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Papers

(The median citation count of Career Development International 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Self-goal setting as a way to career sustainability: exploring the roles of career crafting and perceived organizational goal clarity	153
Homefront fuel for career growth: the role of career crafting and work–life balance	91
A state-of-the-art overview of job-crafting research: current trends and future research directions	88
Happy, and they know it? The roles of positive affectivity, intrinsic motivation and network building on LinkedIn on employment predictions	39
A person-centered perspective on entrepreneurial success: combining proactive behavioral strategies across various life domains	36
From family to fortune: the dual impact of family-friendly policies and ethical work climate on employee career success	32
Uncovering the antecedents and motivational determinants of job crafting	26
No person is an island: how employees attribute and react to coworkers' approach crafting	25
Be a boundaryless good guy! How job embeddedness mediates and organizational identification moderates the associations of boundaryless career attitude with extra-role behaviours	23
The effect of parents’ support, protean career orientation and self-perceived employability on the school-to-work transition	20
A comparative study of the work–life balance experiences and coping mechanisms of Nigerian and British single student-working mothers	20
Interprofessional subjective experiences of EDI in a virtual healthcare working group: a collaborative ethnography	20
Understanding career-meaningfulness and work centrality to serve customers: servant leadership and customer-oriented boundary-spanning behaviors	19
Fostering calling in the leader–member exchange: individual and team-level effects	18
A dual-pathway model for examining the effects of customer mistreatment on an employee's customer-directed counterproductive work behavior: can job autonomy make a difference?	17
Evolving as an entrepreneur: a life story approach to studying Indian women entrepreneurs	17
Protean career orientation to turnover intentions: moderating roles of current organizational career growth and future organizational career growth prospect	17
Mapping the foundations and evolution of career aspiration research: a bibliometric analysis	17
Competency development opportunities and organizational citizenship behaviors: the mediating role of subjective career success	16
Employee development and employee engagement: a review and integrated model	15
Surviving limbo: critical career capital aspects for entrepreneur immigrants in an extreme context	15
Why employees engage in proactive career behavior: examining the role of family motivation	14
The search for greener pastures: a qualitative analysis of employee job search dynamics	13
Academic independent directors in China: factors influencing career decision-making	13
Crafting in the face of ostracism: when does coworker ostracism foster employee job crafting and innovative work behavior?	12

