OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Educational Administration is 1. 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
Guest editorial: Organizing schools for the future: innovative conceptualizations of schools as organizations	37
Translating team-member exchange relationships to school outcomes: the mediating role of leader-member exchange	27
Dilemmas in district–university partnerships: examining network improvement communities as levers for systems change	27
Commentary – Can educational leadership researchers and school leaders both learn from failure? Yes, we can if together!	23
Principals' role in teachers' knowledge-sharing beliefs, intention and behaviour in Iranian schools: exploring the impact of knowledge-sharing leadership	23
“This is not going to be a quick fix”: a grounded theory study of superintendents leading school integration through redistricting	21
Transformational leadership and job satisfaction in vocational high schools in Türkiye: a multilevel mediation model of teacher professional learning and self-efficacy	20
Using multiple leadership frames to understand how two school principals are influencing teachers' practices and achievement of Hispanic English learners	20
Unveiling the associations between principal self-efficacy, openness to change and transformational leadership: the mediating role of well-being	17
Approved to fail: a case study of leadership at three new high schools	13
Interweaving resilience: leadership of continuous improvement partnerships and Mary Parker Follett's theory of relational process	9
Emotional well-being of school principals: exploring enhancement and risk factors	8
There and back again: analyzing the characteristics of demoted principals	8
The effect of rural superintendent credibility on principal and district outcomes mediated by motivating language	7
Commentary – Let’s switch cognitive gears: leading school improvement through learning from failures and successes	7
Socially distributed leadership in elementary schools: teacher and staff leadership practice in Denmark and the USA	7
Understanding self-fulfillment: principals’ perspectives in special education for complex disabilities	6
Looking back and forward: a critical review of the history and future progress of the ISSPP	6
Community, learning and leadership: reflections on the work of Karen Seashore Louis	6
Teachers of English learners: perceived motivators to becoming principals of high-needs schools	6
An open systems model of successful school leadership	6
Resilience and purpose as predictors of Portuguese school leaders' work well-being	6
The impact of transformational leadership on teachers' job burnout: the mediating role of social-emotional competence and student-teacher relationship	6
Guest editorial	6
Transformational leadership for deeper learning: shaping innovative school practices for enhanced learning	6

Struggling toward symmetry: leadership for restorative justice and deeper learning at an urban charter school	5
School leadership during the COVID-19 crisis: a scoping review of empirical research	5
Transformative leadership conversation: a conceptualization and empirical test of its function	5
Using social media to create real time online networks of school leaders	5
A narrative review of the research on school leaders’ emotional labor: a typology inspired by Habermas’s cognitive interests	5
School leadership and achievement gaps based on socioeconomic status: a search for socially just instructional leadership	5
Co-designing a Children’s Cabinet: a school district–university partnership for youth well-being post-pandemic	5
Reframing crisis and crisis management: examining three urban superintendents’ COVID-19 experiences	5
Leadership coaching relationships: a qualitative examination of underlying factors	5
A review of professional learning community (PLC) instruments	5
Understanding the relationship between teacher leadership and teacher well-being: the mediating roles of trust in leaders and teacher efficacy	4
How strong principals succeed: improving student achievement in high-poverty urban schools	4
Examining the relationships between instructional leadership, teacher self-efficacy and job satisfaction: a study of primary schools in India	4
Exploring middle-level school leadership styles through role-play simulations	4
Transformational school leadership: a systematic review of research in a centralized education system	4
Teacher distrust in the school principal: a mental state distinct from trust	4
Deeper professional learning: how leaders design for teachers to share their deeper learning practices	4
Challenges to the sustainability of Irish post-primary school leadership: the role of distributed leadership	4
Relation of principal instructional leadership, school climate, teacher job performance and student achievement	4
Talking about data: an analysis of data-team conversations and principals’ influence on them	4
Successful, coasting and low-performing school principals in Israel: an explanatory model	4
Guest editorial: Leading for deeper learning: moving from niche to norm	4
Psychological contract breach and teachers' organizational commitment: mediating roles of job embeddedness and leader-member exchange	4
Leading for equity: how principals experience professional learning	4
Leading during long-term crises: an analysis of perceived effectiveness leadership in K-12 schools	4
