OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Vocational Behavior is 14. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Latent profile analysis: A review and “how to” guide of its application within vocational behavior research	501
The potential impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on occupational status, work from home, and occupational mobility	402
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on marginalized populations in the United States: A research agenda	351
Unemployment in the time of COVID-19: A research agenda	307
The Covid-19 crisis as a career shock: Implications for careers and vocational behavior	294
Taking control amidst the chaos: Emotion regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic	244
Flexible employment relationships and careers in times of the COVID-19 pandemic	227
Literature searches in systematic reviews and meta-analyses: A review, evaluation, and recommendations	108
Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on career development: Insights from cultural psychology	88
Examining boundaries to understand the impact of COVID-19 on vocational behaviors	76
Addressing common method variance and endogeneity in vocational behavior research: A review of the literature and suggestions for future research	76
Contemporary career orientations and career self-management: A review and integration	74
Precarious work in the 21st century: A psychological perspective	66
Person-centered methods in vocational research	64
Networking via LinkedIn: An examination of usage and career benefits	64
Career adaptability and career success in the context of a broader career resources framework	60
Career decision making, fast and slow: Toward an integrative model of intervention for sustainable career choice	57
Thriving at work: A mentoring-moderated process linking task identity and autonomy to job satisfaction	56
A meta-analysis of autonomous and controlled forms of teacher motivation	54
Interest fit and job satisfaction: A systematic review and meta-analysis	52
From ideal workers to ideal work for all: A 50-year review integrating careers and work-family research with a future research agenda	46
Generativity at work: A meta-analysis	43
Making better career decisions: From challenges to opportunities	42
Perceived public support and entrepreneurship attitudes: A little reciprocity can go a long way!	42
Job crafting and playful work design: Links with performance during busy and quiet days	42

Keeping an insecure career under control: The longitudinal interplay of career insecurity, self-management, and self-efficacy	41
The role of internship participation and conscientiousness in developing career adaptability: A five-wave growth mixture model analysis	40
Theorizing person-environment fit in a changing career world: Interdisciplinary integration and future directions	38
Career transitions and employability	37
Life stage, lifespan, and life course perspectives on vocational behavior and development: A theoretical framework, review, and research agenda	36
Decent work and physical health: A multi-wave investigation	35
COVID-19 and careers: On the futility of generational explanations	34
Toward a broader understanding of career shocks: Exploring interdisciplinary connections with research on job search, human resource management, entrepreneurship, and diversity	34
Editor in Chief's Introduction to Essays on the Impact of COVID-19 on Work and Workers	32
What makes work meaningful? Longitudinal evidence for the importance of autonomy and beneficence for meaningful work	31
The lagged influence of organizations' human resources practices on employees' career sustainability: The moderating role of age	31
Effect of illegitimate tasks on work-to-family conflict through psychological detachment: Passive leadership as a moderator	30
Why do millennials stay in their jobs? The roles of protean career orientation, goal progress and organizational career management	30
Predictors of decent work across time: Testing propositions from Psychology of Working Theory	30
Why does competitive psychological climate foster or hamper career success? The role of challenge and hindrance pathways and leader-member-exchange	29
Political skill camouflages Machiavellianism: Career role performance and organizational misbehavior at short and long tenure	28
Seeking an “i-deal” balance: Schedule-flexibility i-deals as mediating mechanisms between supervisor emotional support and employee work and home performance	27
Proactive personality and early employment outcomes: The mediating role of career planning and the moderator role of core self-evaluations	26
Daily autonomy and job performance: Does person-organization fit act as a key resource?	26
Students' career exploration: A meta-analysis	26
Here, there, & everywhere: Development and validation of a cross-culturally representative measure of subjective career success	26
Going full circle: Integrating research on career adaptation and proactivity	25
Meta-analysis in vocational behavior: A systematic review and recommendations for best practices	25
Is affective commitment always good? A look at within-person effects on needs satisfaction and emotional exhaustion	24
