OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Vocational Behavior is 8. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	198
Stacking bricks or building a cathedral? How affective shifts shape perceptions of daily task significance	111
Editorial Board	86
Bearing others' burdens: An investigation of how daily venting at work shapes recipients' post-work experiences	77
A shield against promotion failure: Self-compassion mitigates the negative effects of promotion failure on well-being	69
Navigating conflicting accountabilities: Post-maternity re-entry transitions in India	66
‘I'm farming because I'm a wife’ – An enduring navigational approach to meaningful work and vocational choice	59
Editorial Board	50
Workplace impostor thoughts are positively associated with risk aversion: Implications for workplace deviance and creativity	49
The long walk together: The role of institutionalized socialization in shaping newcomers' future expectations about their networks	48
Lean on me: A daily-diary study of the effects of receiving help in coworking spaces	48
The effect of pursuing a gender-nontraditional profession on young newcomers' occupational self-efficacy via frequency of evaluative feedback	45
Moving away from, moving towards and moving against others: An adaptive multi-strategy approach to defend and build resources in self-protection mode	44
Bored or burning out? Reciprocal effects between job stressors, boredom and burnout	43
How future work self salience shapes the effects of interacting with artificial intelligence	42
Let it go and embrace something new: How goal reengagement capacities moderate the effect of interacting with artificial intelligence on career optimism	41
A mutually beneficial process: Accommodating work-family conflict and strengthening leader-subordinate relations	41
Organizational mobility preferences and organizational career environments: A person-organization fit perspective	39
A longitudinal investigation of the Kaleidoscope Career Model, networking behaviors, and career success	38
The ear of the beholder: Does listener introversion predict perceptions of being heard?	38
Orchestrating resources, compounding costs: Examining the roles of social capital, work absorption, and work autonomy in the relationship between workplace proactivity and work interference with famil	37
Career outcomes of work–family conflict: A literature review and future research agenda	35
Corrigendum to “Humble leader, successful follower: Linking leader humility with follower career outcomes via leader competence from an implicit leadership theory perspective” [Journal of Vocational B	34
Not all distance is alike: revisiting the associations between physical and perceived proximity in multilocational work	34
Dynamic and cyclic relationships between employees' intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: Evidence from dynamic multilevel modeling analysis	34

Navigating crisis in non-standard work: Social entrepreneurs' sensemaking and purpose protection during career shocks	33
Predictors and outcomes of nursing students' engagement trajectories at the beginning of their program	33
Predicting work values: A psychology of working theory perspective	32
Occupational exoskeletons: Supporting diversity and inclusion goals with technology	32
Do calling-oriented employees take charge in organizations? The role of supervisor close monitoring, intrinsic motivation, and organizational commitment	31
Beyond one-size-fits-all in school-to-work transition success: The role of career competency profiles	30
Navigating transitions: A longitudinal exploration of career decision-making process dynamics in adolescents	29
Ready? Camera rolling… action! Examining interviewee training and practice opportunities in asynchronous video interviews	29
Navigating sustainable careers: A conceptual framework on subjective person-career fit dynamics	29
Contextualizing career development: Cultural affordances as the missing link in social cognitive career theory	28
The impact of trust in AI on career sustainability: The role of employee–AI collaboration and protean career orientation	28
A meta-analysis of the relations between parental support and children's career self-efficacy in South Korea and the US	27
Sense of belonging in hybrid work settings	27
Understanding job crafting configurations and their dynamics: A latent transition analysis among Korean employees	27
Career transitions across the lifespan: A review and research agenda	26
Editorial Board	25
Editorial Board	25
To be or not to be a perfect parent? How the striving for perfect parenting harms employed parents	25
Corrigendum to “Reconsider what your MBA negotiation course taught you: The possible adverse effects of high salary requests” [Journal of Vocational Behavior 139 (2022) 103803]	25
Enhancing sustainable employability through developmental HR practices: The mediating role of proactive career behaviors and moderating role of person-vocation fit	24
A meta-analytic review of 60 years of role stressor research	24
Editorial Board	24
“Cats in the cradle:” Work-family conflict, parenting, and life satisfaction among fathers	24
Development of career wisdom: A time-lagged examination of the role of MORE resources	24
Building an age-inclusive workplace for older workers: A dual pathway of age-inclusive HR practices to facilitate successful aging at work	23
Editorial Board	23
