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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Career Competencies and Career Success: On the Roles of Employability Activities and Academic Satisfaction During the School-to-Work Transition	50
Am I Gonna Get a Job? Graduating Students’ Psychological Capital, Coping Styles, and Employment Anxiety	47
Moving Toward Decent Work: Application of the Psychology of Working Theory to the School-to-Work Transition	47
Career Decision-Making Difficulties and Life Satisfaction: The Role of Career-Related Parental Behaviors and Career Adaptability	46
Career Adaptability and Career Decision Self-Efficacy: Meta-Analysis	39
Development and Validation of a Career Sustainability Scale	34
Barriers to the Successful Mentoring of Faculty of Color	25
Work Values and Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs at Work	20
Many Roads Lead to Rome: Researching Antecedents and Outcomes of Contemporary School-To-Work Transitions	16
Socioeconomic Differences in the Transition From Higher Education to the Labour Market: A Systematic Review	16
Impact of STEM Sense of Belonging on Career Interest: The Role of STEM Attitudes	15
Strengths-Based Leadership and Employee Psychological Well-Being: A Moderated Mediation Model	15
Are Girls More Ambitious Than Boys? Vocational Interests Partly Explain Gender Differences in Occupational Aspirations	14
Focused for Some, Exploratory for Others: Job Search Strategies and Successful University-to-Work Transitions in the Context of Labor Market Ambiguity	14
A Critical Exploration of Assumptions Underlying STEM Career Development	13
Career Decision, Work Adjustment, and Person–Job Fit of Adolescents: Moderating Effects of Parental Support	13
Career Adaptability Profiles and Their Relations With Emotional and Decision-Making Correlates Among Belgian Undergraduate Students	12
Adolescent–Parent Career Congruence as a Predictor of Job Search Preparatory Behaviors: The Role of Proactivity	12
Decent Work and Turnover Intentions Among Chinese Millennials: A Longitudinal Study	11
A Latent Profile Analysis of Living a Calling, Burnout, Exploitation, and Work–Life Imbalance	11
Exploring Mechanisms in the Entrepreneurial Passion–Entrepreneurial Behavior Relationship: Mediating Role of Growth-Oriented Intentions	10
Protean Career Orientation and Proactive Career Behaviors During School-to-Work Transition: Mechanism Exploration and Coaching Intervention	10
Adolescents’ Family Socioeconomic Status, Teacher–Student Interactions, and Career Ambivalence/Adaptability: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study	10
“Called” To Speak Out: Employee Career Calling and Voice Behavior	10
Validation of a French Version of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire: Relationships With Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy	9

An Essential but Overlooked Workforce: Elevating the Need to Investigate the Career Development of Paraeducators	9
“No Girls on the Software Team”: Internship Experiences of Women in Computer Science	9
Profiles of Calling and Their Relation to University-to-Work Transition Outcomes	9
Work Placement Supervisor Support and Students’ Proactive Career Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Proactivity	9
Autonomous Versus Controlled Motivation on Career Indecision: The Mediating Effect of Career Exploration	9
Jobs, Careers, and Callings: Exploring Work Orientation at Mid-Career	8
The Role of Emotion in Job Search Behavior Among College Students	7
Family Care-Work Interference and Mid/Late-Career Motivation and Intentions: Mediating Role of Occupational Future Time Perspective	7
A Meta-Study of the Journal of Career Development: An Analysis of Publication Characteristics from 2000 to 2019	7
The Role of Autonomy Support and Job Crafting in Interest Incongruence: A Mediated Moderation Model	7
Tenure Expectations and Career Aspirations Among Female Assistant Professors in STEM	7
Plugging the Leaky Pipeline:A Qualitative Investigation of Untenured Female Faculty in STEM	7
Unpacking the Concept of Decent Work in the Psychology of Working Theory for Blue-Collar Workers	6
Examining the Career Construction Model of Adaptation Among Filipino Senior High School Students	6
Refugees’ Meaning of Work: A Qualitative Investigation of Work Purposes and Expectations	6
Linking Career Adaptability and Psychological Well-Being: A Test of Moderated Mediation Model Among Indian Employees	6
Changes in Nurses’ Sense of Calling During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study	6
Job Seekers’ Self-Directed Learning Activities Explained Through the Lens of Regulatory Focus	6
“Why can’t I Have the Office Jobs?”: Immigrant Latinx Transgender Peoples’ Experiences with Seeking Employment	5
Validation of the Chinese Decent Work Scale	5
The Effects of Peers’ Career Goal Appraisals on School to Work Transition Outcomes	5
Linking Career Adaptability to Entrepreneurial Burnout: A Moderated Mediation Model	5
Emotional Intelligence Profiles and Job Search Correlates in the Context of the School-to-Work Transition	5
Development of STEM Vocational Interests During Elementary and Middle School: A Cohort-Sequential Longitudinal Study	5
Influence of Career-Related Parental Support on Adolescents’ Career Maturity: A Two-Wave Moderated Mediation Model	5
Gender Differences in STEM Career Development in Postsecondary Vocational-Technical Education. A Social Cognitive Career Theory Test	4