Newcomers' relationship-building behavior, mentor information sharing and newcomer adjustment: The moderating effects of perceived mentor and newcomer deep similarity	23
Faculty time allocation in relation to work-family balance, job satisfaction, commitment, and turnover intentions	23
The uncertain state of work in the U.S.: Profiles of decent work and precarious work	23
Confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic: How multi-domain work-life shock events may result in positive identity change	23
Does thinking of myself as leader make me want to lead? The role of congruence in self-theories and implicit leadership theories in motivation to lead	22
Career competencies in the transition from higher education to the labor market: Examining developmental trajectories	22
Psychological ownership within psychology of working theory: A three-wave study of gender and sexual minority employees	22
Integrating agency and structure in employability: Bourdieu's theory of practice	21
Political skill in the stressor - strain relationship: A meta-analytic update and extension	21
When employees and supervisors (do not) see eye to eye on family supportive supervisor behaviours: The role of segmentation desire and work-family culture	21
Ambitious employees: Why and when ambition relates to performance and organizational commitment	21
Decent education as a precursor to decent work: An overview and construct conceptualization	21
Social justice and career development: Progress, problems, and possibilities	21
A person-centered investigation of two dominant job crafting theoretical frameworks and their work-related implications	20
Why and when does voice lead to increased job engagement? The role of perceived voice appreciation and emotional stability	20
Negative word-of-mouth and applicant attraction: The role of employer brand equity	20
Work-home and home-work conflict and voluntary turnover: A conservation of resources explanation for contrasting moderation effects of on- and off-the-job embeddedness	20
Person-environment fit and proactive socialization: Reciprocal relationships in an academic environment	20
When support is unwanted: The role of psychological contract type and perceived organizational support in predicting bridge employment intentions	19
Critical contributions to scholarship on women and work: Celebrating 50 years of progress and looking ahead to a new decade	18
When do job crafting interventions work? The moderating roles of workload, intervention intensity, and participation	18
Passion contagion at work: Investigating formal and informal social influences on work passion	17
Happy to help, happy to change? A meta-analysis of major predictors of affiliative and change-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors	17
A qualitative exploration of solo self-employed workers' career sustainability	17
Facilitating a successful school-to-work transition: Comparing compact career-adaptation interventions	16
Longitudinal profiles of work-family interface: Their individual and organizational predictors, personal and work outcomes, and implications for onsite and remote workers	16

Self-control during daily work activities and work-to-nonwork conflict	16
Digital war for talent: How profile reputations on company rating platforms drive job seekers' application intentions	16
Does turnover destination matter? Differentiating antecedents of occupational change versus organizational change	16
Misfit matters: A re-examination of interest fit and job satisfaction	16
Mindfulness, empathetic concern, and work–family outcomes: A dyadic analysis	15
Making a successful transition to work: A fresh look at organizational support for young newcomers from an individual-driven career adjustment perspective	15
Unraveling the complex relationship between career success and career crafting: Exploring nonlinearity and the moderating role of learning value of the job	15
Career decision-making from a dual-process perspective: Looking back, looking forward	15
Vocational behavior research: Past topics and future trends and challenges	15
Understanding the dynamic relationship between career plateauing, organizational affective commitment and citizenship behavior	15
The effects of vocational interests on motivation, satisfaction, and academic performance: Test of a mediated model	15
Unexpected change: Career transitions following a significant extra-organizational shock	14
Shining the light on women's work, this time brighter: Let's start at the top	14
From vocational scholars to social justice advocates: Challenges and opportunities for vocational psychology research on the vulnerable workforce	14
The college-to-career transition in STEM: An eleven-year longitudinal study of perceived and objective vocational interest fit	14
Potential ways to predict and manage telecommuters' feelings of professional isolation	14
Psychological contract breach and destructive voice: The mediating effect of relative deprivation and the moderating effect of leader emotional support	14
Work-family conflict, perceived control, and health, family, and wealth: A 20-year study	14