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Journal of Educational Administration
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Journal of Educational Administration

0957-8234

Published by: Emerald Publishing

https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jea

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 631 12 18 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 16
Documents by Best Scientists*: 21
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 75
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.818
Impact Factor: 2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Educational Administration?

Journal of Educational Administration focuses on Pedagogy, Public relations, Mathematics education, Social psychology and Educational leadership. The studies in Pedagogy featured incorporate elements of Leadership style, Educational administration and Medical education. The journal centers on topics in Leadership style, with a focus on Shared leadership.

It tackles topics on Shared leadership, which can potentially contribute to the wider field of Transactional leadership. Public relations and Accountability are closely related fields of research discussed in Journal of Educational Administration. The work on Mathematics education presented in it focuses on Academic achievement in particular.

The journal features Social psychology research that overlaps with concepts in Principal (computer security). Most of the works presented in the journal deals with Educational leadership but it intersects with the subject of Leadership studies.

  • Pedagogy (25.34%)
  • Public relations (16.24%)
  • Mathematics education (11.92%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Effects of Transformational Leadership on Organizational Conditions and Student Engagement with School. (653 citations)
  • Effective instructional leadership: Teachers’ perspectives on how principals promote teaching and learning in schools (462 citations)
  • Leadership for learning: lessons from 40 years of empirical research (447 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Educational Administration:

The most cited papers generally zeroe in on subjects such as Pedagogy, Public relations, Instructional leadership, Social psychology and Educational leadership. The journal articles facilitate discussions on Pedagogy that incorporate concepts from other fields like Leadership style, Accountability, Value (ethics), Mathematics education and Principal (computer security). While work presented in the most cited articles provide substantial information on Educational leadership, it also covers topics in Transactional leadership and Shared leadership.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • World War II
  • Education

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in the journal are Educational leadership, Public relations, Context (language use), Mathematics education and Medical education. The Educational leadership research discussed is included in the broader subject of Pedagogy. It addresses concerns in the field of Pedagogy by exploring it in line with topics in Organizational theory which intersect with Curriculum subjects.

Journal of Educational Administration holds forums on Public relations that merges themes from other disciplines such as Organizational structure, Charter, Accountability, Power (social and political) and Empirical research. The research on Mathematics education tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Turkish, Socioeconomic status, Conversation theory and Instructional leadership. The presented research on Medical education deals specifically with Administration (government) but it also addresses topics in Organizational learning.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • A systematic review of conceptual models and methodologies in research on school principals in Iran (1 citations)
  • Psychological contract breach and teachers' organizational commitment: mediating roles of job embeddedness and leader-member exchange (1 citations)
  • Virtual reality classroom simulations: how school leaders improve instructional leadership capacity (1 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Journal of Educational Administration (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Hyun-Seok Shin (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Philip Hallinger (26 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Allan David Walker (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wayne K. Hoy (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Youn-Kee Im (20 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Journal of Educational Administration (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of New England (United States) (39 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Melbourne (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Pennsylvania State University (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Western Australia (22 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem (20 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 95.74% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 0.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 50.00% of all publications and 50.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Principal leadership for students with disabilities in effective inclusive schools

    David DeMatthews;Bonnie Billingsley;James McLeskey;Umesh Sharma

    (2020)
    108 Citations
  • Inclusive school leaders – their role in raising the achievement of all learners

    Edda Óskarsdóttir;Verity Donnelly;Marcella Turner-Cmuchal;Lani Florian

    (2020)
    65 Citations
  • Instructional leadership in a centralized and competitive educational system: A qualitative meta-synthesis of research from Turkey

    Sedat Gümüş;Philip Hallinger;Philip Hallinger;Ramazan Cansoy;Mehmet Şükrü Bellibaş

    (2021)
    56 Citations
  • School middle leaders as instructional leaders: building the knowledge base of instruction-oriented middle leadership

    (2022)
    38 Citations
  • Leadership That Matters: Creating Cultures of Academic Optimism That Support Teacher Learning in Thailand.

    Dhirapat Kulophas;Philip Hallinger

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • A review of professional learning community (PLC) instruments

    (2022)
    12 Citations
  • Exploring trust: culturally responsive and positive school leadership

    Bodunrin O. Banwo;Muhammad Khalifa;Karen Seashore Louis

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • Psychometric properties of the successful school leadership survey

    (2023)
    9 Citations
  • Obstacles and Opportunities for Networked Practice: A Social Network Analysis of an Inter-Organizational STEM Ecosystem.

    Yi-Hwa Liou;Alan J. Daly

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • Opening the black box of leadership coaching: an examination of coaching behaviors

    Susan Kemper Patrick;Laura K. Rogers;Ellen Goldring;Christine M. Neumerski

    (2021)
    6 Citations

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