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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Graduate students’ perceptions of the career construction interview	34
Development of vocational gender stereotype attitudes scale (VGSA) for adolescents	25
Mindfulness, impulsivity and psychological distress: the mediation role of smartphone addiction	21
The mediating role of cultural intelligence and cognitive flexibility in the relation between effective counsellor characteristics and multicultural counselling competencies of counsellors in Turkey	20
A qualitative study of counselling students’ experience with premature termination	17
Critical perspectives on agency and social justice in transitions and career development	17
A framework for defining a guidance approach support: typology, concepts, and practice guidelines	15
Effects of mindfulness-based strengths practice (MBSP) among women undergraduates in enhancing positive mental health	14
Job-seeking self-efficacy: an Irish scale for assessing the guidance and coaching needs of job seekers	12
Using phenomenology in careers research: student experiences of unpaid work	11
Introduction to issue 53 volume 2	10
A critical exploration of the “agile career”: a means of exposing the politics and economy of precarity via the lens of dromology	10
Institutional and psychological predictors of university students’ mental health help-seeking intentions	10
On becoming a counsellor: a posthuman reconfiguring of identity formation for counsellors-in-training	9
Exploring calling to farming careers in the United Kingdom: a scoping review	9
Can decent work lead to greater life satisfaction? Exploring the mediating and moderating role of positivity in teachers	8
Functional modes and social well-being as a protector of mental health during COVID-19	8
Perception of online education during COVID-19: Online Photovoice (OPV) and ecological systems theory	8
Is dharma the same as calling? Considering religio-cultural context in cross-cultural calling research	8
University students’ feedback regarding effective measures to prevent bullying	8
On the professional competence of career guidance counsellors: expectations and experiences of graduating students in Sweden	8
Co-agency: reconsidering agency in guidance practice	7
Business school students’ motivations and intentions to pursue a project management career	7
Lessons learnt in distance sandtray therapy: perspectives and experiences from counsellors-in-training in Taiwan	7
Play-based parent training programme supporting Hong Kong kindergarten children in social competence development	7

Let me check my phone: smartphone addiction and its links to life satisfaction and psychological resilience	7
Fostering teachers’ career education competencies: test of a training programme	7
The reflections of COVID-19 pandemic to counselling: bibliometric analysis of online psychological counselling research	7
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
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
Integrative Psychotherapy: A Mindfulness- and Compassion-Oriented Approach	6
Navigating school-to-work transitions during COVID-19 in Türkiye: a qualitative analysis of graduating students’ narratives	6
“I’ve finally got my expression”: the anchoring role of identity in changing from an organisation-based career to a protean career path	5
Exploring the future career autobiography with young Australian undergraduate students: autobiographical opportunities for career storytelling and narrative change	5
Stress and coping among parents of children with hearing impairment: a scoping review	5
A tale of two widows: investigating meaning-making and identity development through writing in the face of grief	4
Career agency of immigrants participating in employment interventions in Norway	4
Screening in schools: the acceptability and feasibility of guidance counsellors using YouthCHAT	4
Counsellors’ position in the child–teacher-parent axis in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disorders	4
Evaluating the structure and quality of mixed method studies in Turkish counselling and guidance research	4
Counselling and career guidance in Asia	4
A critical review of contemporary concepts of agency in the field of career guidance: life-design counselling and a systems theory framework	4
Rethinking work: essays on building a better workplace	4
Perceived social support, resilience and career adaptability among Malaysian university students: a structural equation model	4
Examining career transition narratives through the lens of social justice: a critical study of the British Press	4
Chinese and non-Chinese parents’ perceptions of school counselling in Hong Kong: a mixed-methods cross-cultural comparison	4
Cognitions or metacognitions?: the role of automatic thoughts and metacognitive beliefs about rumination in explaining depressive symptoms	4
Career development learning in childhood: a critical analysis	4
Evaluating the preliminary efficacy of a career counselling programme for youth transitioning out of a juvenile justice facility	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
Preserving the planet and promoting well-being	3
Responding well to Spiritual Abuse: practice implications for counselling and psychotherapy	3
How to Think Like a … Behavior Analyst: Understanding the Science That Can Change Your Life (Second Edition)	3
Vocational interest measures across Africa: a scoping review	3
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioural counselling integrated with psychoeducation for hypertensive patients: a pilot study	3
Career writing interventions for career learning: an integrative literature review	3
The role of careers work in addressing the awarding gap for Black students: reflecting on the experiences of students at one post-1992 university in England	3
Multicultural counselling supervision in Türkiye	3
Social connectedness and career and talent development self-efficacy: direct and mediating effects	3
Smartphone addiction and psychological wellbeing among adolescents: the multiple mediating roles of academic procrastination and school burnout	3
Reimagining the neuroscience concept of flow state to combat racism with U.S. born black clients	3
The effectiveness of self-healing intervention program on pain-related anxiety and the severity of perceived pain in patients with migraine	3
The place of culture in the training of career guidance educators	3