OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Vocational Behavior is 25. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Contemporary career orientations and career self-management: A review and integration	106
Precarious work in the 21st century: A psychological perspective	88
Interest fit and job satisfaction: A systematic review and meta-analysis	68
From ideal workers to ideal work for all: A 50-year review integrating careers and work-family research with a future research agenda	63
Generativity at work: A meta-analysis	59
Making better career decisions: From challenges to opportunities	53
Career transitions and employability	48
Life stage, lifespan, and life course perspectives on vocational behavior and development: A theoretical framework, review, and research agenda	43
Theorizing person-environment fit in a changing career world: Interdisciplinary integration and future directions	43
Decent work and physical health: A multi-wave investigation	41
Students' career exploration: A meta-analysis	40
Toward a broader understanding of career shocks: Exploring interdisciplinary connections with research on job search, human resource management, entrepreneurship, and diversity	40
Why does competitive psychological climate foster or hamper career success? The role of challenge and hindrance pathways and leader-member-exchange	39
What makes work meaningful? Longitudinal evidence for the importance of autonomy and beneficence for meaningful work	38
Predictors of decent work across time: Testing propositions from Psychology of Working Theory	36
Integrating agency and structure in employability: Bourdieu's theory of practice	35
Newcomers' relationship-building behavior, mentor information sharing and newcomer adjustment: The moderating effects of perceived mentor and newcomer deep similarity	30
Here, there, & everywhere: Development and validation of a cross-culturally representative measure of subjective career success	30
A person-centered investigation of two dominant job crafting theoretical frameworks and their work-related implications	30
Daily autonomy and job performance: Does person-organization fit act as a key resource?	29
Ambitious employees: Why and when ambition relates to performance and organizational commitment	27
Going full circle: Integrating research on career adaptation and proactivity	27
Decent education as a precursor to decent work: An overview and construct conceptualization	27
Career competencies in the transition from higher education to the labor market: Examining developmental trajectories	26
Confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic: How multi-domain work-life shock events may result in positive identity change	26

Social justice and career development: Progress, problems, and possibilities