A Bibliometric Review of Research Trends in Educational Leadership

Abstract

Little attempt has been made to map global research trends in Educational Leadership. This paper presents a bibliometric review of the application of Leadership theories in OM to determine research trends and gaps in Educational Leadership. A total of 50 publications on Educational Leadership from 2015 to 2023 were reviewed. The analysis was done with the VOSviewer software (version 1.6.13). The analysis focused on the bibliographic coupling of countries, co-authorship of authors, citation of documents, and co-occurrence of keywords, Educational, Theories, Leadership, Organisation, and Culture which were presented as network visualization maps. The findings revealed that the Educational, Distributed, Social Justice Leadership, Theories, and Organisation Culture publication trends, although not completely gradient, have been upwards since 2015. United States, Finland, United Kingdom, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden, and Malaysia were the countries that have had a great impact in this research area. Both the keywords and document citation analysis revealed three distinct phases in the evolution of Educational Leadership research. Only one data source - Scopus - was used. Therefore, the representation of publications presented in this study are limited to only Scopus data source.