Steering wheels to make ends meet: Understanding stressors and coping strategies among app-based taxi drivers in Tehran	23
Releasing pressure but increasing concerns: A daily investigation of supervisors' social sharing of stress and supervisors' well-being	22
Which female makes it to the top? Exploring the gender differences in the role of nuanced personality and psychosocial traits in elite sports career progression	22
A meta-analytic review of the gender difference in leadership aspirations	22
Navigating work-to-family boundaries: Day-level reciprocal effects between guilt and boundary management	22
Adapting boundary preferences to match reality of hybrid work: A latent change score analysis☆	22
Shifting perspectives: How daily work interruptions relate to interrupters' work engagement	22
Crafting the road to well-being for precarious frontline workers: Explicating the role of jolts and resources	22
How promotion-oriented job crafting affects job performance: Exploring the role of job-crafting motives	21
Employability as antecedent of eudaimonic wellbeing at work: The mediating role of work meaningfulness	21
Editorial Board	21
The “sense” behind proactive behaviors: Feedback seeking, meaningfulness, and personal initiative	20
The double-edged sword of job insecurity: When and why job insecurity promotes versus inhibits supervisor-rated performance	20
Careers and labor-market stability vs. dynamisms: Using big-data to optimize career trajectories for better outcomes	20
Perceived overqualification and proactive behavior: The role of anger and job complexity	20
Taking dynamics and their origins seriously: Work-family conflict trajectories and their gendered antecedents in work and nonwork support	20
Family recognition of work as a source of meaningful work: Examining the roles of self-esteem and parental status	19
High-performance work practices and job embeddedness: A comprehensive test	19
Do proactive peers inhibit employee innovative behavior? The roles of team cooperative climate and sense of power	19
Morality in careers: A systematic review, integration, and ways forward	19
Longitudinal trajectories of affective commitment to the occupation among school principals: A person-centered perspective	19
A trickle-out model of organizational dehumanization and displaced aggression	19
Bored and exhausted? Profiles of boredom and exhaustion at work and the role of job stressors	18
Pregnancy loss: A qualitative exploration of an experience stigmatized in the workplace	18

Home and away: How career adaptability and cultural intelligence facilitate international migrant workers' adjustment	18
Adapting careers to the COVID crisis: The impact of the pandemic on employees' career orientations	18
Editorial Board	18
The rise and fall of AI's benefits: Investigating the curvilinear relationship between employee-AI collaboration and successful aging at work	18
Corrigendum to “Proactive personality and early employment outcomes: The mediating role of career planning and the moderator role of core self-evaluations.” [J. Vocat. Behav.], 119 (2020) 103424	18
Others matter when mothers return: An investigation of relational movement and its role in post-maternity leave reentry transitions	17
Revisiting the bottleneck hypothesis: The role of sexual identity development in the career exploration and decision-making of sexual minority college students	17
Seeking stability in unstable employment: An exploratory study of temporary agency workers' career self-management	17
Blurred lines: The spillover and crossover effects of interpersonal experiences at work on family behaviors and well-being	17
Living a value-based work life: Individual values as predictors of career outcomes	16
Getting into flow during virtual meetings: How virtual meetings can benefit employee functioning in the work- and home domain	16
Temporal precedence between and mediating effects of career decision self-efficacy and career exploratory behavior among first-year college students: Within-person and between-person analyses by race/	16
Finding a home for your career away from home: Experiences of Iranian highly skilled edu-immigrants in the United States	16
When productivity prevails: Governing trade-offs in women managers' career sustainability	15
Turnover reasons are more complex than “people quit bosses”: An approach-avoidance perspective	15
Living a calling despite the challenges of the gig economy? The role of meaning-making and work alienation	15
Navigating career stages in the age of artificial intelligence: A systematic interdisciplinary review and agenda for future research	15
Emergence of calling in the domain of creative work, and the role of context: The stories of manga artists	15
Challenging your boss with safe words: Newcomers' voice, supervisors' responses, and socialization outcomes	15
Managing the risks and side effects of workplace friendships: The moderating role of workplace friendship self-efficacy	14
“Anything you can do, I can do”: Examining the use of ChatGPT in situational judgement tests for professional program admission	14
Graduation is not the end, it is just the beginning: Change in perceived employability in the transition associated with graduation	14
We've come full circle: The universality of People-Things and Data-Ideas as core dimensions of vocational interests	14
Virtual voices: Exploring individual differences in chat and verbal participation in virtual meetings	13
