James P. Spillane

26.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
158 papers, 17.2k citations indexed

About

James P. Spillane is a scholar working on Education, Information Systems and Management and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, James P. Spillane has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 17.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Education, 55 papers in Information Systems and Management and 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in James P. Spillane's work include Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (98 papers), Educational Assessment and Improvement (55 papers) and School Choice and Performance (25 papers). James P. Spillane is often cited by papers focused on Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (98 papers), Educational Assessment and Improvement (55 papers) and School Choice and Performance (25 papers). James P. Spillane collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. James P. Spillane's co-authors include John B. Diamond, Richard Halverson, Brian J. Reiser, Todd Reimer, David K. Cohen, Megan Hopkins, Leigh Parise, Alma Harris, Eric M. Camburn and Charles L. Thompson and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Circulation Research and Review of Educational Research.

In The Last Decade

James P. Spillane

156 papers receiving 14.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Educational Leadership

2003 2.8k citations James P. Spillane Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis profile →
Educational Leadership

2004 1.9k citations James P. Spillane Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis profile →
Policy Implementation and Cognition: Reframing and Refocusing Implementation Research

2002 1.1k citations James P. Spillane et al. profile →
Towards a theory of leadership practice: a distributed perspective

2004 1.1k citations James P. Spillane, John B. Diamond et al. profile →
Investigating School Leadership Practice: A Distributed Perspective

2001 1.0k citations James P. Spillane, John B. Diamond et al. profile →
Distributed Leadership

2005 914 citations James P. Spillane The Educational Forum profile →

Peers

James P. Spillane

EDUCA

ISM

DEP

SPS

MSOR

Michael Fullan Canada

Kenneth Leithwood Canada

Karen Seashore Louis United States

Andy Hargreaves United States

Linda Darling‐Hammond United States

David C. Berliner United States

Pam Sammons United Kingdom

Christopher Day United Kingdom

Marilyn Cochran‐Smith United States

Wayne K. Hoy United States

Michael Fullan Canada

James P. Spillane

14.4k ×1.0

EDUCA

2.2k ×0.6

ISM

2.5k ×1.0

DEP

2.1k ×0.9

SPS

926 ×0.8

MSOR

Citations per year, relative to James P. Spillane James P. Spillane (= 1×) peers Michael Fullan

Countries citing papers authored by James P. Spillane

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of James P. Spillane's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by James P. Spillane with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites James P. Spillane more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by James P. Spillane

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by James P. Spillane. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by James P. Spillane. The network helps show where James P. Spillane may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of James P. Spillane

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James P. Spillane. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James P. Spillane based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with James P. Spillane. James P. Spillane is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Davis, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2025). It’s about Time. The Elementary School Journal. 126(1). 1–31. 1 indexed citations

Spillane, James P., et al.. (2024). Leading Elementary School Science: Taking a Multilevel Distributed Perspective to Explore Leadership Practice. Educational Administration Quarterly. 60(4). 418–451. 3 indexed citations

Spillane, James P., et al.. (2023). State-Level Efforts to Reform Elementary Science Education. Educational Policy. 38(2). 350–390. 3 indexed citations

Spillane, James P., et al.. (2022). Striving for Coherence, Struggling With Incoherence: A Comparative Study of Six Educational Systems Organizing for Instruction. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 44(4). 567–592. 15 indexed citations

Peurach, Donald J., et al.. (2020). Analyzing Instructionally Focused Education Systems: Exploring the Coordinated Use of Complementary Frameworks. Peabody Journal of Education. 95(4). 336–355. 7 indexed citations

Spillane, James P., et al.. (2019). Educational System Building in a Changing Educational Sector: Environment, Organization, and the Technical Core. Educational Policy. 33(6). 846–881. 52 indexed citations

Peurach, Donald J., David K. Cohen, Maxwell M. Yurkofsky, & James P. Spillane. (2019). From Mass Schooling to Education Systems: Changing Patterns in the Organization and Management of Instruction. Review of Research in Education. 43(1). 32–67. 70 indexed citations

Spillane, James P. & Matthew Shirrell. (2017). Breaking Up Isn’t Hard to Do: Exploring the Dissolution of Teachers’ and School Leaders’ Work-Related Ties. Educational Administration Quarterly. 53(4). 616–648. 22 indexed citations

Bush, Tony, Viviane Robinson, James P. Spillane, et al.. (2016). Liderazgo educativo en la escuela : nueve miradas. MINISTERIO DE EDUCACIÓN. 27 indexed citations

10.

Tschannen‐Moran, Megan, Greer Johnson, Guri Skedsmo, et al.. (2016). World school leadership study: Concept and design. 2 indexed citations

11.

Hopkins, Megan & James P. Spillane. (2014). Schoolhouse Teacher Educators. Journal of Teacher Education. 65(4). 327–339. 23 indexed citations

12.

Sherer, Jennifer Zoltners & James P. Spillane. (2011). Constancy and Change in Work Practice in Schools: The Role of Organizational Routines. Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education. 113(3). 611–657. 103 indexed citations

13.

Spillane, James P., et al.. (2011). Diagnosis and Design for School Improvement: Using a Distributed Perspective to Lead and Manage Change. Teachers College Press eBooks. 44 indexed citations

14.

Spillane, James P., et al.. (2009). Managing and leading elementary schools: Attending to the formal and informal organization. 37. 5–28. 20 indexed citations

15.

Spillane, James P.. (2005). Distributed Leadership. The Educational Forum. 69(2). 143–150. 914 indexed citations breakdown →

16.

Sherin, Bruce, et al.. (2004). Representing a problem space: towards a deeper understanding of the practice of instructional leadership. Circulation Research. 29(4). 97–104. 1 indexed citations

17.

Diamond, John B., Antonia Randolph, & James P. Spillane. (2004). Teachers' Expectations and Sense of Responsibility for Student Learning: The Importance of Race, Class, and Organizational Habitus. Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 35(1). 75–98. 273 indexed citations

18.

Spillane, James P.. (1998). State Policy and the Non-Monolithic Nature of the Local School District: Organizational and Professional Considerations. American Educational Research Journal. 35(1). 33–63. 177 indexed citations

19.

Spillane, James P. & Charles L. Thompson. (1997). Reconstructing Conceptions of Local Capacity: The Local Education Agency’s Capacity for Ambitious Instructional Reform. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 19(2). 185–203. 260 indexed citations

20.

Spillane, James P.. (1970). New Skills for Teachers..

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact