A Meta-Analysis of Contemporary Quality of Educational Management Research

The aim of this paper is to identify the key issues in the quality of educational management research, based on co-citation and factor analyses, in order to assess the intellectual structure of this body of literature. By analyzing 58,894 citations in 1,643 articles published in SSCI journals in the field of the quality of educational management between 2004 and 2013, this paper identified the most important publications, scholars and journals. The results can help to profile the network of knowledge production in the quality of educational management research, and so provide important insights with implications for current and future research paradigms, and thus are of value to both management scholars and practitioners.