Educational Management Administration & Leadership

Papers
(The median citation count of Educational Management Administration & Leadership 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar76
Female school principals in Arab communities50
Pressure management: Factors influencing the turnover intentions of school middle leaders in Scotland48
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times46
From the best practices of successful school leaders: Developing and validating the principal competencies inventory in South Korea33
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction33
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore26
Literature review of transformational school leadership: models and effects on student achievement (2006–2019)23
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana22
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust21
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?21
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers20
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 202119
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey18
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice18
Teacher leadership in the Arab states: A systematic review17
Promoting team learning in schools: considering the role of team-based HRM practices (THRM)17
Promoting gender equity in school leadership appointments: A comparison of male and female headteachers’ instructional leadership practices in Ghana17
Principal instructional leadership and teacher collaboration: A longitudinal study of the influence on pupil achievement17
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?16
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education16
Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas: Examining the influence of principal instructional leadership on instructional quality in Chinese rural schools16
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs16
Leadership at the boundaries of schools: Navigating the complexities of collaboration15
Succession planning for school principals: System control or leader agency?15
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan15
Does school inspection lead to school improvement? A case study15
The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model15
De-mystifying the 'Cinderella' leadership model: Premia in the practice of curriculum leadership14
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation14
Instructional Boundary Management during COVID-1914
Distributed pedagogical leadership and transformative change14
Planning, assessment, and development time through the lens of teacher leadership – Perceptions of Finnish early childhood education teachers14
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership13
Crisis-resilient school leadership and the role of job crafting: Insights from Finnish principals13
Transformational leadership and teacher burnout in Türkiye: The moderated mediation role of organisational support, teacher resilience and teacher workload13
Effect of e-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam13
Integrating Distributed with Ecological Leadership: Through the Lens of Activity Theory13
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria13
From leaking pipe to leadership: Career pathways of women academics in Pakistani higher education13
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts12
School principals’ emotionally draining situations and student discipline issues in the context of work intensification12
“I’m trying to help”: How do mentors affect principals' person–organization fit during organizational socialization?12
New managerialism in educational administration in Greece: The education directors’ perceived roles12
How instructional leaders promote social justice11
Identifying and coping with the dilemmatic goals of university performance measurement systems in Finland11
First-year teachers’ perspectives on the roles school leaders enact11
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature11
Leadership for equality in education: 50 years marching forward or marching on the spot?11
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher well-being: The mediating roles of organisational trust11
School leadership models: Global interest in western perspectives10
Participative decision-making in the Arab educational system in Israel: The implications for teachers’ organizational commitment and school violence10
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?10
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Distributed leadership and micropolitics10
Protecting instructional time: Insights from Israeli principals10
Professional development of school principals – how do experienced school leaders make sense of their professional learning?9
Headteacher engagement with Pupil Equity Funding: Autonomy, evidence and networks9
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong9
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait9
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts9
Is instructional leadership a retention factor? Cross-cultural examination of teacher turnover intentions in four selected Latin American countries9
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration8
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 20228
Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences8
Support for generative artificial intelligence as a predictor of middle leaders’ generative artificial intelligence self-efficacy, valuing, and integration in school leadership work8
Crisis leadership: Developing and validating a scale for school principals’ crisis management in Israel8