Culture–leadership intersections in support of deeper learning at a career and technical education center	3
School leaders' preferences for teacher applicant characteristics in a large urban school district	3
Principal systems thinking and senior management team effectiveness: the mediating role of senior management team learning	3
The experience of loneliness among school principals: episodic loneliness versus persistent day-to-day loneliness	3
Building agency in school–university partnerships: lessons from collaborative research during the pandemic	3
Student trust in school peers: a relational condition for optimal school functioning	3
Commentary: On the road to deeper learning	3
Following the data: an analysis of two schools' use of social emotional data	3
Building a climate of faculty trust in students through principal support of student psychological needs	3
Are resources and demands from accountability policies productive? How leaders build district capacity in response to school turnaround policy	3
A rickety bridge: the complexities of vice-principals' interactions with principals and teachers in Israel	3
Tensions in data use for mission: academic data within holistic education	3
Leveraging co-teaching in pre-service teacher education to enhance classroom management skills of pre-service teachers in China: effects and implications	3
For what purpose? Swedish superintendents' perspectives of professional development for principals	3
How authentic principal leadership influences teacher organisational identification via teacher academic optimism and collective responsibility: a moderated-mediation analysis	3
Time is ticking: the dynamics of education reform in the Covid-era	3
Commentary – Why aren't more educational leadership scholars researching technology?	2
Commentary – A time for recoding school	2
Leading for deeper learning: international perspectives	2
School leadership in a non-western context: how is paternalistic leadership related to teacher well-being and commitment in collectivist versus individualistic school cultures?	2
Commentary: Navigating the complexity, bridging the gap: the role of school-university partnership in sustaining school improvement during the post-pandemic era	2
Democratic governing ideals and the power of intervening spaces as prerequisite for student learning	2
The paradox of leading amidst uncertainty: maintaining balance on an unstable beam	2
Leaders' advice networks over time: the role of beliefs and organizational learning during change implementation	2
Leading teacher instructional practices in Türkiye: do inner school conditions matter?	2

Impact of school climate and resources on principal workload stress and job satisfaction: multinational evidence from TALIS 2018 data	2
Unveiling leadership priorities: a comparative study of principal time use across high school types	2
Pandemic memoranda: how school district and teachers' union administrators modified collective bargaining agreements during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Guest editorial: Sustaining school improvement through school-university partnerships during the post-pandemic era	1
Labor market impact of the Massachusetts state licensure performance assessment for leaders	1
Building school capacity in a Lebanese private school: the TAMAM project experience	1
How should leaders “sustain the legacy” of urban catholic schools? An exploration of catholic school and system leader perspectives	1
Contextual imperatives for effective shared instructional leadership: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	1
A framework of justice-centered leadership practice: a qualitative, multidistrict study	1
Smart collaborative ecosystem: leading complex school systems	1
Is it just me? The organizational implications of individual and collective burnout in schools	1
Explaining variation in the implementation of observational processes by school leaders: evidence from a Tennessee-based researcher–practitioner partnership	1
School leadership and teaching practice: a systematic review of studies of the indirect effects	1
Commentary – Research on successful school principalship: progress on a secure front	1
Commentary: Celebrating 60 years of knowledge mobilization: a historical descriptive analysis of the Journal of Educational Administration	1
Profiling teacher leaders through entrepreneurial behaviours: a cluster analysis	1
Examining a district-union-university partnership for professionalizing teachers to lead school improvement efforts	1
A systematic review of conceptual models and methodologies in research on school principals in Iran	1
School–university partnership for school renewal: reflections on three large, federally funded projects	1
Building experience and retention: the influence of principal tenure on teacher retention rates	1
Successful school leadership for social justice in Spain	1
Principal rotation in China: policy goals and succession strategies adopted by rotated principals	1
Psychometric properties of the successful school leadership survey	1
Professional identity and career aspirations as mediators between principals’ authentic leadership and teachers’ intentions and behaviors	1
The impact of head teacher incivility on teacher engagement and safety behavior in secondary schools: the mediating role of perceived insider status	1
Adapting a school improvement partnership before and during COVID-19: a case study of the resilience of improvement science to complexity	1