OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Educational Management Administration & Leadership is 7. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	66
Too tired to lead?: How stress, mental health conditions, and sleep quality shape principals’ self-efficacy and leave intentions	64
Pressure management: Factors influencing the turnover intentions of school middle leaders in Scotland	63
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	42
Female school principals in Arab communities	35
Enhancing changed teacher practice in culturally diverse schools through transformational and social justice leadership: A cross-level moderated mediation model	32
Culturally responsive leadership practices in secondary schools that lead to positive academic achievement for Māori and Pacific students	32
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	29
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	29
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana	24
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	24
Principal instructional leadership and teacher collaboration: A longitudinal study of the influence on pupil achievement	23
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice	23
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers	21
Teacher leadership in the Arab states: A systematic review	21
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	21
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	21
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	21
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust	21
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	20
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs	20
Promoting team learning in schools: considering the role of team-based HRM practices (THRM)	20
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education	19
Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas: Examining the influence of principal instructional leadership on instructional quality in Chinese rural schools	19
Does school inspection lead to school improvement? A case study	19

Leadership at the boundaries of schools: Navigating the complexities of collaboration	18
Planning, assessment, and development time through the lens of teacher leadership – Perceptions of Finnish early childhood education teachers	18
The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model	18
De-mystifying the 'Cinderella' leadership model: Premia in the practice of curriculum leadership	17
Distributed pedagogical leadership and transformative change	17
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation	16
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria	16
The effects of instructional leadership on teachers’ instructional practices through inclusive efficacy: The moderating role of social justice leadership	15
“I’m trying to help”: How do mentors affect principals' person–organization fit during organizational socialization?	15
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership	15
Effect of e-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam	15
Leading policy-aligned sport in high-pressure systems: Distributed–transformational leadership, programme quality and student outcomes in secondary schools	14
From leaking pipe to leadership: Career pathways of women academics in Pakistani higher education	14
School principals’ emotionally draining situations and student discipline issues in the context of work intensification	14
New managerialism in educational administration in Greece: The education directors’ perceived roles	14
Crisis-resilient school leadership and the role of job crafting: Insights from Finnish principals	13
Transformational leadership and teacher burnout in Türkiye: The moderated mediation role of organisational support, teacher resilience and teacher workload	13
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts	12
How instructional leaders promote social justice	12
Rethinking knowledge production in educational leadership research: Impossibility, hybridity and epistemic inheritance	12
Addressing the gap in creative pedagogies among teachers through instructional leadership: A meta-analysis of countries in PISA 2022	11
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher well-being: The mediating roles of organisational trust	11
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature	11
Distributed leadership and micropolitics	11
First-year teachers’ perspectives on the roles school leaders enact	11
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?	11
Identifying and coping with the dilemmatic goals of university performance measurement systems in Finland	10
Headteacher engagement with Pupil Equity Funding: Autonomy, evidence and networks	10
Participative decision-making in the Arab educational system in Israel: The implications for teachers’ organizational commitment and school violence	10
Protecting instructional time: Insights from Israeli principals	10
School leadership models: Global interest in western perspectives	10
Distributed leadership questionnaire – Greek adaptation: The validity and reliability study	10
Leading reflective schools: Action research culture, teacher commitment and leadership for learning in Malaysia	10
Shaping professional identities in turbulent times: Venezuelan female school leaders’ sensemaking of critical incidents	9
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait	9
Crisis leadership: Developing and validating a scale for school principals’ crisis management in Israel	9
Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences	9
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	9
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice	9
Is instructional leadership a retention factor? Cross-cultural examination of teacher turnover intentions in four selected Latin American countries	9
Principal's post-observation conversations in China: Exploring interpersonal effectiveness through a theory of action lens	9
School leader well-being under pressure: Emotional and quantitative demands, resilience, and burnout in Australian schools	9
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital	9
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts	9
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration	9
Professional development of school principals – how do experienced school leaders make sense of their professional learning?	9
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity	9
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 2022	9
Support for generative artificial intelligence as a predictor of middle leaders’ generative artificial intelligence self-efficacy, valuing, and integration in school leadership work	9

Relational trust and principal well-being: Extending the job demands–resources framework in school leadership	9
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition	8
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study	8
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals	8
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	8
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges	8
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition	8
Are Turkish school principals ready to use artificial intelligence? Exploring the roles of growth mindset, self-efficacy and openness to change	8
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education?	8
What are we missing? An alternative way to explore distributed leadership effectiveness	8
A bibliometric review of research on digital leadership, 1991–2025: Implications for digital leadership in education	8
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance	7
Social justice directed instructional leadership: Does it make a difference for teacher professional learning	7
A global perspective on school leadership: Evidence from a latent class analysis on OECD TALIS data	7
Bolman and Deal lens on school innovation: Navigating challenges and strategies for school leaders in Saudi Arabia	7
Grow to lead: The case of Cyprus primary schools	7
‘It's like we’re in two different schools’: Contrasting stories of teacher and leader autonomy within a distributed approach to leadership	7
Integrative educational leadership: Foundations, core concepts and principles for practice	7
The mental health of leaders in Australian government schools: Stress and burnout over a decade (2011–2020)	7
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being: A bibliometric analysis and literature review	7
School leadership in Israel amid COVID-19: A systematic review	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
Principal social justice leadership: A systematic review of 20 years of research, 2005–2024	7