OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Career Assessment 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Longitudinal Patterns in Gender-Typed Career Interests and Career Stereotypes Among Boys and Girls in Middle Adolescence	44
Career Construction Networks Among Junior and Senior High School Students	37
The Super-Short Form of Career Adapt-Abilities Scale: Cross-Cultural Validation in China and the United Kingdom	34
An Investigation of Work Precarity Among Paid Domestic Cleaning Workers in Switzerland	33
A Multi-Group Study of Psychological Capital and Job Search Behaviours Among University Graduates With and Without Work Placement Learning Experience	32
The Development and Validation of the Postgraduate School Application Outcome Expectations Scale	25
Lockdown Stories: A Qualitative Assessment and Comprehensive Taxonomy of Career Resources	21
Middle School Students’ Motivation to Pursue a Career in Teaching: Psychometric Validation of the Becoming-A-Teacher Expectancy-Value-Cost Scale	20
Antecedents and Outcomes of Positive Career Goal Progress Discrepancy Appraisal in Young Adults	20
Disentangling Underemployment and Precarious Work: A Latent Profile Analysis	18
Leveraging a Critical Quantitative Perspective and the MIMIC Approach to Produce More Equitable Measures in Vocational Psychology	18
A Social Cognitive Career Theory Study of Agricultural Mechanical Trade Workers	16
Outcomes of Decent Work Among Blue-Collar Workers in South Africa: The Role of Job Satisfaction	15
Reciprocal Effects of Career Adaptability and Occupational Self-Efficacy: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study With Varying Time Lags	15
Protean Career Orientation and Career Success: On the Roles of Proactive Career Process During the School-To-Work Transition	14
Exploring job seeker profiles through latent profile analysis	13
Development and Validation of the Online Proactive Career Behavior Scale	12
Strengthening Self-Efficacy in the Graduate Application Process: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial	11
The French Version of the Academic Major Satisfaction Scale: Structural, Convergent, and Divergent Validity	11
Measuring Sustainable Career: Validation and Predictive Value of the Spanish Career Sustainability Scale	11
From Adaptive Readiness to Adaptation Results Testing the Career Construction Model of Adaptation in Chinese Adolescents	11
Navigating Gendered Racial Microaggressions: Exploring the Mediating and Moderating Pathways to Workplace Well-Being for Black Women	11
I Can’t Quit: Experiences of Black Women in STEM Professions	11
18REST-2: A Revised Measure of the RIASEC Model for Large-Scale Assessment With Students	11
Changes in U.S. Workers’ Values and Satisfaction After COVID-19	11

Daily Environments During Emerging Adulthood and Gender Atypical Occupational Choices: The Role of Sexist Experiences	10
Lying Down or Rising Up in Career Success? Career Success Decisional Conflict and Scale Development	9
The Structure of Vocational Interests in Finland: A Study of the Fit of Holland’s RIASEC Model Based on a Representative Nationwide Sample of Career Counselling Clients	9
Reconstructing Stories of Career Adaptability Through the Integrative Structured Interview for Undergraduate University Students	9
Context and Validation of the Korean Work Capital Scale: 한국판 일 자본 척도 타당화	9
Beliefs About the Malleability of Professional Skills and Abilities: Development and Validation of a Scale	9
Reflections on Career and Wellbeing From Systemically Impacted Immigrant Artists	9
Subjective Career Success, Career Competencies, and Perceived Employability: Three-way Interaction Effects on Organizational and Occupational Turnover Intentions	8
Does the Attainment of Vocational Aspirations Make Youths Happy?	8
College Career Courses and Growth Toward Vocational Identity Achievement Status	8
Kicking off a Gig Work Career: Unfolding a Career Learning Cycle of Gig Workers	8
Examining Measurement Invariance of the Planning for Career and Family Scale (PLAN) Across Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and College Year Among Engineering College Students	7
Profiles of Decent Work and Precarious Work: Exploring Macro-Level Predictors and Mental Health Outcomes	7
Interest Fit Beyond the RIASEC: The Comprehensive Assessment of Basic Interests—O*NET (CABIN-NET)	7
Associations of Career Decision-Making Strategies With Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy and Difficulties Among French-Speaking Swiss Adolescents and Young Adults	7
Unemployment and Underemployment in Manufacturing Workers: A Psychology of Working Perspective	7
Measuring Career Support in Women’s Private Domain: Insights from Patriarchal Contexts	7
Competitive Psychological Climate in China: Scale Development and Validation	7
Career Adaptability in General Upper Secondary Education: The Role of SES, Gender, and Socioemotional Factors	7
Subjective Experiences of Decent Work and Future Aspirations Among Rural-Migrant Food-Delivery Riders in China	7
Career Self-Management Competencies: Conceptualization and Measurement Based on a Career Self-Regulation Framework	6
Decent Work Profiles of Korean Workers: Antecedents and Outcomes of Profile Membership	6
Addressing Marginalized Youth’s Vulnerabilities in School-To-Work Transitions: A Comparative Study of Practitioners’ Perceptions and Strategies in Brazil and Switzerland	6
Latent Profiles of Cultural Orientation in a Multicultural Country: Implications for Career Development	6
Decent Work in TVET: Examining Predictors and Outcomes of Perception of Future Decent Work Among Turkish Vocational High School Students	6
Parental Career Expectation Predicts Adolescent Career Development Through Career-Related Parenting Practice: Transactional Dynamics Across High School Years	6
