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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Crafting Work Happiness: Balancing Client Agency & Empowerment With Critical Social Awareness	26
The Career Trajectories and Outcomes in Substance Use Recovery: A Scoping Review	25
Future Orientation and Career Development for Culturally Diverse At-Risk Youth: Qualitative Insights	24
Does Future Work Self Benefit Everyone Equally? The Moderating Role of Organizational Support for Development	22
Career Development in Transitional Work Settings: A Qualitative Investigation Among Veterans and Vocational Counselors	22
Family Capital, Career-Related Parental Behaviors, and Career Adaptability Among Chinese Adolescents: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study	20
Give Twice to Get the Same: Gender Impact on Leaders’ Orientations and Career Paths	18
Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Purpose in Life: Dynamic Components for Sustainable Careers—Does Gender Matter?	18
Exploring the Identities, Barriers, and Interventions for Motherscholars During a Global Pandemic	17
Transcendent or Fraudulent: Investigating the Relationships Among Imposter Phenomenon, Perfectionism, and Calling	16
Family Care-Work Interference and Mid/Late-Career Motivation and Intentions: Mediating Role of Occupational Future Time Perspective	16
Who I Am and What I Want to Do: Linking Self-Construals and Career Interests	12
Women’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Persistence After University Graduation: Insights From Kazakhstan	12
Proactivity and Job Search: The Mediating Role of Psychological Closeness With External Mentors	12
Centering Race in Career Development: A Critical Review of Career Scholarship and Practice	12
Job Choice Under Crisis Conditions: Differences in Motivational Systems and Job-Attribute Preferences of Young Adults	11
Linking Career Adaptability to Entrepreneurial Burnout: A Moderated Mediation Model	10
Linking Future Decent Work Perceptions With Employment Anxiety: A Psychology of Working Perspective	10
A Meta-Study of the Journal of Career Development: An Analysis of Publication Characteristics from 2000 to 2019	10
The U.S. Workforce From 1960 to 2020: A RIASEC View	10
International Students’ Emotional Experiences and Reactions During the Transition to Employment	10
How to Elicit Organizational Citizenship Behavior? The Role of Strengths-Based Leadership	9
Navigating Involuntary Career Changes: Emotional Dynamics During Work-Related Identity Loss and Recovery	9
Job-Search Behaviors During Involuntary Unemployment: A Social Cognitive Approach	8
Career Self-Efficacy, Future Perceptions, and Life Satisfaction: Investigating Two Adolescent Career Development Models	8

The Association Between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Job-Seeking Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model	8
Purposeful Pathways: An Integrative Career Development Intervention for Vocational, Mental Health, and Substance Use Recovery	8
Two Emotional Roots of Youths’ Earth-Friendly Career Aspirations: Eco-Anxiety and Empathy Toward Animals	8
Erratum to “Career Goal Profiles of Early Career Scientists: A Person-Centered Approach”	8
How Career Exploration Affects Employment Outcomes: A Two-Wave Study Among Young Chinese Adults	7
Career Exploration and Decision-Making of Turkish Undergraduates: Testing a Social Cognitive Model	7
Validation of the Family-Supportive Coworker Behavior Scale in the Chinese Context	7
Vocational Identity Statuses Among Hong Kong Sub-degree Students: Pattern Identification and Relationship to Career Development and Academic Performance	7
Achieving Workplace Wellbeing Among Indian IT Engineers	7
Conceptualizing a Proposed Model for Re-Orienting Career Centers for Immigrant College Students	7
Role of Family Acculturation Stress in Career Development Among Adolescents From Multicultural Families in Korea	6
Association Among Parent–Teacher Relationship, Autonomy Support, and Career Development of High School Students Across School Types	6
Motivational Conflict and Volitional Career Actions in Young Adults: Ego Depletion as an Explanatory Mechanism	6
Plugging the Leaky Pipeline:A Qualitative Investigation of Untenured Female Faculty in STEM	6
Job Search Interventions for Long-Term Unemployed Job Seekers: Comparing Approaches to Effective Support	6
High-Achieving Rural Youth and Math and Science Talent Development: An Application of SCCT	6
Mentoring as an Investment: A Quantitative Review of Mentoring and Well-Being for the Protégé	6
Disentangling Career Change Magnitude Through Expert Analysis	6
Adolescent–Parent Career Congruence and Vocational Identity Among Chinese College Students: A Moderated Mediation Model	6
The Origins of Emerging Adults’ Work–Family Balance Self-Efficacy: A Dyadic Study	5
Employability Development during Internships: A Three-Wave Study on a Sample of Psychology Graduates in Italy	5
Gender Typicality and Prestige of Occupational Aspirations in Adolescents: The Relevance of Agency and Communion	5
Adolescent Self-Control and Career Ambivalence: Longitudinal Mediation via Decision-Making Self-Efficacy	5
The Best of Both Worlds: Affiliation and Agency in Traditional and Gig Work Choices	5
