School Leadership and Management

Aims & Scope

School Leadership & Management welcomes articles on all aspects of educational leadership and management.

As a highly cited and internationally known SCOPUS journal, School Leadership and Management is fundamentally concerned with issues of leadership and management in classrooms, schools, and school systems.

School Leadership & Management particularly welcomes articles that contribute to the field in the following ways: Scholarly articles that draw upon empirical evidence to provide new insights into leadership and management practices; Scholarly articles that explore alternative, critical, and re-conceptualised views of school leadership and management; Scholarly articles that provide state of the art reviews within an national or international context; Scholarly articles reporting new empirical findings that make an original contribution to the field; Scholarly articles that make a theoretical contribution which extends and deepens our understanding of the key issues associated with leadership, management, and the direct relationship with organisational change and improvement; Scholarly articles that focus primarily upon leadership and management issues but are aimed at academic, policymaking and practitioner audiences; Contributions from policymakers and practitioners, where there is a clear leadership and management focus.

School Leadership & Management particularly welcomes: •articles that explore alternative, critical and re-conceptualised views of school leadership and management •articles that are written for academics but are aimed at both a practitioner and academic audience •contributions from practitioners, provided that the relationship between theory and practice is made explicit.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.3
2024	2.80

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.876

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	57

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	5932

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	279

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, Business, Management and Accounting and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Seven strong claims about successful school leadership

  Citation: 936

  Authors: Kenneth, Alma, David

• Seven strong claims about successful school leadership revisited

  Citation: 775

  Authors: Kenneth, Alma, David

• Collaborative leadership and school improvement: understanding the impact on school capacity and student learning

  Citation: 396

  Authors: Philip, Ronald H.

• COVID 19 – school leadership in disruptive times

  Citation: 355

  Authors: Alma, Michelle

• Teacher Leadership as Distributed Leadership: Heresy, fantasy or possibility?

  Citation: 311

  Authors: Alma

• School leadership models: what do we know?

  Citation: 290

  Authors: Tony, Derek

• Instructional Leadership in Schools: Reflections and empirical evidence

  Citation: 180

  Authors: Geoff

• School leadership in times of crisis

  Citation: 177

  Authors: Larry, Dan

• Developing Comparative and International Educational Leadership and Management: A cross-cultural model

  Citation: 151

  Authors: Clive, Allan

• Inclusive and exclusive educational change: emotional responses of teachers and implications for leadership

  Citation: 151

  Authors: Andy

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