OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Career Development 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
The Career Trajectories and Outcomes in Substance Use Recovery: A Scoping Review	28
Future Orientation and Career Development for Culturally Diverse At-Risk Youth: Qualitative Insights	20
Crafting Work Happiness: Balancing Client Agency & Empowerment With Critical Social Awareness	20
Validation of the Chinese Decent Work Scale	19
Give Twice to Get the Same: Gender Impact on Leaders’ Orientations and Career Paths	19
Career Development in Transitional Work Settings: A Qualitative Investigation Among Veterans and Vocational Counselors	18
Family Capital, Career-Related Parental Behaviors, and Career Adaptability Among Chinese Adolescents: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study	18
Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Purpose in Life: Dynamic Components for Sustainable Careers—Does Gender Matter?	18
Does Future Work Self Benefit Everyone Equally? The Moderating Role of Organizational Support for Development	16
Centering Race in Career Development: A Critical Review of Career Scholarship and Practice	15
The U.S. Workforce From 1960 to 2020: A RIASEC View	13
Family Care-Work Interference and Mid/Late-Career Motivation and Intentions: Mediating Role of Occupational Future Time Perspective	13
Women’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Persistence After University Graduation: Insights From Kazakhstan	13
Exploring the Identities, Barriers, and Interventions for Motherscholars During a Global Pandemic	13
A Meta-Study of the Journal of Career Development: An Analysis of Publication Characteristics from 2000 to 2019	13
Transcendent or Fraudulent: Investigating the Relationships Among Imposter Phenomenon, Perfectionism, and Calling	13
Proactivity and Job Search: The Mediating Role of Psychological Closeness With External Mentors	11
Linking Career Adaptability to Entrepreneurial Burnout: A Moderated Mediation Model	10
Who I Am and What I Want to Do: Linking Self-Construals and Career Interests	10
Job Choice Under Crisis Conditions: Differences in Motivational Systems and Job-Attribute Preferences of Young Adults	10
Erratum to “Career Goal Profiles of Early Career Scientists: A Person-Centered Approach”	9
Qualitative Job Insecurity, Negative Work-Related Affect and Work-to-Family Conflict: The Moderating Role of Core Self-Evaluations	9
International Students’ Emotional Experiences and Reactions During the Transition to Employment	9
Navigating Involuntary Career Changes: Emotional Dynamics During Work-Related Identity Loss and Recovery	9
How to Elicit Organizational Citizenship Behavior? The Role of Strengths-Based Leadership	9

Job-Search Behaviors During Involuntary Unemployment: A Social Cognitive Approach	9
Linking Future Decent Work Perceptions With Employment Anxiety: A Psychology of Working Perspective	9
Purposeful Pathways: An Integrative Career Development Intervention for Vocational, Mental Health, and Substance Use Recovery	8
The Association Between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Job-Seeking Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model	8
Validation of the Family-Supportive Coworker Behavior Scale in the Chinese Context	8
Two Emotional Roots of Youths’ Earth-Friendly Career Aspirations: Eco-Anxiety and Empathy Toward Animals	8
Achieving Workplace Wellbeing Among Indian IT Engineers	7
Career Self-Efficacy, Future Perceptions, and Life Satisfaction: Investigating Two Adolescent Career Development Models	7
Career Exploration and Decision-Making of Turkish Undergraduates: Testing a Social Cognitive Model	7
Conceptualizing a Proposed Model for Re-Orienting Career Centers for Immigrant College Students	7
Vocational Identity Statuses Among Hong Kong Sub-degree Students: Pattern Identification and Relationship to Career Development and Academic Performance	7
How Career Exploration Affects Employment Outcomes: A Two-Wave Study Among Young Chinese Adults	6
Work Placement Supervisor Support and Students’ Proactive Career Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Proactivity	6
Job Search Interventions for Long-Term Unemployed Job Seekers: Comparing Approaches to Effective Support	6
Association Among Parent–Teacher Relationship, Autonomy Support, and Career Development of High School Students Across School Types	6
Plugging the Leaky Pipeline:A Qualitative Investigation of Untenured Female Faculty in STEM	6
