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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	71
Female school principals in Arab communities	47
From the best practices of successful school leaders: Developing and validating the principal competencies inventory in South Korea	47
Pressure management: Factors influencing the turnover intentions of school middle leaders in Scotland	44
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	34
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	31
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	31
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana	27
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	25
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice	25
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust	24
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	22
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers	22
Principal instructional leadership and teacher collaboration: A longitudinal study of the influence on pupil achievement	21
Literature review of transformational school leadership: models and effects on student achievement (2006–2019)	19
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	19
Promoting gender equity in school leadership appointments: A comparison of male and female headteachers’ instructional leadership practices in Ghana	19
Succession planning for school principals: System control or leader agency?	18
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education	17
Promoting team learning in schools: considering the role of team-based HRM practices (THRM)	17
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs	17
The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model	16
Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas: Examining the influence of principal instructional leadership on instructional quality in Chinese rural schools	16
Leadership at the boundaries of schools: Navigating the complexities of collaboration	16
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	16

Does school inspection lead to school improvement? A case study	16
EMAL is 50: Celebrating half a century disseminating high quality research and scholarship	15
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	15
Instructional Boundary Management during COVID-19	15
De-mystifying the 'Cinderella' leadership model: Premia in the practice of curriculum leadership	14
Distributed pedagogical leadership and transformative change	14
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership	14
Effect of e-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam	14
Planning, assessment, and development time through the lens of teacher leadership – Perceptions of Finnish early childhood education teachers	14
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation	14
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria	13
Crisis-resilient school leadership and the role of job crafting: Insights from Finnish principals	13
“I’m trying to help”: How do mentors affect principals' person–organization fit during organizational socialization?	12
From leaking pipe to leadership: Career pathways of women academics in Pakistani higher education	12
New managerialism in educational administration in Greece: The education directors’ perceived roles	12
Leadership for equality in education: 50 years marching forward or marching on the spot?	12
Transformational leadership and teacher burnout in Türkiye: The moderated mediation role of organisational support, teacher resilience and teacher workload	12
Integrating Distributed with Ecological Leadership: Through the Lens of Activity Theory	12
How instructional leaders promote social justice	11
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature	11
Distributed leadership and micropolitics	11
School principals’ emotionally draining situations and student discipline issues in the context of work intensification	11
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts	11
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?	11
First-year teachers’ perspectives on the roles school leaders enact	11
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher well-being: The mediating roles of organisational trust	11
Identifying and coping with the dilemmatic goals of university performance measurement systems in Finland	11
School leadership models: Global interest in western perspectives	11
Professional development of school principals – how do experienced school leaders make sense of their professional learning?	10
Protecting instructional time: Insights from Israeli principals	10
Headteacher engagement with Pupil Equity Funding: Autonomy, evidence and networks	10
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Is instructional leadership a retention factor? Cross-cultural examination of teacher turnover intentions in four selected Latin American countries	10
Participative decision-making in the Arab educational system in Israel: The implications for teachers’ organizational commitment and school violence	10
Support for generative artificial intelligence as a predictor of middle leaders’ generative artificial intelligence self-efficacy, valuing, and integration in school leadership work	9
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	9
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait	9
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice	9
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts	9
Crisis leadership: Developing and validating a scale for school principals’ crisis management in Israel	9
Is leadership a myth? A ‘new wave’ critical leadership-focused research agenda for recontouring the landscape of educational leadership	9
Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences	8
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration	8
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 2022	8
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity	8
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges	7
Are Turkish school principals ready to use artificial intelligence? Exploring the roles of growth mindset, self-efficacy and openness to change	7
Grow to lead: The case of Cyprus primary schools	7
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	7
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition	7

Transformational leadership and teacher work performance: Mediating effect of job autonomy and trust in school principal – insights from senior secondary school data in India	7
Finding the missing link: Do principal qualifications make a difference in student achievement?	7
A bibliometric review of research on digital leadership, 1991–2025: Implications for digital leadership in education	7
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital	7
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition	7
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education?	7
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being: A bibliometric analysis and literature review	7
Bolman and Deal lens on school innovation: Navigating challenges and strategies for school leaders in Saudi Arabia	6
A global perspective on school leadership: Evidence from a latent class analysis on OECD TALIS data	6
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals	6
Integrative educational leadership: Foundations, core concepts and principles for practice	6
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study	6
‘It's like we’re in two different schools’: Contrasting stories of teacher and leader autonomy within a distributed approach to leadership	6
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance	6
What are we missing? An alternative way to explore distributed leadership effectiveness	6
Does middle leaders’ learning-centred leadership matter in promoting teacher professional learning? A partial least squares analysis	6
The mental health of leaders in Australian government schools: Stress and burnout over a decade (2011–2020)	6
Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system	6