OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Vocational Behavior is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	101
Stacking bricks or building a cathedral? How affective shifts shape perceptions of daily task significance	65
Editorial Board	62
Navigating conflicting accountabilities: Post-maternity re-entry transitions in India	54
A latent profile analysis of perceiving and living a calling	48
Editorial Board	45
Workplace impostor thoughts are positively associated with risk aversion: Implications for workplace deviance and creativity	43
Lean on me: A daily-diary study of the effects of receiving help in coworking spaces	43
The long walk together: The role of institutionalized socialization in shaping newcomers' future expectations about their networks	41
Moving away from, moving towards and moving against others: An adaptive multi-strategy approach to defend and build resources in self-protection mode	40
The effect of pursuing a gender-nontraditional profession on young newcomers' occupational self-efficacy via frequency of evaluative feedback	40
Bored or burning out? Reciprocal effects between job stressors, boredom and burnout	39
Let it go and embrace something new: How goal reengagement capacities moderate the effect of interacting with artificial intelligence on career optimism	38
How future work self salience shapes the effects of interacting with artificial intelligence	38
How can organizations operating in a negative reputation industry attract job seekers?	37
Organizational mobility preferences and organizational career environments: A person-organization fit perspective	37
A mutually beneficial process: Accommodating work-family conflict and strengthening leader-subordinate relations	34
A longitudinal investigation of the Kaleidoscope Career Model, networking behaviors, and career success	34
Predicting supervisor and student competency ratings from a developmental assessment center: A longitudinal validation study	33
Corrigendum to “Humble leader, successful follower: Linking leader humility with follower career outcomes via leader competence from an implicit leadership theory perspective” [Journal of Vocational B	31
Not all distance is alike: revisiting the associations between physical and perceived proximity in multilocational work	31
Predictors and outcomes of nursing students' engagement trajectories at the beginning of their program	30
Navigating crisis in non-standard work: Social entrepreneurs' sensemaking and purpose protection during career shocks	30
Predicting work values: A psychology of working theory perspective	30
Dynamic and cyclic relationships between employees' intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: Evidence from dynamic multilevel modeling analysis	30

Navigating transitions: A longitudinal exploration of career decision-making process dynamics in adolescents	30
Navigating sustainable careers: A conceptual framework on subjective person-career fit dynamics	30
Beyond one-size-fits-all in school-to-work transition success: The role of career competency profiles	30
Occupational exoskeletons: Supporting diversity and inclusion goals with technology	30
Ready? Camera rolling… action! Examining interviewee training and practice opportunities in asynchronous video interviews	29
The impact of trust in AI on career sustainability: The role of employee–AI collaboration and protean career orientation	29
Do calling-oriented employees take charge in organizations? The role of supervisor close monitoring, intrinsic motivation, and organizational commitment	29
Can a relationship buffer women leaders against the negative consequences of anger expression?	28
A meta-analysis of the relations between parental support and children's career self-efficacy in South Korea and the US	27
Sense of belonging in hybrid work settings	27
Contextualizing career development: Cultural affordances as the missing link in social cognitive career theory	27
Corrigendum to “Reconsider what your MBA negotiation course taught you: The possible adverse effects of high salary requests” [Journal of Vocational Behavior 139 (2022) 103803]	26
Career transitions across the lifespan: A review and research agenda	26
Enhancing sustainable employability through developmental HR practices: The mediating role of proactive career behaviors and moderating role of person-vocation fit	26
To be or not to be a perfect parent? How the striving for perfect parenting harms employed parents	25
“Cats in the cradle:” Work-family conflict, parenting, and life satisfaction among fathers	25
Steering wheels to make ends meet: Understanding stressors and coping strategies among app-based taxi drivers in Tehran	24
Building an age-inclusive workplace for older workers: A dual pathway of age-inclusive HR practices to facilitate successful aging at work	24
Releasing pressure but increasing concerns: A daily investigation of supervisors' social sharing of stress and supervisors' well-being	23
A meta-analytic review of the gender difference in leadership aspirations	22
Adapting boundary preferences to match reality of hybrid work: A latent change score analysis☆	22
Why and when does voice lead to increased job engagement? The role of perceived voice appreciation and emotional stability	22
Editorial Board	22
A qualitative exploration of solo self-employed workers' career sustainability	22
