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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Homefront fuel for career growth: the role of career crafting and work–life balance	131
A state-of-the-art overview of job-crafting research: current trends and future research directions	81
Self-goal setting as a way to career sustainability: exploring the roles of career crafting and perceived organizational goal clarity	76
A person-centered perspective on entrepreneurial success: combining proactive behavioral strategies across various life domains	38
Happy, and they know it? The roles of positive affectivity, intrinsic motivation and network building on LinkedIn on employment predictions	33
When does emotional intelligence (EI) benefit team-member exchange? The cross-level moderating role of EI-based leader-member exchange differentiation	32
A comparative study of the work–life balance experiences and coping mechanisms of Nigerian and British single student-working mothers	25
The effect of parents’ support, protean career orientation and self-perceived employability on the school-to-work transition	24
No person is an island: how employees attribute and react to coworkers' approach crafting	21
Be a boundaryless good guy! How job embeddedness mediates and organizational identification moderates the associations of boundaryless career attitude with extra-role behaviours	19
From family to fortune: the dual impact of family-friendly policies and ethical work climate on employee career success	18
Uncovering the antecedents and motivational determinants of job crafting	17
Understanding career-meaningfulness and work centrality to serve customers: servant leadership and customer-oriented boundary-spanning behaviors	17
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?	16
Interprofessional subjective experiences of EDI in a virtual healthcare working group: a collaborative ethnography	16
Protean career orientation to turnover intentions: moderating roles of current organizational career growth and future organizational career growth prospect	16
Fostering calling in the leader–member exchange: individual and team-level effects	16
Self-initiated expatriation: a career perspective through a social chronology lens	15
Employee development and employee engagement: a review and integrated model	15
Mapping the foundations and evolution of career aspiration research: a bibliometric analysis	14
Academic independent directors in China: factors influencing career decision-making	14
Competency development opportunities and organizational citizenship behaviors: the mediating role of subjective career success	14
Evolving as an entrepreneur: a life story approach to studying Indian women entrepreneurs	14
The search for greener pastures: a qualitative analysis of employee job search dynamics	13
Surviving limbo: critical career capital aspects for entrepreneur immigrants in an extreme context	12

Editorial: Looking forward to 2025: editorial from the co-editors-in-chief	11
Living one’s calling independently: the role of online labor platforms for different dynamics of calling enactment	11
How workers construct a sense of positive occupational identity in a contested emerging profession: the case of career coaches	11
Why employees engage in proactive career behavior: examining the role of family motivation	11
Revisiting mindsets for careers research: what we know, what we don’t and why we should care	10
Predictors of work alienation: differences between hierarchical levels	10
Mothers' job crafting and work-to-family enrichment: a self-concept perspective	10
Is intuition better than rationality? The effect of pre-decisional strategy on occupational interest forecasting in Chinese college students	10
Research productivity of management faculty: job demands-resources approach	10
Accent modification and workplace accentism: the institutionalization of linguistic profiling and its career implications	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
Guest editorial: Positive careers research: where do we go from here?	9
Job resourcefulness, job crafting and task performance in a post-COVID-19 context: a diary study on tour and travel frontline employees	8
Do my accents matter? Examining the relationship between English language teachers’ linguistic profiling and career development	8
Executives and career shocks: observations from coaching practice	8
Development of career capital during expatriation: partners' perspectives	8
Editorial: Introducing the new practitioner insights section at career development international	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
Spillover and crossover effects of social support through work-family balance: a time-lagged analysis in Italian dyads	8
(Re)Framing sustainable careers: toward a conceptual model and future research agenda	8
Look busy do nothing: does professional isolation and psychological strain of overqualified employee leads to goldbricking behaviour?	7
Local worker perspectives from Nicaraguan surf tourism: revisiting career anchors in non-standard work contexts	7
Precarious employment amidst global crises: career shocks, resources and migrants' employability	7
