OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Educational Management Administration & Leadership is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Importance of clarity, hierarchy, and trust in implementing distributed leadership in higher education	47
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	33
Offensive behaviours against school leaders: Prevalence, perpetrators and mediators in Australian government schools	24
Challenges to female college principals and vice principals: Patriarchal gender beliefs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan	24
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	23
Middle leadership and school improvement: Interpreting external and internal mandates	23
Investigating leadership attributes and strategies during times of crisis and educational change: A story of public primary school principals in Lombok, Indonesia	23
Instructional leadership and student achievement across UAE schools: Mediating role of professional development and cognitive activation in teaching	22
How school leadership practices relate to student outcomes: Insights from a three-level meta-analysis	22
Transformational school leadership and the COVID-19 pandemic: Perceptions of teachers in Cyprus	22
Principal professional identity: Giving voice to children in a vulnerable Spanish context	21
Work-related stress among headteachers in Wales: Prevalence, sources, and solutions	21
A systematic review of research into executive headship, 2001–2021	19
Developing contextualised literature-informed competency frameworks for middle managers in education	19
Do principals really know what their teachers believe about evaluation? Exploring principals' reactions to teachers’ beliefs in the United States	17
Leadership and culture in Singapore: What makes a successful education system?	17
Understanding practices of UK college governing: Rethinking strategy and accountability	16
School leadership writ small: Meetings and school principal practice	15
Followers and following in early childhood education workplaces: A narrative review of the followership literature	15
Birds of a feather flock together: Understanding Filipino millennial academic managers’ mindset	15
Reviewers 2022–2023	14
From the best practices of successful school leaders: Developing and validating the principal competencies inventory in South Korea	14
Academic leaders: In-role perceptions and developmental approaches	14
Female school principals in Arab communities	13
‘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	13

“My supervisors first check school cleanliness”: Factors inhibiting instructional leadership practices in Northern Sindh, Pakistan	12
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait	12
‘Being happy means doing it together’: Exploring the interpersonal emotion regulation of kindergarten principals	12
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	12
System leadership in England: Changing the landscape, for better or worse?	12
High-leverage teacher evaluation practices for instructional improvement	12
A female advantage? Gender and educational leadership practices in urban primary schools in Chile	12
Professional development of school principals – how do experienced school leaders make sense of their professional learning?	11
Principals’ systems thinking and school effectiveness: The mediating role of collective teacher efficacy	11
Principals’ perspectives on the shift to short-cycle school improvement planning	11
Is leadership a myth? A ‘new wave’ critical leadership-focused research agenda for recontouring the landscape of educational leadership	10
Teacher leaders’ brokerage practice in China: Impact on teacher learning in a school–university partnership	10
Linking principal support and teacher resilience to teacher leadership in Türkiye: The mediating role of teacher work engagement	10
The relationship between reciprocal school-to-school collaboration and student academic achievement	10
A review of literature on women’s leadership in higher education in developed countries and in Vietnam: Barriers and enablers	10
The experiences of female headteachers of boys’ senior high schools in Ghana	10
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice	9
Leadership for teaching and learning: Exploring a department-level educational leadership role at a Swedish comprehensive university	9
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	9
Principals and vice-principals: Hierarchy or teamwork?	9
The effects of instructional leadership, teacher responsibility and procedural justice climate on professional learning communities: A cross-level moderated mediation examination	9
Examining principal leadership effects on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel analysis	9
Learning–centred leadership and student achievement: Understanding the mediating effect of the teacher professional community and parental involvement	9
The roles of middle leaders in reinforcing academic optimism	9
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	8
School leadership training transfer in Ghana: Views of successful basic school leaders	8
Principal–teacher gender (dis)similarity as a moderator in the relationship between paternalistic leadership and organisational citizenship behaviour in the Arab minority in Israel	8
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	8
Far from the generalised norm: Recognising the interplay between contextual particularities and principals’ leadership in schools in low-socio-economic status communities	8
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 2022	8
Toxic leadership and academics’ work engagement in higher education: A cross-sectional study from Chile	8
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts	8
Authentic leadership as a predictor of organizational citizenship behaviour and teachers’ burnout: What's ‘quiet quitting’ got to do with it?	8
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration	7
Enhancing understanding of broad-based pedagogical leadership in Finnish early childhood education through cultural artifacts	7
Reviewers 2021–2022	7
Exploring the network leadership practice of Master Principal Studio hosts in China	7
How transformational leadership influences teachers’ commitment and innovative practices: Understanding the moderating role of trust in principal	7
Approaching principalship in Sweden: Novice principals’ recollections of their career trajectories	6
Well-being of international school leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Does school leadership affect teacher work engagement in Turkish schools? Investigating the mediating effect of teacher job satisfaction: A multilevel structural equation modelling analysis	6
The role of the school leader in the inclusion of migrant families and students	6
Exploring visual method in the field of educational leadership: Co-creating understandings of educational leadership and authority in school organisations	6
Imported policy ideals and distributed leadership in Jordanian schools	6
Promoting gender equity in school leadership appointments: A comparison of male and female headteachers’ instructional leadership practices in Ghana	6
Head teacher and government officials’ perceptions of teaching quality in secondary education in Rwanda	6
When social hierarchy meets hierarchical school culture: Implications for Chinese Hong Kong school leaders	6
Transformational leadership and teachers’ voice behaviour: A moderated mediation model of group voice climate and team psychological safety	6
Literature review of transformational school leadership: models and effects on student achievement (2006–2019)	6
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	5

Interrelations between teachers’ perceptions of school leadership group practices and collaborative school development in Finland	5
Factors affecting educational leader wellbeing: Sources of stress and self-care	5
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice	5
Mapping trends in educational-leadership research: A longitudinal examination of knowledge production, approaches and locations	5
Participation in the Swedish national principal training programme: How does it intertwine with principals’ practice?	5
Interplay between leadership and school-level conditions: A review of literature on the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)	5
Linking school leaders’ core practices to organizational school climate and student achievements in Norwegian high-performing and low-performing rural schools	5
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity	5
The construction of a leadership identity based on empathy, care, and participation: María Eliana's history	5
Supporting change in Polish higher education: Academic middle leaders’ perspectives	5
Principal's leadership and teacher-to-teacher knowledge-sharing in Iranian schools: Developing and validating a multi-dimensional scale	5
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	5
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust	5
Historical role preparedness: A Bourdieusian analysis of the differential positions of professional staff and academics in an Australian managerialised university	5
Antecedents of leadership efficacy development among novice school principals in Malaysia	5
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	5
Leadership and school self-evaluation in Irish-medium immersion: A roadmap for success	5
Promoting school effectiveness: Examining the mediating role of teachers’ organisational commitment and the moderating role of school cultural attributes	5
Retheorising distributed leadership through epistemic injustice	5
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital	5
Authentic leadership in challenging times: More important than ever?	5