OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Career Assessment 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
Career Construction Networks Among Junior and Senior High School Students	37
The Super-Short Form of Career Adapt-Abilities Scale: Cross-Cultural Validation in China and the United Kingdom	30
An Investigation of Work Precarity Among Paid Domestic Cleaning Workers in Switzerland	28
Longitudinal Patterns in Gender-Typed Career Interests and Career Stereotypes Among Boys and Girls in Middle Adolescence	28
A Multi-Group Study of Psychological Capital and Job Search Behaviours Among University Graduates With and Without Work Placement Learning Experience	26
Disentangling Underemployment and Precarious Work: A Latent Profile Analysis	22
Outcomes of Decent Work Among Blue-Collar Workers in South Africa: The Role of Job Satisfaction	20
The Development and Validation of the Postgraduate School Application Outcome Expectations Scale	19
Middle School Students’ Motivation to Pursue a Career in Teaching: Psychometric Validation of the Becoming-A-Teacher Expectancy-Value-Cost Scale	18
Lockdown Stories: A Qualitative Assessment and Comprehensive Taxonomy of Career Resources	18
Antecedents and Outcomes of Positive Career Goal Progress Discrepancy Appraisal in Young Adults	17
A Social Cognitive Career Theory Study of Agricultural Mechanical Trade Workers	17
Reciprocal Effects of Career Adaptability and Occupational Self-Efficacy: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study With Varying Time Lags	16
Leveraging a Critical Quantitative Perspective and the MIMIC Approach to Produce More Equitable Measures in Vocational Psychology	16
Exploring job seeker profiles through latent profile analysis	16
Protean Career Orientation and Career Success: On the Roles of Proactive Career Process During the School-To-Work Transition	15
Changes in U.S. Workers’ Values and Satisfaction After COVID-19	13
Measuring Sustainable Career: Validation and Predictive Value of the Spanish Career Sustainability Scale	12
18REST-2: A Revised Measure of the RIASEC Model for Large-Scale Assessment With Students	12
Development and Validation of the Online Proactive Career Behavior Scale	12
The French Version of the Academic Major Satisfaction Scale: Structural, Convergent, and Divergent Validity	12
Strengthening Self-Efficacy in the Graduate Application Process: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial	11
I Can’t Quit: Experiences of Black Women in STEM Professions	11
From Adaptive Readiness to Adaptation Results Testing the Career Construction Model of Adaptation in Chinese Adolescents	10
Subjective Career Success, Career Competencies, and Perceived Employability: Three-way Interaction Effects on Organizational and Occupational Turnover Intentions	9

Beliefs About the Malleability of Professional Skills and Abilities: Development and Validation of a Scale	9
Lying Down or Rising Up in Career Success? Career Success Decisional Conflict and Scale Development	9
Reconstructing Stories of Career Adaptability Through the Integrative Structured Interview for Undergraduate University Students	9
Kicking off a Gig Work Career: Unfolding a Career Learning Cycle of Gig Workers	9
Context and Validation of the Korean Work Capital Scale: 한국판 일 자본 척도 타당화	9
A Multiple Mediational Meta-Analysis of the Influence of Proactive Personality on Subjective Career Success at the Career Exploration Stage	8
College Career Courses and Growth Toward Vocational Identity Achievement Status	8
The Structure of Vocational Interests in Finland: A Study of the Fit of Holland’s RIASEC Model Based on a Representative Nationwide Sample of Career Counselling Clients	7
Measuring Career Support in Women’s Private Domain: Insights from Patriarchal Contexts	7
Career Adaptability in General Upper Secondary Education: The Role of SES, Gender, and Socioemotional Factors	7
Unemployment and Underemployment in Manufacturing Workers: A Psychology of Working Perspective	7
Reflections on Career and Wellbeing From Systemically Impacted Immigrant Artists	7
Subjective Experiences of Decent Work and Future Aspirations Among Rural-Migrant Food-Delivery Riders in China	7
Profiles of Decent Work and Precarious Work: Exploring Macro-Level Predictors and Mental Health Outcomes	7
Interest Fit Beyond the RIASEC: The Comprehensive Assessment of Basic Interests—O*NET (CABIN-NET)	7
Daily Environments During Emerging Adulthood and Gender Atypical Occupational Choices: The Role of Sexist Experiences	7
Does the Attainment of Vocational Aspirations Make Youths Happy?	7
Social Cognitive Predictors of Music Majors’ Academic Well-Being and Persistence Intentions	7
The Relationship Between Parental Career-Related Factors and Adolescents’ Ambivalence in Career Decision-Making: A Longitudinal Mediation Study	6
Latent Profiles of Cultural Orientation in a Multicultural Country: Implications for Career Development	6
Associations of Career Decision-Making Strategies With Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy and Difficulties Among French-Speaking Swiss Adolescents and Young Adults	6
Examining Measurement Invariance of the Planning for Career and Family Scale (PLAN) Across Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and College Year Among Engineering College Students	6
Career Adapt-Abilities Scale–Short Form: Validation among Portuguese University Students and Workers	6
Competitive Psychological Climate in China: Scale Development and Validation	6
Career Self-Management Competencies: Conceptualization and Measurement Based on a Career Self-Regulation Framework	6
Parental Career Expectation Predicts Adolescent Career Development Through Career-Related Parenting Practice: Transactional Dynamics Across High School Years	6
From Perseverance of Effort to Perceived Employability in First-Generation College Students: The Mediating Role of Career Adaptability and Career Engagement	5
