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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Predictors and Outcomes of U.S. Quality Maternity Leave: A Review and Conceptual Framework	40
Crafting Work Happiness: Balancing Client Agency & Empowerment With Critical Social Awareness	31
The Career Trajectories and Outcomes in Substance Use Recovery: A Scoping Review	22
Does Future Work Self Benefit Everyone Equally? The Moderating Role of Organizational Support for Development	19
Career Development in Transitional Work Settings: A Qualitative Investigation Among Veterans and Vocational Counselors	16
Validation of the Chinese Decent Work Scale	16
Give Twice to Get the Same: Gender Impact on Leaders’ Orientations and Career Paths	16
Family Care-Work Interference and Mid/Late-Career Motivation and Intentions: Mediating Role of Occupational Future Time Perspective	15
Centering Race in Career Development: A Critical Review of Career Scholarship and Practice	15
Exploring the Identities, Barriers, and Interventions for Motherscholars During a Global Pandemic	15
Women’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Persistence After University Graduation: Insights From Kazakhstan	15
The U.S. Workforce From 1960 to 2020: A RIASEC View	12
Job Choice Under Crisis Conditions: Differences in Motivational Systems and Job-Attribute Preferences of Young Adults	12
A Meta-Study of the Journal of Career Development: An Analysis of Publication Characteristics from 2000 to 2019	11
Proactivity and Job Search: The Mediating Role of Psychological Closeness With External Mentors	10
Growth Opportunities and Entrepreneurial Performance: Testing Strengths Use and Meaning-Making as Moderators of the Relationship	10
Who I Am and What I Want to Do: Linking Self-Construals and Career Interests	10
Linking Future Decent Work Perceptions With Employment Anxiety: A Psychology of Working Perspective	9
Linking Career Adaptability to Entrepreneurial Burnout: A Moderated Mediation Model	9
Chinese University Faculty’s Occupational Well-Being: Applying and Extending the Job Demands–Resources Model	9
A Cross-Level Examination of the Relationship of Strengths-Based Human Resource System With Employee Performance	8
Qualitative Job Insecurity, Negative Work-Related Affect and Work-to-Family Conflict: The Moderating Role of Core Self-Evaluations	8
How to Elicit Organizational Citizenship Behavior? The Role of Strengths-Based Leadership	8
Career Goal Profiles of Early Career Scientists: A Person-Centered Approach	8
Job-Search Behaviors During Involuntary Unemployment: A Social Cognitive Approach	8

Validation of the Family-Supportive Coworker Behavior Scale in the Chinese Context	7
Purposeful Pathways: An Integrative Career Development Intervention for Vocational, Mental Health, and Substance Use Recovery	7
Career Self-Efficacy, Future Perceptions, and Life Satisfaction: Investigating Two Adolescent Career Development Models	7
Vocational Identity Statuses Among Hong Kong Sub-degree Students: Pattern Identification and Relationship to Career Development and Academic Performance	7
Erratum to “Career Goal Profiles of Early Career Scientists: A Person-Centered Approach”	7
Achieving Workplace Wellbeing Among Indian IT Engineers	7
The Association Between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Job-Seeking Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model	7
Stay or Leave? The Role of Career Adaptability and Organizational Embeddedness for Turnover Intentions	7
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
Mentoring as an Investment: A Quantitative Review of Mentoring and Well-Being for the Protégé	6
Conceptualizing a Proposed Model for Re-Orienting Career Centers for Immigrant College Students	6
Just and Inclusive Team Climates Affect Mentoring Satisfaction: The Roles of Negative Mentoring and Race	6
Plugging the Leaky Pipeline:A Qualitative Investigation of Untenured Female Faculty in STEM	6
Clarifying Work Values Through Seasonal Employment: An Instrumental Case Study of Summer Camp Employment	5
Employability Development during Internships: A Three-Wave Study on a Sample of Psychology Graduates in Italy	5
STEM Stories: Fostering STEM Persistence for Underrepresented Minority Students Attending Predominantly White Institutions	5
