OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Educational Administration is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Artificial intelligence in educational leadership: a symbiotic role of human-artificial intelligence decision-making	42
Understanding educational leadership during times of crises: a scoping review	29
School middle leaders as instructional leaders: building the knowledge base of instruction-oriented middle leadership	21
Instructional leadership in a centralized and competitive educational system: a qualitative meta-synthesis of research from Turkey	20
The impact of transformational leadership on teachers' job burnout: the mediating role of social-emotional competence and student-teacher relationship	17
Responsibility, stress and the well-being of school principals: how principals engaged in self-care during the COVID-19 crisis	16
School leaders' adoption and implementation of artificial intelligence	16
School leadership and achievement gaps based on socioeconomic status: a search for socially just instructional leadership	15
Undoing systems of exclusion: exploring inclusive leadership and systems thinking in two inclusive elementary schools	14
Psychological contract breach and teachers' organizational commitment: mediating roles of job embeddedness and leader-member exchange	13
Relation of principal instructional leadership, school climate, teacher job performance and student achievement	13
An open systems model of successful school leadership	13
Distributed leadership practices and student science performance through the four-path model: examining failure in underprivileged schools	12
Understanding the complexity of system-level leadership in the English schooling landscape	12
The development and impact of team-based school technology leadership	10
How aspiring principals applied course-based learning to develop school improvement plans	9
A systematic review of principal time use research	8
Challenges of being a digitally savvy principal	8
Planning for what? An analysis of root cause quality and content in school improvement plans	8
Successful school principals in primary and secondary education: a comprehensive review of a ten-year research project in Cyprus	7
Virtual reality classroom simulations: how school leaders improve instructional leadership capacity	7
Learning from intelligent failure: an organizational resource for school improvement	7
Collective teacher efficacy beliefs: testing measurement invariance using alignment optimization among four cultures	6
The effect of rural superintendent credibility on principal and district outcomes mediated by motivating language	6
Is it your personality, your boundary leadership or both? An integrative approach for the improvement of school management team effectiveness	6

Theorizing school leadership as a profession: a qualitative exploration of the work of school leaders	6
Examining the demands of teacher evaluation: time use, strain and turnover among Tennessee school administrators	6
Failure is not final: principals’ perspectives on creating inclusive schools for students with disabilities	6
Visualizing differential principal turnover	6
The role of self-efficacy on feelings of burnout among Flemish school principals during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Principals' perspectives of inclusive education involving students with autism spectrum conditions – a Swedish case study	5
Successful school leadership for social justice in Spain	5
Opening the black box of leadership coaching: an examination of coaching behaviors	5
A review of professional learning community (PLC) instruments	5
Transformational leadership for deeper learning: shaping innovative school practices for enhanced learning	5
School leaders' preferences for teacher applicant characteristics in a large urban school district	5
Principals' role in teachers' knowledge-sharing beliefs, intention and behaviour in Iranian schools: exploring the impact of knowledge-sharing leadership	5
New principals in the COVID corridor: an exploratory case study	4
A “cracking” school culture: leading resource exploitation during implementation of a national reform	4
Knowing your audience: understanding urban superintendents' process of framing equitable change	4
Five leading-edge K-12 districts’ decision-making processes for EdTech innovations	4
Commentary – Research on successful school principalship: progress on a secure front	4
Looking back and forward: a critical review of the history and future progress of the ISSPP	4
Time is ticking: the dynamics of education reform in the Covid-era	4
Socially distributed leadership in elementary schools: teacher and staff leadership practice in Denmark and the USA	4
Democratic governing ideals and the power of intervening spaces as prerequisite for student learning	4
Guest editorial The International Successful School Principalship Project: reflections and possibilities	4
Distributed leadership and teachers' emotional labour: the mediating role of teacher autonomy	4
High school change: a reflective essay on three decades of frustration, struggle and progress	4
The paradox of leading amidst uncertainty: maintaining balance on an unstable beam	4
Impact of school climate and resources on principal workload stress and job satisfaction: multinational evidence from TALIS 2018 data	4
Pedagogical gaps in the bridge from classroom to field for pre-service principal competence development	4
(In)effective leadership? Exploring the interplay of challenges, goals and measures in the context of school improvement	4