OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Educational Administration 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Translating team-member exchange relationships to school outcomes: the mediating role of leader-member exchange	42
Illustrating the power and complexity of a National Longitudinal Superintendent Database through an exploration of cross-state mobility	33
Guest editorial: Organizing schools for the future: innovative conceptualizations of schools as organizations	31
Principals' role in teachers' knowledge-sharing beliefs, intention and behaviour in Iranian schools: exploring the impact of knowledge-sharing leadership	28
Dilemmas in district–university partnerships: examining network improvement communities as levers for systems change	27
Race, gender and the leadership of Black women superintendents	26
“This is not going to be a quick fix”: a grounded theory study of superintendents leading school integration through redistricting	26
Using multiple leadership frames to understand how two school principals are influencing teachers' practices and achievement of Hispanic English learners	22
Transformational leadership and job satisfaction in vocational high schools in Türkiye: a multilevel mediation model of teacher professional learning and self-efficacy	18
Approved to fail: a case study of leadership at three new high schools	14
Unveiling the associations between principal self-efficacy, openness to change and transformational leadership: the mediating role of well-being	11
Context, leadership and school success: Australian suburban, rural and remote cases from the ISSPP	11
There and back again: analyzing the characteristics of demoted principals	11
Emotional well-being of school principals: exploring enhancement and risk factors	10
Interweaving resilience: leadership of continuous improvement partnerships and Mary Parker Follett's theory of relational process	9
Superintendents’ strategic leadership for just and equitable systemic change	9
The effect of rural superintendent credibility on principal and district outcomes mediated by motivating language	8
Socially distributed leadership in elementary schools: teacher and staff leadership practice in Denmark and the USA	8
Teachers of English learners: perceived motivators to becoming principals of high-needs schools	8
An open systems model of successful school leadership	7
Peer mentoring for professional socialisation – shaping novice principals’ leadership identity?	7
Community, learning and leadership: reflections on the work of Karen Seashore Louis	7
The impact of transformational leadership on teachers' job burnout: the mediating role of social-emotional competence and student-teacher relationship	7
Understanding self-fulfillment: principals’ perspectives in special education for complex disabilities	7
Looking back and forward: a critical review of the history and future progress of the ISSPP	7

Distributed leadership and inclusive education for underserved groups: examining the mediating role of teacher autonomy	7
Resilience and purpose as predictors of Portuguese school leaders' work well-being	7
Reframing crisis and crisis management: examining three urban superintendents’ COVID-19 experiences	6
Using social media to create real time online networks of school leaders	6
A narrative review of the research on school leaders’ emotional labor: a typology inspired by Habermas’s cognitive interests	6
Agents of change? How district leaders shape absorptive capacity within research–practice partnerships	6
Struggling toward symmetry: leadership for restorative justice and deeper learning at an urban charter school	6
Publisher’s Note	6
Transformational leadership for deeper learning: shaping innovative school practices for enhanced learning	6
Successful school leadership in Scotland: a journey to sustainable improvement	6
Co-designing a Children’s Cabinet: a school district–university partnership for youth well-being post-pandemic	6
United States superintendents’ experiences with professional networks and other social supports in politically contentious times	6
Teacher distrust in the school principal: a mental state distinct from trust	5
Leading during long-term crises: an analysis of perceived effectiveness leadership in K-12 schools	5
Examining the relationships between instructional leadership, teacher self-efficacy and job satisfaction: a study of primary schools in India	5
School leadership and achievement gaps based on socioeconomic status: a search for socially just instructional leadership	5
Understanding the relationship between teacher leadership and teacher well-being: the mediating roles of trust in leaders and teacher efficacy	5
Deeper professional learning: how leaders design for teachers to share their deeper learning practices	5
Guest editorial: Leading for deeper learning: moving from niche to norm	5
Transformative leadership conversation: a conceptualization and empirical test of its function	5
A review of professional learning community (PLC) instruments	5
Leadership coaching relationships: a qualitative examination of underlying factors	5
Successful, coasting and low-performing school principals in Israel: an explanatory model	5
School leadership during the COVID-19 crisis: a scoping review of empirical research	5