OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Educational Management Administration & Leadership is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
From the best practices of successful school leaders: Developing and validating the principal competencies inventory in South Korea	55
Developing contextualised literature-informed competency frameworks for middle managers in education	37
Learning–centred leadership and student achievement: Understanding the mediating effect of the teacher professional community and parental involvement	33
Pressure management: Factors influencing the turnover intentions of school middle leaders in Scotland	29
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	27
Female school principals in Arab communities	24
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	24
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	23
Literature review of transformational school leadership: models and effects on student achievement (2006–2019)	21
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust	19
Promoting gender equity in school leadership appointments: A comparison of male and female headteachers’ instructional leadership practices in Ghana	18
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice	18
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	17
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	17
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	16
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana	16
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers	16
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	14
Leadership at the boundaries of schools: Navigating the complexities of collaboration	14
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs	14
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	14
Promoting team learning in schools: considering the role of team-based HRM practices (THRM)	14
Does school inspection lead to school improvement? A case study	14
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education	14
Succession planning for school principals: System control or leader agency?	13

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
Instructional Boundary Management during COVID-19	12
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	12
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria	12
EMAL is 50: Celebrating half a century disseminating high quality research and scholarship	12
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership	11
Effect of E-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam	11
From leaking pipe to leadership: Career pathways of women academics in Pakistani higher education	11
Planning, assessment, and development time through the lens of teacher leadership – Perceptions of Finnish early childhood education teachers	11
School principals’ emotionally draining situations and student discipline issues in the context of work intensification	11
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation	11
New managerialism in educational administration in Greece: The education directors’ perceived roles	10
Integrating Distributed with Ecological Leadership: Through the Lens of Activity Theory	10
Transformational leadership and teacher burnout in Türkiye: The moderated mediation role of organisational support, teacher resilience and teacher workload	10
Leadership for equality in education: 50 years marching forward or marching on the spot?	10
Participative decision-making in the Arab educational system in Israel: The implications for teachers’ organizational commitment and school violence	9
Leading educational reconstruction in post-conflict Cambodia: Perspectives of primary school leaders	9
Crisis-resilient school leadership and the role of job crafting: Insights from Finnish principals	9
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher well-being: The mediating roles of organisational trust	9
How instructional leaders promote social justice	9
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature	9
Distributed leadership and micropolitics	9
“I’m trying to help”: How do mentors affect principals' person–organization fit during organizational socialization?	9
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts	9
Identifying and coping with the dilemmatic goals of university performance measurement systems in Finland	8
Is leadership a myth? A ‘new wave’ critical leadership-focused research agenda for recontouring the landscape of educational leadership	8
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait	8
First-year teachers’ perspectives on the roles school leaders enact	8
Headteacher engagement with Pupil Equity Funding: Autonomy, evidence and networks	8
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	8
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?	8
Protecting instructional time: Insights from Israeli principals	8
Professional development of school principals – how do experienced school leaders make sense of their professional learning?	8
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
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts	7
Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences	7
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges	7
Principals’ perceptions of school autonomy and educational leadership	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
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	6
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition	6
Grow to lead: The case of Cyprus primary schools	6
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education?	6
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance	6
Finding the missing link: Do principal qualifications make a difference in student achievement?	6

A bibliometric review of research on digital leadership, 1991–2025: Implications for digital leadership in education	6
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition	6
Support for generative artificial intelligence as a predictor of middle leaders’ generative artificial intelligence self-efficacy, valuing, and integration in school leadership work	6
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study	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	6
The mental health of leaders in Australian government schools: Stress and burnout over a decade (2011–2020)	6