Clarifying Work Values Through Seasonal Employment: An Instrumental Case Study of Summer Camp Employment	6
Mentoring as an Investment: A Quantitative Review of Mentoring and Well-Being for the Protégé	6
Role of Family Acculturation Stress in Career Development Among Adolescents From Multicultural Families in Korea	6
Motivational Resources of Agency in Adolescents’ Career Development in Postsecondary Transition: More than Being Self-Efficacious	5
High-Achieving Rural Youth and Math and Science Talent Development: An Application of SCCT	5
Adolescent–Parent Career Congruence and Vocational Identity Among Chinese College Students: A Moderated Mediation Model	5
Gender Typicality and Prestige of Occupational Aspirations in Adolescents: The Relevance of Agency and Communion	5
Employability Development during Internships: A Three-Wave Study on a Sample of Psychology Graduates in Italy	5
Motivational Conflict and Volitional Career Actions in Young Adults: Ego Depletion as an Explanatory Mechanism	5
STEM Stories: Fostering STEM Persistence for Underrepresented Minority Students Attending Predominantly White Institutions	5
Work–Family Balance Satisfaction of Racially and Ethnically Minoritized Postdoctoral Scholars in the STEM Fields	5
Disentangling Career Change Magnitude Through Expert Analysis	5
The Best of Both Worlds: Affiliation and Agency in Traditional and Gig Work Choices	5
Evaluating the Decent Work Scale Measurement Model in Zimbabwe	5
Towards Career Satisfaction by Career Adaptation Model Among Individuals With Visual Impairment	5
Social Identities and Cognitive Information Processing Theory: A Qualitative Analysis	4
The Origins of Emerging Adults’ Work–Family Balance Self-Efficacy: A Dyadic Study	4
Work–Family Conflict and Proactive Career Behaviors: The Roles of Career Resilience and Conscientiousness	4
Influence of Career-Related Parental Support on Adolescents’ Career Maturity: A Two-Wave Moderated Mediation Model	4
Motivation, College Integration, and Intentions to Persist Among First-Generation College Students: A Latent Class Approach	4
Individuals’ Interests in Vocational Environments with Activity Opportunities That Are Inconsistent with Holland’s Calculus Hypothesis	4
Unpacking the Concept of Decent Work in the Psychology of Working Theory for Blue-Collar Workers	4
Meaningful Work Linking High-Quality Relationships and Commitment: A Conditional Process Study with Career Orientation	4
Acceptance of Disability Promotes Proactive Career Behavior Among People With Disabilities	3
Career Interruptions: A Reconceptualization From a Chinese Taoism Perspective	3
Work–Family Interface and Subjective Career Success: The Role(s) of Job Crafting as a Personal Resource	3
Career Building Among Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates	3
From Near and Afar: International Secondary School Students’ Career Influences	3
Drivers of Involuntary Career Changes: A Qualitative Study of Push, Pull, Anti-Push, and Anti-Pull Factors	3
Career Adaptability as a Predictor of Job Search Intentions and Career Readiness of Young Adults in the United Arab Emirates	3
Do Work–Life Balance Climates Constrain Leadership Aspirations? Gender and Career Values in Korea’s Accounting Profession	3
“Called” To Speak Out: Employee Career Calling and Voice Behavior	3
Exploring the Benefits of Boundarylessness: Pathways From Boundaryless Career Orientation to Insecurity and Engagement	3
Career Aspirations of Arab Minority College Students in Israel: A Longitudinal Study	3

A Phenomenological Exploration of Individual and University Supports Affecting U.S. International Students’ Job Searches	3
A Glimpse Into an Uncommon Mind: A Review of My Life with a Theory	3
Mentor–Protégé Matching Regarding Communication Relates to Career Attitudes	3
Protean Career Orientation and Proactive Career Behaviors During School-to-Work Transition: Mechanism Exploration and Coaching Intervention	3
Answering the Calling with Passion: Academic Odyssey as Freelance Faculty From Corporate to Campus	3
Social-Cognitive Predictors of College Athletes’ Career Decision-Making: A Longitudinal Test of Career Self-Management Model	3
Does Burnout Decrease With Teacher Professional Identity Among Teachers in China?	3
Youth Perceptions of Their Futures, Society, and the Work Landscape: A Psychology of Working Perspective	3
“It Felt Like a Little Community”: Supporting Rural Appalachian College Students	3
Perceived Scarcity of Job Opportunities and Job Search: An Evolutionary Life History Perspective	3