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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Principal professional identity: Giving voice to children in a vulnerable Spanish context	51
Female school principals in Arab communities	47
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	33
From the best practices of successful school leaders: Developing and validating the principal competencies inventory in South Korea	30
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	28
Developing contextualised literature-informed competency frameworks for middle managers in education	26
Learning–centred leadership and student achievement: Understanding the mediating effect of the teacher professional community and parental involvement	24
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	24
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust	23
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice	21
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	21
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	19
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	16
Mapping trends in educational-leadership research: A longitudinal examination of knowledge production, approaches and locations	16
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers	15
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	15
Promoting gender equity in school leadership appointments: A comparison of male and female headteachers’ instructional leadership practices in Ghana	15
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education	14
Promoting team learning in schools: considering the role of team-based HRM practices (THRM)	14
Literature review of transformational school leadership: models and effects on student achievement (2006–2019)	14
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana	14
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	14
Succession planning for school principals: System control or leader agency?	14
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	13
The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model	13

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

Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system	6
Human-Machine symbiosis in educational leadership in the era of artificial intelligence (AI): Where are we heading?	6