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Papers

(The median citation count of Career Development International 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 antecedents and outcomes of career optimism: a meta-analysis	123
Career self-management perceptions reflected in the psychological contract of virtual employees: a qualitative and quantitative analysis	78
The shape of careers in the future workplace: extreme scenarios and their prospect impact	67
Job resourcefulness, job crafting and task performance in a post-COVID-19 context: a diary study on tour and travel frontline employees	33
Leader's desire for promotion, workplace anxiety and exploitative leadership: the moderating effect of Machiavellianism	32
Spillover and crossover effects of social support through work-family balance: a time-lagged analysis in Italian dyads	31
Proactive personality and turnover intentions of nurses: the roles of professional recognition and their supervisor’s proactive personality	22
11 topics among 7,591 employability research abstracts (1942–2024): a structural topic model and call for interdisciplinary perspectives	22
Guest editorial: Introducing the Special Issue on current trends in careers theory and research	19
Misconceptions and misunderstandings: an exploration of the interplay of religion, culture and gender from Muslim scholars and clerics	18
Motherhood enrichment in leadership: exploring top female executives in Spain	18
Transnational sensemaking narratives of highly skilled Canadian immigrants' career change	17
Do newcomers with high political skill benefit more from the formal mentoring program?	16
Editorial: Farewell message from the outgoing editor	14
How knowledge sharing affects career adaptability: roles of knowledge depth, self-efficacy and reflective thinking	14
Exploring careers through a qualitative lens: an investigation and invitation	13
Determinants and consequences of job crafting under the boundary conditions of work uncertainty	13
Self-goal setting as a way to career sustainability: exploring the roles of career crafting and perceived organizational goal clarity	12
“Locked at the job”: a qualitative study on the process of this phenomenon	12
Age-inclusive HR practices and the thriving of older workers: the mediating role of occupational future time perspective	12
Career sustainability of digital micro-entrepreneurs: strategic insights from YouTubers in India	11
Supporting clients via narrative storytelling and artificial intelligence: a practitioner guide for career development professionals	11
Do my accents matter? Examining the relationship between English language teachers’ linguistic profiling and career development	11
Reducing linguistic profiling of individuals with communication disabilities to enhance careers: avoiding assumptions based on speech, language and communication mode	11
Accent modification and workplace accentism: the institutionalization of linguistic profiling and its career implications	10

