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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	70
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	44
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	43
Female school principals in Arab communities	42
From the best practices of successful school leaders: Developing and validating the principal competencies inventory in South Korea	32
Pressure management: Factors influencing the turnover intentions of school middle leaders in Scotland	30
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	28
Principal instructional leadership and teacher collaboration: A longitudinal study of the influence on pupil achievement	26
Principled principals: A mixed-methods study on the role of principal leadership in implementing a primary reading intervention in Ghana	24
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice	23
Literature review of transformational school leadership: models and effects on student achievement (2006–2019)	22
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	21
Promoting gender equity in school leadership appointments: A comparison of male and female headteachers’ instructional leadership practices in Ghana	21
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	20
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers	19
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust	19
Succession planning for school principals: System control or leader agency?	17
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education	17
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	17
Promoting team learning in schools: considering the role of team-based HRM practices (THRM)	17
Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas: Examining the influence of principal instructional leadership on instructional quality in Chinese rural schools	16
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs	16
Leadership at the boundaries of schools: Navigating the complexities of collaboration	15
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	15
Does school inspection lead to school improvement? A case study	15

Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	14
Instructional Boundary Management during COVID-19	14
The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model	14
EMAL is 50: Celebrating half a century disseminating high quality research and scholarship	14
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation	13
De-mystifying the 'Cinderella' leadership model: Premia in the practice of curriculum leadership	13
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria	13
Planning, assessment, and development time through the lens of teacher leadership – Perceptions of Finnish early childhood education teachers	13
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership	13
Distributed pedagogical leadership and transformative change	12
Effect of E-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam	12
“I’m trying to help”: How do mentors affect principals' person–organization fit during organizational socialization?	11
Leadership for equality in education: 50 years marching forward or marching on the spot?	11
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts	11
Crisis-resilient school leadership and the role of job crafting: Insights from Finnish principals	11
New managerialism in educational administration in Greece: The education directors’ perceived roles	11
How instructional leaders promote social justice	11
Integrating Distributed with Ecological Leadership: Through the Lens of Activity Theory	11
From leaking pipe to leadership: Career pathways of women academics in Pakistani higher education	11
School leadership models: Global interest in western perspectives	10
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature	10
Participative decision-making in the Arab educational system in Israel: The implications for teachers’ organizational commitment and school violence	10
School principals’ emotionally draining situations and student discipline issues in the context of work intensification	10
Identifying and coping with the dilemmatic goals of university performance measurement systems in Finland	10
Distributed leadership and micropolitics	10
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher well-being: The mediating roles of organisational trust	10
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Headteachers’ leadership practices in Ghana: Does a formal qualification in educational leadership and management programme matter?	10
First-year teachers’ perspectives on the roles school leaders enact	10
Transformational leadership and teacher burnout in Türkiye: The moderated mediation role of organisational support, teacher resilience and teacher workload	10
Protecting instructional time: Insights from Israeli principals	9
Is instructional leadership a retention factor? Cross-cultural examination of teacher turnover intentions in four selected Latin American countries	9
Leading educational reconstruction in post-conflict Cambodia: Perspectives of primary school leaders	9
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 networks	9
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital	8
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts	8
Support for generative artificial intelligence as a predictor of middle leaders’ generative artificial intelligence self-efficacy, valuing, and integration in school leadership work	8
Is leadership a myth? A ‘new wave’ critical leadership-focused research agenda for recontouring the landscape of educational leadership	8
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity	8
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	8
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait	8
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition	7
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges	7
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration	7
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice	7
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 2022	7
Crisis leadership: Developing and validating a scale for school principals’ crisis management in Israel	7
Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences	7
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals	6

Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance	6
Grow to lead: The case of Cyprus primary schools	6
Teacher leadership for professional development in a networked learning community: A Chinese case study	6
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition	6
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education?	6
Finding the missing link: Do principal qualifications make a difference in student achievement?	6
What are we missing? An alternative way to explore distributed leadership effectiveness	6
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	6
A bibliometric review of research on digital leadership, 1991–2025: Implications for digital leadership in education	6
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being: A bibliometric analysis and literature review	6