Which female makes it to the top? Exploring the gender differences in the role of nuanced personality and psychosocial traits in elite sports career progression	21
Crafting the road to well-being for precarious frontline workers: Explicating the role of jolts and resources	21
How promotion-oriented job crafting affects job performance: Exploring the role of job-crafting motives	20
Editorial Board	20
Careers and labor-market stability vs. dynamisms: Using big-data to optimize career trajectories for better outcomes	19
Employability as antecedent of eudaimonic wellbeing at work: The mediating role of work meaningfulness	19
Taking dynamics and their origins seriously: Work-family conflict trajectories and their gendered antecedents in work and nonwork support	18
Entrepreneurial career persistence of hybrid entrepreneurs: The opposing moderating roles of wage work-to-entrepreneurship enrichment and entrepreneurship-to-wage work enrichment	18
The “sense” behind proactive behaviors: Feedback seeking, meaningfulness, and personal initiative	18
Success or growth? Distinctive roles of extrinsic and intrinsic career goals in high-performance work systems, job crafting, and job performance	18
Perceived overqualification and proactive behavior: The role of anger and job complexity	17
Family recognition of work as a source of meaningful work: Examining the roles of self-esteem and parental status	17
High-performance work practices and job embeddedness: A comprehensive test	17
Intervening to enhance proactivity for socialization: A longitudinal field experiment	17
The double-edged sword of job insecurity: When and why job insecurity promotes versus inhibits supervisor-rated performance	16
Longitudinal trajectories of affective commitment to the occupation among school principals: A person-centered perspective	16
Morality in careers: A systematic review, integration, and ways forward	15
Corrigendum to “Proactive personality and early employment outcomes: The mediating role of career planning and the moderator role of core self-evaluations.” [J. Vocat. Behav.], 119 (2020) 103424	15
A meta-analytic study of subjective career plateaus	15
Editorial Board	15
Pregnancy loss: A qualitative exploration of an experience stigmatized in the workplace	15
Home and away: How career adaptability and cultural intelligence facilitate international migrant workers' adjustment	15
Do proactive peers inhibit employee innovative behavior? The roles of team cooperative climate and sense of power	15
A trickle-out model of organizational dehumanization and displaced aggression	15
Adapting careers to the COVID crisis: The impact of the pandemic on employees' career orientations	15
Bored and exhausted? Profiles of boredom and exhaustion at work and the role of job stressors	14

Getting into flow during virtual meetings: How virtual meetings can benefit employee functioning in the work- and home domain	14
Living a value-based work life: Individual values as predictors of career outcomes	14
Others matter when mothers return: An investigation of relational movement and its role in post-maternity leave reentry transitions	14
Turnover reasons are more complex than “people quit bosses”: An approach-avoidance perspective	14
Blurred lines: The spillover and crossover effects of interpersonal experiences at work on family behaviors and well-being	14
Seeking stability in unstable employment: An exploratory study of temporary agency workers' career self-management	14
Navigating career stages in the age of artificial intelligence: A systematic interdisciplinary review and agenda for future research	13
How does empowering leadership promote employee creativity? The sequential mediating mechanism of felt obligation for constructive change and job crafting	13
An examination of the link between job content plateau and knowledge hiding from a moral perspective: The mediating role of distrust and perceived exploitation	13
The costs of political conversations at work: An experience sampling study during National Election Periods in South Korea	13
Emergence of calling in the domain of creative work, and the role of context: The stories of manga artists	13
Revisiting the bottleneck hypothesis: The role of sexual identity development in the career exploration and decision-making of sexual minority college students	13
Challenging your boss with safe words: Newcomers' voice, supervisors' responses, and socialization outcomes	13
We've come full circle: The universality of People-Things and Data-Ideas as core dimensions of vocational interests	13
Graduation is not the end, it is just the beginning: Change in perceived employability in the transition associated with graduation	13
Temporal precedence between and mediating effects of career decision self-efficacy and career exploratory behavior among first-year college students: Within-person and between-person analyses by race/	13
Finding a home for your career away from home: Experiences of Iranian highly skilled edu-immigrants in the United States	13
Living a calling despite the challenges of the gig economy? The role of meaning-making and work alienation	13
Managing the risks and side effects of workplace friendships: The moderating role of workplace friendship self-efficacy	13
“Anything you can do, I can do”: Examining the use of ChatGPT in situational judgement tests for professional program admission	12
Navigating the multiple challenges of job loss: A career self-management perspective	12