From personal resources to proactive work strategies and performance: testing the antecedents and outcomes of strengths use in a three-wave study	7
A critical conceptual framework for understanding career development in linguistically diverse individual and organizational contexts	7
Career enhancement strategies, supportive work relationships and subjective career success: the moderating role of family–work conflict	7
Mediating roles of employee cynicism and workplace ostracism on the relationship between perceived organizational politics and counterproductive work behavior	7
The mediating role of social informal learning in the relationship between learning climate and employability	7
Dysfunctional leadership: investigating employee experiences with dysfunctional leaders	7
Plural masculinities at work: generational cohorts, organizational culture and men’s work–life choices	6
Career empowerment: a qualitative exploratory investigation of perceived career control	6
Influence of relational learning and job autonomy in associations between social capital resources and newcomer adjustment: a moderated mediation study	6
Reconstruction work awaits: work identity in the aftermath of health-related career shock	6
The influence of linguistic profiling on perceived employability: a new application of the systems theory framework of career development	6
Advancing employability: applying training evaluation to employability development programs	6
The dark side of work-life policies: the influence of co-workers taking childcare leave on work anxiety	6
Running their own show: Malaysian women entrepreneurs’ kaleidoscope careers	6
The multilevel intelligent career framework: an exploration and application to skilled migrants	5
A two-study examination of age discrimination, work meaningfulness, and bridge employment intentions	5
The shape of careers in the future workplace: extreme scenarios and their prospect impact	5
The holding pattern of the worker Bs: how bifurcation of consciousness impacts female academic career progression	5
Forty years of political skill and will in organizations: a review, meta-theoretical framework and directions for future research	5
Transnational sensemaking narratives of highly skilled Canadian immigrants' career change	5
How do German and French expatriates develop social networks?	5
Incivility experienced by immigrants struggling with acculturation: exploring buffering effects of holding behaviors by mentors	5
What do we know about career and development? Insights from Career Development International at age 25	5
Career sustainability of digital micro-entrepreneurs: strategic insights from YouTubers in India	4
Building a sustainable career during the initial transition to work: a multiple-stakeholder perspective on proactive behaviors and contextual factors	4
How do mentors influence the career satisfaction of protégés: dual processing mechanism of cognition and emotion	4

How knowledge sharing affects career adaptability: roles of knowledge depth, self-efficacy and reflective thinking	4
Leader's desire for promotion, workplace anxiety and exploitative leadership: the moderating effect of Machiavellianism	4
“Follow the leader”: how inclusive leaders inspire followers to perform well through strengths use	4
The social psychology of work engagement: state of the field	4
11 topics among 7,591 employability research abstracts (1942–2024): a structural topic model and call for interdisciplinary perspectives	4
When pursuing more career, success hits home and job: examining the cost of vocational delay of gratification	4
Promoting sustainable career development via organisational support: autoethnographic insights from a late diagnosed autistic practitioner	4
Maintaining job crafting over time: joint effect of autonomy and career support from family and friends	4
Transnational education, labor market outcomes and graduate employability: a scoping review	3
Pursuing a sustainable career: how strengths-based leadership develops career adaptability and compensates for protean career orientation	3
Are we talking about the same thing? The case for stronger connections between graduate and worker employability research	3
Linguistic profiling and career development through the lived experience of service sector employees in Pakistan	3
Do work stressors facilitate or impede job crafting? The role of employee trait and work regulatory focus	3
What does expatriate success mean? Developing a comprehensive definition through a systematic literature review	3
Balancing act: how family identity orientation impacts careers of NCAA women coaches	3
Executive competencies and individual ambidexterity: shaping late-career transition to Canada’s recreational cannabis industry	3
Navigating a double school-to-work transition: how do Chinese graduate students decide where to start their careers after studying abroad?	3
Chinese women’s entrepreneurial career choices: exploring factors	3
Motivational drivers and psychological detachment in shaping the work–home interface for Saudi women	3
How to engage and retain employed students	3
Enablers and drivers of contemporary careers: a qualitative inquiry	3