Educational Management Administration & Leadership

Article	Citations
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	70
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	44
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	43
Female school principals in Arab communities	42
From the best practices of successful school leaders: Developing and validating the principal competencies inventory in South Korea	32
Pressure management: Factors influencing the turnover intentions of school middle leaders in Scotland	30
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	28
Principal instructional leadership and teacher collaboration: A longitudinal study of the influence on pupil achievement	26
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana	24
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice	23
Literature review of transformational school leadership: models and effects on student achievement (2006–2019)	22
Promoting gender equity in school leadership appointments: A comparison of male and female headteachers’ instructional leadership practices in Ghana	21
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	21
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	20
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust	19
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers	19
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	17
Promoting team learning in schools: considering the role of team-based HRM practices (THRM)	17
Succession planning for school principals: System control or leader agency?	17
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education	17
Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas: Examining the influence of principal instructional leadership on instructional quality in Chinese rural schools	16
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs	16
Does school inspection lead to school improvement? A case study	15
Leadership at the boundaries of schools: Navigating the complexities of collaboration	15
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	15

The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model	14
EMAL is 50: Celebrating half a century disseminating high quality research and scholarship	14
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	14
Instructional Boundary Management during COVID-19	14
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership	13
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation	13
De-mystifying the 'Cinderella' leadership model: Premia in the practice of curriculum leadership	13
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria	13
Planning, assessment, and development time through the lens of teacher leadership – Perceptions of Finnish early childhood education teachers	13
Effect of E-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam	12
Distributed pedagogical leadership and transformative change	12
Crisis-resilient school leadership and the role of job crafting: Insights from Finnish principals	11
New managerialism in educational administration in Greece: The education directors’ perceived roles	11
How instructional leaders promote social justice	11
Integrating Distributed with Ecological Leadership: Through the Lens of Activity Theory	11
From leaking pipe to leadership: Career pathways of women academics in Pakistani higher education	11
“I’m trying to help”: How do mentors affect principals' person–organization fit during organizational socialization?	11
Leadership for equality in education: 50 years marching forward or marching on the spot?	11
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts	11
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher well-being: The mediating roles of organisational trust	10
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?	10
First-year teachers’ perspectives on the roles school leaders enact	10
Transformational leadership and teacher burnout in Türkiye: The moderated mediation role of organisational support, teacher resilience and teacher workload	10
School leadership models: Global interest in western perspectives	10
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature	10
Participative decision-making in the Arab educational system in Israel: The implications for teachers’ organizational commitment and school violence	10
School principals’ emotionally draining situations and student discipline issues in the context of work intensification	10
Identifying and coping with the dilemmatic goals of university performance measurement systems in Finland	10
Distributed leadership and micropolitics	10
Headteacher engagement with Pupil Equity Funding: Autonomy, evidence and networks	9
Protecting instructional time: Insights from Israeli principals	9
Is instructional leadership a retention factor? Cross-cultural examination of teacher turnover intentions in four selected Latin American countries	9
Leading educational reconstruction in post-conflict Cambodia: Perspectives of primary school leaders	9
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 identity	8
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	8
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait	8
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital	8
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts	8
Support for generative artificial intelligence as a predictor of middle leaders’ generative artificial intelligence self-efficacy, valuing, and integration in school leadership work	8
Is leadership a myth? A ‘new wave’ critical leadership-focused research agenda for recontouring the landscape of educational leadership	8
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 2022	7
Crisis leadership: Developing and validating a scale for school principals’ crisis management in Israel	7
Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences	7
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition	7
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges	7
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration	7
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice	7
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education?	6

