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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Predictors and Outcomes of U.S. Quality Maternity Leave: A Review and Conceptual Framework	55
Crafting Work Happiness: Balancing Client Agency & Empowerment With Critical Social Awareness	35
The Career Trajectories and Outcomes in Substance Use Recovery: A Scoping Review	33
Does Future Work Self Benefit Everyone Equally? The Moderating Role of Organizational Support for Development	31
Career Development in Transitional Work Settings: A Qualitative Investigation Among Veterans and Vocational Counselors	21
Give Twice to Get the Same: Gender Impact on Leaders’ Orientations and Career Paths	21
Validation of the Chinese Decent Work Scale	19
Exploring the Identities, Barriers, and Interventions for Motherscholars During a Global Pandemic	18
Women’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Persistence After University Graduation: Insights From Kazakhstan	16
The Relationship Between Work Study and Career Development for Undergraduate Students	15
Centering Race in Career Development: A Critical Review of Career Scholarship and Practice	15
Family Care-Work Interference and Mid/Late-Career Motivation and Intentions: Mediating Role of Occupational Future Time Perspective	15
Job Choice Under Crisis Conditions: Differences in Motivational Systems and Job-Attribute Preferences of Young Adults	14
The U.S. Workforce From 1960 to 2020: A RIASEC View	14
Linking Career Adaptability to Entrepreneurial Burnout: A Moderated Mediation Model	13
A Meta-Study of the Journal of Career Development: An Analysis of Publication Characteristics from 2000 to 2019	11
Who I Am and What I Want to Do: Linking Self-Construals and Career Interests	11
Growth Opportunities and Entrepreneurial Performance: Testing Strengths Use and Meaning-Making as Moderators of the Relationship	11
Proactivity and Job Search: The Mediating Role of Psychological Closeness With External Mentors	10
Linking Future Decent Work Perceptions With Employment Anxiety: A Psychology of Working Perspective	10
Chinese University Faculty’s Occupational Well-Being: Applying and Extending the Job Demands–Resources Model	9
How to Elicit Organizational Citizenship Behavior? The Role of Strengths-Based Leadership	9
A Cross-Level Examination of the Relationship of Strengths-Based Human Resource System With Employee Performance	9
Qualitative Job Insecurity, Negative Work-Related Affect and Work-to-Family Conflict: The Moderating Role of Core Self-Evaluations	8
Job-Search Behaviors During Involuntary Unemployment: A Social Cognitive Approach	8

Stay or Leave? The Role of Career Adaptability and Organizational Embeddedness for Turnover Intentions	7
Validation of the Family-Supportive Coworker Behavior Scale in the Chinese Context	7
Erratum to “Career Goal Profiles of Early Career Scientists: A Person-Centered Approach”	7
Achieving Workplace Wellbeing Among Indian IT Engineers	7
Vocational Identity Statuses Among Hong Kong Sub-degree Students: Pattern Identification and Relationship to Career Development and Academic Performance	7
Purposeful Pathways: An Integrative Career Development Intervention for Vocational, Mental Health, and Substance Use Recovery	7
Conceptualizing a Proposed Model for Re-Orienting Career Centers for Immigrant College Students	7
Career Self-Efficacy, Future Perceptions, and Life Satisfaction: Investigating Two Adolescent Career Development Models	7
The Association Between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Job-Seeking Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model	7
Career Goal Profiles of Early Career Scientists: A Person-Centered Approach	7
Clarifying Work Values Through Seasonal Employment: An Instrumental Case Study of Summer Camp Employment	6
Association Among Parent–Teacher Relationship, Autonomy Support, and Career Development of High School Students Across School Types	6
Focused for Some, Exploratory for Others: Job Search Strategies and Successful University-to-Work Transitions in the Context of Labor Market Ambiguity	6
Plugging the Leaky Pipeline:A Qualitative Investigation of Untenured Female Faculty in STEM	6
Just and Inclusive Team Climates Affect Mentoring Satisfaction: The Roles of Negative Mentoring and Race	6
Mentoring as an Investment: A Quantitative Review of Mentoring and Well-Being for the Protégé	6
How Career Exploration Affects Employment Outcomes: A Two-Wave Study Among Young Chinese Adults	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