The relationship between idiosyncratic deals and employee workplace deviance: The moderating role of exchange ideology	12
Regressed person-environment interest fit: Validating polynomial regression for a specific environment	12
Virtual voices: Exploring individual differences in chat and verbal participation in virtual meetings	12
Migrant women navigating the intersection of gender, migration, and career development: A systematic literature review	12
Not a pipeline but a highway: Men's and women's STEM career trajectories from age 13 to 25	12
Well-being and empowerment perceptions in a sudden shift to working from home	12
Adapting to a jolt: A mixed methods study identifying challenges and personal resources impacting professional gig workers' well-being during COVID-19	11
“Running away is easy; it's the leaving that's hard”: Career enactment by former military officers	11
Hiring discrimination against refugees: Examining the mediating role of symbolic and realistic threat	11
Saved by the biodata: Meta-analytic relationships between biodata scores and student success	11
Working with a chronic health condition: The implications of proactive vitality management for occupational health and performance	11
Retiring in a white coat: Doctors working after retirement	11
Daily autonomy and job performance: Does person-organization fit act as a key resource?	10
An empirical analysis of the relationship between innovation activities and job satisfaction among French firms	10
Editorial Board	10
Human capital effects in the job search process for new labor market entrants: A double-edged sword?	10
Precarious work and workplace dignity during COVID-19: A longitudinal study	10
Will there always be a return on investment? The effects of investment in employee development on employee entrepreneurship	10
To be a marketer or to do what marketers do? Using a mixed methods approach to explore the aspiring marketer mind-set	9
Longitudinal dynamics of psychological need satisfaction, meaning in work, and burnout	9
A systematic review of at-work recovery and a framework for future research	9
Towards a self-regulation model of career competencies: A systematic review and future research agenda	9
The bittersweet nature of adult family caregiving on workplace behaviors and attitudes	9
Regretting your occupation constructively: A qualitative study of career choice and occupational regret	9
A self-regulatory model of how future work selves change during job search and the school-to-work transition	9
The dark and bright side of networking behavior: Three studies on short-term processes of networking behavior	9
Technology and the changing nature of work	9
Technological support for lifelong learning: The application of a multilevel, person-centric framework	9
Powerful, high-performing employees and psychological entitlement: The detrimental effects on citizenship behaviors	8
Editorial Board	8
Pay it forward or keep it for myself? How narcissism shapes daily prosocial motivation and behavior after receiving help	8
The threat of electronic performance monitoring: Exploring the role of leader-member exchange on employee privacy invasion	8
Examining the impact of trait grit on aspiring entrepreneur's new venture ideation: Evidence from Ghana	8
Team-based perceived insider status: Exploring the drivers and outcomes of freelancers' sense of belonging to their project teams	8
You've got mail! How work e-mail activity helps anxious workers enhance performance outcomes	8
It is not only what you do, but why you do it: The role of attribution in employees' emotional and behavioral responses to illegitimate tasks	8
Editorial Board	8
Linking personality traits to vocational interest profiles via the circumplex: Research synthesis and new applications	8
I wouldn't be working this way if I had a family - Differences in remote workers' needs for supervisor's family-supportiveness depending on the parental status	8
Decent education as a precursor to decent work: An overview and construct conceptualization	8
Psychological contract breach and destructive voice: The mediating effect of relative deprivation and the moderating effect of leader emotional support	7
Organizational politics and employee performance in the service industry: A multi-stakeholder, multi-level perspective	7
Research on the mechanism of leader aggressive humor on employee silence: A conditional process model	7
Polishing followers' future work selves! The critical roles of leader future orientation and vision communication	7
Interested and employed? A national study of gender differences in basic interests and employment	7
Longitudinal associations between the rates of change in family to work enrichment, leader-member exchange, and job satisfaction	7
Under my umbrella? Gig workers' perspectives on career sustainability as employees in Swedish umbrella companies	7
Editorial Board	7
The sum is larger than its parts: The daily interplay of leader and colleague support in facilitating employee well-being through balanced needs satisfaction and positive affect	7
Workplace hurdles and innovative behavior: A meta-analysis	7
Editorial Board	7
How are career adaptable and customer oriented employees treated? Examining career-situated factors that reduce customer mistreatment	7
Technology-assisted supplemental work: A meta-analysis	7
How to minimize job insecurity: The role of proactive and reactive coping over time	7