Steps

What to do

Quality Setting

1

Selection of article database (SCOPUS, WoS, MyJurnal, MyTO and Google Scholar)

A total of 3 researchers made the decision on resources selection

2

Keyword selection related to the middle leaders in Malaysia’s educational context

List all possible positions involving leaders

3

Setting the search criteria

Adapting bibliometric approach by Harris et al. (2019)

4

Selection and downloading the article

Selection of articles based on the consent of all researchers

5

Article analysis based on a designated theme

The first 5 articles were jointly analyzed by 3 researchers. Then the rest of the articles are divided for individual analysis