Finding the missing link: Do principal qualifications make a difference in student achievement?	6
What are we missing? An alternative way to explore distributed leadership effectiveness	6
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	6
A bibliometric review of research on digital leadership, 1991–2025: Implications for digital leadership in education	6
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being: A bibliometric analysis and literature review	6
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals	6
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance	6
Grow to lead: The case of Cyprus primary schools	6
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study	6
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition	6
Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system	5
Human-Machine symbiosis in educational leadership in the era of artificial intelligence (AI): Where are we heading?	5
OfSTED from within: Inspectors’ views on challenges and future direction	5
Philanthropic emotional work: Papering over the cracks of unprecedented public education reform	5
The mental health of leaders in Australian government schools: Stress and burnout over a decade (2011–2020)	5
‘It's like we’re in two different schools’: Contrasting stories of teacher and leader autonomy within a distributed approach to leadership	5
Does middle leaders’ learning-centred leadership matter in promoting teacher professional learning? A partial least squares analysis	5
Principal social justice leadership: A systematic review of 20 years of research, 2005–2024	5
Bolman and Deal lens on school innovation: Navigating challenges and strategies for school leaders in Saudi Arabia	5
A global perspective on school leadership: Evidence from a latent class analysis on OECD TALIS data	5
Integrative educational leadership: Foundations, core concepts and principles for practice	5
Betwixt and between: A narrative inquiry into Chinese university leaders’ intercultural competence in leadership	5
Promoting leadership for learning in Nigeria: The interplay of leadership mastery experience and leader self-efficacy	5
Transformational leadership and teacher work performance: Mediating effect of job autonomy and trust in school principal – insights from senior secondary school data in India	5
Principals’ sense-making and sense-giving of their professional role tensions: School leaders’ professionalism and creative mediation strategies during Covid-19 crisis	4
Review of systematic reviews in educational leadership and management: Methods used, topics explored and geographies covered	4
Pathways to the school principalship: An international scoping review	4
Internal financial control processes in public schools: A prerequisite for effective financial management	4
‘Being happy means doing it together’: Exploring the interpersonal emotion regulation of kindergarten principals	4
Middle leadership and school improvement: Interpreting external and internal mandates	4
School leadership writ small: Meetings and school principal practice	4
Academic leaders: In-role perceptions and developmental approaches	4
New perspectives on middle leadership in schools in England – Persistent tensions and emerging possibilities	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
A systematic review of instructional leadership research conducted with the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS), 1983–2024	4
Supporting teacher professional learning in Oman: The effects of principal leadership, teacher trust, and teacher agency	4
Reviewers 2022–2023	4
Importance of clarity, hierarchy, and trust in implementing distributed leadership in higher education	4
Principals’ systems thinking and school effectiveness: The mediating role of collective teacher efficacy	4
Unpacking the linkages between beliefs and behavioural intention for curriculum reform: A cognitive approach for school middle leaders	4
Senior leaders’ theories of action for managing subject departments as a school improvement strategy	4
Fostering collaboration through inclusive leadership: Exploring the behaviour of childcare and school leaders in Dutch child centres	4
Going beyond creativity: Primary headteachers as social intrapreneurs?	4
“My supervisors first check school cleanliness”: Factors inhibiting instructional leadership practices in Northern Sindh, Pakistan	4
Transformational school leadership and the COVID-19 pandemic: Perceptions of teachers in Cyprus	4
Principals’ perspectives on the shift to short-cycle school improvement planning	4
Job crafting behavior and the success of senior academic women: An international study	3
Does relational context matter? Trust in principal as a moderator between distributed leadership and organisational citizenship behaviours in Turkish schools	3
Combining capacity for instructional leadership with individual core practices in the Norwegian policy context	3
Reviewers 2023-2024	3
Supporting change in Polish higher education: Academic middle leaders’ perspectives	3
Principal leadership practices for supporting teacher collaboration and collective teacher efficacy: A random intercept cross-lagged panel 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
Brand advantage, risk mitigation, and the illusion of democracy: Approaches to school governance	3
Headteachers and external inspection in England	3
Challenges in implementing instructional leadership: Insights from Turkish school principals	3
Instructional leadership in the 21st century: Building on the Hallinger and Murphy PIMRS model	3
Boundary-spanning practices of system leaders in China: Enabling conditions and inherent tensions	3
Distributed leadership in Chinese higher education: Conceptual understanding and barriers to its implementation	3
Factors affecting educational leader wellbeing: Sources of stress and self-care	3
Challenges of leading change in higher education institutions: Evidence from Nigeria	3
The roles of middle leaders in reinforcing academic optimism	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
Shaping the leadership configuration of principals and vice-principals: The principal socialising agent	3
Editorial: System leadership in English schools: The long goodbye to local authorities?	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
Spanners and enhancers: The role of teacher leaders in school evolution	3
Signature pedagogies and professionalism: An exploratory study on novice principal mentoring	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
Leading by serving: How can servant leadership influence teacher emotional well-being?	3
How school leadership practices relate to student outcomes: Insights from a three-level meta-analysis	3
Lived experiences of study programme leadership in Norwegian higher education	3
Perceptions of women senior leaders in the UK Higher Education during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The experiences of female headteachers of boys’ senior high schools in Ghana	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
The relationship between reciprocal school-to-school collaboration and student academic achievement	2
A critical friend or the sword of Damocles: Headteachers’ use of micropolitical strategies in inspection	2
Is educational leadership (still) worth studying? An epistemic worthiness-informed analysis	2

Educational practice in Switzerland: Searching for diversity-engaged leadership	2
Perspectives of women as they navigate their path to principalship in Australian secondary schools	2
Leadership in international schools: A scoping review	2
Crisis leadership: Principals’ metaphors during COVID-19	2
The unique role of school middle leaders in enacting social justice leadership	2
Performing systematic quality work in Sweden: Frontstage and backstage practices in local education authorities	2
Offensive behaviours against school leaders: Prevalence, perpetrators and mediators in Australian government schools	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
Beyond the principal's shadow: Exploring the leadership roles of deputy principals in promoting teacher professional learning in Turkish schools	2
Distributed leadership: A normative theory for policy and practice	2
A micro-political exploration of the resignation of Hong Kong experienced kindergarten principals amidst preschool education coordinator turnover	2
At the helm: A study of learning and teaching leadership by Department Chairs in higher education	2
Looking back and ahead: A bibliometric review of research on principal well-being, 1962–2022	2
Principal's leadership and teacher-to-teacher knowledge-sharing in Iranian schools: Developing and validating a multi-dimensional scale	2
Challenges to female college principals and vice principals: Patriarchal gender beliefs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan	2
CORRIGENDUM to “Trust in cross-sector alliances: Towards a theory of relational trust in multi-professional education networks”	2
Interrelations between teachers’ perceptions of school leadership group practices and collaborative school development in Finland	2
Investigating the roles of middle leaders in New South Wales public schools: Factor analyses of the Middle Leadership Roles Questionnaire	2
Understanding practices of UK college governing: Rethinking strategy and accountability	2
Unplanned meetings: Shifting school principal practice 5 min at a time	2
Teacher professional commitment in the Israeli Arab education system: Principal leadership and school outcomes	2
Digital instructional leadership and teaching practices in an emergency context: Evidence from Italy	2
Instructional leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Israel	2
Interplay between leadership and school-level conditions: A review of literature on the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)	2