To celebrate 60 volumes of the Journal of Educational Administration please enjoy this virtual special issue highlighting the top 10 cited articles from the journal.

Virtual issue

1998 Trust in schools: a conceptual and empirical analysis by Megan Tschannen‐Moran and Wayne Hoy

2000 Effective instructional leadership: Teachers’ perspectives on how principals promote teaching and learning in schools by Joseph Blase and Jo Blase

2000 The effects of transformational leadership on organizational conditions and student engagement with school by Kenneth Leithwood and Doris Jantzi

2001 Collaboration and the need for trust by Megan Tschannen‐Moran

2002 The configuration of the university image and its relationship with the satisfaction of students by Asunción Beerli Palacio, Gonzalo Díaz Meneses and Pedro J. Pérez Pérez

2004 Relation of principal transformational leadership to school staff job satisfaction, staff turnover, and school performance by James Griffith

2008 Distributed leadership: according to the evidence by Alma Harris

2008 The future of distributed leadership by Peter Gronn

2010 Relationships in reform: the role of teachers' social networks by Alan J. Daly, Nienke M. Moolenaar, Jose M. Bolivar and Peggy Burke

2011 Leadership for learning: lessons from 40 years of empirical research by Philip Hallinger