Work Placement Supervisor Support and Students’ Proactive Career Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Proactivity	5
Role of Family Acculturation Stress in Career Development Among Adolescents From Multicultural Families in Korea	5
Disentangling Career Change Magnitude Through Expert Analysis	5
Motivational Conflict and Volitional Career Actions in Young Adults: Ego Depletion as an Explanatory Mechanism	5
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
The Best of Both Worlds: Affiliation and Agency in Traditional and Gig Work Choices	5
Impact of STEM Sense of Belonging on Career Interest: The Role of STEM Attitudes	4
Work–Family Balance Satisfaction of Racially and Ethnically Minoritized Postdoctoral Scholars in the STEM Fields	4
Work–Family Conflict and Proactive Career Behaviors: The Roles of Career Resilience and Conscientiousness	4
The Origins of Emerging Adults’ Work–Family Balance Self-Efficacy: A Dyadic Study	4
Motivation, College Integration, and Intentions to Persist Among First-Generation College Students: A Latent Class Approach	4
Individuals’ Interests in Vocational Environments with Activity Opportunities That Are Inconsistent with Holland’s Calculus Hypothesis	4
Evaluating the Decent Work Scale Measurement Model in Zimbabwe	4
Gender Typicality and Prestige of Occupational Aspirations in Adolescents: The Relevance of Agency and Communion	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	3
Career Interruptions: A Reconceptualization From a Chinese Taoism Perspective	3
“Why can’t I Have the Office Jobs?”: Immigrant Latinx Transgender Peoples’ Experiences with Seeking Employment	3
Work–Family Interface and Subjective Career Success: The Role(s) of Job Crafting as a Personal Resource	3
Unpacking the Concept of Decent Work in the Psychology of Working Theory for Blue-Collar Workers	3
Many Roads Lead to Rome: Researching Antecedents and Outcomes of Contemporary School-To-Work Transitions	3
Protean Career Orientation and Proactive Career Behaviors During School-to-Work Transition: Mechanism Exploration and Coaching Intervention	3
Exploring the Benefits of Boundarylessness: Pathways From Boundaryless Career Orientation to Insecurity and Engagement	3
An Examination of Mentors’ Interpersonal Behaviors and Mentees’ Motivation, Turnover Intentions, Engagement, and Well-Being	3
Social Identities and Cognitive Information Processing Theory: A Qualitative Analysis	3
Living a Calling During COVID-19: A Resource Gain Perspective	3
“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 Building Among Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates	2
From Near and Afar: International Secondary School Students’ Career Influences	2
Career Aspirations of Arab Minority College Students in Israel: A Longitudinal Study	2
Secondary Students’ Academic Engagement Through Career Construction: The Role of Parental Support and Career Hope	2

A Test of the Career Construction Theory Model of Adaptation with Turkish Final Year Undergraduate Students	2
Drivers of Involuntary Career Changes: A Qualitative Study of Push, Pull, Anti-Push, and Anti-Pull Factors	2
Linking Mentoring to Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Roles of Protégés’ Task Performance and Job Satisfaction	2
“It Felt Like a Little Community”: Supporting Rural Appalachian College Students	2
Career Adaptability as a Predictor of Job Search Intentions and Career Readiness of Young Adults in the United Arab Emirates	2
Mentor–Protégé Matching Regarding Communication Relates to Career Attitudes	2
“No Girls on the Software Team”: Internship Experiences of Women in Computer Science	2
Adolescents’ Future Expectations of Work and Education Within Adaptation Model of Career Construction Theory	2
A Phenomenological Exploration of Individual and University Supports Affecting U.S. International Students’ Job Searches	2
Youth Perceptions of Their Futures, Society, and the Work Landscape: A Psychology of Working Perspective	2
Does Burnout Decrease With Teacher Professional Identity Among Teachers in China?	2
Perceived Scarcity of Job Opportunities and Job Search: An Evolutionary Life History Perspective	2
A Glimpse Into an Uncommon Mind: A Review of My Life with a Theory	2