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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The influence of social connectedness and meaning in life on career adaptability and career self-efficacy in students with special educational needs	42
The role of character strengths of wisdom, career adaptability and optimism on future orientation	25
Validation of the Korean version of the nonwork orientations scale	20
Beyond job placement: careers for refugees	18
Aspects of refugee students’ financial path to academic achievement in higher education	18
Understanding the determinants and consequences of perceived employability in graduate labor market in China	17
Prolonged grief and career adaptability of university students through meaning making and coping styles	16
How do supported employment programs work? Answers from a systematic literature review	15
Using visual stimuli in narrative career interventions: effects of image-supported storytelling on interview anxiety and performance	14
Measuring college information in secondary students and higher education access	13
Career counsellors’ perspectives on educational mobility in Denmark	13
How does career calling impact teachers’ self-efficacy, competencies and satisfaction? A structural equation model	12
Adaptation of the Meaning of Life and Meaning of Work counseling program in Denmark with youth facing multiple life transitions	12
Announcements	12
Qualitative longitudinal research in vocational psychology: a methodological approach to enhance the study of contemporary careers	11
Perceived procedural justice and psychological flourishing among mental health professionals in Macao: a moderated mediation model	9
Career anxiety as a barrier to life satisfaction among undergraduate students: the role of meaning in life and self-efficacy	9
How does perceived social support affect the career satisfaction of Chinese college graduates in their early careers? A chain mediation model	8
The roles of COVID-19 diagnosis and COVID-19 stress on the links among academic support, academic self-efficacy, and academic satisfaction: Boundary conditions	8
Relationship to Work Questionnaire: Validation Among French Canadian Workers	8
Protean career processes in young adults: Relationships with perceived future employability, educational performance, and commitment	7
Navigating uncertainty: how do parenting and grit influence career indecisiveness among Indian emerging adults?	7
How protean career orientation affects career decidedness: The mediating role of career adaptability and career decision self-efficacy	7
Correction to: Announcements	7
Work and the future as represented by French adolescents: the role of secondary school type and anticipated duration of post-secondary education	7

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	7
Perceived employability profiles and their relations to adaptivity, adaptability, and adapting: a person-centered approach	7
Correction: Preschool education undergraduates’ choice of major and career in China	7
School-to-work transition: putting non-cognitive skills in context. The case of NEET and suggestions for policy	6
Emotional anticipation of high school graduation: Similarity of profiles across gender, educational track, and grade	6
Correction: Thinking styles and career adaptability: The moderating role of perceived career support	6
Motivating entrepreneurial learning: moderation of problem-solving efficacy	6
The socioeconomic gap in the development of Korean adolescents’ occupational aspirations while approaching the post-secondary transition	6
Psychometric properties of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale in Italian young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET)	6
Investigating career-related teacher support for Chinese secondary school students in Hong Kong	6
Career experts' conceptions of systems development in lifelong guidance	6
The intersections of migration, app-based gig work, and career development: implications for career practice and research	6
In the same boat? An online group career counseling with a group of young adults in the time of COVID-19	5
Adolescent educational and occupational anxiety: A three-dimensional model to fit into an attachment framework	5
From career guidance to designing lives acting for fair and sustainable development	5
Correction: Career-related teacher support and decision to choose teaching as a career: a three-wave study of Nigerian and Zambian university students	5
Career expectations of international and domestic students in Canada	5
Full-service schoolteachers’ views of career construction for learners with visual impairment	4
Preschool teachers' attitudes toward career education: the role of cultural context and teaching self-efficacy	4
The interactive effects of self- and parent-referenced career goal discrepancies on young adults’ career indecision	4
Higher education orientation in Türkiye: a cross-educational questionnaire validation and reliability study	4
Psychometric properties of the Childhood Career Development Scale among Iranian elementary school students	4
Bringing light to school counselors’ burnout: the role of occupational identity suffering	4
The relationship between social support and career adaptability: the chain mediating role of perceived career barriers and career maturity	4
Between choices and “going with the flow”. Career guidance and Roma young people in Hungary	4
Social support and career adaptability: a meta-analysis	3
Males in nurse technician programs: a social cognitive analysis of gender differences in career development	3
Sociocultural and contextual determinants of science career goal at a community college and baccalaureate-granting institution	3
Graduates’ career choices: an empirically derived process model	3
A narrative inquiry into the meaning of career identity of Indian emerging adults amid Covid-19	3
Interest and its associations with university entrance grades, lecturers’ perceived support, and student dropout	3
Career counsellors’ professional agency when working with migrants	3
Perceived overqualification of college graduates: assessing antecedents, outcomes, and boundary conditions	3
The association between work and family importance and job search behavior among career-interrupted men and women	3
Purpose and career development: Implications for career counseling and counselor education	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
The labour market integration of migrants and refugees: career guidance and the newly arrived	3
Career development theories in practice: a thematic analysis of practitioner perceptions of the benefits of theoretically informed practice	3
Announcements	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
Decent work in Poland: a preliminary study. Suggestions for educational and counselling practice	3
The path to decent work: exploring career identity, career self-efficacy, and organizational career support in the face of ostracism	3
Uncertainty against Industry 4.0 and job insecurity: the moderated role of perceived employability, age, and educational level	3