Predicting Outcomes of a Manualized Individual Career Counseling Intervention Over a One-Year Follow-Up From Trajectories of Change in Career Decision Difficulties	5
Examining the Dimensions, Predictors, and Outcomes of Work Capital	5
A Bifactor Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling Representation of the Structure of the Decent Work Scale: Evidence from China	5
Decent Work in TVET: Examining Predictors and Outcomes of Perception of Future Decent Work Among Turkish Vocational High School Students	5
Development of a Three-Dimensional Measure of the Calling Work Orientation: Assessing Craftsmanship, Kinship, and Serving	5
Decent Work Profiles of Korean Workers: Antecedents and Outcomes of Profile Membership	5
Addressing Marginalized Youth’s Vulnerabilities in School-To-Work Transitions: A Comparative Study of Practitioners’ Perceptions and Strategies in Brazil and Switzerland	5
Job Desperation: Scale Development and Construct Validation	5
Decent Work and Self Determination Needs: Exploring Relational Workplace Civility as a Moderator	4
Gender, Racial-Ethnic, and Cohort Effects on STEM Interests: A Fourteen-Year Comparison	4
Relative Importance of Work Need Satisfaction Among Working Adults in the United States and South Korea: A Cross-Cultural Study	4
Trajectories of Change in Career Decision Difficulties During a Manualized Individual Career Counseling Intervention: The Influence of Counselor Adherence, Working Alliance and Client Personality Trai	4
Development and Cross-Cultural Validation of a Measure of Career Exploration and Decision-Making Outcome Expectations	4
Development and Validation of the Career Counseling Outcome Questionnaire in Two Clinical Settings	4
Expanding Links Between Work Values and Occupations: Development of the Occupational Values Inventory (OVI)	4
Careers in Disarray? COVID-19 and Self-Perceived Employability	4
Racism at Work and Racial Identity of Black Graduates of Elite Universities: A Psychology of Working Perspective	4
Perceived Overqualification Among Therapists: An Experimental Study	3
(In)congruence of Perceiving a Calling and Living a Calling and Behavioral Outcomes: A Self-Regulation Perspective	3
Development and Validation of the “Career Confidence for Activities in the Future” to Assess Italian Adolescents’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Handling Global Challenges	3
Bridging Academic and Career Development: A Longitudinal Examination of Engagement, Achievement, and Career Adaptability	3
An Examination of Psychology of Working Theory With Immigrant Workers in the United States	3
Do Online Career Counseling Interventions Work? A Meta-Analysis of Career-Related Psychological Outcomes	3

The Pursuit of Decent Work in Precarious Contexts: Motorbike Delivery Riders’ Psychological Experiences	3
Romanian Version of the Career Crafting Assessment: Psychometric Properties	3
Predicting Physical and Psychological Well-Being Among Women Workers: A Relational Perspective	3
Youth Perspectives on Decent Education and College and Career Readiness	3
The Structure of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire Across 13 Countries	3
Exploring a Language-Based Interest Assessment: Predicting Vocational Interests on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing	3
Measurement Invariance of the Occupational Engagement Scale – Student and Career Adapt-Abilities Scale Across U.S. Veterans’ Employment Status	3
Pre-Occupation: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression of Gender Differences in Adolescent Vocational Interests	3
Predicting Decent Work Among US Black Workers: Examining Psychology of Working Theory	3
Psychosocial Readiness for College: A Multidimensional Model and Measure for Students Entering College in Their Twenties	2
Linking Career Calling Profiles to Ecological Considerations in Vocational Behaviors, Ecological Worries and Nature Connectedness	2
The Effect of Openness to Experience on Students’ Readiness for School-To-Work Transition	2
Stability and Predictive Validity of the Higher Education Orientations Questionnaire: A Three-Year Follow-Up	2
Social Mobility and Vocational Outcomes: A Psychology of Working Perspective	2
Metaphors in Career Development: Using ZMET to Explore How an Employment Initiative Changes NEETs’ Mental Models	2
Choice Architecture and the Potential to Nudge Career Development at Scale	2
A Longitudinal Examination of Four Processual Mechanisms in Career Decision Making	2
Disentangling Social Class and Classism on Work Capital Among College Students	2
Dignity at Work: A Critical Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda	2
The Reciprocal Relationships Between Career Wisdom and Proactive Career Behavior	2
Contribution of Social Bonds to the Development of Scientific Research Identity in Adolescent Participants of a Science Enrichment Program	2
Looking Ahead, Looking Around, and Looking to Others: Identifying Core Proactive Behaviors in the Quest for Career Sustainability	2
Chronicles of Involuntary Career Changes: A Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis	2
A Qualitative Inquiry Into Decisions to Leave Engineering Among Korean Women With Engineering Degrees	2
Pushed Out, Pushing Back: Korean Transgender and Nonbinary People’s Job Search Experiences	2
Motivational Career Resources and Subjective Career Success: A Test of Mediation and Moderation	2
Career Wisdom in Fostering Job Performance: The Mediating Role of Living a Calling	2
Boundary Control and Work-Life Balance: The Mediating Role of Interruptions and Moderating Effect of an Office Space	2
A Multidimensional Approach to Understanding Calling’s Paths to Well-Being Through Career Development	2
The Insubordination Scale Among Full-Time Chinese Employees: A Cross-Cultural Validation Study	2
Maximizing and Satisficing in Job Search: A Person-Centred Approach	2
Examining Search for and Presence of a Calling Among Students and Employed Adults Using Latent Profile Analysis	2