Examining the Role of Peer Support on Work Experiences for Young Women With Disabilities	4
Employability Development during Internships: A Three-Wave Study on a Sample of Psychology Graduates in Italy	4
Living a Calling During COVID-19: A Resource Gain Perspective	4
The Relationship Between Work Study and Career Development for Undergraduate Students	4
Stay or Leave? The Role of Career Adaptability and Organizational Embeddedness for Turnover Intentions	4
Examining Links Between Black Women’s Intersectional Identities and Career Interests	4
STEM Stories: Fostering STEM Persistence for Underrepresented Minority Students Attending Predominantly White Institutions	4
Adolescents’ Future Expectations of Work and Education Within Adaptation Model of Career Construction Theory	4
Dysfunctional Career Thoughts and the Sophomore Slump Among Students With Learning Disabilities	4
Assistant Teachers, Workplace Satisfaction, and the Creation of a Culturally Competent Workforce Pipeline in Head Start	4
Does Burnout Decrease With Teacher Professional Identity Among Teachers in China?	4
Career Exploration and Decision-Making Learning Experiences (CEDLE) Scales: Validation Among Chinese Vocational College Students	4
A Cross-Level Examination of the Relationship of Strengths-Based Human Resource System With Employee Performance	4
Cultural Values, Intergenerational Transmission of Internalized Racism, Education, and Career Goals in Chinese American Families	4
Internship Experience and Organizational Attractiveness: A Realistic Job Fit Perspective	4
Career Development in Transitional Work Settings: A Qualitative Investigation Among Veterans and Vocational Counselors	4
A Broken Pipeline: Effects of Gender and Racial/Ethnic Barriers on College Students’ Educational Aspiration–Pursuit Gap	4
Career Goal Profiles of Early Career Scientists: A Person-Centered Approach	3
Career Adaptability as a Predictor of Job Search Intentions and Career Readiness of Young Adults in the United Arab Emirates	3
Racial/Ethnic Minority Vocational Research Trends in Counseling Psychology and Multicultural Psychology Journals: A Trend Analysis Across 51 Years	3
Qualitative Job Insecurity, Negative Work-Related Affect and Work-to-Family Conflict: The Moderating Role of Core Self-Evaluations	3
Mentoring Barriers, Expected Outcomes, and Practices in Scientific Communication: Scale Development and Validation	3
Conceptualizing a Proposed Model for Re-Orienting Career Centers for Immigrant College Students	3
“It Felt Like a Little Community”: Supporting Rural Appalachian College Students	3

Evaluating the Decent Work Scale Measurement Model in Zimbabwe	3
Pursuing Money and Power, Prosocial Contributions, or Personal Growth: Measurement and Nomological Net of Different Career Strivings	3
Youth Perceptions of Their Futures, Society, and the Work Landscape: A Psychology of Working Perspective	3
“I Put In My Two Weeks Notice!” Employee Behavior and Wellness Prior to Exit	3
Examining Differentiation of Self Within Career Construction Model of Adaptation	2
Middle School, Middle-Skills: 8th Grader’s Interest in Middle-Skill Occupations	2
The Five-Factor Career Adapt-Abilities Scale’s Predictive and Incremental Validity With Work-Related and Life Outcomes	2
Linking Future Decent Work Perceptions With Employment Anxiety: A Psychology of Working Perspective	2
Growth Opportunities and Entrepreneurial Performance: Testing Strengths Use and Meaning-Making as Moderators of the Relationship	2
The Impact of Perceived Organizational Care on Employee Engagement: A Moderated Mediation Model of Psychological Capital and Managing Boundaries	2
A Test of the Career Construction Theory Model of Adaptation with Turkish Final Year Undergraduate Students	2
Mentoring as an Investment: A Quantitative Review of Mentoring and Well-Being for the Protégé	2
Does Future Work Self Benefit Everyone Equally? The Moderating Role of Organizational Support for Development	2
Career Planning and Self-Efficacy as Predictors of Students’ Career-Related Worry: Direct and Mediated Pathways	2
Mentoring and Career Success: An Examination of Management Aspirations and Lengthy Career Interruptions	2
Job-Search Behaviors During Involuntary Unemployment: A Social Cognitive Approach	2
Gender Differences in the Structure of Holland’s Personality Model in South Korea	2
A Cultural Orientation Approach to Work Orientation: Mongolian Workers’ Jobs, Careers, and Callings	2
Clarifying Work Values Through Seasonal Employment: An Instrumental Case Study of Summer Camp Employment	2
Association Among Parent–Teacher Relationship, Autonomy Support, and Career Development of High School Students Across School Types	2
Predictors and Outcomes of U.S. Quality Maternity Leave: A Review and Conceptual Framework	2
Latina Paraeducators’ Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Adaptation in an Alternative Route to Teaching Program	2
Towards Career Satisfaction by Career Adaptation Model Among Individuals With Visual Impairment	2
Chinese University Faculty’s Occupational Well-Being: Applying and Extending the Job Demands–Resources Model	2
Motivational Conflict and Volitional Career Actions in Young Adults: Ego Depletion as an Explanatory Mechanism	2
Career Interruptions: A Reconceptualization From a Chinese Taoism Perspective	2
When Debt Deters: Student Loans as a Predictor of Education-Job Match Among Arts Bachelor’s Graduates	2
Career Self-Efficacy, Future Perceptions, and Life Satisfaction: Investigating Two Adolescent Career Development Models	2