International backpackers' experiences of precarious visa-contingent farmwork	10
Couples experiencing private life constraints to their career: understanding home-to-career interference from a couple's perspective	10
Chinese women’s entrepreneurial career choices: exploring factors	9
Linking high-performance work systems and happiness at work: role of career aspiration and thriving	9
The why, what and how of career research: a review and recommendations for future study	8
Pursuing a sustainable career: how strengths-based leadership develops career adaptability and compensates for protean career orientation	8
Guest editorial: Positive careers research: where do we go from here?	8
A career-lifespan perspective on strengths utilization at work	8
Does organizational cronyism undermine social capital? Testing the mediating role of workplace ostracism and the moderating role of workplace incivility	7
A state-of-the-art overview of job-crafting research: current trends and future research directions	7
Toward a sustainable career perspective on contingent work: a critical review and a research agenda	6
Guest editorial: Careers of self-initiated expatriates: exploring the impact of context	6
Uncovering the antecedents and motivational determinants of job crafting	6
Fostering sustainable career narratives with neurodivergent clients: introducing the Cluster Approach to the Development of Identity (CADI)	6
“Don't you worry ‘bout a thing” – the moderating role of age in the relationship between qualitative job insecurity and career sustainability	6
Self-initiated expatriates from emerging markets: career benefits arising from personal initiative	6
No person is an island: how employees attribute and react to coworkers' approach crafting	6
Called to stay? The moderating roles of feedback from others and role clarity in the relationship between experiencing a calling and organizational embeddedness	6
Building a sustainable career during the initial transition to work: a multiple-stakeholder perspective on proactive behaviors and contextual factors	5
A person-centered perspective on entrepreneurial success: combining proactive behavioral strategies across various life domains	5
“Follow the leader”: how inclusive leaders inspire followers to perform well through strengths use	5
Editorial: Introducing the new practitioner insights section at career development international	5
Happy, and they know it? The roles of positive affectivity, intrinsic motivation and network building on LinkedIn on employment predictions	5
Career challenges of international female faculty in US universities: from a linguistic profiling perspective	5
Trait gratitude and subjective career success: the mediating roles of growth mindset and network breadth	5
Precarious employment amidst global crises: career shocks, resources and migrants' employability	5
The antecedents of career decision self-efficacy: a meta-analysis on 20 years of research	5
Career enhancement strategies, supportive work relationships and subjective career success: the moderating role of family–work conflict	5
Be a boundaryless good guy! How job embeddedness mediates and organizational identification moderates the associations of boundaryless career attitude with extra-role behaviours	5
A comparative study of the work–life balance experiences and coping mechanisms of Nigerian and British single student-working mothers	5
The effect of parents’ support, protean career orientation and self-perceived employability on the school-to-work transition	5
From job crafting to job quitting? Testing a wise proactivity perspective	5
Dysfunctional leadership: investigating employee experiences with dysfunctional leaders	5
Fostering career crafting by developmental HR practices: the mediating role of future work self and moderating role of AI awareness	4
When does emotional intelligence (EI) benefit team-member exchange? The cross-level moderating role of EI-based leader-member exchange differentiation	4
A critical perspective on career shocks in a volatile environment: Red Cross staff and volunteers aiding migrants on their way to Europe in 2016	4
Development of career capital during expatriation: partners' perspectives	4
“Let’s stick together”: toward a serial mediation model about the impact of relational leadership on workers’ employability	4
Executives and career shocks: observations from coaching practice	4
Employability skills of the next generation of Chinese factory workers	4
From family to fortune: the dual impact of family-friendly policies and ethical work climate on employee career success	4
When pursuing more career, success hits home and job: examining the cost of vocational delay of gratification	4
How do female engineers conceptualise career advancement in engineering: a template analysis	4
Meta-analysis of the impact of cross-cultural training on adjustment, cultural intelligence, and job performance	3
The glass slipper effect: understanding the Nordic gender equality paradox from an identity fit perspective	3
Protean career orientation to turnover intentions: moderating roles of current organizational career growth and future organizational career growth prospect	3
(Re)Framing sustainable careers: toward a conceptual model and future research agenda	3
What do we know about diversity, intersectionality and inclusion in organisationally-assigned expatriation? A review of relocation management company/consultancy practitioner research	3
Who wants to leave when facing mass lay-off: a regulatory focus perspective on turnover intentions and mobility-oriented behavior	3
Career success of expatriates: the impacts of career capital, expatriate type, career type and career stage	3

Sustainable talent pipelines and person-organisation fit: strategic insights from UK graduates	3
Local worker perspectives from Nicaraguan surf tourism: revisiting career anchors in non-standard work contexts	3
Guest editorial: Linguistic profiling and implications for career development	2
Effects of social impact and task variety on innovative work behavior: the mediating role of work meaningfulness	2
Interprofessional subjective experiences of EDI in a virtual healthcare working group: a collaborative ethnography	2
From personal resources to proactive work strategies and performance: testing the antecedents and outcomes of strengths use in a three-wave study	2
The influence of linguistic profiling on perceived employability: a new application of the systems theory framework of career development	2
Maintaining job crafting over time: joint effect of autonomy and career support from family and friends	2
Fostering calling in the leader–member exchange: individual and team-level effects	2
A critical conceptual framework for understanding career development in linguistically diverse individual and organizational contexts	2
The factors influencing Saudi Arabian women's persistence in nontraditional work careers	2
The impacts of role commitment and pay-for-performance on proactive career behavior: an interactionist perspective	2
I wish I had a paid job or a business: a moderated effect of entrepreneurial potential on career choice regret	2
Who is successful in career development? A person-centered approach to the study of career orientation profiles	2
Mediating roles of employee cynicism and workplace ostracism on the relationship between perceived organizational politics and counterproductive work behavior	2
The mediating role of social informal learning in the relationship between learning climate and employability	2
How do mentors influence the career satisfaction of protégés: dual processing mechanism of cognition and emotion	2
Understanding career-meaningfulness and work centrality to serve customers: servant leadership and customer-oriented boundary-spanning behaviors	2
Losing the benefits of work passion? The implications of low ego-resilience for passionate workers	2
Career adaptability in higher vocational education: examining crossover effects from headteachers to students	2
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?	2