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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Drivers of Involuntary Career Changes: A Qualitative Study of Push, Pull, Anti-Push, and Anti-Pull Factors	62
Testing an Extended Social Cognitive Model of Occupational Turnover Intentions	54
Linking Career Adaptability and Psychological Well-Being: A Test of Moderated Mediation Model Among Indian Employees	50
Career Aspirations of Arab Minority College Students in Israel: A Longitudinal Study	48
From Near and Afar: International Secondary School Students’ Career Influences	44
Job Seekers’ Self-Directed Learning Activities Explained Through the Lens of Regulatory Focus	40
Career Exploration and Decision-Making Learning Experiences (CEDLE) Scales: Validation Among Chinese Vocational College Students	30
Autonomous Versus Controlled Motivation on Career Indecision: The Mediating Effect of Career Exploration	28
Examining the Career Construction Model of Adaptation Among Filipino Senior High School Students	24
Gender Differences in STEM Career Development in Postsecondary Vocational-Technical Education. A Social Cognitive Career Theory Test	18
Exploring the Structure of Career Narratives: The Application of the Narrative Identity Assessment Model	18
Facilitating United States Service Members’ Transition Out of the Military: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	16
Crafting Work Happiness: Balancing Client Agency & Empowerment With Critical Social Awareness	15
Examining Links Between Black Women’s Intersectional Identities and Career Interests	15
Career Planning and Self-Efficacy as Predictors of Students’ Career-Related Worry: Direct and Mediated Pathways	13
The Career Trajectories and Outcomes in Substance Use Recovery: A Scoping Review	13
Middle School, Middle-Skills: 8th Grader’s Interest in Middle-Skill Occupations	13
Racial/Ethnic Minority Vocational Research Trends in Counseling Psychology and Multicultural Psychology Journals: A Trend Analysis Across 51 Years	13
Emotional Intelligence Profiles and Job Search Correlates in the Context of the School-to-Work Transition	13
Advancing Research on Career Sustainability	12
Examining Differentiation of Self Within Career Construction Model of Adaptation	12
Gender Typicality and Prestige of Occupational Aspirations in Adolescents: The Relevance of Agency and Communion	12
The Association Between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Job-Seeking Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model	11
A Phenomenological Exploration of Individual and University Supports Affecting U.S. International Students’ Job Searches	11
The Origins of Emerging Adults’ Work–Family Balance Self-Efficacy: A Dyadic Study	11

The Assessment of Post-secondary Supports: A New Measure of an Understudied SCCT Construct	10
Facing Change With Stability: The Dynamics of Occupational Career Trajectories	10
Work–Family Balance Satisfaction of Racially and Ethnically Minoritized Postdoctoral Scholars in the STEM Fields	10
Predictors and Outcomes of U.S. Quality Maternity Leave: A Review and Conceptual Framework	9
Purposeful Pathways: An Integrative Career Development Intervention for Vocational, Mental Health, and Substance Use Recovery	9
“I Put In My Two Weeks Notice!” Employee Behavior and Wellness Prior to Exit	8
Latina Paraeducators’ Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Adaptation in an Alternative Route to Teaching Program	8
“It Felt Like a Little Community”: Supporting Rural Appalachian College Students	8
Adolescent–Parent Career Congruence as a Predictor of Job Search Preparatory Behaviors: The Role of Proactivity	8
Moving Toward Decent Work: Application of the Psychology of Working Theory to the School-to-Work Transition	7
Erratum to “Career Goal Profiles of Early Career Scientists: A Person-Centered Approach”	7
Validation of the Family-Supportive Coworker Behavior Scale in the Chinese Context	7
Youth Perceptions of Their Futures, Society, and the Work Landscape: A Psychology of Working Perspective	7
Work Values and Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs at Work	6
Stay or Leave? The Role of Career Adaptability and Organizational Embeddedness for Turnover Intentions	6
Does Burnout Decrease With Teacher Professional Identity Among Teachers in China?	6
Meaningful Work Linking High-Quality Relationships and Commitment: A Conditional Process Study with Career Orientation	6
Am I Gonna Get a Job? Graduating Students’ Psychological Capital, Coping Styles, and Employment Anxiety	6
Conceptualizing a Proposed Model for Re-Orienting Career Centers for Immigrant College Students	6
Vocational Identity Statuses Among Hong Kong Sub-degree Students: Pattern Identification and Relationship to Career Development and Academic Performance	6
How Career and Non-Work Goal Progress Affect Dual Earners’ Satisfaction: A Whole-Life Perspective	6
Career Adaptability and Career Decision Self-Efficacy: Meta-Analysis	6
A Glimpse Into an Uncommon Mind: A Review of My Life with a Theory	6
A Broken Pipeline: Effects of Gender and Racial/Ethnic Barriers on College Students’ Educational Aspiration–Pursuit Gap	6
Career Adaptability as a Predictor of Job Search Intentions and Career Readiness of Young Adults in the United Arab Emirates	6
A Latent Profile Analysis of Protean Career Attitude and Vocational Identity Status	5
Validation of the Chinese Decent Work Scale	5
Career Self-Efficacy, Future Perceptions, and Life Satisfaction: Investigating Two Adolescent Career Development Models	5
