The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kenneth Leithwood sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 239 publications — 76th percentile
76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.
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 Kenneth Leithwood sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 93 D-Index — 98th percentile
98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.
Kenneth Leithwood is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences and psychology, with a particular focus on education. Their research emphasizes educational leadership, teacher education, emotional intelligence, and organizational behavior in educational settings.
Leithwood's main fields of study include social sciences, with 12 publications, and psychology, with 5 publications. Subfields of their work incorporate education, social psychology, organizational behavior and human resource management, safety research, and developmental and educational psychology.
The primary topics covered in Leithwood's research feature teacher education and leadership studies, emotional intelligence and performance, education and critical thinking development, parental involvement in education, school choice and performance, leadership, courage and heroism studies, as well as job satisfaction and organizational behavior.
Recent papers authored by Leithwood include:
Leithwood has published multiple articles in several prominent venues:
Collaborations with other researchers are a part of Leithwood's work, with frequent coauthors including Jingping Sun, Hua Cheng, Turgut Karaköse, Tijen Tülübaş, and Randall E. Schumacker.
Leithwood received the distinction of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007, recognized within the Academy of Social Sciences.
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