OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Guidance & Counselling is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Graduate students’ perceptions of the career construction interview	22
The mediating role of cultural intelligence and cognitive flexibility in the relation between effective counsellor characteristics and multicultural counselling competencies of counsellors in Turkey	19
Development of vocational gender stereotype attitudes scale (VGSA) for adolescents	16
A qualitative study of counselling students’ experience with premature termination	14
Mindfulness, impulsivity and psychological distress: the mediation role of smartphone addiction	14
Effects of mindfulness-based strengths practice (MBSP) among women undergraduates in enhancing positive mental health	13
Critical perspectives on agency and social justice in transitions and career development	13
A framework for defining a guidance approach support: typology, concepts, and practice guidelines	12
Using phenomenology in careers research: student experiences of unpaid work	10
Job-seeking self-efficacy: an Irish scale for assessing the guidance and coaching needs of job seekers	10
Narratives of experiences of presence in bereavement: sources of comfort, ambivalence and distress	9
On the professional competence of career guidance counsellors: expectations and experiences of graduating students in Sweden	8
Institutional and psychological predictors of university students’ mental health help-seeking intentions	8
Exhaustion and job satisfaction among internal and external outplacement counsellors	8
Is dharma the same as calling? Considering religio-cultural context in cross-cultural calling research	8
University students’ feedback regarding effective measures to prevent bullying	8
Functional modes and social well-being as a protector of mental health during COVID-19	8
A critical exploration of the “agile career”: a means of exposing the politics and economy of precarity via the lens of dromology	8
Exploring calling to farming careers in the United Kingdom: a scoping review	8
The reflections of COVID-19 pandemic to counselling: bibliometric analysis of online psychological counselling research	7
Let me check my phone: smartphone addiction and its links to life satisfaction and psychological resilience	7
Play-based parent training programme supporting Hong Kong kindergarten children in social competence development	7
On becoming a counsellor: a posthuman reconfiguring of identity formation for counsellors-in-training	7
Introduction to issue 53 volume 2	7
The exclusion experienced by adolescents plays a mediating role in the effect of their insecure attachments on their depressive experiences: a cross-sectional study among high school students in Turke	7

Perception of online education during COVID-19: Online Photovoice (OPV) and ecological systems theory	7
Fostering teachers’ career education competencies: test of a training programme	6
Co-agency: reconsidering agency in guidance practice	6
The relationship between psychological flexibility and career adaptability as resources to promote well-being	6
Business school students’ motivations and intentions to pursue a project management career	6
Lessons learnt in distance sandtray therapy: perspectives and experiences from counsellors-in-training in Taiwan	6
Screening in schools: the acceptability and feasibility of guidance counsellors using YouthCHAT	5
A profile analysis investigation of perfectionism, time perspective in relation to career decision making	5
“I’ve finally got my expression”: the anchoring role of identity in changing from an organisation-based career to a protean career path	5
Career agency of immigrants participating in employment interventions in Norway	5
Integrative Psychotherapy: A Mindfulness- and Compassion-Oriented Approach	5
Exploring the future career autobiography with young Australian undergraduate students: autobiographical opportunities for career storytelling and narrative change	5
Examining career transition narratives through the lens of social justice: a critical study of the British Press	5
A critical review of contemporary concepts of agency in the field of career guidance: life-design counselling and a systems theory framework	4
The place of culture in the training of career guidance educators	4
Career development learning in childhood: a critical analysis	4
A tale of two widows: investigating meaning-making and identity development through writing in the face of grief	4
Counsellors’ position in the child–teacher-parent axis in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disorders	4
Chinese and non-Chinese parents’ perceptions of school counselling in Hong Kong: a mixed-methods cross-cultural comparison	4
Preserving the planet and promoting well-being	4
Stress and coping among parents of children with hearing impairment: a scoping review	4
Counselling and career guidance in Asia	4
Rethinking work: essays on building a better workplace	4
Reimagining the neuroscience concept of flow state to combat racism with U.S. born black clients	4
Career writing interventions for career learning: an integrative literature review	4
Assimilation in bereavement: charting the process of grief recovery in the case of Sophie	4
Counselling approaches to support former gang members in constructing new careers	4
The role of careers work in addressing the awarding gap for Black students: reflecting on the experiences of students at one post-1992 university in England	3
How to Think Like a … Behavior Analyst: Understanding the Science That Can Change Your Life (Second Edition)	3
Evaluating the preliminary efficacy of a career counselling programme for youth transitioning out of a juvenile justice facility	3
Social connectedness and career and talent development self-efficacy: direct and mediating effects	3
The effectiveness of self-healing intervention program on pain-related anxiety and the severity of perceived pain in patients with migraine	3
Smartphone addiction and psychological wellbeing among adolescents: the multiple mediating roles of academic procrastination and school burnout	3
Relationship between preference for solitude and life satisfaction: the mediating role of mindfulness	3
Barriers and facilitators to delivery of a webchat mental health helpline service for young people: a qualitative study using the Behaviour Change Wheel	3
Responding well to Spiritual Abuse: practice implications for counselling and psychotherapy	3
Practical applications of a social justice agenda in counselling and psychotherapy: the relational equality in education framework (REEF)	3
Vocational interest measures across Africa: a scoping review	3
The Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective	3