Title: A Longitudinal Bibliometric Analysis of Research Hotspot and Frontier of Distributed Leadership, 1998-2018
Stream: Educational Policy, Leadership, Management & Administration
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Authors:
Chien Chih Chen, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan
Kuo Sheng Chen, Consular of Headquarters of Education Bureau, New Taipei City Government, Taiwan
Abstract:
This article retrieved 837 articles with distributed leadership as the search form the Web of Science database. The research adopted the method of bibliometric analysis, word co-occurrence and co-citation analysis, to detect and analyze the trend of the research topic of distributed leadership and the knowledge base of related research, and visualized the distributed leadership theme, knowledge base, research frontiers and development trends. The analysis results revealed that the concept of distributed leadership was often referred to and compared with the educational leadership themes of shared leadership and transformational leadership. The classic literature/authors of distributed leadership were Bennett(2003), Spillane(2004), Spillane(2006), Leithwood (2007), Gronn(2009), Bolden(2011), etc. Besides this, The authors also respectively discussed the concept of distributed leadership, power distribution, leadership analysis and application to establish a knowledge base, frontier, and trends of distributed leadership and to guide the future researches. The authors concluded that science mapping offers a new and useful means of unpacking the historical development of fields of study.
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