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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Homefront fuel for career growth: the role of career crafting and work–life balance	163
A state-of-the-art overview of job-crafting research: current trends and future research directions	97
Women’s need for mentorship across non-linear career paths: voices of Indian women employees	95
Self-goal setting as a way to career sustainability: exploring the roles of career crafting and perceived organizational goal clarity	42
No person is an island: how employees attribute and react to coworkers' approach crafting	35
Happy, and they know it? The roles of positive affectivity, intrinsic motivation and network building on LinkedIn on employment predictions	30
A person-centered perspective on entrepreneurial success: combining proactive behavioral strategies across various life domains	28
A comparative study of the work–life balance experiences and coping mechanisms of Nigerian and British single student-working mothers	27
The effect of parents’ support, protean career orientation and self-perceived employability on the school-to-work transition	26
Uncovering the antecedents and motivational determinants of job crafting	26
Be a boundaryless good guy! How job embeddedness mediates and organizational identification moderates the associations of boundaryless career attitude with extra-role behaviours	26
From family to fortune: the dual impact of family-friendly policies and ethical work climate on employee career success	22
Understanding career-meaningfulness and work centrality to serve customers: servant leadership and customer-oriented boundary-spanning behaviors	22
Interprofessional subjective experiences of EDI in a virtual healthcare working group: a collaborative ethnography	22
Protean career orientation to turnover intentions: moderating roles of current organizational career growth and future organizational career growth prospect	20
Fostering calling in the leader–member exchange: individual and team-level effects	20
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?	19
Supporting clients through career shocks: metaphorical thinking, scenario-based role play, and career narratives	18
Competency development opportunities and organizational citizenship behaviors: the mediating role of subjective career success	17
Mapping the foundations and evolution of career aspiration research: a bibliometric analysis	17
Surviving limbo: critical career capital aspects for entrepreneur immigrants in an extreme context	13
Why employees engage in proactive career behavior: examining the role of family motivation	13
The search for greener pastures: a qualitative analysis of employee job search dynamics	13
Self-initiated expatriation: a career perspective through a social chronology lens	13
Employee development and employee engagement: a review and integrated model	12

Academic independent directors in China: factors influencing career decision-making	12
Evolving as an entrepreneur: a life story approach to studying Indian women entrepreneurs	12
A scoping review of the academic career literature: guidelines for future research	11
The effect of proactive job search motivation profiles on job search quality in the school-to-work transition	11
Artificial intelligence opportunity perception and career sustainability: the mediating role of personal knowledge management	11
Mothers' job crafting and work-to-family enrichment: a self-concept perspective	11
Editorial: Looking forward to 2025: editorial from the co-editors-in-chief	10
Revisiting mindsets for careers research: what we know, what we don’t and why we should care	10
Is intuition better than rationality? The effect of pre-decisional strategy on occupational interest forecasting in Chinese college students	10
Living one’s calling independently: the role of online labor platforms for different dynamics of calling enactment	9
Crafting in the face of ostracism: when does coworker ostracism foster employee job crafting and innovative work behavior?	9
Do my accents matter? Examining the relationship between English language teachers’ linguistic profiling and career development	9
How workers construct a sense of positive occupational identity in a contested emerging profession: the case of career coaches	9
Guest editorial: Positive careers research: where do we go from here?	9
Accent modification and workplace accentism: the institutionalization of linguistic profiling and its career implications	9
Reducing linguistic profiling of individuals with communication disabilities to enhance careers: avoiding assumptions based on speech, language and communication mode	9
Career development of autistic employees – a scoping review	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
The role of agentic disposition and orientation on the career competencies of graduating students: a four-country study	8
Academic women’s careers and the motherhood penalty: intersectional challenges in the Arab Middle East	8
Precarious employment amidst global crises: career shocks, resources and migrants' employability	8
A career-lifespan perspective on strengths utilization at work	8
Beyond the call of duty: exploring early career nurses’ mobility ambitions and commitment in the face of workplace challenges	8
Editorial: Introducing the new practitioner insights section at career development international	8
Dysfunctional leadership: investigating employee experiences with dysfunctional leaders	8
Job resourcefulness, job crafting and task performance in a post-COVID-19 context: a diary study on tour and travel frontline employees	8
Spillover and crossover effects of social support through work-family balance: a time-lagged analysis in Italian dyads	8
Career enhancement strategies, supportive work relationships and subjective career success: the moderating role of family–work conflict	8
When work context limits opportunities for career sustainability: insights from people diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood	8