Career Adapt-Abilities Scale–Short Form: Validation among Portuguese University Students and Workers	6
Examining the Effects of Different Forms of Marginalization on Women’s Work Experiences Across Time	6
Development and Cross-Cultural Validation of a Measure of Career Exploration and Decision-Making Outcome Expectations	5
Gender, Racial-Ethnic, and Cohort Effects on STEM Interests: A Fourteen-Year Comparison	5
Predicting Outcomes of a Manualized Individual Career Counseling Intervention Over a One-Year Follow-Up From Trajectories of Change in Career Decision Difficulties	5
Expanding Links Between Work Values and Occupations: Development of the Occupational Values Inventory (OVI)	5
Racism at Work and Racial Identity of Black Graduates of Elite Universities: A Psychology of Working Perspective	5
From Perseverance of Effort to Perceived Employability in First-Generation College Students: The Mediating Role of Career Adaptability and Career Engagement	5
Decent Work and Self Determination Needs: Exploring Relational Workplace Civility as a Moderator	5
Examining the Dimensions, Predictors, and Outcomes of Work Capital	5
Proactive Career Behaviors, Subjective Career Success, and Job Marketability: Test of a Social Cognitive Model Among Turkish Workers	5
Job Desperation: Scale Development and Construct Validation	5
Trajectories of Change in Career Decision Difficulties During a Manualized Individual Career Counseling Intervention: The Influence of Counselor Adherence, Working Alliance and Client Personality Trai	5
Do Online Career Counseling Interventions Work? A Meta-Analysis of Career-Related Psychological Outcomes	4
Romanian Version of the Career Crafting Assessment: Psychometric Properties	4
Perceived Overqualification Among Therapists: An Experimental Study	4
(In)congruence of Perceiving a Calling and Living a Calling and Behavioral Outcomes: A Self-Regulation Perspective	4
Careers in Disarray? COVID-19 and Self-Perceived Employability	4
Development and Validation of the Career Counseling Outcome Questionnaire in Two Clinical Settings	4
Can College Students Benefit from Negative Events in Job Search? The Moderating Roles of Error Aversion and Social Comparison Orientation	4
Relative Importance of Work Need Satisfaction Among Working Adults in the United States and South Korea: A Cross-Cultural Study	4
The Pursuit of Decent Work in Precarious Contexts: Motorbike Delivery Riders’ Psychological Experiences	4
Development and Validation of the “Career Confidence for Activities in the Future” to Assess Italian Adolescents’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Handling Global Challenges	4
Exploring a Language-Based Interest Assessment: Predicting Vocational Interests on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing	3

Measurement Invariance of the Occupational Engagement Scale – Student and Career Adapt-Abilities Scale Across U.S. Veterans’ Employment Status	3
Disentangling Social Class and Classism on Work Capital Among College Students	3
Boundary Control and Work-Life Balance: The Mediating Role of Interruptions and Moderating Effect of an Office Space	3
Youth Perspectives on Decent Education and College and Career Readiness	3
Bridging Academic and Career Development: A Longitudinal Examination of Engagement, Achievement, and Career Adaptability	3
Career Wisdom in Fostering Job Performance: The Mediating Role of Living a Calling	3
Work and Wellbeing for LGBT + Employees Perceiving a Calling: The Role of Perceived Diversity Climate	3
Predicting Decent Work Among US Black Workers: Examining Psychology of Working Theory	3
Predicting Physical and Psychological Well-Being Among Women Workers: A Relational Perspective	3
Pre-Occupation: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression of Gender Differences in Adolescent Vocational Interests	3
Factor Structure and Gender Invariance of the Negative Outcome Expectations Scale Among Latiné Engineering College Students	3
The Effect of Openness to Experience on Students’ Readiness for School-To-Work Transition	3
The Reciprocal Relationships Between Career Wisdom and Proactive Career Behavior	2
Examining Search for and Presence of a Calling Among Students and Employed Adults Using Latent Profile Analysis	2
A Multidimensional Approach to Understanding Calling’s Paths to Well-Being Through Career Development	2
A Longitudinal Examination of Four Processual Mechanisms in Career Decision Making	2
Looking Ahead, Looking Around, and Looking to Others: Identifying Core Proactive Behaviors in the Quest for Career Sustainability	2
Choice Architecture and the Potential to Nudge Career Development at Scale	2
Chronicles of Involuntary Career Changes: A Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis	2
Metaphors in Career Development: Using ZMET to Explore How an Employment Initiative Changes NEETs’ Mental Models	2
Motivational Career Resources and Subjective Career Success: A Test of Mediation and Moderation	2
Maximizing and Satisficing in Job Search: A Person-Centred Approach	2
A Qualitative Inquiry Into Decisions to Leave Engineering Among Korean Women With Engineering Degrees	2
Dignity at Work: A Critical Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda	2
Linking Career Calling Profiles to Ecological Considerations in Vocational Behaviors, Ecological Worries and Nature Connectedness	2
Pushed Out, Pushing Back: Korean Transgender and Nonbinary People’s Job Search Experiences	2
Xin-Yang and Career-Related Decision-Making Process Among Chinese College Student Population: An Intervention Study	2
Psychosocial Readiness for College: A Multidimensional Model and Measure for Students Entering College in Their Twenties	2
Stability and Predictive Validity of the Higher Education Orientations Questionnaire: A Three-Year Follow-Up	2