Exploring Key Journals in Educational Management, Administration

This literature review provides an overview of five key journals in the field of educational management, administration, and leadership. The journals discussed are: Journal of Educational Administration, Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Management Administration & Leadership, Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, and Journal of Management Education. The review highlights the purpose, focus, frequency of publication, and publisher of each journal, emphasizing their contributions to understanding leadership, policy issues, and management practices in educational organizations, ranging from K-12 schools to higher education institutions. The review also touches upon the importance of theoretical and empirical studies, research methodologies, and the journals' commitment to improving the quality of teaching and learning in management and organizational disciplines.

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Journal 1:
Name of the Journal: Journal of Educational Administration
Purpose: The major purpose of this journal is to publish referred journal in the field of
educational leadership management. The primary focus of Journal of Education
Administration is on understanding the issues of leadership and management in K-12 schools
as well as school system. The secondary focus of the journal is to pay attention to studies of
how leadership is shaped by cultural as well as national context of schools and leadership
influence on faculties and education management. The fundamental areas of journal are on
educational administration performed across diverse political, economic as well as socio-
cultural context. The publication indeed featured in JEA have both anticipated as well as
traced the evolution of educational administration into an international context of research
and practice. It is necessary to note that even though the majority of papers published in JEA
are fundamentally on the basis of studies that report empirical data but the journal does not
prioritize quantitative, qualitative or mixed method research. Furthermore, Journal of
Education Administration also is known as one of the primary international venues for
reporting theoretical critiques as well as systematic reviews of research and this fact
particular reflect its idea in the action that journal performs in supporting productive
synthesis of knowledge.
Frequency of Publication: Yearly
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Journal 2:
Name of the Journal: Educational Administration Quarterly

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Purpose: Educational Administration Quarterly publishes prominent empirical and conceptual
articles centred on timely and critical leadership as well as policy issues of educational
organization. Primary focus of the journal is to study educational leadership, organizations,
leadership development and policy as they are associated with elementary and secondary
level of education. Investigation of leadership and policy that fall outside K-12 are deemed
insofar because they are significant relations to K-12 arena. The major goal of the journal is
to promote effective leadership and concise and continuing dialogue among scholars as well
as practitioners considering a broad level of education. The journal of educational particularly
expands views as well as sources of educational leadership, multiple purpose and outcomes
of educational leadership, diverse analytical and theoretical perspectives. These perspectives
fundamentally include organizational, sociological and critical. The journal has set the
guidelines of following the style of 6th edition of the publication Manual of American
Psychological Association. It is essential to note that the journal particularly accepts
conventional as well as emergent theoretical frameworks, research methods and topics. The
journal specifically promotes the publication of rigorous as well as relevant scholarly work
along with the utility for educational policy, practice and research.
Frequency of Publication: Quarterly
Publisher: Sage Publisher
Journal 3:
Name of the Journal: Educational Management Administration & Leadership
Educational Management Administration and Leadership is an international peer reviewed
journal which publishes original as well as significant contribution on educational
administration, management and leadership from a broader perspective. This usually includes

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primary research projects in school as well as higher educational institutes. The primary focus
of this journal is to focus on the level of leadership enabling the growth and consistency in
elementary and secondary level of education. The broader view of the journal is to explore
different sort of leadership including a concise political and social perspective and its
association with contemporary and modern education practices. The journal particularly
shows how contemporary education is aligned with different perspectives of leadership.
Furthermore, the journal also sheds light on how the drawbacks in world education’s quality
can be lessened with the implementation of a sound leadership practices. The journal has
fundamentally based its discussion on the importance of different leaderships and their
application in today’s education sector. In addition to this, journal particularly adheres to a
rigorous double-blind reviewing policy in which the identity of reviewer as well as the author
are always concealed from both parties.
Frequency of Publication: Quarterly
Publisher: Sage Publication
Journal 4:
Name of the Journal: Academy of Educational Leadership Journal
Academy of Educational Leadership journal provides an open access publication which is
affiliated to Allied Business Academy. The major purpose of the journal is to meet the needs
of researcher, scholars, academicians as well as academic institute which particularly imports
educational study, leadership and education. This journal covers a broad range of topics for
publication with the inclusion of topics such as accounting, history, auditing, global business,
conflict resolution, communication and educational leadership. It is essential to note that
Academy of Educational Leadership Journal promotes and embraces theoretical, empirical as

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well as applied studies in higher education. In addition to this, all menu scripts submitted for
the publication under this journal are subjected to a thorough double blind peer-review
process. The major aim of the journal is to enhance the horizon of this particular disincline by
sharing the latest trends and developments that are related to educational leadership.
Furthermore, the journal seeks to explore an in-depth view regarding how educational
leadership can propel the growth education in different levels. The fundamental elements of
the journal revolve around the concepts and types leadership management practices can be
implemented to the field of education.
Frequency of Publication: Yearly
Publisher: Allied Business Academies
Journal 5:
Name of the Journal: Journal of Management Education
Journal of management education is a leading voice in the scholarship of teaching and
learning for more than 40 years. It is particularly dedicated to improve the quality of teaching
and learning in management as well as organizational disciplines. The journal fundamentally
focuses on changes and developments in the conceptualization, organization as well as
practice of management education. This journal has particularly developed a standing
editorial commitment to growth, learning as well as innovation and implements a
development approach in working with the authorities. In addition, Journal of Management
education facilitates the contribution that revolves around major issues in management
education. This is an overriding question about this journal about whether the stated the
contribution will generate a significant impact on thinking or in the management education.
Contribution could be of conceptual or empirical and they are accepted on any topic. The
secondary purpose of this journal is that is exposed to all approaches to scholarly inquiry that

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build the base for high query knowledge creation as well circulation within management
teaching and learning.
Frequency of publication: Quarterly
Publisher: Sage Publication