Educational Management Administration & Leadership

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
EMAL is 50: Celebrating half a century disseminating high quality research and scholarship	12
Instructional Boundary Management during COVID-19	12
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
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
Headteacher engagement with Pupil Equity Funding: Autonomy, evidence and networks	8
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
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition	7
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
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
Transformational leadership and teacher work performance: Mediating effect of job autonomy and trust in school principal – insights from senior secondary school data in India	5
Bolman and Deal lens on school innovation: Navigating challenges and strategies for school leaders in Saudi Arabia	5
Finding the missing link: Do principal qualifications make a difference in student achievement?	5
Senior leaders’ theories of action for managing subject departments as a school improvement strategy	5
A global perspective on school leadership: Evidence from a latent class analysis on OECD TALIS data	5
Human-Machine symbiosis in educational leadership in the era of artificial intelligence (AI): Where are we heading?	5
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being: A bibliometric analysis and literature review	5
Does middle leaders’ learning-centred leadership matter in promoting teacher professional learning? A partial least squares analysis	5
Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system	5
‘It's like we’re in two different schools’: Contrasting stories of teacher and leader autonomy within a distributed approach to leadership	5
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals	5
Integrative educational leadership: Foundations, core concepts and principles for practice	5
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study	5
Betwixt and between: A narrative inquiry into Chinese university leaders’ intercultural competence in leadership	5
Principals’ perspectives on the shift to short-cycle school improvement planning	4
Middle leadership and school improvement: Interpreting external and internal mandates	4
Internal financial control processes in public schools: A prerequisite for effective financial management	4
Promoting leadership for learning in Nigeria: The interplay of leadership mastery experience and leader self-efficacy	4
Supporting teacher professional learning in Oman: The effects of principal leadership, teacher trust, and teacher agency	4
Review of systematic reviews in educational leadership and management: Methods used, topics explored and geographies covered	4
Exploring the moderation role of teacher cultural value profiles on the association between transformational leadership and teacher job satisfaction: Evidence from Turkish education context	4
Principals’ systems thinking and school effectiveness: The mediating role of collective teacher efficacy	4
Reviewers 2022–2023	4
A systematic review of instructional leadership research conducted with the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS), 1983–2024	4
OfSTED from within: Inspectors’ views on challenges and future direction	4
Fostering collaboration through inclusive leadership: Exploring the behaviour of childcare and school leaders in Dutch child centres	4
Unpacking the linkages between beliefs and behavioural intention for curriculum reform: A cognitive approach for school middle leaders	4
‘Being happy means doing it together’: Exploring the interpersonal emotion regulation of kindergarten principals	4
Importance of clarity, hierarchy, and trust in implementing distributed leadership in higher education	4
“My supervisors first check school cleanliness”: Factors inhibiting instructional leadership practices in Northern Sindh, Pakistan	4
Pathways to the school principalship: An international scoping review	4
Philanthropic emotional work: Papering over the cracks of unprecedented public education reform	4
Going beyond creativity: Primary headteachers as social intrapreneurs?	4
Principals’ sense-making and sense-giving of their professional role tensions: School leaders’ professionalism and creative mediation strategies during Covid-19 crisis	4
New perspectives on middle leadership in schools in England – Persistent tensions and emerging possibilities	4
Transformational school leadership and the COVID-19 pandemic: Perceptions of teachers in Cyprus	4
Signature pedagogies and professionalism: An exploratory study on novice principal mentoring	3
Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis for validating a distributed leadership inventory for secondary schools in Ethiopia	3
Shaping the leadership configuration of principals and vice-principals: The principal socialising agent	3
Does relational context matter? Trust in principal as a moderator between distributed leadership and organisational citizenship behaviours in Turkish schools	3
Distributed leadership in Chinese higher education: Conceptual understanding and barriers to its implementation	3
Reviewers 2023-2024	3
Group coaching integrated into national school leadership programs for professional development of school leaders: A similar, yet different approach at a Norwegian and Swedish university	3
Supporting change in Polish higher education: Academic middle leaders’ perspectives	3
Role of ethical school leadership in shaping adolescents’ aggressive attitudes: A doubly latent multilevel SEM analysis	3
