“…The rationale for selection of this particular subset of eight journals for the review was, therefore, predicated on several criteria. First, these journals had been identified explicitly as "key journals" or "core journals" in several earlier studies of the educational leadership and management literature (Cherkowski, Currie, & Hilton, 2012;DuBois & Reeb, 2000;Hallinger & Bryant, 2013b;Harvey & Morris, 2008;Mayo, Zirkel, & Finger, 2006;Richardson & McLeod, 2009). Moreover, the journals overlap with the scope of publications incorporated into other scholarly reviews of the educational leadership and management literature conducted since 1995 (Hallinger & Bryant, 2013b;Hallinger & Heck, 1996;Leithwood & Jantzi, 2005;Robinson et al, 2008).…”