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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Principal professional identity: Giving voice to children in a vulnerable Spanish context	52
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	51
Learning–centred leadership and student achievement: Understanding the mediating effect of the teacher professional community and parental involvement	36
Female school principals in Arab communities	30
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	28
From the best practices of successful school leaders: Developing and validating the principal competencies inventory in South Korea	26
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	24
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice	22
Developing contextualised literature-informed competency frameworks for middle managers in education	22
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	20
Mapping trends in educational-leadership research: A longitudinal examination of knowledge production, approaches and locations	17
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers	17
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana	16
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	16
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	16
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust	15
Promoting gender equity in school leadership appointments: A comparison of male and female headteachers’ instructional leadership practices in Ghana	15
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	15
Literature review of transformational school leadership: models and effects on student achievement (2006–2019)	15
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
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education	14
Succession planning for school principals: System control or leader agency?	14
EMAL is 50: Celebrating half a century disseminating high quality research and scholarship	13
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs	13

Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	13
Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas: Examining the influence of principal instructional leadership on instructional quality in Chinese rural schools	13
The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model	13
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership	12
Effect of E-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam	12
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria	12
Instructional Boundary Management during COVID-19	12
Leadership for equality in education: 50 years marching forward or marching on the spot?	11
Planning, assessment, and development time through the lens of teacher leadership – Perceptions of Finnish early childhood education teachers	11
Integrating Distributed with Ecological Leadership: Through the Lens of Activity Theory	11
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation	11
Transformational leadership and teacher burnout in Türkiye: The moderated mediation role of organisational support, teacher resilience and teacher workload	11
School principals’ emotionally draining situations and student discipline issues in the context of work intensification	11
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher well-being: The mediating roles of organisational trust	10
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts	10
New managerialism in educational administration in Greece: The education directors’ perceived roles	10
How instructional leaders promote social justice	10
“I’m trying to help”: How do mentors affect principals' person–organization fit during organizational socialization?	10
Leading educational reconstruction in post-conflict Cambodia: Perspectives of primary school leaders	10
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait	9
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature	9
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?	9
Identifying and coping with the dilemmatic goals of university performance measurement systems in Finland	9
Participative decision-making in the Arab educational system in Israel: The implications for teachers’ organizational commitment and school violence	9
Is leadership a myth? A ‘new wave’ critical leadership-focused research agenda for recontouring the landscape of educational leadership	9
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Distributed leadership and micropolitics	9
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	8
Professional development of school principals – how do experienced school leaders make sense of their professional learning?	8
Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences	8
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity	8
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice	8
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 2022	8
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration	8
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts	8
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges	8
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital	7
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	7
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals	7
What are we missing? An alternative way to explore distributed leadership effectiveness	7
Principals’ perceptions of school autonomy and educational leadership	7
The mental health of leaders in Australian government schools: Stress and burnout over a decade (2011–2020)	6
Finding the missing link: Do principal qualifications make a difference in student achievement?	6
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition	6
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education?	6
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study	6
A bibliometric review of research on digital leadership, 1991–2025: Implications for digital leadership in education	6
Modeling the relationship between principal leadership and teacher professional learning in Kuwait: The mediating effects of Trust and Teacher Agency	6
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance	6
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being: A bibliometric analysis and literature review	5

Leading in lockdown: Community, communication and compassion in response to the COVID-19 crisis	5
Pathways to the school principalship: An international scoping review	5
Fostering collaboration through inclusive leadership: Exploring the behaviour of childcare and school leaders in Dutch child centres	5
Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system	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
Betwixt and between: A narrative inquiry into Chinese university leaders’ intercultural competence in leadership	5
Senior leaders’ theories of action for managing subject departments as a school improvement strategy	5
Unpacking the linkages between beliefs and behavioural intention for curriculum reform: A cognitive approach for school middle leaders	5
Does middle leaders’ learning-centred leadership matter in promoting teacher professional learning? A partial least squares analysis	5
New perspectives on middle leadership in schools in England – Persistent tensions and emerging possibilities	5
A global perspective on school leadership: Evidence from a latent class analysis on OECD TALIS data	5
OfSTED from within: Inspectors’ views on challenges and future direction	5
Human-Machine symbiosis in educational leadership in the era of artificial intelligence (AI): Where are we heading?	5
Promoting leadership for learning in Nigeria: The interplay of leadership mastery experience and leader self-efficacy	5
Principals’ sense-making and sense-giving of their professional role tensions: School leaders’ professionalism and creative mediation strategies during Covid-19 crisis	5
‘It's like we’re in two different schools’: Contrasting stories of teacher and leader autonomy within a distributed approach to leadership	5
Philanthropic emotional work: Papering over the cracks of unprecedented public education reform	5
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition	5