Educational Management Administration & Leadership

Article	Citations
Female school principals in Arab communities	73
Enhancing changed teacher practice in culturally diverse schools through transformational and social justice leadership: A cross-level moderated mediation model	67
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	40
Culturally responsive leadership practices in secondary schools that lead to positive academic achievement for Māori and Pacific students	37
Pressure management: Factors influencing the turnover intentions of school middle leaders in Scotland	31
Too tired to lead?: How stress, mental health conditions, and sleep quality shape principals’ self-efficacy and leave intentions	31
Not all stressors are equal: Using ecological theory to examine systems that predict stress and mental health in principals	29
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	28
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	26
Meso-level education governance: The rise and fall of regional improvement collaboratives in Scotland	25
Should I stay or should I go? Quantitative analysis of school leaders’ intentions to transfer or exit through the lens of the job demands–resources model	25
Only for school heroes? A qualitative study of Argentine school principals under structural constraints	24
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice	23
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers	23
Teacher leadership in the Arab states: A systematic review	23
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana	23
School leaders’ crisis management responsibilities in the shadows of safety: A content analysis of educational leadership standards across the United States	22
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	22
The mediating role of adaptive expertise in the relationship between transformational leadership and teacher collaborative professionalism in Tanzanian schools	22
Principal instructional leadership and teacher collaboration: A longitudinal study of the influence on pupil achievement	22
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust	21
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	20
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	20
The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model	19
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education	19

Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	19
Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas: Examining the influence of principal instructional leadership on instructional quality in Chinese rural schools	18
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	18
Leadership at the boundaries of schools: Navigating the complexities of collaboration	17
Does school inspection lead to school improvement? A case study	16
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs	16
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	16
Promoting team learning in schools: Considering the role of team-based HRM practices (THRM)	16
Planning, assessment, and development time through the lens of teacher leadership – Perceptions of Finnish early childhood education teachers	16
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria	15
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation	15
The effects of instructional leadership on teachers’ instructional practices through inclusive efficacy: The moderating role of social justice leadership	15
The enduring popularity of distributed leadership: Professional participation or task allocation?	15
Distributed pedagogical leadership and transformative change	15
De-mystifying the 'Cinderella' leadership model: Premia in the practice of curriculum leadership	15
Effect of e-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam	14
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership	14
How instructional leaders promote social justice	13
School principals’ emotionally draining situations and student discipline issues in the context of work intensification	13
From leaking pipe to leadership: Career pathways of women academics in Pakistani higher education	13
“I’m trying to help”: How do mentors affect principals' person–organization fit during organizational socialization?	13
New managerialism in educational administration in Greece: The education directors’ perceived roles	13
Leading policy-aligned sport in high-pressure systems: Distributed–transformational leadership, programme quality and student outcomes in secondary schools	13
Rethinking knowledge production in educational leadership research: Impossibility, hybridity and epistemic inheritance	13
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts	12
Transformational leadership and teacher burnout in Türkiye: The moderated mediation role of organisational support, teacher resilience and teacher workload	12
Crisis-resilient school leadership and the role of job crafting: Insights from Finnish principals	12
Distributed leadership and micropolitics	11
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature	11
Addressing the gap in creative pedagogies among teachers through instructional leadership: A meta-analysis of countries in PISA 2022	11
From heroic leadership myth to street-level management: School principals’ experiences of sensemaking and creative insubordination under incomplete autonomy	11
School leadership models: Global interest in western perspectives	11
First-year teachers’ perspectives on the roles school leaders enact	11
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Governing teacher well-being in international policy discourse: Problem representation, accountability, and the individualisation of care	11
Identifying and coping with the dilemmatic goals of university performance measurement systems in Finland	11
Distributed leadership questionnaire – Greek adaptation: The validity and reliability study	10
Participative decision-making in the Arab educational system in Israel: The implications for teachers’ organizational commitment and school violence	10
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?	10
Headteacher engagement with Pupil Equity Funding: Autonomy, evidence and networks	10
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait	10
Is instructional leadership a retention factor? Cross-cultural examination of teacher turnover intentions in four selected Latin American countries	10
Leading reflective schools: Action research culture, teacher commitment and leadership for learning in Malaysia	10
Principal's post-observation conversations in China: Exploring interpersonal effectiveness through a theory of action lens	9
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	9
Tracking accelerated knowledge production in educational leadership and management: Trajectories, drivers, and impact in Asian research, 2000–2025	9
School leader well-being under pressure: Emotional and quantitative demands, resilience, and burnout in Australian schools	9
Protecting instructional time: Insights from Israeli principals	9
Shaping professional identities in turbulent times: Venezuelan female school leaders’ sensemaking of critical incidents	9
