Educational Management Administration & Leadership

Article	Citations
Female school principals in Arab communities	66
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	62
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	61
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	38
Too tired to lead?: How stress, mental health conditions, and sleep quality shape principals’ self-efficacy and leave intentions	34
Pressure management: Factors influencing the turnover intentions of school middle leaders in Scotland	31
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	30
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust	29
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	25
Teacher leadership in the Arab states: A systematic review	23
Principal instructional leadership and teacher collaboration: A longitudinal study of the influence on pupil achievement	22
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana	22
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	21
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice	21
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers	21
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	21
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	21
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education	20
Succession planning for school principals: System control or leader agency?	20
Promoting team learning in schools: considering the role of team-based HRM practices (THRM)	20
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs	19
Leadership at the boundaries of schools: Navigating the complexities of collaboration	19
Does school inspection lead to school improvement? A case study	18
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	18
Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas: Examining the influence of principal instructional leadership on instructional quality in Chinese rural schools	18

The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model	18
Planning, assessment, and development time through the lens of teacher leadership – Perceptions of Finnish early childhood education teachers	17
Distributed pedagogical leadership and transformative change	17
De-mystifying the 'Cinderella' leadership model: Premia in the practice of curriculum leadership	17
Effect of e-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam	16
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria	16
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership	15
Instructional Boundary Management during COVID-19	15
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation	15
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher well-being: The mediating roles of organisational trust	14
“I’m trying to help”: How do mentors affect principals' person–organization fit during organizational socialization?	14
School principals’ emotionally draining situations and student discipline issues in the context of work intensification	14
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts	14
Leading policy-aligned sport in high-pressure systems: Distributed–transformational leadership, programme quality and student outcomes in secondary schools	14
How instructional leaders promote social justice	14
Transformational leadership and teacher burnout in Türkiye: The moderated mediation role of organisational support, teacher resilience and teacher workload	13
New managerialism in educational administration in Greece: The education directors’ perceived roles	13
Crisis-resilient school leadership and the role of job crafting: Insights from Finnish principals	13
Distributed leadership and micropolitics	12
School leadership models: Global interest in western perspectives	12
From leaking pipe to leadership: Career pathways of women academics in Pakistani higher education	12
Identifying and coping with the dilemmatic goals of university performance measurement systems in Finland	11
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?	11
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature	11
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
First-year teachers’ perspectives on the roles school leaders enact	11
Participative decision-making in the Arab educational system in Israel: The implications for teachers’ organizational commitment and school violence	11
Leading reflective schools: Action research culture, teacher commitment and leadership for learning in Malaysia	10
Addressing the gap in creative pedagogies among teachers through instructional leadership: A meta-analysis of countries in PISA 2022	10
Professional development of school principals – how do experienced school leaders make sense of their professional learning?	10
Protecting instructional time: Insights from Israeli principals	9
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity	9
Shaping professional identities in turbulent times: Venezuelan female school leaders’ sensemaking of critical incidents	9
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges	9
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice	9
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	9
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital	9
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 2022	9
Is instructional leadership a retention factor? Cross-cultural examination of teacher turnover intentions in four selected Latin American countries	9
Crisis leadership: Developing and validating a scale for school principals’ crisis management in Israel	9
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait	9
Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences	9
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	9
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition	9
Headteacher engagement with Pupil Equity Funding: Autonomy, evidence and networks	9
Principal's post-observation conversations in China: Exploring interpersonal effectiveness through a theory of action lens	9
