OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Education and Training 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Am I wasting my time? The influence of course unemployment in academic dropout	60
Enhancing the effects of creativity training for business school students through art-based methods and blended learning	35
Graduate employability in the Western Balkans: a career ecosystem perspective on labour market inequalities	33
All good things come in threes – required skill sets in the graduate labour market in Germany	29
Reconceptualization and pedagogical strategies of public speaking competency for employability: an integrative review	27
Mobile game-based learning in cultural heritage education: a bibliometric analysis	26
Understanding the motivational predictors of students’ persistence in work placement learning tasks	25
Corrigendum: A study on stereotypes about vocational education and its groups in China	25
Social and solidarity economy (SSE) approach for technical and vocational education training (TVET) empowering youth with disrupted education	23
Validation of measurement scales for undergraduate students' self-perceived employability and university commitment in the United Arab Emirates	20
Girls in the combined cadet force: a qualitative exploration of the impact of their experiences on their graduate employability skills	20
Predicting students' soft skills: the role of psychological capital, psychological well-being and grade levels	20
Socialisation, learning, and value co-creation: confidence to soft employability skills for international students	19
Developing entrepreneurial competencies through deliberate practice	19
Education and training for industry 4.0: a case study of a manufacturing ecosystem	19
Thresholds for dis/trust: exploring the impact of standards-based reforms on the process of being and becoming a VET teacher in England and Austria	18
Utilizing mobile-learning and CAP(E) lesson framework in improving the productive skills of learners in a hybrid environment	17
Who will teach that class? Perspectives on teacher shortages from English and Australian vocational education and training sectors	17
Narrative-based learning using mobile devices	17
The present situation and training strategies of innovative and entrepreneurial education teachers: evidence from China	16
Assessing sustainable career development: the Future-Sustainable Career Scale (F-SCS) for young adults	16
Development of a human-centric pedagogical ethos for construction management education amidst industry 5.0	16
Validation of a new multidimensional work readiness scale and linkages between its constructs	16
Differences in self-perceived employability between university and VET students: an analysis of emerging adults in Spain	15
The expectations of employability skills in the Fourth Industrial Revolution of the communication and media industry in Malaysia	15

Enhancing social entrepreneurship education through digital educational escape rooms: a literature review	14
STEM education in England: questioning the “leaky pipeline” metaphor	14
Mentoring students in higher education for reflection and development of employability competences: a pre-test post-test design	14
Variety of entrepreneurial skills measured in the entrepreneurship education literature	14
Digital entrepreneurship intention and digital entrepreneurship behavior: the mediating role of managing learning and entrepreneurship education	14
Building Heroes: building bridges to support the transition from military to civilian employment in the construction industry	14
The question of where: entrepreneurship education beyond curricular practices	13
Relationship between the informal social networks and entrepreneurial intentions of Chinese college students: the mediating role of entrepreneurial learning	13
Assessing graduates' transversal competences through an adapted MMI model: confidant interview vs stress interview	13
Analysing student satisfaction with teaching strategies in vocational education	12
Retention of newcomers and factors influencing turnover intentions and behaviour: a review of the literature	12
Perceived artificial intelligence literacy and employability of university students	12
Continuing to choose the hospitality industry after graduation: the role of mentorship and internship satisfaction	12
The importance of work experience as opposed to education on the opinion of waste management professionals in Tehran	11
The potential of virtual internships for management education: capturing student journey through experiential learning	11
All the lonely people, where do they all come from: age moderating the mediation effect of loneliness among Portuguese students	11
Addressing digital competence gaps in vocational education and training: evidence from a Spanish case study	11
Unleashing entrepreneurial potential: venture creation and self-directed experiential learning on social media amongst secondary school-aged business owners	11
Thematic mapping of competence-based education and training research through direct citation network analysis and topic modelling with latent semantic analysis	11
The influence of participatory actions and collective agency on mechanical engineering students’ work placement learning environments	11
Corrigendum: Entrepreneurial motivations and intentions: investigating the role of education major	10
Built environment professionals’ perspective on digital technology skills	10
