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71
Citations
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World Ranking
725
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343

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Joseph Murphy is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States and has contributed to research primarily within the Social Sciences. Their work encompasses various subfields, including Education, Sociology and Political Science, Immunology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Media Technology.

The scientist's publication record includes a range of recent papers addressing different academic themes. Notable publications include:

  • Can Adolescents Acquire Cultural Capital Through Social Capital Access and Exposure? Experimental Evidence of the Impact of Ties to College-Educated Adults (2024) published in AERA Open
  • "Stepping Out" for Military Service: Challenges Experienced by Students Serving in the Reserves or National Guard (2022) published in Journal of Veterans Studies
  • COVID-19 Treatments and Vaccines: A year in Review (2021) published in International Journal of Immunology and Microbiology
  • The Engineering Education Experiences of Students Serving in the Reserves or National Guard (2020) published in 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings
  • Natural Killer Cells: Future Role for Cancer Immunotherapy (2022) published in International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Bio-Medical Science

Joseph Murphy's work spans several main topics, including:

  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Social Capital and Networks
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments
  • Education and Military Integration
  • Engineering Education and Curriculum Development

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Murphy include:

  • S. Michael Gaddis
  • Catherine Mobley
  • Susan Lord
  • Joyce Main
  • Catherine E. Brawner

Joseph Murphy's publications appear in multiple venues, such as:

  • AERA Open
  • Journal of Veterans Studies
  • International Journal of Immunology and Microbiology
  • 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings
  • International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Bio-Medical Science

In addition to journal articles, Murphy has published a book titled Understanding Communities of School Leadership in 2023 through Springer Nature (Netherlands).

Throughout their career, Joseph Murphy received recognition including the Fellow of the American Educational Research Association award in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Assessing the instructional management behavior of principals.

    Philip Hallinger;Joseph F. Murphy

  • The Social Context of Effective Schools.

    Philip Hallinger;Joseph F. Murphy

  • Restructuring Schools: Capturing and Assessing the Phenomena

    Joseph Murphy

  • Connecting teacher leadership and school improvement

    Joseph Murphy

  • Understanding the Principalship: Metaphorical Themes, 1920S-1990s

    Lynn G. Beck;Joseph Murphy

  • The Landscape of Leadership Preparation: Reframing the Education of School Administrators

    Joseph Murphy

  • Reculturing the Profession of Educational Leadership: New Blueprints

    Joseph Murphy

  • School-Based Management as School Reform: Taking Stock

    Joseph Murphy;Lynn G. Beck

  • Handbook of Research on Educational Administration

    Joseph Murphy

  • Assessing Learning-Centered Leadership: Connections to Research, Professional Standards, and Current Practices

    Ellen Goldring;Andrew Porter;Joseph Murphy;Stephen N. Elliott

  • Methodological, Measurement, and Conceptual Problems in the Study of Instructional Leadership

    Joseph Murphy

  • Leadership for learning: a research-based model and taxonomy of behaviors1

    Joseph Murphy;Stephen N. Elliott;Ellen Goldring;Andrew C. Porter

  • Reshaping the Principalship: Insights From Transformational Reform Efforts

    Joseph Murphy;Karen Seashore Louis

  • Characteristics of Instructionally Effective School Districts

    Joseph Murphy;Philip Hallinger

  • Teacher evaluation and school improvement: An analysis of the evidence

    Philip Hallinger;Ronald H. Heck;Joseph Murphy

  • The Principalship in an Era of Transformation

    Joseph Murphy;Philip Hallinger

  • Ethics in Educational Leadership Programs: An Expanding Role

    Lynn G. Beck;Joseph Murphy

  • Transformational Change and the Evolving Role of the Principal: Early Empirical Evidence.

    Joseph Murphy

  • The role of the principal in fostering the development of distributed leadership

    Joseph Murphy;Mark Smylie;David Mayrowetz;Karen Seashore Louis

  • Unpacking the Foundations of ISLLC Standards and Addressing Concerns in the Academic Community

    Joseph Murphy

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen Goldring
Ellen Goldring Vanderbilt University
Philip Hallinger
Philip Hallinger Mahidol University
Andrew C. Porter
Andrew C. Porter University of Pennsylvania
Stephen N. Elliott
Stephen N. Elliott Arizona State University
Karen Seashore Louis
Karen Seashore Louis University of Minnesota
Mark A. Smylie
Mark A. Smylie University of Illinois at Chicago
Linda Darling-Hammond
Linda Darling-Hammond Stanford University
Jason A. Grissom
Jason A. Grissom Vanderbilt University
Allan David Walker
Allan David Walker Education University of Hong Kong
Ronald H. Heck
Ronald H. Heck University of Hawaii at Manoa

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