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Record W4408969093 · doi:10.11591/edulearn.v19i3.22525

Mapping the scholarly landscape: a bibliometric exploration of school head leadership competency

2025· article· en· W4408969093 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Education and Learning (EduLearn) · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicCompetency Development and Evaluation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHead (geology)SociologyGeologyGeomorphology

Abstract

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This bibliometric study examines the trends and contributions in school head leadership competencies from 2015 to 2024, using data from Scopus and employing VOSviewer. The research aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the scholarly literature on leadership competencies in the range of a school head. The methodology involves a thorough bibliometric process, including the organization, coordination, and analysis of bibliographic data from peer-reviewed academic journals. The specific methods used to define the research area are mapping of important contributors and co-authorship patterns, document co-citation analysis, and keyword frequency analysis. Preliminary results indicate a peak in publications up to 2023, with a notable decline in 2024. The study highlights significant international collaborations, with the United States at the core of a global network involving countries like Canada, Australia, and Turkey. Keywords such as "transformational leadership," "equity," and "school climate" are prominent, reflecting a broad approach to exploring effective leadership. In conclusion, the field of school head leadership competencies is dynamic, driven by global collaboration and evolving educational challenges. The recent decline in publications signals a need for new research directions. Future studies should explore unexplored areas and integrate technological advancements to enhance school head leadership competencies effectively.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.504
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0090.009
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.174
GPT teacher head0.386
Teacher spread0.212 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it