School leadership has attracted the attention of researchers after it was revealed that leadership is an important factor in effective schools, along with school effectiveness studies. Since the mid-twentieth century, the number of studies on school leadership has increased in Western countries, where research has been intensifying every year, as well as in other countries. Türkiye is one of the countries where studies on school leadership have increased. The current study aims to make a systematic review of the researches conducted by Turkish researchers on school leadership. Systematic review is an effective method for identifying trends, author collaborations, publication numbers, citation status and etc. in a field. The researches on school leadership in the web of science database, which were conducted in all times, and whose author or at least one of the authors was Turkish, were compiled and analysed by bibliometric analysis method. The results of the analysis showed that the number of studies increased especially after 2010, the studies were in journals indexed in SSCI and ESCI indexes, the research partnerships were mostly between Turkish academics, and the USA and China came to the fore in partnerships with academics from other countries. It was observed that transformational leadership, distributive leadership, and instructional leadership models were intensively studied. The findings also include the most cited publications and authors with the most co-citations. The research findings are important in terms of revealing the current situation in the field with a country-based analysis on school leadership and making suggestions for the future.

School leadership, transformational leadership, instructional leadership, distributed leadership, Türkiye, Bibliometric analyse