OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Career Development 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Career Trajectories and Outcomes in Substance Use Recovery: A Scoping Review	54
Advancing Research on Career Sustainability	50
Racial/Ethnic Minority Vocational Research Trends in Counseling Psychology and Multicultural Psychology Journals: A Trend Analysis Across 51 Years	32
Middle School, Middle-Skills: 8th Grader’s Interest in Middle-Skill Occupations	30
Predictors and Outcomes of U.S. Quality Maternity Leave: A Review and Conceptual Framework	30
Facing Change With Stability: The Dynamics of Occupational Career Trajectories	20
Examining Differentiation of Self Within Career Construction Model of Adaptation	20
Exploring the Structure of Career Narratives: The Application of the Narrative Identity Assessment Model	19
The Assessment of Post-secondary Supports: A New Measure of an Understudied SCCT Construct	16
The Origins of Emerging Adults’ Work–Family Balance Self-Efficacy: A Dyadic Study	15
A Phenomenological Exploration of Individual and University Supports Affecting U.S. International Students’ Job Searches	13
Purposeful Pathways: An Integrative Career Development Intervention for Vocational, Mental Health, and Substance Use Recovery	13
Career Aspirations of Arab Minority College Students in Israel: A Longitudinal Study	13
Crafting Work Happiness: Balancing Client Agency & Empowerment With Critical Social Awareness	12
Drivers of Involuntary Career Changes: A Qualitative Study of Push, Pull, Anti-Push, and Anti-Pull Factors	12
From Near and Afar: International Secondary School Students’ Career Influences	12
Testing an Extended Social Cognitive Model of Occupational Turnover Intentions	12
Erratum to “Career Goal Profiles of Early Career Scientists: A Person-Centered Approach”	11
Gender Typicality and Prestige of Occupational Aspirations in Adolescents: The Relevance of Agency and Communion	10
Examining the Career Construction Model of Adaptation Among Filipino Senior High School Students	10
Gender Differences in STEM Career Development in Postsecondary Vocational-Technical Education. A Social Cognitive Career Theory Test	9
Youth Perceptions of Their Futures, Society, and the Work Landscape: A Psychology of Working Perspective	9
Work–Family Balance Satisfaction of Racially and Ethnically Minoritized Postdoctoral Scholars in the STEM Fields	8
Linking Career Adaptability and Psychological Well-Being: A Test of Moderated Mediation Model Among Indian Employees	8
The Association Between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Job-Seeking Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model	8

Facilitating United States Service Members’ Transition Out of the Military: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	8
“I Put In My Two Weeks Notice!” Employee Behavior and Wellness Prior to Exit	8
Latina Paraeducators’ Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Adaptation in an Alternative Route to Teaching Program	7
“It Felt Like a Little Community”: Supporting Rural Appalachian College Students	7
Emotional Intelligence Profiles and Job Search Correlates in the Context of the School-to-Work Transition	7
Career Planning and Self-Efficacy as Predictors of Students’ Career-Related Worry: Direct and Mediated Pathways	7
Examining Links Between Black Women’s Intersectional Identities and Career Interests	7
Give Twice to Get the Same: Gender Impact on Leaders’ Orientations and Career Paths	6
The Role of Autonomy Support and Job Crafting in Interest Incongruence: A Mediated Moderation Model	6
Career Exploration and Decision-Making Learning Experiences (CEDLE) Scales: Validation Among Chinese Vocational College Students	6
Work Values and Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs at Work	6
Motivation, College Integration, and Intentions to Persist Among First-Generation College Students: A Latent Class Approach	6
Meaningful Work Linking High-Quality Relationships and Commitment: A Conditional Process Study with Career Orientation	6
Does Burnout Decrease With Teacher Professional Identity Among Teachers in China?	6
Refugees’ Meaning of Work: A Qualitative Investigation of Work Purposes and Expectations	6
Challenge or Threat? Proposing and Testing a Career Shock Coping Model	5
Pursuing Money and Power, Prosocial Contributions, or Personal Growth: Measurement and Nomological Net of Different Career Strivings	5
Career Self-Efficacy, Future Perceptions, and Life Satisfaction: Investigating Two Adolescent Career Development Models	5
A Glimpse Into an Uncommon Mind: A Review of My Life with a Theory	5
Vocational Identity Statuses Among Hong Kong Sub-degree Students: Pattern Identification and Relationship to Career Development and Academic Performance	5
Validation of the Chinese Decent Work Scale	5
Does Future Work Self Benefit Everyone Equally? The Moderating Role of Organizational Support for Development	5
A Latent Profile Analysis of Protean Career Attitude and Vocational Identity Status	5
Career Development in Transitional Work Settings: A Qualitative Investigation Among Veterans and Vocational Counselors	5
Stay or Leave? The Role of Career Adaptability and Organizational Embeddedness for Turnover Intentions	5
Career Adaptability as a Predictor of Job Search Intentions and Career Readiness of Young Adults in the United Arab Emirates	5
Achieving Workplace Wellbeing Among Indian IT Engineers	5
How Career and Non-Work Goal Progress Affect Dual Earners’ Satisfaction: A Whole-Life Perspective	5
Validation of the Family-Supportive Coworker Behavior Scale in the Chinese Context	5
Conceptualizing a Proposed Model for Re-Orienting Career Centers for Immigrant College Students	5
A Test of the Career Construction Theory Model of Adaptation with Turkish Final Year Undergraduate Students	4
Influence of Career Adaptability and Job Control on Decent Work and Occupational Stress in a Sample of Apprentices	4
Unpacking the Concept of Decent Work in the Psychology of Working Theory for Blue-Collar Workers	4
Examining Teacher Feedback, Perceived Competencies, Interests, and Achievement in Fourth-Grade Students in Portugal	4
Centering Race in Career Development: A Critical Review of Career Scholarship and Practice	4
Career Adaptability and Career Decision Self-Efficacy: Meta-Analysis	4
The Relationship Between Work Study and Career Development for Undergraduate Students	4
An Essential but Overlooked Workforce: Elevating the Need to Investigate the Career Development of Paraeducators	4
Am I Gonna Get a Job? Graduating Students’ Psychological Capital, Coping Styles, and Employment Anxiety	4
Self-Perceived Employability and Psychological Well-Being Among Italian Students and Graduates: A Three-Wave Cross-Lagged Study	3
Just and Inclusive Team Climates Affect Mentoring Satisfaction: The Roles of Negative Mentoring and Race	3
Decent Work and Turnover Intentions Among Chinese Millennials: A Longitudinal Study	3
Mentoring as an Investment: A Quantitative Review of Mentoring and Well-Being for the Protégé	3
An Exploratory Study of Engineering Graduate Student Persistence: Self-Efficacy and Contextual Influences	3
Work–Family Conflict and Proactive Career Behaviors: The Roles of Career Resilience and Conscientiousness	3
Internship Experience and Organizational Attractiveness: A Realistic Job Fit Perspective	3
“No Girls on the Software Team”: Internship Experiences of Women in Computer Science	3
Perceived Scarcity of Job Opportunities and Job Search: An Evolutionary Life History Perspective	3
Social Identities and Cognitive Information Processing Theory: A Qualitative Analysis	3
Secondary Students’ Academic Engagement Through Career Construction: The Role of Parental Support and Career Hope	2

Family Care-Work Interference and Mid/Late-Career Motivation and Intentions: Mediating Role of Occupational Future Time Perspective	2
Career Adaptability Profiles and Their Relations With Emotional and Decision-Making Correlates Among Belgian Undergraduate Students	2
Voicing Is Not Icing! The Role of Career Empowerment in Fostering Voice Behavior Through Career Security: A Time-Lagged Three-Wave Study	2
Many Roads Lead to Rome: Researching Antecedents and Outcomes of Contemporary School-To-Work Transitions	2
Women’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Persistence After University Graduation: Insights From Kazakhstan	2
Validation of a French Version of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire: Relationships With Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy	2
Strengths-Based Leadership and Employee Psychological Well-Being: A Moderated Mediation Model	2
Reaching Further Into a Theory of Career Problem-Solving and Decision-Making	2
Social Class and Career Decision Self-Efficacy: Roles of Career Social Support and Birthplace	2
Association Among Parent–Teacher Relationship, Autonomy Support, and Career Development of High School Students Across School Types	2
Socioeconomic Differences in the Transition From Higher Education to the Labour Market: A Systematic Review	2
Clarifying Work Values Through Seasonal Employment: An Instrumental Case Study of Summer Camp Employment	2
Work Placement Supervisor Support and Students’ Proactive Career Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Proactivity	2
Mentor–Protégé Matching Regarding Communication Relates to Career Attitudes	2
Plugging the Leaky Pipeline:A Qualitative Investigation of Untenured Female Faculty in STEM	2
Exploring the Identities, Barriers, and Interventions for Motherscholars During a Global Pandemic	2
Influence of Career-Related Parental Support on Adolescents’ Career Maturity: A Two-Wave Moderated Mediation Model	2
How Career Exploration Affects Employment Outcomes: A Two-Wave Study Among Young Chinese Adults	2
Developmental Networks of Young Adults for Career Growth Opportunities: South Korean Self-Initiated Expatriates in Vietnam	2