Refugees’ Meaning of Work: A Qualitative Investigation of Work Purposes and Expectations	5
Give Twice to Get the Same: Gender Impact on Leaders’ Orientations and Career Paths	5
Challenge or Threat? Proposing and Testing a Career Shock Coping Model	5
Profiles of Calling and Their Relation to University-to-Work Transition Outcomes	5
Motivation, College Integration, and Intentions to Persist Among First-Generation College Students: A Latent Class Approach	5
Career Development in Transitional Work Settings: A Qualitative Investigation Among Veterans and Vocational Counselors	5
The Role of Autonomy Support and Job Crafting in Interest Incongruence: A Mediated Moderation Model	5
Pursuing Money and Power, Prosocial Contributions, or Personal Growth: Measurement and Nomological Net of Different Career Strivings	5
Career Competencies and Career Success: On the Roles of Employability Activities and Academic Satisfaction During the School-to-Work Transition	4
Does Future Work Self Benefit Everyone Equally? The Moderating Role of Organizational Support for Development	4
Just and Inclusive Team Climates Affect Mentoring Satisfaction: The Roles of Negative Mentoring and Race	4
Social Identities and Cognitive Information Processing Theory: A Qualitative Analysis	4
Strengths-Based Leadership and Employee Psychological Well-Being: A Moderated Mediation Model	4
Career Decision, Work Adjustment, and Person–Job Fit of Adolescents: Moderating Effects of Parental Support	4
Examining Teacher Feedback, Perceived Competencies, Interests, and Achievement in Fourth-Grade Students in Portugal	4
Perceived Scarcity of Job Opportunities and Job Search: An Evolutionary Life History Perspective	4
Decent Work and Turnover Intentions Among Chinese Millennials: A Longitudinal Study	4
Influence of Career-Related Parental Support on Adolescents’ Career Maturity: A Two-Wave Moderated Mediation Model	4
Achieving Workplace Wellbeing Among Indian IT Engineers	4
Self-Perceived Employability and Psychological Well-Being Among Italian Students and Graduates: A Three-Wave Cross-Lagged Study	4
Many Roads Lead to Rome: Researching Antecedents and Outcomes of Contemporary School-To-Work Transitions	4
Socioeconomic Differences in the Transition From Higher Education to the Labour Market: A Systematic Review	4

An Exploratory Study of Engineering Graduate Student Persistence: Self-Efficacy and Contextual Influences	4
Voicing Is Not Icing! The Role of Career Empowerment in Fostering Voice Behavior Through Career Security: A Time-Lagged Three-Wave Study	3
Mentoring Barriers, Expected Outcomes, and Practices in Scientific Communication: Scale Development and Validation	3
Association Among Parent–Teacher Relationship, Autonomy Support, and Career Development of High School Students Across School Types	3
An Essential but Overlooked Workforce: Elevating the Need to Investigate the Career Development of Paraeducators	3
“No Girls on the Software Team”: Internship Experiences of Women in Computer Science	3
Centering Race in Career Development: A Critical Review of Career Scholarship and Practice	3
Influence of Career Adaptability and Job Control on Decent Work and Occupational Stress in a Sample of Apprentices	3
Secondary Students’ Academic Engagement Through Career Construction: The Role of Parental Support and Career Hope	3
Validation of a French Version of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire: Relationships With Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy	3
A Test of the Career Construction Theory Model of Adaptation with Turkish Final Year Undergraduate Students	3
Assistant Teachers, Workplace Satisfaction, and the Creation of a Culturally Competent Workforce Pipeline in Head Start	2
The Relationship Between Work Study and Career Development for Undergraduate Students	2
Reaching Further Into a Theory of Career Problem-Solving and Decision-Making	2
Plugging the Leaky Pipeline:A Qualitative Investigation of Untenured Female Faculty in STEM	2
Mentoring as an Investment: A Quantitative Review of Mentoring and Well-Being for the Protégé	2
The Role of Emotion in Job Search Behavior Among College Students	2
A Meta-Study of the Journal of Career Development: An Analysis of Publication Characteristics from 2000 to 2019	2
Family Care-Work Interference and Mid/Late-Career Motivation and Intentions: Mediating Role of Occupational Future Time Perspective	2
Work Placement Supervisor Support and Students’ Proactive Career Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Proactivity	2
Career Adaptability Profiles and Their Relations With Emotional and Decision-Making Correlates Among Belgian Undergraduate Students	2
Work–Family Conflict and Proactive Career Behaviors: The Roles of Career Resilience and Conscientiousness	2
Developmental Networks of Young Adults for Career Growth Opportunities: South Korean Self-Initiated Expatriates in Vietnam	2
Linking Career Adaptability to Entrepreneurial Burnout: A Moderated Mediation Model	2
Mentor–Protégé Matching Regarding Communication Relates to Career Attitudes	2
How Career Exploration Affects Employment Outcomes: A Two-Wave Study Among Young Chinese Adults	2
Women’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Persistence After University Graduation: Insights From Kazakhstan	2
Internship Experience and Organizational Attractiveness: A Realistic Job Fit Perspective	2
Unpacking the Concept of Decent Work in the Psychology of Working Theory for Blue-Collar Workers	2
Is REBT Useful for Reducing Adolescents’ Career Decision Difficulties and Distress? A Randomized Trial	2