OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Educational Management Administration & Leadership is 6. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
‘People miss people’: A study of school leadership and management in the four nations of the United Kingdom in the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic	91
Leading through COVID-19: New Zealand secondary principals describe their reality	51
School middle leadership: A systematic review	48
Authentic leadership and teachers’ voice behaviour: The mediating role of psychological empowerment and moderating role of interpersonal trust	37
Leading in lockdown: Community, communication and compassion in response to the COVID-19 crisis	35
Second-order meta-analysis synthesizing the evidence on associations between school leadership and different school outcomes	32
The relationship between principal leadership and teacher collaboration: Investigating the mediating effect of teachers’ collective efficacy	25
A scoping review of problems and challenges faced by school leaders (2003–2019)	24
Transformational leadership, leader–member exchange and school learning climate: Impact on teachers’ innovative behaviour in the Netherlands	23
Linking instructional leadership to teacher practices: The mediating effect of shared practice and agency in learning effectiveness	23
Women leadership in Vietnamese higher education institutions: An exploratory study on barriers and enablers for career enhancement	20
Towards a healthy school climate: The mediating effect of transformational leadership on cultural intelligence and organisational health	19
System leadership as depoliticisation: Reconceptualising educational leadership in a new multi-academy trust	19
Is leadership a myth? A ‘new wave’ critical leadership-focused research agenda for recontouring the landscape of educational leadership	18
Knowledge management for improving school strategic planning	18
Leadership emergence and development: Organizations shaping leading in early childhood education	17
Development and validation of the Principal Emotion Inventory: A mixed-methods approach	17
Understanding teacher leaders’ behaviours: Development and validation of the Teacher Leadership Inventory	17
Successful and effective schools: Bridging the gap	17
Leading through COVID-19: Managing a crisis	16
What about school principals’ well-being? The role of social capital	16
One-size-fits-all? A cross-validation study of distributed leadership and teacher academic optimism	16
How ethical leadership influences professional learning communities via teacher obligation and participation in decision making: A moderated-mediation analysis	16
Trust in principals, leaders’ focus on instruction, teacher collaboration, and teacher self-efficacy: testing a multilevel mediation model	16
Academic leadership: Perceptions of academic leaders and staff in diverse contexts	16

Mapping the field of educational leadership and management in the Arabian Gulf region: A systematic review of Arabic research literature	15
Identity politics: Why African American women are missing in administrative leadership in public higher education	15
Mapping trends in educational-leadership research: A longitudinal examination of knowledge production, approaches and locations	14
Department chair leadership: Exploring the role’s demands and tensions	14
A phenomenological inquiry into the influence of crucible experiences on the leadership development of Black women in higher education senior leadership	14
Pedagogical leadership and children’s well-being in Finnish early education	14
Explaining the gender gap in school principalship: A tale of two sides	14
Work-related stress of elementary school principals in Finland: Coping strategies and support	14
Is educational leadership (still) worth studying? An epistemic worthiness-informed analysis	14
Principal authentic leadership and teacher engagement in Kuwait’s educational reform context	13
Balancing race, gender, and responsibility: Conversations with four black women in educational leadership in the United States of America	13
Mapping the intellectual lineage of educational management, administration and leadership, 1972–2020	13
Recruitment and selection of principals: A systematic review	13
Ready to lead school improvement? Perceived professional development needs of principals in Germany	13
A scale for measuring teacher leadership in early childhood education in China: Development and validation	12
Leadership practices in collaborative innovation: A study among Dutch school principals	12
Investigating a multiple mediated-effects model of instructional leadership and teacher professional learning in the Malaysian School Context: A partial least squares analysis	12
Principal-designed structures that enhance middle leaders’ professional learning	11
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	11
The influence of professional learning communities on informal teacher leadership in a Chinese hierarchical school context	11
Leadership preparation, career pathways and the policy context: Irish novice principals’ perceptions of their experiences	11