Individuals’ Interests in Vocational Environments with Activity Opportunities That Are Inconsistent with Holland’s Calculus Hypothesis	5
Work–Family Balance Satisfaction of Racially and Ethnically Minoritized Postdoctoral Scholars in the STEM Fields	5
Motivational Resources of Agency in Adolescents’ Career Development in Postsecondary Transition: More than Being Self-Efficacious	5
Evaluating the Decent Work Scale Measurement Model in Zimbabwe	5
Social Identities and Cognitive Information Processing Theory: A Qualitative Analysis	4
Motivation, College Integration, and Intentions to Persist Among First-Generation College Students: A Latent Class Approach	4
Answering the Calling with Passion: Academic Odyssey as Freelance Faculty From Corporate to Campus	4
Work–Family Conflict and Proactive Career Behaviors: The Roles of Career Resilience and Conscientiousness	4
Economic Constraints as Career Catalysts: The Adversity-Transformation Framework in Vietnamese Higher Education	4
Do Work–Life Balance Climates Constrain Leadership Aspirations? Gender and Career Values in Korea’s Accounting Profession	4
Meaningful Work Linking High-Quality Relationships and Commitment: A Conditional Process Study with Career Orientation	4
Influence of Career-Related Parental Support on Adolescents’ Career Maturity: A Two-Wave Moderated Mediation Model	4
Career Interruptions: A Reconceptualization From a Chinese Taoism Perspective	4
Protean Career Orientation and Proactive Career Behaviors During School-to-Work Transition: Mechanism Exploration and Coaching Intervention	3
Acceptance of Disability Promotes Proactive Career Behavior Among People With Disabilities	3
Exploring the Benefits of Boundarylessness: Pathways From Boundaryless Career Orientation to Insecurity and Engagement	3
Career Aspirations of Arab Minority College Students in Israel: A Longitudinal Study	3
Career Adaptability as a Predictor of Job Search Intentions and Career Readiness of Young Adults in the United Arab Emirates	3
Social-Cognitive Predictors of College Athletes’ Career Decision-Making: A Longitudinal Test of Career Self-Management Model	3
Career Building Among Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates	3
Youth Perceptions of Their Futures, Society, and the Work Landscape: A Psychology of Working Perspective	3
“Finding Your Purpose Doesn’t Come Overnight”: How Youth Describe Vocational Training Opportunities in Juvenile Justice	3
A Phenomenological Exploration of Individual and University Supports Affecting U.S. International Students’ Job Searches	3
“It Felt Like a Little Community”: Supporting Rural Appalachian College Students	3
Work–Family Interface and Subjective Career Success: The Role(s) of Job Crafting as a Personal Resource	3
From Near and Afar: International Secondary School Students’ Career Influences	3

Drivers of Involuntary Career Changes: A Qualitative Study of Push, Pull, Anti-Push, and Anti-Pull Factors	3
Does Burnout Decrease With Teacher Professional Identity Among Teachers in China?	3
Unrealistic Career Optimism Among Korean Adolescents: A Discrepancy Between Career Aspirations and Career Preparation Behaviors	2
Secondary Students’ Academic Engagement Through Career Construction: The Role of Parental Support and Career Hope	2
Purpose-led Career Change and Well-being: The Experience of Midlife Women	2
Influence of Career Adaptability and Job Control on Decent Work and Occupational Stress in a Sample of Apprentices	2
Is REBT Useful for Reducing Adolescents’ Career Decision Difficulties and Distress? A Randomized Trial	2
Managerial Egocentricity and Subordinates’ Career Sustainability: The Role of Emotional Disengagement	2
Analyzing Factors Influencing College Athletes’ Career Actions Using Social Cognitive Career Self-Management Model	2
Adolescents’ Family Socioeconomic Status, Teacher–Student Interactions, and Career Ambivalence/Adaptability: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study	2
Adolescent–Parent Career Congruence and Career Adaptability in High School Students: Learning Factors’ Mediation	2
Internship Experience and Organizational Attractiveness: A Realistic Job Fit Perspective	2
How Psychological Capital Impacts Career Growth of University Students? The Role of Academic Major Choice	2
Decent Work and Turnover Intentions Among Chinese Millennials: A Longitudinal Study	2
What Job is a “Good Job” for Chinese Undergraduates: An Exploration Study	2
A Test of the Career Construction Theory Model of Adaptation with Turkish Final Year Undergraduate Students	2
Examining Understandings of Racial Equity Among Career Services Professionals	2
Mentor–Protégé Matching Regarding Communication Relates to Career Attitudes	2
Social Class and Career Decision Self-Efficacy: Roles of Career Social Support and Birthplace	2
Building Aspirations Through Supportive Systems: Understanding the Career Learning Experiences of Middle School Prospective First-Generation College Students	2
Longitudinal Relationships Between Career Satisfaction, Perceived Organizational Support, and Psychological Capital in Teachers	2
The Five-Factor Career Adapt-Abilities Scale’s Predictive and Incremental Validity With Work-Related and Life Outcomes	2
Perceived Scarcity of Job Opportunities and Job Search: An Evolutionary Life History Perspective	2