School leadership writ small: Meetings and school principal practice	3
Headteachers and external inspection in England	3
Instructional leadership in the 21st century: Building on the Hallinger and Murphy PIMRS model	3
Leading by serving: How can servant leadership influence teacher emotional well-being?	3
The importance of relationships in effectively leading schools: Using corpus linguistic analysis to identify the essential work of educational leadership from the perspective of recently retired schoo	3
Factors affecting educational leader wellbeing: Sources of stress and self-care	3
Challenges of leading change in higher education institutions: Evidence from Nigeria	3
How school leadership practices relate to student outcomes: Insights from a three-level meta-analysis	3
The roles of middle leaders in reinforcing academic optimism	3
Brand advantage, risk mitigation, and the illusion of democracy: Approaches to school governance	3
Perceptions of women senior leaders in the UK Higher Education during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Lived experiences of study programme leadership in Norwegian higher education	3
Boundary-spanning practices of system leaders in China: Enabling conditions and inherent tensions	3
Combining capacity for instructional leadership with individual core practices in the Norwegian policy context	3
Authentic leadership as a predictor of organizational citizenship behaviour and teachers’ burnout: What's ‘quiet quitting’ got to do with it?	3
Linking school leaders’ core practices to organizational school climate and student achievements in Norwegian high-performing and low-performing rural schools	3
Academic leaders: In-role perceptions and developmental approaches	3
Teacher professional commitment in the Israeli Arab education system: Principal leadership and school outcomes	2
A critical friend or the sword of Damocles: Headteachers’ use of micropolitical strategies in inspection	2
Instructional leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Israel	2
Approaching principalship in Sweden: Novice principals’ recollections of their career trajectories	2
The construction of a leadership identity based on empathy, care, and participation: María Eliana's history	2
Enhancing understanding of broad-based pedagogical leadership in Finnish early childhood education through cultural artifacts	2
The relationship between reciprocal school-to-school collaboration and student academic achievement	2
Looking back and ahead: A bibliometric review of research on principal well-being, 1962–2022	2
Is educational leadership (still) worth studying? An epistemic worthiness-informed analysis	2
Challenges in implementing instructional leadership: Insights from Turkish school principals	2
Editorial: System leadership in English schools: The long goodbye to local authorities?	2
Spanners and enhancers: The role of teacher leaders in school evolution	2

Investigating the roles of middle leaders in New South Wales public schools: Factor analyses of the Middle Leadership Roles Questionnaire	2
Head teacher and government officials’ perceptions of teaching quality in secondary education in Rwanda	2
Crisis leadership: Principals’ metaphors during COVID-19	2
Antecedents of leadership efficacy development among novice school principals in Malaysia	2
Leadership for teaching and learning: Exploring a department-level educational leadership role at a Swedish comprehensive university	2
‘I have gained insight, direction, affirmation, and a network’. Examining the impact of the UK's first LGBTQ+ specific leadership development programme in higher education	2
Do principals really know what their teachers believe about evaluation? Exploring principals' reactions to teachers’ beliefs in the United States	2
Challenges to female college principals and vice principals: Patriarchal gender beliefs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan	2
CORRIGENDUM to “Trust in cross-sector alliances: Towards a theory of relational trust in multi-professional education networks”	2
Unplanned meetings: Shifting school principal practice 5 min at a time	2
Distributed leadership: A normative theory for policy and practice	2
Perspectives of women as they navigate their path to principalship in Australian secondary schools	2
Digital instructional leadership and teaching practices in an emergency context: Evidence from Italy	2
A safe space and leadership matter for innovation: Exploring the role of psychological safety in the relationship between transformational leadership and innovation radicalness in Kyrgyz classroom	2
Leadership in international schools: A scoping review	2
Interrelations between teachers’ perceptions of school leadership group practices and collaborative school development in Finland	2
Principal's leadership and teacher-to-teacher knowledge-sharing in Iranian schools: Developing and validating a multi-dimensional scale	2
The experiences of female headteachers of boys’ senior high schools in Ghana	2
Offensive behaviours against school leaders: Prevalence, perpetrators and mediators in Australian government schools	2
Understanding practices of UK college governing: Rethinking strategy and accountability	2
At the helm: A study of learning and teaching leadership by Department Chairs in higher education	2
A micro-political exploration of the resignation of Hong Kong experienced kindergarten principals amidst preschool education coordinator turnover	2
Educational practice in Switzerland: Searching for diversity-engaged leadership	2
Job crafting behavior and the success of senior academic women: An international study	2