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges8
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity7
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition7
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals7
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance7
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice7
School leader well-being under pressure: Emotional and quantitative demands, resilience, and burnout in Australian schools7
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?7
What are we missing? An alternative way to explore distributed leadership effectiveness7
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital7
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition7
The mental health of leaders in Australian government schools: Stress and burnout over a decade (2011–2020)7
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being: A bibliometric analysis and literature review7
A global perspective on school leadership: Evidence from a latent class analysis on OECD TALIS data6
School middle leadership: Complementing solo and heroic leadership?6
‘It's like we’re in two different schools’: Contrasting stories of teacher and leader autonomy within a distributed approach to leadership6
Integrative educational leadership: Foundations, core concepts and principles for practice6
Transformational leadership and teacher work performance: Mediating effect of job autonomy and trust in school principal – insights from senior secondary school data in India6
Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system6
Human-Machine symbiosis in educational leadership in the era of artificial intelligence (AI): Where are we heading?6
Betwixt and between: A narrative inquiry into Chinese university leaders’ intercultural competence in leadership6
A bibliometric review of research on digital leadership, 1991–2025: Implications for digital leadership in education6
Are Turkish school principals ready to use artificial intelligence? Exploring the roles of growth mindset, self-efficacy and openness to change6
Bolman and Deal lens on school innovation: Navigating challenges and strategies for school leaders in Saudi Arabia6
Principal social justice leadership: A systematic review of 20 years of research, 2005–20246
Does middle leaders’ learning-centred leadership matter in promoting teacher professional learning? A partial least squares analysis6
Promoting leadership for learning in Nigeria: The interplay of leadership mastery experience and leader self-efficacy6
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education?6
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study6
Grow to lead: The case of Cyprus primary schools6
Fostering collaboration through inclusive leadership: Exploring the behaviour of childcare and school leaders in Dutch child centres5
New perspectives on middle leadership in schools in England – Persistent tensions and emerging possibilities5
Senior leaders’ theories of action for managing subject departments as a school improvement strategy5
A systematic review of instructional leadership research conducted with the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS), 1983–20245
Principals’ sense-making and sense-giving of their professional role tensions: School leaders’ professionalism and creative mediation strategies during Covid-19 crisis5
Review of systematic reviews in educational leadership and management: Methods used, topics explored and geographies covered5
Empowered to act: How leadership fosters teacher agency5
Pathways to the school principalship: An international scoping review5
Unpacking the linkages between beliefs and behavioural intention for curriculum reform: A cognitive approach for school middle leaders5
Exploring the moderation role of teacher cultural value profiles on the association between transformational leadership and teacher job satisfaction: Evidence from Turkish education context5
Going beyond creativity: Primary headteachers as social intrapreneurs?5
Internal financial control processes in public schools: A prerequisite for effective financial management5
OfSTED from within: Inspectors’ views on challenges and future direction5
The roles of middle leaders in reinforcing academic optimism4
Principals’ perspectives on the shift to short-cycle school improvement planning4
‘Being happy means doing it together’: Exploring the interpersonal emotion regulation of kindergarten principals4
Challenges of leading change in higher education institutions: Evidence from Nigeria4
Group coaching integrated into national school leadership programs for professional development of school leaders: A similar, yet different approach at a Norwegian and Swedish university4
Factors affecting educational leader wellbeing: Sources of stress and self-care4
Boundary-spanning practices of system leaders in China: Enabling conditions and inherent tensions4
Reviewers 2023-20244
Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis for validating a distributed leadership inventory for secondary schools in Ethiopia4
How cultural context shapes school leadership and its effectiveness: A systematic review4
Middle leadership and school improvement: Interpreting external and internal mandates4
“My supervisors first check school cleanliness”: Factors inhibiting instructional leadership practices in Northern Sindh, Pakistan4
Reviewers 2022–20234
Distributed leadership in Chinese higher education: Conceptual understanding and barriers to its implementation4
Signature pedagogies and professionalism: An exploratory study on novice principal mentoring4
Distributed leadership as a catalyst for teacher innovativeness: A multigroup structural equation modeling approach4
