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Izhar Oplatka

Izhar Oplatka

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
7679
World Ranking
5872
National Ranking
40

Izhar Oplatka publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 228 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Izhar Oplatka D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Izhar Oplatka sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Izhar Oplatka is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and specializes in the intersection of education, psychology, and social sciences. Their research extensively covers educational leadership, emotional intelligence, and organizational behavior within educational contexts.

Their work broadly spans the following main fields of study:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Within these fields, Oplatka has contributed to several subfields, including:

  • Education
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Clinical Psychology

Their main research topics cover:

  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Emotional Intelligence and Performance
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Emotional Labor in Professions
  • Communication in Education and Healthcare

Izhar Oplatka has published multiple articles in respected academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Educational Administration & History
  • International Journal of Leadership in Education
  • Journal of Professional Capital and Community
  • Leadership and Policy in Schools
  • Educational Studies

Their recent peer-reviewed papers focus on aspects of leadership, emotion, and education:

  • "Emotion regulation among Bedouin teachers in Israel: inherent conflicts between two different cultural systems of emotion rules", 2020, Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education
  • "Principal, let's talk about emotions: some lessons COVID-19 taught us about emergency situations and leadership", 2021, International Journal of Leadership in Education

Other notable papers coauthored or frequently referenced alongside Oplatka's work include:

  • "Review of international research on school leadership for social justice, equity and diversity", 2020, Journal of Educational Administration & History
  • "Emotion management among kindergarten teachers in their motivational interactions with their staff", 2020, International Journal of Leadership in Education
  • "The implications of loneliness among school principals", 2021, International Journal of Educational Management

Izhar Oplatka collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Khalid Arar
  • Marina García Carmona
  • Sedat Gümüş
  • Sultan El-Kuran
  • Megan Crawford

Oplatka has also contributed to academic books, with a publication by Springer International Publishing titled Advanced Theories of Educational Leadership (2022).

Best Publications

  • Universities in a competitive global marketplace

    Jane Hemsley‐Brown;Izhar Oplatka

  • The principalship in developing countries: context, characteristics and reality

    Izhar Oplatka

  • Going Beyond Role Expectations: Toward an Understanding of the Determinants and Components of Teacher Organizational Citizenship Behavior

    Izhar Oplatka

  • The Research on School Marketing: Current Issues and Future Directions – An Updated Version

    Izhar Oplatka;Jane Hemsley-Brown

  • Organizational citizenship behavior in teaching: The consequences for teachers, pupils, and the school

    Izhar Oplatka

  • The research on school marketing: Current issues and future directions

    Izhar Oplatka;Jane Hemsley‐Brown

  • University Choice: what do we know, what don’t we know and what do we still need to find out?

    Jane Hemsley-Brown;Izhar Oplatka

  • Women in educational administration within developing countries: Towards a new international research agenda

    Izhar Oplatka

  • Market orientation in universities: A comparative study of two national higher education systems

    Jane Hemsley‐Brown;Izhar Oplatka

  • Managing Emotions in Teaching: Toward an Understanding of Emotion Displays and Caring as Nonprescribed Role Elements.

    Izhar Oplatka

  • The field of educational management: Some intellectual insights from the 2007 BELMAS national conference

    Izhar Oplatka

  • The field of educational administration: A historical overview of scholarly attempts to recognize epistemological identities, meanings and boundaries from the 1960s onwards

    Izhar Oplatka

  • The principal's career stage: an absent element in leadership perspectives

    Izhar Oplatka

  • The incorporation of market orientation in the school culture: An essential aspect of school marketing

    Izhar Oplatka;Jane Hemsley‐Brown

  • Mentoring Novice Teachers: Motives, Process, and Outcomes from the Mentor's Point of View

    Debbie Iancu-Haddad;Izhar Oplatka

  • The Emergence of Educational Marketing: Lessons from the Experiences of Israeli Principals

    Izhar Oplatka

  • Leadership for social justice and the characteristics of traditional societies: ponderings on the application of western-grounded models

    Izhar Oplatka;Khalid Husny Arar

  • The Legacy of Educational Administration: A Historical Analysis of an Academic Field

    Izhar Oplatka

  • The research on educational leadership and management in the Arab world since the 1990s: A systematic review

    Izhar Oplatka;Khalid Arar

  • Review of international research on school leadership for social justice, equity and diversity

    Sedat Gümüs;Khalid Arar;Izhar Oplatka

  • `I Don't Want to Be a School Head' Women Deputy Heads' Insightful Constructions of Career Advancement and Retention

    Izhar Oplatka;Vered Tamir

  • Leadership and Management Development in Education

    Izhar Oplatka

Frequent Co-Authors

Avi Assor
Avi Assor Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Anit Somech
Anit Somech University of Haifa
James P. Spillane
James P. Spillane Northwestern University
James E. Ryan
James E. Ryan University of Virginia
Viviane M. J. Robinson
Viviane M. J. Robinson University of Auckland

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