Self-initiated expatriation: a career perspective through a social chronology lens	12
Research productivity of management faculty: job demands-resources approach	11
Is intuition better than rationality? The effect of pre-decisional strategy on occupational interest forecasting in Chinese college students	11
Living one’s calling independently: the role of online labor platforms for different dynamics of calling enactment	11
Editorial: Looking forward to 2025: editorial from the co-editors-in-chief	11
How workers construct a sense of positive occupational identity in a contested emerging profession: the case of career coaches	11
Revisiting mindsets for careers research: what we know, what we don’t and why we should care	10
Guest editorial: Positive careers research: where do we go from here?	10
Mothers' job crafting and work-to-family enrichment: a self-concept perspective	10
Do my accents matter? Examining the relationship between English language teachers’ linguistic profiling and career development	10
Spillover and crossover effects of social support through work-family balance: a time-lagged analysis in Italian dyads	9
A career-lifespan perspective on strengths utilization at work	9
Reducing linguistic profiling of individuals with communication disabilities to enhance careers: avoiding assumptions based on speech, language and communication mode	9
Dysfunctional leadership: investigating employee experiences with dysfunctional leaders	8
(Re)Framing sustainable careers: toward a conceptual model and future research agenda	8
A critical conceptual framework for understanding career development in linguistically diverse individual and organizational contexts	8
Editorial: Introducing the new practitioner insights section at career development international	8
Development of career capital during expatriation: partners' perspectives	8
Called to stay? The moderating roles of feedback from others and role clarity in the relationship between experiencing a calling and organizational embeddedness	8
Local worker perspectives from Nicaraguan surf tourism: revisiting career anchors in non-standard work contexts	8
Accent modification and workplace accentism: the institutionalization of linguistic profiling and its career implications	8
Job resourcefulness, job crafting and task performance in a post-COVID-19 context: a diary study on tour and travel frontline employees	8
Career enhancement strategies, supportive work relationships and subjective career success: the moderating role of family–work conflict	8
From personal resources to proactive work strategies and performance: testing the antecedents and outcomes of strengths use in a three-wave study	8
Precarious employment amidst global crises: career shocks, resources and migrants' employability	8
Beyond the call of duty: exploring early career nurses’ mobility ambitions and commitment in the face of workplace challenges	8
Plural masculinities at work: generational cohorts, organizational culture and men’s work–life choices	7
Reconstruction work awaits: work identity in the aftermath of health-related career shock	7
The influence of linguistic profiling on perceived employability: a new application of the systems theory framework of career development	7
Mediating roles of employee cynicism and workplace ostracism on the relationship between perceived organizational politics and counterproductive work behavior	7
The dark side of work-life policies: the influence of co-workers taking childcare leave on work anxiety	7
Career empowerment: a qualitative exploratory investigation of perceived career control	6
What do we know about career and development? Insights from Career Development International at age 25	6
Forty years of political skill and will in organizations: a review, meta-theoretical framework and directions for future research	6
Look busy do nothing: does professional isolation and psychological strain of overqualified employee leads to goldbricking behaviour?	6
How do German and French expatriates develop social networks?	6
Incivility experienced by immigrants struggling with acculturation: exploring buffering effects of holding behaviors by mentors	5
A two-study examination of age discrimination, work meaningfulness, and bridge employment intentions	5
The multilevel intelligent career framework: an exploration and application to skilled migrants	5
11 topics among 7,591 employability research abstracts (1942–2024): a structural topic model and call for interdisciplinary perspectives	5
The holding pattern of the worker Bs: how bifurcation of consciousness impacts female academic career progression	5
Leader's desire for promotion, workplace anxiety and exploitative leadership: the moderating effect of Machiavellianism	5
The shape of careers in the future workplace: extreme scenarios and their prospect impact	5
Unraveling psychological processes underlying (un)realized work-to-work transitions: a qualitative study	5
Influence of relational learning and job autonomy in associations between social capital resources and newcomer adjustment: a moderated mediation study	5
Career sustainability of digital micro-entrepreneurs: strategic insights from YouTubers in India	5
How knowledge sharing affects career adaptability: roles of knowledge depth, self-efficacy and reflective thinking	5
Transnational sensemaking narratives of highly skilled Canadian immigrants' career change	5
“Follow the leader”: how inclusive leaders inspire followers to perform well through strengths use	4
Promoting sustainable career development via organisational support: autoethnographic insights from a late diagnosed autistic practitioner	4

When pursuing more career, success hits home and job: examining the cost of vocational delay of gratification	4
How do mentors influence the career satisfaction of protégés: dual processing mechanism of cognition and emotion	4
Building a sustainable career during the initial transition to work: a multiple-stakeholder perspective on proactive behaviors and contextual factors	4
Is short measure a big problem? A meta-analytic comparison of career adaptability measures	4
Linguistic profiling and career development through the lived experience of service sector employees in Pakistan	3
The social psychology of work engagement: state of the field	3
Executive competencies and individual ambidexterity: shaping late-career transition to Canada’s recreational cannabis industry	3
What does expatriate success mean? Developing a comprehensive definition through a systematic literature review	3
Do work stressors facilitate or impede job crafting? The role of employee trait and work regulatory focus	3
Maintaining job crafting over time: joint effect of autonomy and career support from family and friends	3
Motivational drivers and psychological detachment in shaping the work–home interface for Saudi women	3
Navigating a double school-to-work transition: how do Chinese graduate students decide where to start their careers after studying abroad?	3
How to engage and retain employed students	3
“Locked at the job”: a qualitative study on the process of this phenomenon	3
Are we talking about the same thing? The case for stronger connections between graduate and worker employability research	3
Enablers and drivers of contemporary careers: a qualitative inquiry	3
Balancing act: how family identity orientation impacts careers of NCAA women coaches	3
Transnational education, labor market outcomes and graduate employability: a scoping review	3
Exploring the enablers and barriers for women pilots in Australian commercial aviation	3