TVET is under-resourced and held in low regard? Teachers’ perceptions of TVET in Bangladesh	9
Guest editorial: Technology infused education, preparing graduates for a digital employment market	9
Stress under the spotlight: linking preservice teachers’ employability perceptions to school engagement	9
CompEntre 4.0: developing and validating a competency model for Industry 4.0 startups	9
Leading towards the students’ career development and career intentions through using multidimensional soft skills in the digital age	9
The role of construction trade programs in fostering social mobility, job equity, and addressing skilled labor shortages	9
Governance structures and systemic challenges shaping the future of the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) workforce	8
Motivating university management students on studying research methods: influence of career applicability, and emotional and cognitive interests	8
Student perceptions of Living Lab research internships in the COVID-19 pandemic – a Dutch case study	8
The effectiveness of hackathons on entrepreneurial intentions and behavior	7
Aligning institutional resource commitment with strategic pedagogical development to create online distance learning provision in UK HEIs	7
Smart working ecosystem as a driver of career productivity and educational sustainability among young university teachers: contextual insights from Pakistan	7
Does work-based social support matter? A perspective on Gen Z hospitality interns	7
Students’ first professional placement: unravelling expectations and realities	7
The built environment craftmanship in higher education institutions: issues and prospects from stakeholders' perception	7
“We are just below the threshold of good jobs” – internalised exclusions of higher vocational graduates in China	7
Interns’ experience with human resource practices and loyalty toward host internship sites	7
Situating imposter syndrome in the experience of becoming and being an entrepreneurship educator	7
Perceptions of non-formal education by gender, level of education and field of study	6
Operationalization of graduate employability interventions in higher education – a systematic review	6
Ensuring a smooth landing for starting VET teachers: integrating induction and HRM practices	6
Embedding sustainability in university work experience placements: a De Montfort University model	6
Drivers in the generation of university students' job preferences: an empirical study of person–organisation fit in social enterprises	6
Horizontal mismatch in the labor market among university graduates in Chile	6
The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention: the moderating role of perceived governmental support	6
Flexible future learning opportunities for built environment professionals – a case study	6
Do personality traits matter for employability? The mediating role of grit and hope for success among university students	6
The paradoxical effect of new college graduates’ employability on career decision-making difficulties	6

Employer collaboration in developing graduate employability: a pilot study in Ireland	6
Employment determinants of the poor mental well-being of student workers in England	6
Stories of employability: improving interview narratives with image-supported past-behaviour storytelling training	6
NEET in Turkey: a typology including jobless youths, parental education and employment status as determinants	6
Impact of quality assurance on TVET programs for the digital employment market of IR 4.0 in Pakistan: a quantitative investigation	6
From satisfaction to reputation: a SEM approach to understanding key drivers in higher vocational education and training in Spain	6
Publisher’s Note	5
Factors determining the career continuation intentions of vocational education and training students: a theory of planned behavior approach	5
Who are the educators participating in agricultural industry school partnerships?	5
Balancing individual and community dimensions: educators’ narratives on youth empowerment	5
Influence of perceived supervisor support and interpersonal relationships on internship satisfaction of hospitality interns: moderating role of perceived career readiness	5
How do vocational students evaluate vocational education internships – an evaluation scale development in China	5
Guest editorial: Teacher recruitment and retention challenges in the further education and skills sector: lessons and solutions from international perspectives	5
Career planning and workforce preparation during economic downturn: perceptions of graduating business students	5
A qualitative analysis of student reflections on public health internships	5
Cultivating socially sustainable employability in Industry 5.0: exploring the impact of specific skills on the employability of management graduates	5
Preparing students for the future workplace: how online teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic hone required transferable skills	5
Is there a gender difference in STEM students' perceived employability?	5
Does studying abroad matter? The case of entrepreneurial intention	5
Policy, practice and skill development: a study of Kazakhstan’s higher education landscape	4
The impact of cyber entrepreneurship education on Chinese college students’ self-efficacy and intention in cyber entrepreneurship	4
Education first? Triggering vs jeopardising entrepreneurial intentions	4
“I will learn from my mistakes if we are close and supportive”: a moderated-mediating model of learning from mistakes	4