Gender Typicality and Prestige of Occupational Aspirations in Adolescents: The Relevance of Agency and Communion	5
Evaluating the Decent Work Scale Measurement Model in Zimbabwe	5
Towards Career Satisfaction by Career Adaptation Model Among Individuals With Visual Impairment	5
Employability Development during Internships: A Three-Wave Study on a Sample of Psychology Graduates in Italy	5
The Origins of Emerging Adults’ Work–Family Balance Self-Efficacy: A Dyadic Study	5
STEM Stories: Fostering STEM Persistence for Underrepresented Minority Students Attending Predominantly White Institutions	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
Impact of STEM Sense of Belonging on Career Interest: The Role of STEM Attitudes	5
The Best of Both Worlds: Affiliation and Agency in Traditional and Gig Work Choices	5
Disentangling Career Change Magnitude Through Expert Analysis	5
Individuals’ Interests in Vocational Environments with Activity Opportunities That Are Inconsistent with Holland’s Calculus Hypothesis	4
Am I Gonna Get a Job? Graduating Students’ Psychological Capital, Coping Styles, and Employment Anxiety	4
Work–Family Conflict and Proactive Career Behaviors: The Roles of Career Resilience and Conscientiousness	4
Motivation, College Integration, and Intentions to Persist Among First-Generation College Students: A Latent Class Approach	4
Work–Family Balance Satisfaction of Racially and Ethnically Minoritized Postdoctoral Scholars in the STEM Fields	4
Social Identities and Cognitive Information Processing Theory: A Qualitative Analysis	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
Many Roads Lead to Rome: Researching Antecedents and Outcomes of Contemporary School-To-Work Transitions	3
Social-Cognitive Predictors of College Athletes’ Career Decision-Making: A Longitudinal Test of Career Self-Management Model	3
Unpacking the Concept of Decent Work in the Psychology of Working Theory for Blue-Collar Workers	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
Living a Calling During COVID-19: A Resource Gain Perspective	3
An Examination of Mentors’ Interpersonal Behaviors and Mentees’ Motivation, Turnover Intentions, Engagement, and Well-Being	3
Exploring the Benefits of Boundarylessness: Pathways From Boundaryless Career Orientation to Insecurity and Engagement	3
Protean Career Orientation and Proactive Career Behaviors During School-to-Work Transition: Mechanism Exploration and Coaching Intervention	3
“Called” To Speak Out: Employee Career Calling and Voice Behavior	3
Drivers of Involuntary Career Changes: A Qualitative Study of Push, Pull, Anti-Push, and Anti-Pull Factors	2

Does Burnout Decrease With Teacher Professional Identity Among Teachers in China?	2
Influence of Career Adaptability and Job Control on Decent Work and Occupational Stress in a Sample of Apprentices	2
A Test of the Career Construction Theory Model of Adaptation with Turkish Final Year Undergraduate Students	2
Barriers to the Successful Mentoring of Faculty of Color	2
The Effects of Peers’ Career Goal Appraisals on School to Work Transition Outcomes	2
A Phenomenological Exploration of Individual and University Supports Affecting U.S. International Students’ Job Searches	2
Career Aspirations of Arab Minority College Students in Israel: A Longitudinal Study	2
Career Adaptability as a Predictor of Job Search Intentions and Career Readiness of Young Adults in the United Arab Emirates	2
“No Girls on the Software Team”: Internship Experiences of Women in Computer Science	2
“It Felt Like a Little Community”: Supporting Rural Appalachian College Students	2
Decent Work and Turnover Intentions Among Chinese Millennials: A Longitudinal Study	2
Career Building Among Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates	2
Youth Perceptions of Their Futures, Society, and the Work Landscape: A Psychology of Working Perspective	2
From Near and Afar: International Secondary School Students’ Career Influences	2
A Glimpse Into an Uncommon Mind: A Review of My Life with a Theory	2
Secondary Students’ Academic Engagement Through Career Construction: The Role of Parental Support and Career Hope	2
Mentor–Protégé Matching Regarding Communication Relates to Career Attitudes	2
Adolescents’ Future Expectations of Work and Education Within Adaptation Model of Career Construction Theory	2
Perceived Scarcity of Job Opportunities and Job Search: An Evolutionary Life History Perspective	2
Linking Mentoring to Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Roles of Protégés’ Task Performance and Job Satisfaction	2