OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Educational Administration is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Principal leadership for students with disabilities in effective inclusive schools	34
Inclusive school leaders – their role in raising the achievement of all learners	29
Artificial intelligence in educational leadership: a symbiotic role of human-artificial intelligence decision-making	25
School principals' workplace well-being: a multination examination of the role of their job resources and job demands	22
Understanding educational leadership during times of crises: a scoping review	21
Positive leadership: animating purpose, presence, passion and play for flourishing in schools	20
The self-care practices of school principals	17
How to improve teachers’ instructional practices: the role of professional learning activities, classroom observation and leadership content knowledge in Turkey	15
Leadership that matters: creating cultures of academic optimism that support teacher learning in Thailand	15
The impact of transformational leadership on teachers' job burnout: the mediating role of social-emotional competence and student-teacher relationship	15
Psychological contract breach and teachers' organizational commitment: mediating roles of job embeddedness and leader-member exchange	12
School middle leaders as instructional leaders: building the knowledge base of instruction-oriented middle leadership	12
School leaders' adoption and implementation of artificial intelligence	12
Responsibility, stress and the well-being of school principals: how principals engaged in self-care during the COVID-19 crisis	12
Creating successful and unique schools: leadership, context and systems thinking perspectives	11
Systems thinking in school organizations – perspectives from various leadership levels	11
Original sin(s): lessons from the US model of special education and an opportunity for leaders	11
Undoing systems of exclusion: exploring inclusive leadership and systems thinking in two inclusive elementary schools	11
Instructional leadership in a centralized and competitive educational system: a qualitative meta-synthesis of research from Turkey	11
Understanding the complexity of system-level leadership in the English schooling landscape	10
Leading from the middle: vice-principals in Singapore as boundary spanners	10
An open systems model of successful school leadership	10
The impact of teacher entrepreneurial behaviour: a timely investigation of an emerging phenomenon	10
Principals as socio-religious curators: progressive and conservative approaches in Islamic schools	9
Distributed leadership practices and student science performance through the four-path model: examining failure in underprivileged schools	9

Relation of principal instructional leadership, school climate, teacher job performance and student achievement	9
School leadership and achievement gaps based on socioeconomic status: a search for socially just instructional leadership	9
Leading through a critical lens: The application of DisCrit in framing, implementing and improving equity driven, educational systems for all students	8
Planning for what? An analysis of root cause quality and content in school improvement plans	7
How aspiring principals applied course-based learning to develop school improvement plans	6
Virtual reality classroom simulations: how school leaders improve instructional leadership capacity	6
Leadership for evaluations responsive to disability and culture	6
Is it your personality, your boundary leadership or both? An integrative approach for the improvement of school management team effectiveness	6
A systematic review of principal time use research	6
Hiding in plain sight: systems thinking and school organization	6
Learning from intelligent failure: an organizational resource for school improvement	6
The effect of rural superintendent credibility on principal and district outcomes mediated by motivating language	5
Principals' role in teachers' knowledge-sharing beliefs, intention and behaviour in Iranian schools: exploring the impact of knowledge-sharing leadership	5
School leaders' and teachers' leadership perceptions: differences and similarities	5
Principals' systems thinking attribute: exploring a principal–middle leader relational demography perspective	5
Obstacles and opportunities for networked practice: a social network analysis of an inter-organizational STEM ecosystem	5
Examining the demands of teacher evaluation: time use, strain and turnover among Tennessee school administrators	5
Failure is not final: principals’ perspectives on creating inclusive schools for students with disabilities	5
The development and impact of team-based school technology leadership	5
Theorizing school leadership as a profession: a qualitative exploration of the work of school leaders	5
Goal pursuit practices in high schools: hitting the target?	5
Successful school leadership for social justice in Spain	4
Socially distributed leadership in elementary schools: teacher and staff leadership practice in Denmark and the USA	4
Visualizing differential principal turnover	4
Principals' perspectives of inclusive education involving students with autism spectrum conditions – a Swedish case study	4
Commonplace and common language: Kentucky's district mission statements	4
Educational centralization as a catalyst for coordination: myth or practice?	4
Fully online principal preparation: prevalence, institutional characteristics, geography	4
New principals in the COVID corridor: an exploratory case study	4
Successful school principals in primary and secondary education: a comprehensive review of a ten-year research project in Cyprus	4
Building the capacity for student leadership in high school: a review of organizational mechanisms from the field of student voice	4
Surviving the reform: management usage of the garbage can model during implementation of reform	3
Reconceptualizing principal well-being: state, measurement and consequences	3
Professional identity and career aspirations as mediators between principals’ authentic leadership and teachers’ intentions and behaviors	3
Opening the black box of leadership coaching: an examination of coaching behaviors	3
Five leading-edge K-12 districts’ decision-making processes for EdTech innovations	3
Relinquishing power: creating space for youth of color leaders	3
High school change: a reflective essay on three decades of frustration, struggle and progress	3
Exploring trust: culturally responsive and positive school leadership	3
“God is my doctor”: mindfulness meditation/prayer as a spiritual well-being coping strategy for Jamaican school principals to manage their work-related stress and anxiety	3
School leaders' preferences for teacher applicant characteristics in a large urban school district	3
A review of professional learning community (PLC) instruments	3
Why is everything old new again? Revisiting debates about the form and function of research in educational administration	3
Structures and relationships in organizational learning for change	3
Exploring middle-level school leadership styles through role-play simulations	3
Knowing your audience: understanding urban superintendents' process of framing equitable change	3
Democratic governing ideals and the power of intervening spaces as prerequisite for student learning	3
(In)effective leadership? Exploring the interplay of challenges, goals and measures in the context of school improvement	3
Collective teacher efficacy beliefs: testing measurement invariance using alignment optimization among four cultures	3
Challenges of being a digitally savvy principal	2

Using social media to create real time online networks of school leaders	2
Educational leadership for migrant and refugee education: challenges and dilemmas in the Israeli context	2
Pedagogical gaps in the bridge from classroom to field for pre-service principal competence development	2
Time is ticking: the dynamics of education reform in the Covid-era	2
Using multiple leadership frames to understand how two school principals are influencing teachers' practices and achievement of Hispanic English learners	2
Conceptualizing a pedagogy of wellness for rural district leadership: leading, healing and leading self-healing	2
Technology as infrastructure for change: district leader understandings of 1:1 educational technology initiatives and educational change	2
Something borrowed, something blue: reflections on theory borrowing in educational administration research	2
Looking back and forward: a critical review of the history and future progress of the ISSPP	2
Becoming the drivers of change: continuous improvement in a rural research–practice partnership	2
A “cracking” school culture: leading resource exploitation during implementation of a national reform	2
Contextual imperatives for effective shared instructional leadership: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	2
Building a climate of faculty trust in students through principal support of student psychological needs	2
Building experience and retention: the influence of principal tenure on teacher retention rates	2
Commentary – A time for recoding school	2
Student trust in school peers: a relational condition for optimal school functioning	2
Commentary - Systems thinking and educational leadership: implications of the special issue to school improvement in development contexts	2
Constructing early childhood leadership models in China: a mixed-methods study	2
Guest editorial The International Successful School Principalship Project: reflections and possibilities	2