OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Career Development is 2. 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
Crafting Work Happiness: Balancing Client Agency & Empowerment With Critical Social Awareness	31
The Career Trajectories and Outcomes in Substance Use Recovery: A Scoping Review	24
Validation of the Chinese Decent Work Scale	19
Career Development in Transitional Work Settings: A Qualitative Investigation Among Veterans and Vocational Counselors	18
Give Twice to Get the Same: Gender Impact on Leaders’ Orientations and Career Paths	18
Does Future Work Self Benefit Everyone Equally? The Moderating Role of Organizational Support for Development	18
Exploring the Identities, Barriers, and Interventions for Motherscholars During a Global Pandemic	17
Family Care-Work Interference and Mid/Late-Career Motivation and Intentions: Mediating Role of Occupational Future Time Perspective	17
Women’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Persistence After University Graduation: Insights From Kazakhstan	16
Centering Race in Career Development: A Critical Review of Career Scholarship and Practice	16
The U.S. Workforce From 1960 to 2020: A RIASEC View	13
A Meta-Study of the Journal of Career Development: An Analysis of Publication Characteristics from 2000 to 2019	12
Job Choice Under Crisis Conditions: Differences in Motivational Systems and Job-Attribute Preferences of Young Adults	12
Proactivity and Job Search: The Mediating Role of Psychological Closeness With External Mentors	11
Who I Am and What I Want to Do: Linking Self-Construals and Career Interests	11
Linking Future Decent Work Perceptions With Employment Anxiety: A Psychology of Working Perspective	10
Linking Career Adaptability to Entrepreneurial Burnout: A Moderated Mediation Model	10
Qualitative Job Insecurity, Negative Work-Related Affect and Work-to-Family Conflict: The Moderating Role of Core Self-Evaluations	9
Erratum to “Career Goal Profiles of Early Career Scientists: A Person-Centered Approach”	9
Job-Search Behaviors During Involuntary Unemployment: A Social Cognitive Approach	9
How to Elicit Organizational Citizenship Behavior? The Role of Strengths-Based Leadership	9
The Association Between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Job-Seeking Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model	9
Career Self-Efficacy, Future Perceptions, and Life Satisfaction: Investigating Two Adolescent Career Development Models	8
Vocational Identity Statuses Among Hong Kong Sub-degree Students: Pattern Identification and Relationship to Career Development and Academic Performance	8
Achieving Workplace Wellbeing Among Indian IT Engineers	8

Purposeful Pathways: An Integrative Career Development Intervention for Vocational, Mental Health, and Substance Use Recovery	8
Validation of the Family-Supportive Coworker Behavior Scale in the Chinese Context	8
Mentoring as an Investment: A Quantitative Review of Mentoring and Well-Being for the Protégé	7
Conceptualizing a Proposed Model for Re-Orienting Career Centers for Immigrant College Students	7
Just and Inclusive Team Climates Affect Mentoring Satisfaction: The Roles of Negative Mentoring and Race	7
Clarifying Work Values Through Seasonal Employment: An Instrumental Case Study of Summer Camp Employment	6
Plugging the Leaky Pipeline:A Qualitative Investigation of Untenured Female Faculty in STEM	6
Role of Family Acculturation Stress in Career Development Among Adolescents From Multicultural Families in Korea	6
Work Placement Supervisor Support and Students’ Proactive Career Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Proactivity	6
Association Among Parent–Teacher Relationship, Autonomy Support, and Career Development of High School Students Across School Types	6
How Career Exploration Affects Employment Outcomes: A Two-Wave Study Among Young Chinese Adults	6
Job Search Interventions for Long-Term Unemployed Job Seekers: Comparing Approaches to Effective Support	5
Towards Career Satisfaction by Career Adaptation Model Among Individuals With Visual Impairment	5
STEM Stories: Fostering STEM Persistence for Underrepresented Minority Students Attending Predominantly White Institutions	5
Employability Development during Internships: A Three-Wave Study on a Sample of Psychology Graduates in Italy	5
Disentangling Career Change Magnitude Through Expert Analysis	5
