OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Vocational Behavior is 13. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

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
Job crafting and playful work design: Links with performance during busy and quiet days	54
Making better career decisions: From challenges to opportunities	53
Career transitions and employability	48
Theorizing person-environment fit in a changing career world: Interdisciplinary integration and future directions	43
Life stage, lifespan, and life course perspectives on vocational behavior and development: A theoretical framework, review, and research agenda	43
Decent work and physical health: A multi-wave investigation	41
Toward a broader understanding of career shocks: Exploring interdisciplinary connections with research on job search, human resource management, entrepreneurship, and diversity	40
Students' career exploration: A meta-analysis	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
The uncertain state of work in the U.S.: Profiles of decent work and precarious work	34
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
Going full circle: Integrating research on career adaptation and proactivity	27
Ambitious employees: Why and when ambition relates to performance and organizational commitment	27
Decent education as a precursor to decent work: An overview and construct conceptualization	27

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	27
Confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic: How multi-domain work-life shock events may result in positive identity change	26
Career competencies in the transition from higher education to the labor market: Examining developmental trajectories	26
Social justice and career development: Progress, problems, and possibilities	25
Why and when does voice lead to increased job engagement? The role of perceived voice appreciation and emotional stability	23
Precarious work and workplace dignity during COVID-19: A longitudinal study	22
Longitudinal profiles of work-family interface: Their individual and organizational predictors, personal and work outcomes, and implications for onsite and remote workers	22
When support is unwanted: The role of psychological contract type and perceived organizational support in predicting bridge employment intentions	22
When do job crafting interventions work? The moderating roles of workload, intervention intensity, and participation	21
Passion contagion at work: Investigating formal and informal social influences on work passion	21
A qualitative exploration of solo self-employed workers' career sustainability	21
Movement Capital, RAW model, or circumstances? A meta-analysis of perceived employability predictors	21
Happy to help, happy to change? A meta-analysis of major predictors of affiliative and change-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors	21
Potential ways to predict and manage telecommuters' feelings of professional isolation	20
Critical contributions to scholarship on women and work: Celebrating 50 years of progress and looking ahead to a new decade	20
Unraveling the complex relationship between career success and career crafting: Exploring nonlinearity and the moderating role of learning value of the job	19
The college-to-career transition in STEM: An eleven-year longitudinal study of perceived and objective vocational interest fit	19
Misfit matters: A re-examination of interest fit and job satisfaction	19
Understanding the dynamic relationship between career plateauing, organizational affective commitment and citizenship behavior	19
Career decision-making from a dual-process perspective: Looking back, looking forward	19
Facilitating a successful school-to-work transition: Comparing compact career-adaptation interventions	19
The effects of vocational interests on motivation, satisfaction, and academic performance: Test of a mediated model	19
Making a successful transition to work: A fresh look at organizational support for young newcomers from an individual-driven career adjustment perspective	19
Work-family conflict, perceived control, and health, family, and wealth: A 20-year study	18
Occupational characteristics moderate personality–performance relations in major occupational groups	18
From vocational scholars to social justice advocates: Challenges and opportunities for vocational psychology research on the vulnerable workforce	18
Catalysts in career transitions: Academic researchers transitioning into sustainable careers in data science	17
Digital war for talent: How profile reputations on company rating platforms drive job seekers' application intentions	17
Vocational behavior research: Past topics and future trends and challenges	17
A meta-analytic study of subjective career plateaus	17
Success or growth? Distinctive roles of extrinsic and intrinsic career goals in high-performance work systems, job crafting, and job performance	17
Research on the mechanism of leader aggressive humor on employee silence: A conditional process model	16
Exploring the dynamics of protean career orientation, career management behaviors, and subjective career success: An action regulation theory approach	16
When leader humility meets follower competitiveness: Relationships with follower affective trust, intended and voluntary turnover	16
Psychological contract breach and destructive voice: The mediating effect of relative deprivation and the moderating effect of leader emotional support	16
Do individuals combine different coping strategies to manage their stress in the aftermath of psychological contract breach over time? A longitudinal study	15
You stay home, but we can't: Invisible ‘dirty’ work as calling amid COVID-19 pandemic	15
Shining the light on women's work, this time brighter: Let's start at the top	15
Work-nonwork balance: Development and validation of a global and multidimensional measure	15
COVID-19 pandemic disruptions to working lives: A multilevel examination of impacts across career stages	15
Strengths-based leadership and employee work engagement: A multi-source study	14
Technology-assisted supplemental work: A meta-analysis	14
Striving for success: Towards a refined understanding and measurement of ambition	14
Unexpected change: Career transitions following a significant extra-organizational shock	14
Profiles of global and target-specific work commitments: Why compatibility is better and how to achieve it	14
The impact of the depletion, accumulation, and investment of personal resources on work–life balance satisfaction and job retention: A longitudinal study on working mothers	14
Newcomers' reaction to the abusive supervision toward peers during organizational socialization	14
Gaining affective resources for work-family enrichment: A multisource experience sampling study of micro-role transitions	14
Playful work design and employee work engagement: A self-determination perspective	14
The impact of trust in AI on career sustainability: The role of employee–AI collaboration and protean career orientation	14

A systematic review of at-work recovery and a framework for future research	14
Adapting careers to the COVID crisis: The impact of the pandemic on employees' career orientations	13
Putting the family back into work and family research	13
Measuring boundaries and borders: A taxonomy of work-nonwork boundary management scales	13
“Beware the young doctor and the old barber”: Development and validation of a job age-type spectrum	13
A meta-analytic review of the gender difference in leadership aspirations	13
How to minimize job insecurity: The role of proactive and reactive coping over time	13