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity	9

Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences	9
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 2022	9
Professional development of school principals – how do experienced school leaders make sense of their professional learning?	9
Crisis leadership: Developing and validating a scale for school principals’ crisis management in Israel	9
Relational trust and principal well-being: Extending the job demands–resources framework in school leadership	9
Support for generative artificial intelligence as a predictor of middle leaders’ generative artificial intelligence self-efficacy, valuing, and integration in school leadership work	9
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration	9
Are Turkish school principals ready to use artificial intelligence? Exploring the roles of growth mindset, self-efficacy and openness to change	8
Grow to lead: The case of Cyprus primary schools	8
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges	8
A bibliometric review of research on digital leadership, 1991–2025: Implications for digital leadership in education	8
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition	8
Moving beyond “management” of the status-quo: How leading scholars expand educational leadership and promote equity through political capital	8
What are we missing? An alternative way to explore distributed leadership effectiveness	8
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education?	8
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	8
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice	8
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being: A bibliometric analysis and literature review	7
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition	7
A global perspective on school leadership: Evidence from a latent class analysis on OECD TALIS data	7
School leadership in Israel amid COVID-19: A systematic review	7
‘It's like we’re in two different schools’: Contrasting stories of teacher and leader autonomy within a distributed approach to leadership	7
The mental health of leaders in Australian government schools: Stress and burnout over a decade (2011–2020)	7
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance	7
Transformational leadership and teacher work performance: Mediating effect of job autonomy and trust in school principal – insights from senior secondary school data in India	7
Bolman and Deal lens on school innovation: Navigating challenges and strategies for school leaders in Saudi Arabia	7
School middle leadership: Complementing solo and heroic leadership?	7
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals	7
Social justice directed instructional leadership: Does it make a difference for teacher professional learning	7
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study	7
Integrative educational leadership: Foundations, core concepts and principles for practice	7
Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system	7
Going beyond creativity: Primary headteachers as social intrapreneurs?	6
School leadership in the United Arab Emirates: A narrative review of research	6
Contested leadership: Negotiating teacher leadership in a highly centralized school system through school-based reform	6
Promoting leadership for learning in Nigeria: The interplay of leadership mastery experience and leader self-efficacy	6
OfSTED from within: Inspectors’ views on challenges and future direction	6
Internal financial control processes in public schools: A prerequisite for effective financial management	6
Exploring the moderation role of teacher cultural value profiles on the association between transformational leadership and teacher job satisfaction: Evidence from Turkish education context	6
Human-Machine symbiosis in educational leadership in the era of artificial intelligence (AI): Where are we heading?	6
Empowered to act: How leadership fosters teacher agency	6
Unpacking the linkages between beliefs and behavioural intention for curriculum reform: A cognitive approach for school middle leaders	6
Fostering collaboration through inclusive leadership: Exploring the behaviour of childcare and school leaders in Dutch child centres	6
Enacting subject leadership as practice: Primary science and curriculum marginalisation in English primary schools	6
Principal social justice leadership: A systematic review of 20 years of research, 2005–2024	6
A systematic review of instructional leadership research conducted with the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS), 1983–2024	6
Destructive leadership in education: A systematic review	6
“My supervisors first check school cleanliness”: Factors inhibiting instructional leadership practices in Northern Sindh, Pakistan	5
Transformational school leadership and the COVID-19 pandemic: Perceptions of teachers in Cyprus	5
How does principals’ job crafting relate to leadership for learning? Emotional regulation as a mediating mechanism in a centralised education system	5
‘Being happy means doing it together’: Exploring the interpersonal emotion regulation of kindergarten principals	5
Principals’ perspectives on the shift to short-cycle school improvement planning	5
Worry at the top: Understanding and managing worry in elementary school leadership	5
Supporting change in Polish higher education: Academic middle leaders’ perspectives	5
Middle leadership and school improvement: Interpreting external and internal mandates	5
Principals’ sense-making and sense-giving of their professional role tensions: School leaders’ professionalism and creative mediation strategies during Covid-19 crisis	5
Review of systematic reviews in educational leadership and management: Methods used, topics explored and geographies covered	5
Do newly appointed university leaders in Tanzania experience behavioral shifts? An IPA study of lived experiences and motivations	5
How cultural context shapes school leadership and its effectiveness: A systematic review	5
Factors affecting educational leader wellbeing: Sources of stress and self-care	5
Authentic leadership as a predictor of organizational citizenship behaviour and teachers’ burnout: What's ‘quiet quitting’ got to do with it?	5
Academic leaders: In-role perceptions and developmental approaches	5
Reviewers 2022–2023	5
Instructional leadership and student achievement in a centrally regulated system: A school-level test of academic optimism as an organisational pathway	5
Principals’ systems thinking and school effectiveness: The mediating role of collective teacher efficacy	5
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	5
The roles of middle leaders in reinforcing academic optimism	5
Challenges of leading change in higher education institutions: Evidence from Nigeria	5
Principal leadership practices for supporting teacher collaboration and collective teacher efficacy: A random intercept cross-lagged panel model	5
Distributed leadership in Chinese higher education: Conceptual understanding and barriers to its implementation	4
Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis for validating a distributed leadership inventory for secondary schools in Ethiopia	4
Role of ethical school leadership in shaping adolescents’ aggressive attitudes: A doubly latent multilevel SEM analysis	4
Brand advantage, risk mitigation, and the illusion of democracy: Approaches to school governance	4
Headteachers and external inspection in England	4
Shaping the leadership configuration of principals and vice-principals: The principal socialising agent	4
Boundary-spanning practices of system leaders in China: Enabling conditions and inherent tensions	4
Distributed leadership as a catalyst for teacher innovativeness: A multigroup structural equation modeling approach	4
Reviewers 2023-2024	4
Signature pedagogies and professionalism: An exploratory study on novice principal mentoring	4
Science mapping the knowledge base on educational leadership and management in the Arab region: A bibliometric review	4

How identity leadership at various university hierarchy levels shapes researchers’ well-being and performance	4
Job crafting behavior and the success of senior academic women: An international study	4
Higher education leadership for equity, diversity and inclusion: A systematic review of literature from 2000 to 2024	4
Leading by serving: How can servant leadership influence teacher emotional well-being?	4
Leading schools in crisis contexts: Practice insights from a scoping review	4
Does relational context matter? Trust in principal as a moderator between distributed leadership and organisational citizenship behaviours in Turkish schools	4
School inspection: Support or surveillance?	4
Lived experiences of study programme leadership in Norwegian higher education	4
Challenges in implementing instructional leadership: Insights from Turkish school principals	3
At the helm: A study of learning and teaching leadership by Department Chairs in higher education	3
Perspectives of women as they navigate their path to principalship in Australian secondary schools	3
Teacher professional commitment in the Israeli Arab education system: Principal leadership and school outcomes	3
From autonomy to digital leadership: Multilevel pathways to school improvement in OECD education systems	3
Instructional leadership in the 21st century: Building on the Hallinger and Murphy PIMRS model	3
Perceptions of women senior leaders in the UK Higher Education during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Performing systematic quality work in Sweden: Frontstage and backstage practices in local education authorities	3
Distributed leadership: A normative theory for policy and practice	3
Unplanned meetings: Shifting school principal practice 5 min at a time	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
Spanners and enhancers: The role of teacher leaders in school evolution	3
Evolutionary characteristics of educational leadership theories: Evidence from grounded theory	3
Leadership in international schools: A scoping review	3
Editorial: System leadership in English schools: The long goodbye to local authorities?	3
A micro-political exploration of the resignation of Hong Kong experienced kindergarten principals amidst preschool education coordinator turnover	3
Mapping local teacher and expatriate leader professional ecologies in Sub-Saharan African International Schools	3
Crisis leadership: Principals’ metaphors during COVID-19	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 classrooms	2
Beyond the principal's shadow: Exploring the leadership roles of deputy principals in promoting teacher professional learning in Turkish schools	2
Antecedents of leadership efficacy development among novice school principals in Malaysia	2
School unit leaders’ people management: Impact on teachers’ line of sight and school unit performance	2
Principals’ achievement motives and implicit theories predict principals’ desired achievement goals for their students	2
Interrelations between teachers’ perceptions of school leadership group practices and collaborative school development in Finland	2
Principal leadership, school processes, and student achievement: Examining contextual heterogeneity in leadership mechanisms via multigroup multilevel structural equation modeling	2
Approaching principalship in Sweden: Novice principals’ recollections of their career trajectories	2
Interplay between leadership and school-level conditions: A review of literature on the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)	2
The influence of culture on the leadership and management styles of assistant principals in Palestinian Arab elementary schools in East Jerusalem	2
Deciphering the mechanisms linking school leadership to instructional practices through collective teacher efficacy: The moderated mediation role of school climate	2
A critical friend or the sword of Damocles: Headteachers’ use of micropolitical strategies in inspection	2
Digital instructional leadership and teaching practices in an emergency context: Evidence from Italy	2
Context-specific leadership and the governance of work-integrated learning in Alberta's higher education policy	2
Cross-Sector internship insights: Recognizing leadership through cross-sector internship programs for vice-principals	2
Where are the part-time women teachers in senior school leadership: Inequalities, tensions and timescapes?	2
Conceptualising principal resilience: Development and validation of the Principal Resilience Inventory	2
Enhancing understanding of broad-based pedagogical leadership in Finnish early childhood education through cultural artifacts	2
Does school leadership affect teacher work engagement in Turkish schools? Investigating the mediating effect of teacher job satisfaction: A multilevel structural equation modelling analysis	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
Challenges to female college principals and vice principals: Patriarchal gender beliefs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan	2
Investigating the roles of middle leaders in New South Wales public schools: Factor analyses of the Middle Leadership Roles Questionnaire	2
Looking back and ahead: A bibliometric review of research on principal well-being, 1962–2022	2
Leading backwards in a forward era: Destructive middle leadership in the pursuit of Higher Education 5.0	2
Head teacher and government officials’ perceptions of teaching quality in secondary education in Rwanda	2
A qualitative study of male school leaders’ work–family conflict: Experiences and coping strategies	2
Transformational leadership and teachers’ voice behaviour: A moderated mediation model of group voice climate and team psychological safety	2
Mediating ambiguity: Principals’ sense-making and instructional leadership in curriculum reform enactment	2
The unique role of school middle leaders in enacting social justice leadership	2
Unveiling emotional strain: The interplay of loneliness, stress, and depression among school leaders	2
Reviewers 2024–2025	2
Validating the teacher leadership scale in Oman: Implications for leadership development in Arab schools	2