Paul Arjanto, Zummy Anselmus Dami, Alfrina Mewengkang, Prisca Diantra Sampe, Vando Kristi Makaruku, Aprilya Christy Lorwens, Missi Yane Lusye Yaky, Feibry Feronika Wiwenly Senduk, Christi Matitaputty
The rapid digitalization of education has made learning management systems (LMS) core infrastructure for instruction, assessment, analytics, and professional learning, expanding educational leadership from technology adoption to data-informed organizational change. This study maps how LMS scholarship intersects with educational leadership by profiling contributors and the field's conceptual structure. We conducted a bibliometric performance analysis and science mapping of Scopusindexed publications, 2004-2024. From 342 records, 93 met inclusion criteria. Performance indicators were combined with coauthorship, co-citation, bibliographic coupling, and co-word analyses. Results show an early plateau (leqslant 4 papers/year through 2015), a step-up from 2018, and a 2024 peak; 69% of output appears in 2018-2024. The United States (25.7%) and Australia ( 9. 2 % ) lead contributions, with Indonesia among the top ten. Coword networks reveal three clusters: (i) leadership-organizationprofessional development; (ii) teaching-students (including disciplinary implementations); and (iii) LMS-e-learning-learning systems. Overlay visualization highlights the recency of digital leadership. Highly cited anchors concentrate influence, consistent with long-tail and core-periphery regularities. The field is maturing from tool-centric adoption toward leadership-enabled, pedagogy-grounded, analytics-informed transformation. Practically, institutions should pair LMS investments with leadership development, change management, and robust data governance. Future research should operationalize digitalleadership competencies, advance ethical and privacy-sensitive analytics, and broaden context-diverse evaluations, especially in non-Anglophone systems. © 2026 IEEE.
University of Pattimura, Educational Management, Ambon, Indonesia; Universitas Persatuan Guru 1945 NTT, Educational Management, Kupang, Indonesia; Universitas Negeri Manado, Education Technology, Minahasa, Indonesia; University of Pattimura, Guidance and Counseling, Ambon, Indonesia; University of Pattimura, Educational Administration, Ambon, Indonesia; Manado State University, Economic Education, Tondano, Indonesia; University of Pattimura, Mathematics Education, Ambon, Indonesia