OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Vocational Behavior is 14. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Virtual voices: Exploring individual differences in chat and verbal participation in virtual meetings	142
Crafting the road to well-being for precarious frontline workers: Explicating the role of jolts and resources	112
Adapting boundary preferences to match reality of hybrid work: A latent change score analysis☆	80
Mobilized social capital and career success: A model of retrieval, referral, and reinforcement	77
Passion contagion at work: Investigating formal and informal social influences on work passion	75
Well-being and empowerment perceptions in a sudden shift to working from home	59
Editorial Board	54
Career expectations and optimistic updating biases in minor league baseball players	49
Editorial Board	48
Working with a chronic health condition: The implications of proactive vitality management for occupational health and performance	47
Management of fortuity: Workplace chance events and the career projections of up-or-out professionals	46
Stay hungry, stay foolish: A novel perspective on needs satisfaction and personal initiative	45
Editorial Board	43
A latent profile analysis of perceiving and living a calling	40
Editorial Board	39
A meta-analytic review of the gender difference in leadership aspirations	38
Editorial Board	37
Receiving developmental idiosyncratic deals over time: Showing innovative behavior is key	35
Happy to help, happy to change? A meta-analysis of major predictors of affiliative and change-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors	35
Why and when proactive helping does not lead to future help: The roles of psychological need satisfaction and interpersonal competence	34
The role of family social capital in school-to-work transitions of young adults in Germany	30
Movement Capital, RAW model, or circumstances? A meta-analysis of perceived employability predictors	30
Stacking bricks or building a cathedral? How affective shifts shape perceptions of daily task significance	29
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	29
In good company? Development and validation of the Family-Supportive Coworker Behavior Scale	28

Career competencies in the transition from higher education to the labor market: Examining developmental trajectories	27
Does success change people? Examining objective career success as a precursor for personality development	27
A distributional approach to understanding generational differences: What do you mean they vary?	27
Stuck between me: A psychodynamic view into career inaction	26
Adapting to a jolt: A mixed methods study identifying challenges and personal resources impacting professional gig workers' well-being during COVID-19	26
Not a pipeline but a highway: Men's and women's STEM career trajectories from age 13 to 25	25
COVID-19 and employee job performance trajectories: The moderating effect of different sources of status	25
Who moved my boundary? Strategies adopted by families working from home	25
A transactional model of career adaptability: Longitudinal links between parental career-related behaviors, parent-child relationship, and career adaptability among Chinese adolescents	24
Give it your all or hardly give? The role of mentors' beliefs about protégé advancement potential and gender in mentoring relationships	23
Longitudinal profiles of work-family interface: Their individual and organizational predictors, personal and work outcomes, and implications for onsite and remote workers	23
Predictors of workplace sexual identity management behaviors: A test of the social cognitive career self-management model	22
Navigating the multiple challenges of job loss: A career self-management perspective	22
A qualitative exploration of solo self-employed workers' career sustainability	22
Digital war for talent: How profile reputations on company rating platforms drive job seekers' application intentions	21
Newcomer work-to-nonwork conflict to withdrawal via work-to-nonwork self-efficacy: The buffering role of family supportive supervisor behavior	21
What we are pushed to do versus what we want to do: Comparing the unique effects of citizenship pressure and actual citizenship behavior on fatigue and family behaviors	21
Editorial Board	21
Ambitious employees: Why and when ambition relates to performance and organizational commitment	21
Staying in the loop: Is constant connectivity to work good or bad for work performance?	21
Why and when does voice lead to increased job engagement? The role of perceived voice appreciation and emotional stability	21
Regressed person-environment interest fit: Validating polynomial regression for a specific environment	21
Work-family habits? Exploring the persistence of traditional work-family decision making in dual-earner couples	21
Hiring discrimination against refugees: Examining the mediating role of symbolic and realistic threat	21
Releasing pressure but increasing concerns: A daily investigation of supervisors' social sharing of stress and supervisors' well-being	21
Stability and change in configuration patterns of various career-related parental behaviors and their associations with adolescent career adaptability: A longitudinal person-centered analysis	20
Working-class gay dads: Queer stories about family and work	20
Introducing a sustainable career ecosystem: Theoretical perspectives, conceptualization, and future research agenda	20
Critical contributions to scholarship on women and work: Celebrating 50 years of progress and looking ahead to a new decade	20
Lean on me: A daily-diary study of the effects of receiving help in coworking spaces	20
Psychological compassion climate: Examining the nomological network of perceptions of work group compassion	20
Entrepreneurial career persistence of hybrid entrepreneurs: The opposing moderating roles of wage work-to-entrepreneurship enrichment and entrepreneurship-to-wage work enrichment	19
“Running away is easy; it's the leaving that's hard”: Career enactment by former military officers	19
Self-control in career decision-making: The roles of the hot and cool systems of gratification delay	18
How to successfully manage the school-to-work transition: Integrating job search quality in the social cognitive model of career self-management	18
An empirical analysis of the relationship between innovation activities and job satisfaction among French firms	18
Perceived resiliency: The influence of resilience narratives on attribution processes in selection	18
Dynamics of parent-adolescent interactions during a discussion on career choice: The role of parental behaviors and emotions	18
Unexpected change: Career transitions following a significant extra-organizational shock	18
Why do people network? Professional networking motives and their implications for networking behaviors and career success	17
Saved by the biodata: Meta-analytic relationships between biodata scores and student success	16
Bisexual authenticity and job attitudes: The impact of seeing similar others at work	16
A framework of community-engaged vocational research methodologies from liberatory perspectives	16
Human capital effects in the job search process for new labor market entrants: A double-edged sword?	16
Theorizing person-environment fit in a changing career world: Interdisciplinary integration and future directions	16
Editorial Board	16
One who wishes to wear the crown, must bear its weight: How performance pressure benefits career-prospective employees in organizations	15
Wish-making during the COVID-19 pandemic enhances positive appraisals and job satisfaction	15
Bored or burning out? Reciprocal effects between job stressors, boredom and burnout	15
Moving away from, moving towards and moving against others: An adaptive multi-strategy approach to defend and build resources in self-protection mode	15

Will there always be a return on investment? The effects of investment in employee development on employee entrepreneurship	15
Employees' affective commitment to multiple work-related targets: A longitudinal person-centered investigation	15
The long walk together: The role of institutionalized socialization in shaping newcomers' future expectations about their networks	15
How do employees build and maintain relationships with leaders? Development and validation of the workplace upward networking scale	15
How future work self salience shapes the effects of interacting with artificial intelligence	14
Debunking the ‘model minority’ myth: How positive attitudes toward Asian Americans influence perceptions of racial microaggressions	14
Improving careers science: Ten recommendations to enhance the credibility of vocational behavior research	14
Factors affecting adolescents' science career expectations in Asian and Western top-performing educational systems	14
A meta-analysis on air traffic controllers selection: cognitive and non-cognitive predictors	14
You stay home, but we can't: Invisible ‘dirty’ work as calling amid COVID-19 pandemic	14
Confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic: How multi-domain work-life shock events may result in positive identity change	14
A latent transition analysis examining the nature of and movement between career adaptability profiles	14