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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	48
Principal professional identity: Giving voice to children in a vulnerable Spanish context	43
Female school principals in Arab communities	29
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	28
Learning–centred leadership and student achievement: Understanding the mediating effect of the teacher professional community and parental involvement	26
From the best practices of successful school leaders: Developing and validating the principal competencies inventory in South Korea	26
Developing contextualised literature-informed competency frameworks for middle managers in education	25
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	24
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	23
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust	22
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice	20
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	20
Literature review of transformational school leadership: models and effects on student achievement (2006–2019)	19
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	16
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	15
Promoting gender equity in school leadership appointments: A comparison of male and female headteachers’ instructional leadership practices in Ghana	15
Mapping trends in educational-leadership research: A longitudinal examination of knowledge production, approaches and locations	15
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers	15
Instructional leadership as a controlling function in secondary schools in Rangwe Sub County, Kenya: Influence on students’ learning outcomes	14
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
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	14
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education	14
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation	13
The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model	13

Succession planning for school principals: System control or leader agency?	13
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
Effect of E-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam	12
Instructional Boundary Management during COVID-19	12
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership	12
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
How instructional leaders promote social justice	11
Integrating Distributed with Ecological Leadership: Through the Lens of Activity Theory	11
Participative decision-making in the Arab educational system in Israel: The implications for teachers’ organizational commitment and school violence	10
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher well-being: The mediating roles of organisational trust	10
Distributed leadership and micropolitics	10
Leading educational reconstruction in post-conflict Cambodia: Perspectives of primary school leaders	10
Leadership for equality in education: 50 years marching forward or marching on the spot?	10
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?	10
“I’m trying to help”: How do mentors affect principals' person–organization fit during organizational socialization?	10
Professional development of school principals – how do experienced school leaders make sense of their professional learning?	9
A female advantage? Gender and educational leadership practices in urban primary schools in Chile	9
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait	9
Is leadership a myth? A ‘new wave’ critical leadership-focused research agenda for recontouring the landscape of educational leadership	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
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration	8
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice	8
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	8
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity	8
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts	8
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)	7
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the moderating role of teacher performance	7
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges	7
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals	7
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital	7
Does middle leaders’ learning-centred leadership matter in promoting teacher professional learning? A partial least squares analysis	6
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition	6
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study	6
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	6
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being: A bibliometric analysis and literature review	6
Betwixt and between: A narrative inquiry into Chinese university leaders’ intercultural competence in leadership	6
Human-Machine symbiosis in educational leadership in the era of artificial intelligence (AI): Where are we heading?	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
Modeling the relationship between principal leadership and teacher professional learning in Kuwait: The mediating effects of Trust and Teacher Agency	6
OfSTED from within: Inspectors’ views on challenges and future direction	6
Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system	6
A global perspective on school leadership: Evidence from a latent class analysis on OECD TALIS data	6
Expressions of loneliness: Different perspectives of loneliness among school deputy principals	6
‘It's like we’re in two different schools’: Contrasting stories of teacher and leader autonomy within a distributed approach to leadership	6

Finding the missing link: Do principal qualifications make a difference in student achievement?