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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Examining teacher leadership perceptions: A comparison between the United States and Qatar	76
Female school principals in Arab communities	50
Pressure management: Factors influencing the turnover intentions of school middle leaders in Scotland	48
The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times	46
A systematic review of research on the relationship between school leadership and student achievement: An updated framework and future direction	33
From the best practices of successful school leaders: Developing and validating the principal competencies inventory in South Korea	33
Hybrid leadership configurations in networked learning communities in Singapore	26
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 Ghana	22
Teachers’ professional learning: Do instructional leadership and teacher leadership make a difference in Turkiye?	21
Promoting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The fostering roles of authentic leadership, reciprocity norms, and organizational trust	21
Caring leadership practices in Chilean educational communities: Perceptions of school principals and teachers	20
A systematic review of authentic leadership literature in educational research from 1997 to 2021	19
Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice	18
Unlocking teacher potential: The integrated influence of empowering leadership and authentic leadership on teacher self-efficacy and agency in Turkey	18
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 Ghana	17
Principal instructional leadership and teacher collaboration: A longitudinal study of the influence on pupil achievement	17
Teacher leadership in the Arab states: A systematic review	17
Dual rejection: Senior and middle women leader's identity negotiation strategy in China's HEIs	16
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	16
Religious monoglossia/heteroglossia and discourses of women leadership in Pakistani higher education	16
Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas: Examining the influence of principal instructional leadership on instructional quality in Chinese rural schools	16
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan	15
Does school inspection lead to school improvement? A case study	15

The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China: A multilevel moderated mediation model	15
Leadership at the boundaries of schools: Navigating the complexities of collaboration	15
Succession planning for school principals: System control or leader agency?	15
Linking distributed leadership to teacher job satisfaction in China: Mediating roles of teacher well-being and work motivation	14
Instructional Boundary Management during COVID-19	14
Distributed pedagogical leadership and transformative change	14
Planning, assessment, and development time through the lens of teacher leadership – Perceptions of Finnish early childhood education teachers	14
De-mystifying the 'Cinderella' leadership model: Premia in the practice of curriculum leadership	14
Effect of e-leadership on employees’ outcomes in the higher education sector during COVID-19 and beyond: A case study from Vietnam	13
Integrating Distributed with Ecological Leadership: Through the Lens of Activity Theory	13
Viability of distributive leadership and teacher autonomy for effective schools in developing nations: A case study from Nigeria	13
From leaking pipe to leadership: Career pathways of women academics in Pakistani higher education	13
Facilitating teachers’ interdisciplinary teaching through boundary spanning leadership	13
Crisis-resilient school leadership and the role of job crafting: Insights from Finnish principals	13
Transformational leadership and teacher burnout in Türkiye: The moderated mediation role of organisational support, teacher resilience and teacher workload	13
School principals’ emotionally draining situations and student discipline issues in the context of work intensification	12
“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 roles	12
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts	12
First-year teachers’ perspectives on the roles school leaders enact	11
The state of research on educational leadership in Mainland China: A systematic review of international literature	11
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 trust	11
How instructional leaders promote social justice	11
Identifying and coping with the dilemmatic goals of university performance measurement systems in Finland	11
Leadership in early childhood education: Cross-cultural case studies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Distributed leadership and micropolitics	10
Protecting instructional time: Insights from Israeli principals	10
School leadership models: Global interest in western perspectives	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
Leadership for inclusive online learning in public primary schools during COVID-19: A multiple case study in Hong Kong	9
Predicting teacher voice behaviour: The influence of distributed leadership, psychological empowerment and power distance orientation in Kuwait	9
An exploration of how district leaders organize to support principal supervisors for underperforming schools in mid-sized districts	9
Is instructional leadership a retention factor? Cross-cultural examination of teacher turnover intentions in four selected Latin American countries	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
Swedish principals’ adaptive leadership in unprecedented times: Learnings from the pandemic experiences	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
Crisis leadership: Developing and validating a scale for school principals’ crisis management in Israel	8
Principal discipline decision-making: Choices and challenges	8
How do education collectives in China function? A critical analysis of relationship governance in a formal multischool collaboration	8
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 2022	8
Supporting teacher knowledge sharing in China: The effect of principal authentic leadership, teacher psychological empowerment and interactional justice	7
School leader well-being under pressure: Emotional and quantitative demands, resilience, and burnout in Australian schools	7
School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know?	7
What are we missing? An alternative way to explore distributed leadership effectiveness	7
Moving Beyond “Management” of the Status-Quo: How Leading Scholars Expand Educational Leadership and Promote Equity Through Political Capital	7
Identity and socialisation of new school principals: Managing the transition	7
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 review	7
Who am I? – Exploring secondary education school leaders’ professional identity	7
Principal well-being: Addressing leadership burnout and attrition	7
Investigating the leadership styles and national culture of Emirati female school principals	7
Creating learning schools through learning-centered leadership: Understanding the mediating role of teacher performance	7
Betwixt and between: A narrative inquiry into Chinese university leaders’ intercultural competence in leadership	6
A bibliometric review of research on digital leadership, 1991–2025: Implications for digital leadership in education	6
Are Turkish school principals ready to use artificial intelligence? Exploring the roles of growth mindset, self-efficacy and openness to change	6
Bolman and Deal lens on school innovation: Navigating challenges and strategies for school leaders in Saudi Arabia	6
Principal social justice leadership: A systematic review of 20 years of research, 2005–2024	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
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 study	6
Grow to lead: The case of Cyprus primary schools	6
A global perspective on school leadership: Evidence from a latent class analysis on OECD TALIS data	6
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 leadership	6
Integrative educational leadership: Foundations, core concepts and principles for practice	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
Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system	6
Human-Machine symbiosis in educational leadership in the era of artificial intelligence (AI): Where are we heading?	6