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in Bangladesh: educator perspectives on innovative curriculum design	4
Co-designing AI-enhanced careers education: a design-based approach to sustainable career ecosystems	4
Predicting graduate students’ entrepreneurial intentions through innovative teaching in entrepreneurship education: SEM-ANN approach	4
Training of youths for effective self-employment practices	4
Bridging the employability gap: enhancing soft skills via business gaming simulations	4
Innovation and sustainability from the perspective of entrepreneurial intention: a cross-cultural approach	4
A systematic review of measures of employability	4
Equity and power in Indonesia's digital skills training: a critical analysis using CIPP and Foucault's theory	4
The development and validation of the student's employability competences questionnaire (SECQ)	4
Mechanism of internship in advancing employability skills: an exploratory study on business graduates in Yemen	4
Breaking the stigma: the economic returns to trades education in Canada	4
The relationship between job precariousness and career capital in working students: the explanatory mechanism of job crafting	4
Motivators and barriers to the entrepreneurial intentions of university students: are there any differences between business and non-business students?	3
Collaborative online international learning between Spain and Mexico: a microlearning experience to enhance creativity in complexity	3
Boosting entrepreneurial intentions among potential TVET entrepreneurs of higher education institutes	3
Evaluation of the comprehensive thematic teaching effectiveness and technique/technology in culinary vocational education	3
How attractive are internship advertisements to prospective applicants? A mixed-method examination through the lens of employer branding	3
Skill gaps in accounting: contrasting stakeholder expectations with perceived skills	3
It's about time to reduce the gender gap in STEM professions: an internationally assessed educational project	3
Reshaping vocational training: a study on the recognition of micro-credentials in job markets	3
Unpacking entrepreneurial intention in adolescents: the mediating role of future vision and risk perception	3
Boosting entrepreneurial competences beyond business and management–related disciplines. The case of engineering programs	3
A study on stereotypes about vocational education and its groups in China	3
Field and life space experience in vocational education and training	3
Teacher agency in continuing professional development: addressing barriers to sustainable models of educational improvement in Further Education and skills	3
Construction of a competency evaluation index system for postgraduates of educational technology	3
The Italian version of the Rotterdam Emotional Intelligence Scale: implications for career transitions, employability and work engagement among young professionals	3
Re-envisioning vocational education: critical discourse analysis of a government publicity campaign in Hong Kong	2
Attitudes and intentions towards the adoption of mobile learning during COVID-19: building an exciting career through vocational education	2
Utilizing the push–pull–mooring framework to explore university teachers' intention to switch from traditional classrooms to smart classrooms in China	2
Extracurricular internships and university students’ evaluation of higher learning: a cross-cultural adaptation perspective	2
Enhancing digital literacy in education: educational directions	2
Business students' psychological capital and quality of university life: the moderating role of study crafting	2
Teacher perceptions about the reputation of technical and vocational education and training in Ghana	2
Nascent entrepreneurship and development: a practical epistemology analysis in simulated entrepreneurial experiments	2
Fostering civic education and soft skills in secondary students through college-led cross-age peer tutoring in community service settings	2
The impact of digital technology training on developing academics’ digital competence in higher education context	2
Examining perceptions of the tripartite relationship in higher degree apprenticeship programmes	2
Does extending the internship period in vocational schools of higher education lead to better employment results?: the case of Turkey	2
The early bird catches the flywheel: pedagogical components of entrepreneurship education in American higher education institutions	2
University-supported job search methods and educational mismatch in bachelor's and master's graduates	2
More than how you start or finish: performance trajectories predict interns’ post-graduation vocational outcomes	2
Leveraging gamification for enhanced learner engagement and satisfaction in hybrid business courses	2
Exploring employable profiles of elite student athletes through fsQCA: unleashing the power of their soft skills	2
Enhancing students’ perceived employability through employer engagement events in higher education: evidence from a quasi-experimental study	2
Music major students' perception toward Chinese higher education curriculum in employability preparation	2
The entrepreneurial mindset in entrepreneurship education: what can we learn from S-O-R models?	2
Operationalisation and exploration of the Employability Capital Growth Model (ECGM): insights from university students in Vietnam	2
Building employability in PASS leaders through peer-assisted study sessions (PASS) programs	2