OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance is 3. 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
Validation of the Korean version of the nonwork orientations scale	17
Three psychological traits and protean career orientation: a sequential mediation study based on the derivative view of protean career concept	16
Aspects of refugee students’ financial path to academic achievement in higher education	15
Beyond job placement: careers for refugees	13
The role of character strengths of wisdom, career adaptability and optimism on future orientation	12
Understanding the determinants and consequences of perceived employability in graduate labor market in China	11
How psychological and organizational factors shape career motivation: the serial mediating roles of career adaptability and the quality of work life	11
Changes in career decision-making difficulties during early and mid-adolescence	11
Prolonged grief and career adaptability of university students through meaning making and coping styles	11
Exploring the link between family support and career adaptability: a meta-analytic perspective	10
Career counsellors’ perspectives on educational mobility in Denmark	9
Announcements	9
Using visual stimuli in narrative career interventions: effects of image-supported storytelling on interview anxiety and performance	9
Measuring college information in secondary students and higher education access	9
Will I ever fit in? The trajectories of person–environment fit of vocational students to their school program	9
Virtual reality in vocational interventions: a systematic literature review	8
Relationship to Work Questionnaire: Validation Among French Canadian Workers	8
Career anxiety as a barrier to life satisfaction among undergraduate students: the role of meaning in life and self-efficacy	7
Adaptation of the Meaning of Life and Meaning of Work counseling program in Denmark with youth facing multiple life transitions	7
How does career calling impact teachers’ self-efficacy, competencies and satisfaction? A structural equation model	7
Protean career processes in young adults: Relationships with perceived future employability, educational performance, and commitment	7
Qualitative longitudinal research in vocational psychology: a methodological approach to enhance the study of contemporary careers	7
Perceived employability profiles and their relations to adaptivity, adaptability, and adapting: a person-centered approach	7
How does perceived social support affect the career satisfaction of Chinese college graduates in their early careers? A chain mediation model	6
Correction: Preschool education undergraduates’ choice of major and career in China	6

How protean career orientation affects career decidedness: The mediating role of career adaptability and career decision self-efficacy	6
The roles of COVID-19 diagnosis and COVID-19 stress on the links among academic support, academic self-efficacy, and academic satisfaction: Boundary conditions	6
Work and the future as represented by French adolescents: the role of secondary school type and anticipated duration of post-secondary education	6
Navigating uncertainty: how do parenting and grit influence career indecisiveness among Indian emerging adults?	6
Professional identity construction in Turkish academics: a mixed methods investigation with international theoretical implications	6
Career experts' conceptions of systems development in lifelong guidance	5
The fetishisation of digital platforms for graduate career development	5
Motivating entrepreneurial learning: moderation of problem-solving efficacy	5
Deconstruction and career psychology	5
How do family influence on career choices and perceived social support affect students’ life satisfaction in Turkey? The role of vocational outcome expectations as mediator	5
Can i still dream of a decent work? the interplay of economic constraints, perceived employability, and social support	5
School-to-work transition: putting non-cognitive skills in context. The case of NEET and suggestions for policy	5
The socioeconomic gap in the development of Korean adolescents’ occupational aspirations while approaching the post-secondary transition	5
Correction: Thinking styles and career adaptability: The moderating role of perceived career support	5
Life construction in the Anthropocene context: qualitative research in nine countries	5
Higher education orientation in Türkiye: a cross-educational questionnaire validation and reliability study	4
Adolescent educational and occupational anxiety: A three-dimensional model to fit into an attachment framework	4
The association between work and family importance and job search behavior among career-interrupted men and women	4
Perspectives of the future, identity, and career constructions among college students in the face of the climate crisis: an outlook from Southern countries	4
STEM career interests of Ghanaian adolescents in the context of social cognitive career theory	4
Influence of parental career support on the professional identity of Chinese University Freshmen: The mediating roles of career adaptability and career construction behaviours	4
Predictors and consequences of career adaptability of gig workers	4
The interactive effects of self- and parent-referenced career goal discrepancies on young adults’ career indecision	4
Perceived overqualification of college graduates: assessing antecedents, outcomes, and boundary conditions	4
Males in nurse technician programs: a social cognitive analysis of gender differences in career development	4
Announcements	4
Correction: Career-related teacher support and decision to choose teaching as a career: a three-wave study of Nigerian and Zambian university students	4
Cultural translation of career decision-making: understanding practitioners’ perspectives from a multinational study on social and emotional learning	4
Assessing the effects of career construction counseling on career adaptability for graduate students of business administration	4
Correction: Exploring the link between family support and career adaptability: a meta-analytic perspective	4
Risk of not in employment, education, or training between genders: the role of future time perspective and motivations	4
Future working prospects of urban emerging adults in post-pandemic Brazil	4
Psychometric properties of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale in Italian young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET)	4
Academic engagement, academic self-efficacy and instructor support in higher education: impacts on postgraduate career intention	3
Interest and its associations with university entrance grades, lecturers’ perceived support, and student dropout	3
Linking career exploration and decision self-efficacy to career engagement: a sequential mediation model of career adaptability and career calling	3
Career counsellors’ professional agency when working with migrants	3
Uncertainty against Industry 4.0 and job insecurity: the moderated role of perceived employability, age, and educational level	3
The impact of lack of parental career engagement on the career planning ability of vocational high school students: the chain mediating role of career social support and career self-efficacy	3
Enhancing employability: a group career intervention protocol for unemployed individuals	3
Construction and initial validation of the scale “Goals for Future Design of the 2030 Agenda”	3
Graduates’ career choices: an empirically derived process model	3
Social support and career adaptability: a meta-analysis	3
A narrative inquiry into the meaning of career identity of Indian emerging adults amid Covid-19	3
The serial mediating role of contextual variables and cognitive elements on career indecision in Turkish undergraduate students: a multi-group analysis based on gender	3
The path to decent work: exploring career identity, career self-efficacy, and organizational career support in the face of ostracism	3
Career development theories in practice: a thematic analysis of practitioner perceptions of the benefits of theoretically informed practice	3
Adaptation of the decent work for inclusive and sustainable future construction scale in Türkiye	3