Overview

The Journal of Leadership and Quality in Education (LEQA) is an international journal published by Researcher Publishers, an open-access platform created by researchers to promote collaboration among scholars, editors, and educators worldwide. LEQA is dedicated to advancing scholarly understanding of how leadership, quality frameworks, and governance mechanisms are enacted to enhance educational effectiveness and system performance.

Reflecting the mission of Researcher Publishers, LEQA supports academic collaboration and open dialogue across disciplines and regions. It welcomes high-quality theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and practice-informed research that examines the dynamic interplay between leadership and educational quality across K–12 and higher education contexts. LEQA prioritizes work that integrates strong theoretical grounding with practice-informed inquiry to illuminate how leadership drives educational quality, fosters institutional improvement, and generates system-level impact, while maintaining rigorous methodological standards.

LEQA adopts the Continuous Publishing Model (CPM), shifting the traditional issue-based publishing system to a dynamic article-centric approach. This is to accelerate the dissemination of research reports, ensuring that valuable findings reach our global readership as swiftly as possible. CPM allows articles to be published individually in their final form as soon as they are ready, without waiting for other articles to compile a complete issue. Accepted articles are typically published online within 10-20 days of final acceptance.

To avoid errors and delays caused by producing multiple articles for the same issue simultaneously, each article of LEQA will start from page 1. The unique Article Reference Number assigned to the manuscript during submission will serve as the primary identifier within an issue, replacing the traditional function of page numbers. The recommended citation format will incorporate the Article ID, instead of the page numbers. While articles are published individually online, LEQA will continue to organize them into triannual issues for archival purposes in January, May, and September to maintain a traditional structure in bibliographic databases. This compilation does not affect the individual publication date or citation of each article.

By providing a fair, transparent, and inclusive publication process, LEQA invites contributions from teachers, researchers, and practitioners around the world. Through its commitment to open access, LEQA seeks to make knowledge freely available, stimulate professional growth, and strengthen the global community of language educators and researchers.