OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Guidance & Counselling 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Graduate students’ perceptions of the career construction interview	25
The mediating role of cultural intelligence and cognitive flexibility in the relation between effective counsellor characteristics and multicultural counselling competencies of counsellors in Turkey	24
Mindfulness, impulsivity and psychological distress: the mediation role of smartphone addiction	19
Development of vocational gender stereotype attitudes scale (VGSA) for adolescents	19
A qualitative study of counselling students’ experience with premature termination	16
The ideal partner: gender-occupation congruence and incongruence	14
Effects of mindfulness-based strengths practice (MBSP) among women undergraduates in enhancing positive mental health	13
Critical perspectives on agency and social justice in transitions and career development	12
Using phenomenology in careers research: student experiences of unpaid work	12
A framework for defining a guidance approach support: typology, concepts, and practice guidelines	11
Let me check my phone: smartphone addiction and its links to life satisfaction and psychological resilience	10
Narratives of experiences of presence in bereavement: sources of comfort, ambivalence and distress	10
Job-seeking self-efficacy: an Irish scale for assessing the guidance and coaching needs of job seekers	10
A critical exploration of the “agile career”: a means of exposing the politics and economy of precarity via the lens of dromology	9
On becoming a counsellor: a posthuman reconfiguring of identity formation for counsellors-in-training	8
Institutional and psychological predictors of university students’ mental health help-seeking intentions	8
Perception of online education during COVID-19: Online Photovoice (OPV) and ecological systems theory	7
Is dharma the same as calling? Considering religio-cultural context in cross-cultural calling research	7
Functional modes and social well-being as a protector of mental health during COVID-19	7
Exhaustion and job satisfaction among internal and external outplacement counsellors	7
On the professional competence of career guidance counsellors: expectations and experiences of graduating students in Sweden	7
Exploring calling to farming careers in the United Kingdom: a scoping review	7
University students’ feedback regarding effective measures to prevent bullying	7
Career agency of immigrants participating in employment interventions in Norway	6
Fostering teachers’ career education competencies: test of a training programme	6

The reflections of COVID-19 pandemic to counselling: bibliometric analysis of online psychological counselling research	6
Co-agency: reconsidering agency in guidance practice	6
A profile analysis investigation of perfectionism, time perspective in relation to career decision making	6
The relationship between psychological flexibility and career adaptability as resources to promote well-being	6
The exclusion experienced by adolescents plays a mediating role in the effect of their insecure attachments on their depressive experiences: a cross-sectional study among high school students in Turke	6
Business school students’ motivations and intentions to pursue a project management career	6
The psychology of pandemics: preparing for the next global outbreak of infectious disease	6
Examining career transition narratives through the lens of social justice: a critical study of the British Press	6
Play-based parent training programme supporting Hong Kong kindergarten children in social competence development	6
Career life as a game: an overlooked metaphor for successful career transitions	6
Integrative Psychotherapy: A Mindfulness- and Compassion-Oriented Approach	6
Screening in schools: the acceptability and feasibility of guidance counsellors using YouthCHAT	5
A tale of two widows: investigating meaning-making and identity development through writing in the face of grief	5
Chinese and non-Chinese parents’ perceptions of school counselling in Hong Kong: a mixed-methods cross-cultural comparison	5
“I’ve finally got my expression”: the anchoring role of identity in changing from an organisation-based career to a protean career path	5
Counselling approaches to support former gang members in constructing new careers	5
Processes and outcomes of individual career counselling for different types of clients: a latent profile analysis replication and extension	5
Exploring the future career autobiography with young Australian undergraduate students: autobiographical opportunities for career storytelling and narrative change	5
Assimilation in bereavement: charting the process of grief recovery in the case of Sophie	5
Stress and coping among parents of children with hearing impairment: a scoping review	5
Counselling and career guidance in Asia	5
Rethinking work: essays on building a better workplace	4
Social-emotional learning and career development in elementary settings	4
Preserving the planet and promoting well-being	4
Personal agency and organisational attachment: A career capital perspective	4
Career development learning in childhood: a critical analysis	4
Reimagining the neuroscience concept of flow state to combat racism with U.S. born black clients	4
Career writing interventions for career learning: an integrative literature review	4
Counsellors’ position in the child–teacher-parent axis in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disorders	4
A critical review of contemporary concepts of agency in the field of career guidance: life-design counselling and a systems theory framework	4
The place of culture in the training of career guidance educators	4
The Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective	3
Responding well to Spiritual Abuse: practice implications for counselling and psychotherapy	3
Smartphone addiction and psychological wellbeing among adolescents: the multiple mediating roles of academic procrastination and school burnout	3
Vocational interest measures across Africa: a scoping review	3
Multicultural counselling supervision in Türkiye	3
Practical applications of a social justice agenda in counselling and psychotherapy: the relational equality in education framework (REEF)	3
Writing the self in bereavement: a story of love, spousal loss, and resilience	3
How to Think Like a … Behavior Analyst: Understanding the Science That Can Change Your Life (Second Edition)	3
Social connectedness and career and talent development self-efficacy: direct and mediating effects	3
Barriers and facilitators to delivery of a webchat mental health helpline service for young people: a qualitative study using the Behaviour Change Wheel	3
The effectiveness of self-healing intervention program on pain-related anxiety and the severity of perceived pain in patients with migraine	3
The effect of a mindfulness-based stress reducing programme on tolerance of ambiguity, rumination, and metacognitive awareness in infertile women	3
Relationship between preference for solitude and life satisfaction: the mediating role of mindfulness	3
Evaluating the preliminary efficacy of a career counselling programme for youth transitioning out of a juvenile justice facility	3