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Record W4417245707 · doi:10.26437/3py7je85

21<sup>st </sup>Century Educational Leadership Style and Educational Outcomes: Research Trend and Output Dynamics Through a Bibliometric Analysis

2025· article· W4417245707 on OpenAlex
Laud Teye Nartey

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Bibliographic record

VenueAfrican Journal Of Applied Research · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducational Leadership and Innovation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBibliometricsEducational researchEducational leadershipDynamics (music)Style (visual arts)Leadership styleHigher educationEmpirical research

Abstract

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Purpose: This paper explored the current development in the literature on 21st century educational leadership and education outcomes. The paper reviews research trends and research output dynamics explicitly on 21st century educational leadership style and educational outcomes using a bibliometric analysis. Design/Methodology/Approach: A review analytical procedure was used, employing a bibliometric approach and the Biblioshiny function. The paper interrogated research output from 2000 to 2024. Findings: The findings revealed relevant studies on educational leadership and educational outcomes. However, a joint search of ‘educational leadership and educational outcomes’ revealed limited research output. Moreover, the studies focus on developed economies and involve limited collaboration. The findings further revealed a significant trend in global scholarly influence of the subject, with the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands emerging as the top five countries with the highest research influence. Research Limitation: The bibliometric analysis, conducted using the "bibliometrix" package, was restricted to journals indexed in Scopus, which, while extensive, does not encompass all relevant academic publications. Practical implications: This bibliometric study provides valuable insights into the current research trend, development, and output dynamics that shape the direction of future research. It also showcases the dearth of empirical understanding of the subjects. Social Implications: As global education systems continue to evolve in response to digital transformation, policy shifts, and socio-economic challenges, the role of educational leadership remains pivotal in shaping the future of learning. Originality/value: This paper is one of the emerging studies that comprehensively explores the depth of research and dynamics of research output of a 21st century educational leadership style and academic outcomes.

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Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.023
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Bibliometrics, Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesBibliometrics, Science and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.648
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0230.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0930.234
Science and technology studies0.0030.005
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0010.003
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 head0.171
GPT teacher head0.446
Teacher spread0.275 · 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