Higher education faculty members in educational leadership are members of an intellectual community that stress scholarly activity, yet they serve preservice and in-service school leaders who value applications of knowledge to problems of practice and policy. The professional periodicals that professors rank highest in terms of quality and greatest usage reflect this balancing of interests. This recent exploratory study addressed four questions. First, which professional periodicals do educational leadership professors in member institutions of the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) rank as the "best"? Second, which criteria do these educational leadership professors use as the basis for these rankings? Third, which professional periodicals do these educational leadership professors read most often? Finally, which periodicals outside of education do they read regularly? (Contains 4 tables.)