School leader well-being under pressure: Emotional and quantitative demands, resilience, and burnout in Australian schools	9
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration	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
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts	9

Transformational leadership and teacher work performance: Mediating effect of job autonomy and trust in school principal – insights from senior secondary school data in India	9
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals	8
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education?	8
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition	8
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study	8
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
What are we missing? An alternative way to explore distributed leadership effectiveness	8
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance	8
A bibliometric review of research on digital leadership, 1991–2025: Implications for digital leadership in education	8
Social justice directed instructional leadership: Does it make a difference for teacher professional learning	8
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being: A bibliometric analysis and literature review	8
A global perspective on school leadership: Evidence from a latent class analysis on OECD TALIS data	7
Principal social justice leadership: A systematic review of 20 years of research, 2005–2024	7
School leadership in Israel amid COVID-19: A systematic review	7
Human-Machine symbiosis in educational leadership in the era of artificial intelligence (AI): Where are we heading?	7
Bolman and Deal lens on school innovation: Navigating challenges and strategies for school leaders in Saudi Arabia	7
Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system	7
Integrative educational leadership: Foundations, core concepts and principles for practice	7
The mental health of leaders in Australian government schools: Stress and burnout over a decade (2011–2020)	7
‘It's like we’re in two different schools’: Contrasting stories of teacher and leader autonomy within a distributed approach to leadership	7
OfSTED from within: Inspectors’ views on challenges and future direction	6
A systematic review of instructional leadership research conducted with the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS), 1983–2024	6
Going beyond creativity: Primary headteachers as social intrapreneurs?	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
School middle leadership: Complementing solo and heroic leadership?	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
Betwixt and between: A narrative inquiry into Chinese university leaders’ intercultural competence in leadership	6
Does middle leaders’ learning-centred leadership matter in promoting teacher professional learning? A partial least squares analysis	6
Promoting leadership for learning in Nigeria: The interplay of leadership mastery experience and leader self-efficacy	6
Fostering collaboration through inclusive leadership: Exploring the behaviour of childcare and school leaders in Dutch child centres	6
Transformational school leadership and the COVID-19 pandemic: Perceptions of teachers in Cyprus	5
Reviewers 2022–2023	5
Importance of clarity, hierarchy, and trust in implementing distributed leadership in higher education	5
Destructive leadership in education: A systematic review	5
The roles of middle leaders in reinforcing academic optimism	5
Distributed leadership in Chinese higher education: Conceptual understanding and barriers to its implementation	5
How cultural context shapes school leadership and its effectiveness: A systematic review	5
Supporting change in Polish higher education: Academic middle leaders’ perspectives	5
Principals’ perspectives on the shift to short-cycle school improvement planning	5
School leadership in the United Arab Emirates: A narrative review of research	5
Review of systematic reviews in educational leadership and management: Methods used, topics explored and geographies covered	5
“My supervisors first check school cleanliness”: Factors inhibiting instructional leadership practices in Northern Sindh, Pakistan	5
‘Being happy means doing it together’: Exploring the interpersonal emotion regulation of kindergarten principals	5
Principal leadership practices for supporting teacher collaboration and collective teacher efficacy: A random intercept cross-lagged panel model	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
Challenges of leading change in higher education institutions: Evidence from Nigeria	5
Academic leaders: In-role perceptions and developmental approaches	5
Middle leadership and school improvement: Interpreting external and internal mandates	5
Internal financial control processes in public schools: A prerequisite for effective financial management	5
Principals’ sense-making and sense-giving of their professional role tensions: School leaders’ professionalism and creative mediation strategies during Covid-19 crisis	5
Principals’ systems thinking and school effectiveness: The mediating role of collective teacher efficacy	5
Boundary-spanning practices of system leaders in China: Enabling conditions and inherent tensions	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
Distributed leadership as a catalyst for teacher innovativeness: A multigroup structural equation modeling approach	4
Leading schools in crisis contexts: Practice insights from a scoping review	4
Shaping the leadership configuration of principals and vice-principals: The principal socialising agent	4
Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis for validating a distributed leadership inventory for secondary schools in Ethiopia	4
Does relational context matter? Trust in principal as a moderator between distributed leadership and organisational citizenship behaviours in Turkish schools	4
Reviewers 2023-2024	4
Science mapping the knowledge base on educational leadership and management in the Arab region: A bibliometric review	4