A review of literature on women’s leadership in higher education in developed countries and in Vietnam: Barriers and enablers	11
Principals between exploitation and exploration: Results of a nationwide study on ambidexterity of school leaders	11
Participative decision making in schools in individualist and collectivist cultures: The micro-politics behind distributed leadership	11
Secondary school principals as change agents in Kuwait: Principals’ perspectives	11
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher well-being: The mediating roles of organisational trust	10
Learning–centred leadership and student achievement: Understanding the mediating effect of the teacher professional community and parental involvement	10
School effectiveness for education for sustainable development (ESD): What characterizes an ESD-effective school organization?	10
Emotional trajectory at different career stages of principalship: A perspective from excellent principals	10
School leadership in Indonesia: A systematic literature review	10
How transformational leadership influences teachers’ commitment and innovative practices: Understanding the moderating role of trust in principal	10
The elusive Malayan tiger ‘captured’: A systematic review of research on educational leadership and management in Malaysia	9
Principal leadership practices, professional learning communities, and teacher commitment in Hong Kong kindergartens: A multilevel SEM analysis	9
Racialized leaders leading Canadian universities	8
Linking distributed leadership with collective teacher innovativeness: The mediating roles of job satisfaction and professional collaboration	8
The influence of heads of departments’ instructional leadership, cooperation, and administrative support on school-based professional learning in Kuwait	8
Principals’ digital instructional leadership during the pandemic: Impact on teachers’ intrinsic motivation and students’ learning	8
The relationship between primary school leaders’ utilization of distributed leadership and teachers’ capacity to change	8
Gender, networks and academic leadership: A systematic review	7
Relationships between teacher influence in managerial and instruction-related decision-making, job satisfaction, and professional commitment: A multivariate multilevel model	7
Establishing professional expectations in further education middle management: The human resource manager’s perspective	7
Visible at night: US school principal nontraditional work-hour activities and job satisfaction	7
How do principals’ practices reflect democratic leadership for inclusion in diverse school settings? A Hong Kong case study	7
Vice-principals as leaders: Role ambiguity and role conflicts faced by vice-principals in Singapore	7
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	7
How school leadership practices relate to student outcomes: Insights from a three-level meta-analysis	7
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	6
Principals’ sense-making of resource allocation within a national reform implementation	6
Teachers’ authentic leadership and psychological need satisfaction climate in second chance programmes: The moderating role of teachers’ gender	6
Challenges and strategies in managing small schools: A case study in Perak, Malaysia	6

Principal succession in schools: A literature review (2003–2019)	6
Development, factor structure, and reliability of the Shared Instructional Leadership Scale in public secondary schools	6
Retheorising distributed leadership through epistemic injustice	6
Leadership for learning at district level: Lessons from circuit managers working in deprived school contexts	6
A systematic review of key contextual challenges facing school principals: Research-informed coping solutions	6
Middle leadership in higher education: Challenges and opportunities	6
Unravelling the business of educational leaders in times of uncertainty	6
Colour-blind educational leadership policy: A critical race theory analysis of school principalship standards in South Africa	6
Does middle leaders’ learning-centred leadership matter in promoting teacher professional learning? A partial least squares analysis	6
The role of deputy principals: Perspectives of South African primary school principals and their deputies	6
Teacher leaders’ brokerage practice in China: Impact on teacher learning in a school–university partnership	6
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study	6
Breaking down the walls of weak knowledge-sharing among Iranian teachers: Investigating a less-considered leadership role of principals	6
Managing cultural diversity for collective identity: A case study of an ELT department in Omani higher education	6
Morale and burnout in an Australian public school: A socio-technical systems approach	6
Race and educational leadership: The influence of research methods and critical theorising in understanding representation, roles and ethnic disparities	6
Principals’ perceptions of school autonomy and educational leadership	6
Leading the curriculum towards social change: Distributed leadership and the inclusive school	6
Distributed school leadership: Making sense of the educational infrastructure	6