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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	66
Female school principals in Arab communities	41
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	39
Learning–centred leadership and student achievement: Understanding the mediating effect of the teacher professional community and parental involvement	37
From the best practices of successful school leaders: Developing and validating the principal competencies inventory in South Korea	29
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	29
Developing contextualised literature-informed competency frameworks for middle managers in education	28
Pressure management: Factors influencing the turnover intentions of school middle leaders in Scotland	24
Promoting gender equity in school leadership appointments: A comparison of male and female headteachers’ instructional leadership practices in Ghana	22
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	20
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana	20
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	20
Principal instructional leadership and teacher collaboration: A longitudinal study of the influence on pupil achievement	20
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	20
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	19
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust	18
Literature review of transformational school leadership: models and effects on student achievement (2006–2019)	18
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice	16
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers	16
Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas: Examining the influence of principal instructional leadership on instructional quality in Chinese rural schools	15
Promoting team learning in schools: considering the role of team-based HRM practices (THRM)	15
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs	15
Succession planning for school principals: System control or leader agency?	15
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education	15
The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model	14

EMAL is 50: Celebrating half a century disseminating high quality research and scholarship	13
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	13
Leadership at the boundaries of schools: Navigating the complexities of collaboration	13
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	13
Does school inspection lead to school improvement? A case study	13
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria	12
Planning, assessment, and development time through the lens of teacher leadership – Perceptions of Finnish early childhood education teachers	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
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation	11
Integrating Distributed with Ecological Leadership: Through the Lens of Activity Theory	11
Crisis-resilient school leadership and the role of job crafting: Insights from Finnish principals	11
School principals’ emotionally draining situations and student discipline issues in the context of work intensification	11
Leadership for equality in education: 50 years marching forward or marching on the spot?	11
From leaking pipe to leadership: Career pathways of women academics in Pakistani higher education	11
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts	10
How instructional leaders promote social justice	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
Transformational leadership and teacher burnout in Türkiye: The moderated mediation role of organisational support, teacher resilience and teacher workload	10
Leading educational reconstruction in post-conflict Cambodia: Perspectives of primary school leaders	9
First-year teachers’ perspectives on the roles school leaders enact	9
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher well-being: The mediating roles of organisational trust	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
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Headteacher engagement with Pupil Equity Funding: Autonomy, evidence and networks	8
Is leadership a myth? A ‘new wave’ critical leadership-focused research agenda for recontouring the landscape of educational leadership	8
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait	8
Identifying and coping with the dilemmatic goals of university performance measurement systems in Finland	8
Protecting instructional time: Insights from Israeli principals	8
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts	8
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature	8
School leadership models: Global interest in western perspectives	8
Professional development of school principals – how do experienced school leaders make sense of their professional learning?	8
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	8
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?	8
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 2022	7
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration	7
Support for generative artificial intelligence as a predictor of middle leaders’ generative artificial intelligence self-efficacy, valuing, and integration in school leadership work	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
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital	7
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity	7
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice	7
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges	7
Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences	7
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance	6
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	6
What are we missing? An alternative way to explore distributed leadership effectiveness	6

Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition	6
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals	6
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition	6
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	5
Grow to lead: The case of Cyprus primary schools	5
Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system	5
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education?	5
Finding the missing link: Do principal qualifications make a difference in student achievement?	5
Integrative educational leadership: Foundations, core concepts and principles for practice	5
Bolman and Deal lens on school innovation: Navigating challenges and strategies for school leaders in Saudi Arabia	5
The mental health of leaders in Australian government schools: Stress and burnout over a decade (2011–2020)	5
A bibliometric review of research on digital leadership, 1991–2025: Implications for digital leadership in education	5
A global perspective on school leadership: Evidence from a latent class analysis on OECD TALIS data	5
Principal social justice leadership: A systematic review of 20 years of research, 2005–2024	5