classrooms2
Beyond the principal's shadow: Exploring the leadership roles of deputy principals in promoting teacher professional learning in Turkish schools2
Context-specific leadership and the governance of work-integrated learning in Alberta's higher education policy2
Unveiling emotional strain: The interplay of loneliness, stress, and depression among school leaders2
Interrelations between teachers’ perceptions of school leadership group practices and collaborative school development in Finland2
Does school leadership affect teacher work engagement in Turkish schools? Investigating the mediating effect of teacher job satisfaction: A multilevel structural equation modelling analysis2
Principal leadership, school processes, and student achievement: Examining contextual heterogeneity in leadership mechanisms via multigroup multilevel structural equation modeling2
Transformational leadership and teachers’ voice behaviour: A moderated mediation model of group voice climate and team psychological safety2
The influence of culture on the leadership and management styles of assistant principals in Palestinian Arab elementary schools in East Jerusalem2
Crisis leadership: Principals’ metaphors during COVID-192
Digital instructional leadership and teaching practices in an emergency context: Evidence from Italy2
A critical friend or the sword of Damocles: Headteachers’ use of micropolitical strategies in inspection2
Antecedents of leadership efficacy development among novice school principals in Malaysia2
Principals’ achievement motives and implicit theories predict principals’ desired achievement goals for their students2
Approaching principalship in Sweden: Novice principals’ recollections of their career trajectories2
Reviewers 2024–20252
Deciphering the mechanisms linking school leadership to instructional practices through collective teacher efficacy: The moderated mediation role of school climate2
‘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
Challenges to female college principals and vice principals: Patriarchal gender beliefs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan2
Looking back and ahead: A bibliometric review of research on principal well-being, 1962–20222
Leading backwards in a forward era: Destructive middle leadership in the pursuit of Higher Education 5.02
Interplay between leadership and school-level conditions: A review of literature on the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)2
The experiences of female headteachers of boys’ senior high schools in Ghana2
Science mapping the evolution of middle leadership research, 2002–20232
Where are the part-time women teachers in senior school leadership: Inequalities, tensions and timescapes?2
The unique role of school middle leaders in enacting social justice leadership2
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