Authentic leadership as a predictor of organizational citizenship behaviour and teachers’ burnout: What's ‘quiet quitting’ got to do with it?4
Transformational school leadership and the COVID-19 pandemic: Perceptions of teachers in Cyprus4
Importance of clarity, hierarchy, and trust in implementing distributed leadership in higher education4
Principals’ systems thinking and school effectiveness: The mediating role of collective teacher efficacy4
Academic leaders: In-role perceptions and developmental approaches4
Supporting change in Polish higher education: Academic middle leaders’ perspectives4
Role of ethical school leadership in shaping adolescents’ aggressive attitudes: A doubly latent multilevel SEM analysis4
Does relational context matter? Trust in principal as a moderator between distributed leadership and organisational citizenship behaviours in Turkish schools4
Principal leadership practices for supporting teacher collaboration and collective teacher efficacy: A random intercept cross-lagged panel model4
Job crafting behavior and the success of senior academic women: An international study3
Brand advantage, risk mitigation, and the illusion of democracy: Approaches to school governance3
Spanners and enhancers: The role of teacher leaders in school evolution3
Perceptions of women senior leaders in the UK Higher Education during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Challenges in implementing instructional leadership: Insights from Turkish school principals3
Editorial: System leadership in English schools: The long goodbye to local authorities?3
Teacher professional commitment in the Israeli Arab education system: Principal leadership and school outcomes3
Combining capacity for instructional leadership with individual core practices in the Norwegian policy context3
Leading by serving: How can servant leadership influence teacher emotional well-being?3
How identity leadership at various university hierarchy levels shapes researchers’ well-being and performance3
Mapping local teacher and expatriate leader professional ecologies in Sub-Saharan African International Schools3
Lived experiences of study programme leadership in Norwegian higher education3
Distributed leadership: A normative theory for policy and practice3
A micro-political exploration of the resignation of Hong Kong experienced kindergarten principals amidst preschool education coordinator turnover3
Science mapping the knowledge base on educational leadership and management in the Arab region: A bibliometric review3
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 schoo3
Instructional leadership in the 21st century: Building on the Hallinger and Murphy PIMRS model3
Headteachers and external inspection in England3
Shaping the leadership configuration of principals and vice-principals: The principal socialising agent3
At the helm: A study of learning and teaching leadership by Department Chairs in higher education3
Investigating the roles of middle leaders in New South Wales public schools: Factor analyses of the Middle Leadership Roles Questionnaire2
Enhancing understanding of broad-based pedagogical leadership in Finnish early childhood education through cultural artifacts2
Looking back and ahead: A bibliometric review of research on principal well-being, 1962–20222
Approaching principalship in Sweden: Novice principals’ recollections of their career trajectories2
Digital instructional leadership and teaching practices in an emergency context: Evidence from Italy2
Performing systematic quality work in Sweden: Frontstage and backstage practices in local education authorities2
Leadership in international schools: A scoping review2
Instructional leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Israel2
Interrelations between teachers’ perceptions of school leadership group practices and collaborative school development in Finland2
Crisis leadership: Principals’ metaphors during COVID-192
Does school leadership affect teacher work engagement in Turkish schools? Investigating the mediating effect of teacher job satisfaction: A multilevel structural equation modelling analysis2
A critical friend or the sword of Damocles: Headteachers’ use of micropolitical strategies in inspection2
The experiences of female headteachers of boys’ senior high schools in Ghana2
‘I have gained insight, direction, affirmation, and a network’. Examining the impact of the UK's first LGBTQ+ specific leadership development programme in higher education2
Unplanned meetings: Shifting school principal practice 5 min at a time2
Leading backwards in a forward era: Destructive middle leadership in the pursuit of Higher Education 5.02
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 classroom2
Transformational leadership and teachers’ voice behaviour: A moderated mediation model of group voice climate and team psychological safety2
Beyond the principal's shadow: Exploring the leadership roles of deputy principals in promoting teacher professional learning in Turkish schools2
Interplay between leadership and school-level conditions: A review of literature on the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)2
Challenges to female college principals and vice principals: Patriarchal gender beliefs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan2
The unique role of school middle leaders in enacting social justice leadership2
Perspectives of women as they navigate their path to principalship in Australian secondary schools2
Educational practice in Switzerland: Searching for diversity-engaged leadership2
Is educational leadership (still) worth studying? An epistemic worthiness-informed analysis2
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