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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Pressure management: Factors influencing the turnover intentions of school middle leaders in Scotland	60
From the best practices of successful school leaders: Developing and validating the principal competencies inventory in South Korea	40
Developing contextualised literature-informed competency frameworks for middle managers in education	38
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	33
Female school principals in Arab communities	29
Learning–centred leadership and student achievement: Understanding the mediating effect of the teacher professional community and parental involvement	26
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	26
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	20
Principal instructional leadership and teacher collaboration: A longitudinal study of the influence on pupil achievement	19
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	19
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana	19
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	18
Promoting gender equity in school leadership appointments: A comparison of male and female headteachers’ instructional leadership practices in Ghana	18
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	17
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	16
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	15
Leadership at the boundaries of schools: Navigating the complexities of collaboration	15
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers	15
Does school inspection lead to school improvement? A case study	15
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	15
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs	14
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education	14
The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model	13

Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas: Examining the influence of principal instructional leadership on instructional quality in Chinese rural schools	13
Promoting team learning in schools: considering the role of team-based HRM practices (THRM)	13
Effect of E-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam	12
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership	12
Succession planning for school principals: System control or leader agency?	12
Planning, assessment, and development time through the lens of teacher leadership – Perceptions of Finnish early childhood education teachers	12
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria	12
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	12
EMAL is 50: Celebrating half a century disseminating high quality research and scholarship	12
Instructional Boundary Management during COVID-19	12
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation	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?	10
Crisis-resilient school leadership and the role of job crafting: Insights from Finnish principals	10
“I’m trying to help”: How do mentors affect principals' person–organization fit during organizational socialization?	10
New managerialism in educational administration in Greece: The education directors’ perceived roles	10
Transformational leadership and teacher burnout in Türkiye: The moderated mediation role of organisational support, teacher resilience and teacher workload	10
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts	10
Integrating Distributed with Ecological Leadership: Through the Lens of Activity Theory	10
How instructional leaders promote social justice	10
Identifying and coping with the dilemmatic goals of university performance measurement systems in Finland	9
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Leading educational reconstruction in post-conflict Cambodia: Perspectives of primary school leaders	9
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?	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
Participative decision-making in the Arab educational system in Israel: The implications for teachers’ organizational commitment and school violence	9
Distributed leadership and micropolitics	9
From leaking pipe to leadership: Career pathways of women academics in Pakistani higher education	9
Professional development of school principals – how do experienced school leaders make sense of their professional learning?	8
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature	8
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait	8
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	8
Protecting instructional time: Insights from Israeli principals	8
Is leadership a myth? A ‘new wave’ critical leadership-focused research agenda for recontouring the landscape of educational leadership	8
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts	8
Headteacher engagement with Pupil Equity Funding: Autonomy, evidence and networks	8
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity	7
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital	7
Principals’ perceptions of school autonomy and educational leadership	7
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice	7
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration	7
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 2022	7
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	7
Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences	7
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges	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
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition	7
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition	6
Modeling the relationship between principal leadership and teacher professional learning in Kuwait: The mediating effects of Trust and Teacher Agency	6

A bibliometric review of research on digital leadership, 1991–2025: Implications for digital leadership in education	6
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance	6
The mental health of leaders in Australian government schools: Stress and burnout over a decade (2011–2020)	6
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education?	6
What are we missing? An alternative way to explore distributed leadership effectiveness	6
Grow to lead: The case of Cyprus primary schools	6