(Re)Framing sustainable careers: toward a conceptual model and future research agenda	7
Masculinity contest culture is associated with less access to, and knowledge of, mental health benefits	7
From personal resources to proactive work strategies and performance: testing the antecedents and outcomes of strengths use in a three-wave study	6
A critical conceptual framework for understanding career development in linguistically diverse individual and organizational contexts	6
The dark side of work-life policies: the influence of co-workers taking childcare leave on work anxiety	6
Mediating roles of employee cynicism and workplace ostracism on the relationship between perceived organizational politics and counterproductive work behavior	6
The influence of linguistic profiling on perceived employability: a new application of the systems theory framework of career development	6
Plural masculinities at work: generational cohorts, organizational culture and men’s work–life choices	6
Local worker perspectives from Nicaraguan surf tourism: revisiting career anchors in non-standard work contexts	6
Look busy do nothing: does professional isolation and psychological strain of overqualified employee leads to goldbricking behaviour?	6
Influence of relational learning and job autonomy in associations between social capital resources and newcomer adjustment: a moderated mediation study	5
The holding pattern of the worker Bs: how bifurcation of consciousness impacts female academic career progression	5
What do we know about career and development? Insights from Career Development International at age 25	5
Career empowerment: a qualitative exploratory investigation of perceived career control	5
Forty years of political skill and will in organizations: a review, meta-theoretical framework and directions for future research	5
The multilevel intelligent career framework: an exploration and application to skilled migrants	5
Reconstruction work awaits: work identity in the aftermath of health-related career shock	5
Navigating uncertainty: managing up as a solution to role ambiguity with positive effects on work engagement	4
How do German and French expatriates develop social networks?	4
11 topics among 7,591 employability research abstracts (1942–2024): a structural topic model and call for interdisciplinary perspectives	4
How knowledge sharing affects career adaptability: roles of knowledge depth, self-efficacy and reflective thinking	4

Career sustainability of digital micro-entrepreneurs: strategic insights from YouTubers in India	4
Incivility experienced by immigrants struggling with acculturation: exploring buffering effects of holding behaviors by mentors	4
The shape of careers in the future workplace: extreme scenarios and their prospect impact	4
“Follow the leader”: how inclusive leaders inspire followers to perform well through strengths use	4
Transnational sensemaking narratives of highly skilled Canadian immigrants' career change	4
A two-study examination of age discrimination, work meaningfulness, and bridge employment intentions	4
Leader's desire for promotion, workplace anxiety and exploitative leadership: the moderating effect of Machiavellianism	4
Building a sustainable career during the initial transition to work: a multiple-stakeholder perspective on proactive behaviors and contextual factors	3
The social psychology of work engagement: state of the field	3
Enablers and drivers of contemporary careers: a qualitative inquiry	3
Unraveling psychological processes underlying (un)realized work-to-work transitions: a qualitative study	3
How do mentors influence the career satisfaction of protégés: dual processing mechanism of cognition and emotion	3
Are we talking about the same thing? The case for stronger connections between graduate and worker employability research	3
Maintaining job crafting over time: joint effect of autonomy and career support from family and friends	3
When exit brings reentry: the mediating roles of career adaptability and person–entrepreneurship fit	3
Promoting sustainable career development via organisational support: autoethnographic insights from a late diagnosed autistic practitioner	3
Is short measure a big problem? A meta-analytic comparison of career adaptability measures	3
How to engage and retain employed students	3
Transnational education, labor market outcomes and graduate employability: a scoping review	2
Motherhood enrichment in leadership: exploring top female executives in Spain	2
“Locked at the job”: a qualitative study on the process of this phenomenon	2
Protean career orientation as a compass for career development in the digital age	2
Linguistic profiling and career development through the lived experience of service sector employees in Pakistan	2
What does expatriate success mean? Developing a comprehensive definition through a systematic literature review	2
Motivational drivers and psychological detachment in shaping the work–home interface for Saudi women	2
Do newcomers with high political skill benefit more from the formal mentoring program?	2
Pursuing a sustainable career: how strengths-based leadership develops career adaptability and compensates for protean career orientation	2
Exploring the enablers and barriers for women pilots in Australian commercial aviation	2
Executive competencies and individual ambidexterity: shaping late-career transition to Canada’s recreational cannabis industry	2
Navigating a double school-to-work transition: how do Chinese graduate students decide where to start their careers after studying abroad?	2
Determinants and consequences of job crafting under the boundary conditions of work uncertainty	2
Publisher’s Note	2
Chinese women’s entrepreneurial career choices: exploring factors	2
Balancing act: how family identity orientation impacts careers of NCAA women coaches	2
Do work stressors facilitate or impede job crafting? The role of employee trait and work regulatory focus	2