Bibliometric Analysis of the School Middle Leaders: A Contemporary Review of Malaysia Education Perspective

Abstract

This study is a continuation of the contemporary literature review undertaken by Harris et al. (2019) on the development of studies conducted in the context of middle leaders in the school. The previous review conducted by Harris et al. (2019) setting only the database of EBSCOHOST, SCOPUS and Web of Science (WoS), it is expected to have the potential of research and articles related to school middle leaders are published in other journals in the context of Malaysian education. Hence, the purpose of this study is to further explore and identify empirical articles related to the school middle leaders in Malaysia from 2010 until 2019. This contemporary literature review is adapting a bibliometric approach and thematic analysis. The study has resulted in a search of 29 articles related to middle leaders in the context of Malaysian education compared to only one cited by previous researchers.