The Origins of Emerging Adults’ Work–Family Balance Self-Efficacy: A Dyadic Study	5
Motivational Conflict and Volitional Career Actions in Young Adults: Ego Depletion as an Explanatory Mechanism	5
Motivational Resources of Agency in Adolescents’ Career Development in Postsecondary Transition: More than Being Self-Efficacious	5
The Best of Both Worlds: Affiliation and Agency in Traditional and Gig Work Choices	5
Evaluating the Decent Work Scale Measurement Model in Zimbabwe	5
Individuals’ Interests in Vocational Environments with Activity Opportunities That Are Inconsistent with Holland’s Calculus Hypothesis	4
Meaningful Work Linking High-Quality Relationships and Commitment: A Conditional Process Study with Career Orientation	4
Work–Family Conflict and Proactive Career Behaviors: The Roles of Career Resilience and Conscientiousness	4
Many Roads Lead to Rome: Researching Antecedents and Outcomes of Contemporary School-To-Work Transitions	4
Gender Typicality and Prestige of Occupational Aspirations in Adolescents: The Relevance of Agency and Communion	4
Social Identities and Cognitive Information Processing Theory: A Qualitative Analysis	4
Unpacking the Concept of Decent Work in the Psychology of Working Theory for Blue-Collar Workers	4
Work–Family Balance Satisfaction of Racially and Ethnically Minoritized Postdoctoral Scholars in the STEM Fields	4
Motivation, College Integration, and Intentions to Persist Among First-Generation College Students: A Latent Class Approach	4
Influence of Career-Related Parental Support on Adolescents’ Career Maturity: A Two-Wave Moderated Mediation Model	4
Protean Career Orientation and Proactive Career Behaviors During School-to-Work Transition: Mechanism Exploration and Coaching Intervention	4
“Called” To Speak Out: Employee Career Calling and Voice Behavior	3
Social-Cognitive Predictors of College Athletes’ Career Decision-Making: A Longitudinal Test of Career Self-Management Model	3
Career Interruptions: A Reconceptualization From a Chinese Taoism Perspective	3
“It Felt Like a Little Community”: Supporting Rural Appalachian College Students	3
Drivers of Involuntary Career Changes: A Qualitative Study of Push, Pull, Anti-Push, and Anti-Pull Factors	3
Living a Calling During COVID-19: A Resource Gain Perspective	3
“Why can’t I Have the Office Jobs?”: Immigrant Latinx Transgender Peoples’ Experiences with Seeking Employment	3
Exploring the Benefits of Boundarylessness: Pathways From Boundaryless Career Orientation to Insecurity and Engagement	3
A Phenomenological Exploration of Individual and University Supports Affecting U.S. International Students’ Job Searches	3
Youth Perceptions of Their Futures, Society, and the Work Landscape: A Psychology of Working Perspective	3
Acceptance of Disability Promotes Proactive Career Behavior Among People With Disabilities	3
An Examination of Mentors’ Interpersonal Behaviors and Mentees’ Motivation, Turnover Intentions, Engagement, and Well-Being	3
Work–Family Interface and Subjective Career Success: The Role(s) of Job Crafting as a Personal Resource	3
Career Building Among Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates	3
From Near and Afar: International Secondary School Students’ Career Influences	3
Career Aspirations of Arab Minority College Students in Israel: A Longitudinal Study	3
Influence of Career Adaptability and Job Control on Decent Work and Occupational Stress in a Sample of Apprentices	2
Perceived Scarcity of Job Opportunities and Job Search: An Evolutionary Life History Perspective	2

Career Adaptability as a Predictor of Job Search Intentions and Career Readiness of Young Adults in the United Arab Emirates	2
Secondary Students’ Academic Engagement Through Career Construction: The Role of Parental Support and Career Hope	2
Social Class and Career Decision Self-Efficacy: Roles of Career Social Support and Birthplace	2
Mentor–Protégé Matching Regarding Communication Relates to Career Attitudes	2
Does Burnout Decrease With Teacher Professional Identity Among Teachers in China?	2
Internship Experience and Organizational Attractiveness: A Realistic Job Fit Perspective	2
Decent Work and Turnover Intentions Among Chinese Millennials: A Longitudinal Study	2
A Glimpse Into an Uncommon Mind: A Review of My Life with a Theory	2
A Test of the Career Construction Theory Model of Adaptation with Turkish Final Year Undergraduate Students	2