2026 Mark A. Smylie: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	33	7076	6572	3442	3140	67	5589

Discipline name

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Social Sciences and Humanities

7076

6572

3442

3140

5589

Social Sciences and Humanities

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Citations

5589

World Ranking

7076

National Ranking

3442

Research.com Recognitions

1996 - Review of Research Award, American Educational Research Association

Overview

Mark A. Smylie is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management as well as Strategy and Management.

Their research addresses several key topics, including:

Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies
Organizational Learning and Leadership
Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Among the recent papers attributed to Smylie is "Positive School Leadership Behaviors," published in 2021 in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education.

The scientist has collaborated with multiple frequent co-authors, notably:

Joseph F. Murphy
Karen Seashore Louis
Joseph Murphy

Publications have appeared in venues such as the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Smylie has also contributed to book publications through Corwin eBooks, with two titles released in 2021:

Stories of Caring School Leadership
Caring in Crisis: Stories to Inspire and Guide School Leaders

Award recognition includes the 1996 Review of Research Award from the American Educational Research Association.

Best Publications

The Enhancement Function of Staff Development: Organizational and Psychological Antecedents to Individual Teacher Change

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603
Citations
Exploring New Approaches to Teacher Leadership for School Improvement

Mark A. Smylie;Sharon Conley;Helen M. Marks

427
Citations
Teacher Leadership: Tensions and Ambiguities in Organizational Perspective:

Mark A. Smylie;Jack W. Denny

415
Citations
The role of the principal in fostering the development of distributed leadership

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

333
Citations
Teacher Participation in School Decision Making: Assessing Willingness to Participate:

Mark A. Smylie

280
Citations
Instructional Outcomes of School-Based Participative Decision Making:

Mark A. Smylie;Virginia Lazarus;Jean Brownlee-Conyers

273
Citations
Redesigning Teachers' Work: Connections to the Classroom

Mark A. Smylie

222
Citations
Trust and the Development of Distributed Leadership.

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

208
Citations
Teachers' Views of the Effectiveness of Sources of Learning to Teach

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202
Citations
Section Four: Reshaping Leadership in Action

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197
Citations
Teacher Leaders and Their Principals: Exploring the Development of New Working Relationships.

Mark A. Smylie;Jean Brownlee-Conyers

186
Citations
Caring Leadership in Schools Findings From Exploratory Analyses

Karen Seashore Louis;Joseph Murphy;Mark Smylie

177
Citations
New Perspectives on Teacher Leadership

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175
Citations
Distributed Leadership as Work Redesign: Retrofitting the Job Characteristics Model.

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

157
Citations
From Bureaucratic Control to Building Human Capital: The Importance of Teacher Learning in Education Reform.

Mark A. Smylie

156
Citations
Understanding and Preventing Teacher Burnout: Teacher Stress in a Time of Reform

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137
Citations
Conceptualizing distributed leadership as a school reform: Revisiting job redesign theory

Karen R Seashore;D. Mayrowetz;J. Murphy;M. A. Smylie

125
Citations
Beyond superheroes and advocacy

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117
Citations
Self-Regulation in Democratic Communities.

Constance M. Yowell;Mark A. Smylie

109
Citations
Chapter 3: Redesigning Teachers' Work: Connections to the Classroom

Mark A. Smylie

103
Citations
Research on Teacher Leadership: Assessing the State of the Art

Mark A. Smylie

96
Citations
Caring School Leadership: A MultiDisciplinary, Cross-Occupational Model

Mark A. Smylie;Joseph Murphy;Karen Seashore Louis

64
Citations
The Principal and Community-School Connections in Chicago's Radical Reform:

Mark A. Smylie;Robert L. Crowson;Victoria Chou;Rebekah A. Levin

61
Citations
Restructuring Schools for Improving Teaching

Mark A. Smylie;George S. Perry

50
Citations
Teacher Support for Career Enhancement Initiatives: Program Characteristics and Effects on Work:

Mark A. Smylie;John C. Smart

32
Citations
Developing the Teacher Workforce: 103rd Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I

Virginia Stead;Mark A. Smylie;Debra Miretzky

28
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Murphy Vanderbilt University

Karen Seashore Louis University of Minnesota

Joseph Kahne University of California, Riverside

John C. Smart University of Illinois at Chicago

Marc S. Atkins University of Illinois at Chicago

Larry Nucci University of California, Berkeley

Bridget K. Hamre University of Virginia

Ernest T. Pascarella University of Iowa

External Links

Personal website of Mark A. Smylie

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