Job crafting behavior and the success of senior academic women: An international study	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
Higher education leadership for equity, diversity and inclusion: A systematic review of literature from 2000 to 2024	4
Instructional leadership in the 21st century: Building on the Hallinger and Murphy PIMRS model	4
Signature pedagogies and professionalism: An exploratory study on novice principal mentoring	4
Leading by serving: How can servant leadership influence teacher emotional well-being?	4
Editorial: System leadership in English schools: The long goodbye to local authorities?	3
Spanners and enhancers: The role of teacher leaders in school evolution	3
Distributed leadership: A normative theory for policy and practice	3
Lived experiences of study programme leadership in Norwegian higher education	3
Leadership in international schools: A scoping review	3
At the helm: A study of learning and teaching leadership by Department Chairs in higher education	3
Looking back and ahead: A bibliometric review of research on principal well-being, 1962–2022	3
Digital instructional leadership and teaching practices in an emergency context: Evidence from Italy	3
Perceptions of women senior leaders in the UK Higher Education during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Challenges in implementing instructional leadership: Insights from Turkish school principals	3

How identity leadership at various university hierarchy levels shapes researchers’ well-being and performance	3
Teacher professional commitment in the Israeli Arab education system: Principal leadership and school outcomes	3
Perspectives of women as they navigate their path to principalship in Australian secondary schools	3
Performing systematic quality work in Sweden: Frontstage and backstage practices in local education authorities	3
A critical friend or the sword of Damocles: Headteachers’ use of micropolitical strategies in inspection	3
A micro-political exploration of the resignation of Hong Kong experienced kindergarten principals amidst preschool education coordinator turnover	3
Headteachers and external inspection in England	3
Mapping local teacher and expatriate leader professional ecologies in Sub-Saharan African International Schools	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
Unplanned meetings: Shifting school principal practice 5 min at a time	3
From autonomy to digital leadership: Multilevel pathways to school improvement in OECD education systems	3
Crisis leadership: Principals’ metaphors during COVID-19	3
Investigating the roles of middle leaders in New South Wales public schools: Factor analyses of the Middle Leadership Roles Questionnaire	3
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
Principal's leadership and teacher-to-teacher knowledge-sharing in Iranian schools: Developing and validating a multi-dimensional scale	2
Head teacher and government officials’ perceptions of teaching quality in secondary education in Rwanda	2
The influence of culture on the leadership and management styles of assistant principals in Palestinian Arab elementary schools in East Jerusalem	2
Beyond the principal's shadow: Exploring the leadership roles of deputy principals in promoting teacher professional learning in Turkish schools	2
Unveiling emotional strain: The interplay of loneliness, stress, and depression among school leaders	2
The experiences of female headteachers of boys’ senior high schools in Ghana	2
What motivates teachers to lead? Examining the effects of perceived role expectations and role identities on teacher leadership behaviour	2
Middle leadership in higher education: Challenges and opportunities	2
Cross-Sector internship insights: Recognizing leadership through cross-sector internship programs for vice-principals	2
Reviewers 2024–2025	2
Enhancing understanding of broad-based pedagogical leadership in Finnish early childhood education through cultural artifacts	2
Interplay between leadership and school-level conditions: A review of literature on the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)	2
Principal leadership, school processes, and student achievement: Examining contextual heterogeneity in leadership mechanisms via multigroup multilevel structural equation modeling	2
Leading backwards in a forward era: Destructive middle leadership in the pursuit of Higher Education 5.0	2
Instructional leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Israel	2
Challenges to female college principals and vice principals: Patriarchal gender beliefs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan	2
Interrelations between teachers’ perceptions of school leadership group practices and collaborative school development in Finland	2
Science mapping the evolution of middle leadership research, 2002–2023	2
Antecedents of leadership efficacy development among novice school principals in Malaysia	2
A qualitative study of male school leaders’ work–family conflict: Experiences and coping strategies	2
The unique role of school middle leaders in enacting social justice leadership	2
Approaching principalship in Sweden: Novice principals’ recollections of their career trajectories	2
Transformational leadership and teachers’ voice behaviour: A moderated mediation model of group voice climate and team psychological safety	2
Validating the teacher leadership scale in Oman: Implications for leadership development in Arab schools	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
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
Deciphering the mechanisms linking school leadership to instructional practices through collective teacher efficacy: The moderated mediation role of school climate	2
Principals’ achievement motives and implicit theories predict principals’ desired achievement goals for their students	2
Where are the part-time women teachers in senior school leadership: Inequalities, tensions and timescapes?	2
Challenges facing school principals: Problems and solutions	2