How does empowering leadership promote employee creativity? The sequential mediating mechanism of felt obligation for constructive change and job crafting	13
Migrant women navigating the intersection of gender, migration, and career development: A systematic literature review	13
Regressed person-environment interest fit: Validating polynomial regression for a specific environment	13
An examination of the link between job content plateau and knowledge hiding from a moral perspective: The mediating role of distrust and perceived exploitation	13
Adapting to a jolt: A mixed methods study identifying challenges and personal resources impacting professional gig workers' well-being during COVID-19	12
Hiring discrimination against refugees: Examining the mediating role of symbolic and realistic threat	12
Well-being and empowerment perceptions in a sudden shift to working from home	12
Not a pipeline but a highway: Men's and women's STEM career trajectories from age 13 to 25	12
Online platforms' organizational resources and gig workers' self-leadership	12
Working with a chronic health condition: The implications of proactive vitality management for occupational health and performance	12
Will there always be a return on investment? The effects of investment in employee development on employee entrepreneurship	11
“Running away is easy; it's the leaving that's hard”: Career enactment by former military officers	11
Saved by the biodata: Meta-analytic relationships between biodata scores and student success	11
Women in STEM careers through the lens of career construction theory: A study on females' experiences in persisting in the engineering field	11
Human capital effects in the job search process for new labor market entrants: A double-edged sword?	11
Navigating the multiple challenges of job loss: A career self-management perspective	11
The bittersweet nature of adult family caregiving on workplace behaviors and attitudes	11
Precarious work and workplace dignity during COVID-19: A longitudinal study	11
Decent education as a precursor to decent work: An overview and construct conceptualization	10
Team-based perceived insider status: Exploring the drivers and outcomes of freelancers' sense of belonging to their project teams	10
Regretting your occupation constructively: A qualitative study of career choice and occupational regret	10
A self-regulatory model of how future work selves change during job search and the school-to-work transition	10
Technological support for lifelong learning: The application of a multilevel, person-centric framework	10
Editorial Board	10
It is not only what you do, but why you do it: The role of attribution in employees' emotional and behavioral responses to illegitimate tasks	10
Towards a self-regulation model of career competencies: A systematic review and future research agenda	10
Technology and the changing nature of work	10
You've got mail! How work e-mail activity helps anxious workers enhance performance outcomes	10
I wouldn't be working this way if I had a family - Differences in remote workers' needs for supervisor's family-supportiveness depending on the parental status	10
Longitudinal dynamics of psychological need satisfaction, meaning in work, and burnout	10
The dark and bright side of networking behavior: Three studies on short-term processes of networking behavior	10
A systematic review of at-work recovery and a framework for future research	10
The threat of electronic performance monitoring: Exploring the role of leader-member exchange on employee privacy invasion	9
Editorial Board	9
Linking personality traits to vocational interest profiles via the circumplex: Research synthesis and new applications	9
Editorial Board	9
How are career adaptable and customer oriented employees treated? Examining career-situated factors that reduce customer mistreatment	9
Powerful, high-performing employees and psychological entitlement: The detrimental effects on citizenship behaviors	9
A meta-analysis of TMX and incremental effects over LMX: An examination in different cultures	9
Examining the impact of trait grit on aspiring entrepreneur's new venture ideation: Evidence from Ghana	9
Technology-assisted supplemental work: A meta-analysis	8
Antecedents and implications of changes in social identification at work amongst teleworkers: A longitudinal person-centered approach	8
Longitudinal associations between the rates of change in family to work enrichment, leader-member exchange, and job satisfaction	8
Polishing followers' future work selves! The critical roles of leader future orientation and vision communication	8
Workplace hurdles and innovative behavior: A meta-analysis	8
How to minimize job insecurity: The role of proactive and reactive coping over time	8
Shifting approaches to blurred work-nonwork boundaries in consulting careers	8
Is it up to you? The moderating role of beliefs about willpower in the relationship between availability norms and control over leisure time via ego depletion	8
The sum is larger than its parts: The daily interplay of leader and colleague support in facilitating employee well-being through balanced needs satisfaction and positive affect	8
Under my umbrella? Gig workers' perspectives on career sustainability as employees in Swedish umbrella companies	8
Navigating careers in non-traditional work: Toward a more context-sensitive and dynamic research agenda	8
Editorial Board	8
Interested and employed? A national study of gender differences in basic interests and employment	8