OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Three psychological traits and protean career orientation: a sequential mediation study based on the derivative view of protean career concept	24
Validation of the Korean version of the nonwork orientations scale	24
Aspects of refugee students’ financial path to academic achievement in higher education	20
The influence of social connectedness and meaning in life on career adaptability and career self-efficacy in students with special educational needs	16
Beyond job placement: careers for refugees	13
The role of character strengths of wisdom, career adaptability and optimism on future orientation	12
How psychological and organizational factors shape career motivation: the serial mediating roles of career adaptability and the quality of work life	11
Changes in career decision-making difficulties during early and mid-adolescence	11
Prolonged grief and career adaptability of university students through meaning making and coping styles	11
Understanding the determinants and consequences of perceived employability in graduate labor market in China	11
Measuring college information in secondary students and higher education access	10
Announcements	9
Relationship to Work Questionnaire: Validation Among French Canadian Workers	9
Using visual stimuli in narrative career interventions: effects of image-supported storytelling on interview anxiety and performance	9
Will I ever fit in? The trajectories of person–environment fit of vocational students to their school program	9
Career counsellors’ perspectives on educational mobility in Denmark	9
Virtual reality in vocational interventions: a systematic literature review	8
How does career calling impact teachers’ self-efficacy, competencies and satisfaction? A structural equation model	8
The roles of COVID-19 diagnosis and COVID-19 stress on the links among academic support, academic self-efficacy, and academic satisfaction: Boundary conditions	7
Career anxiety as a barrier to life satisfaction among undergraduate students: the role of meaning in life and self-efficacy	7
Protean career processes in young adults: Relationships with perceived future employability, educational performance, and commitment	7
Qualitative longitudinal research in vocational psychology: a methodological approach to enhance the study of contemporary careers	7
Adaptation of the Meaning of Life and Meaning of Work counseling program in Denmark with youth facing multiple life transitions	7
Perceived employability profiles and their relations to adaptivity, adaptability, and adapting: a person-centered approach	7
How does perceived social support affect the career satisfaction of Chinese college graduates in their early careers? A chain mediation model	6

Navigating uncertainty: how do parenting and grit influence career indecisiveness among Indian emerging adults?	6
Professional identity construction in Turkish academics: a mixed methods investigation with international theoretical implications	6
Correction: Preschool education undergraduates’ choice of major and career in China	6
How protean career orientation affects career decidedness: The mediating role of career adaptability and career decision self-efficacy	6
Work and the future as represented by French adolescents: the role of secondary school type and anticipated duration of post-secondary education	5
Career experts' conceptions of systems development in lifelong guidance	5
Motivating entrepreneurial learning: moderation of problem-solving efficacy	5
Deconstruction and career psychology	5
How do family influence on career choices and perceived social support affect students’ life satisfaction in Turkey? The role of vocational outcome expectations as mediator	5
Influence of parental career support on the professional identity of Chinese University Freshmen: The mediating roles of career adaptability and career construction behaviours	5
School-to-work transition: putting non-cognitive skills in context. The case of NEET and suggestions for policy	5
Psychometric properties of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale in Italian young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET)	5
Correction: Thinking styles and career adaptability: The moderating role of perceived career support	5
Can i still dream of a decent work? the interplay of economic constraints, perceived employability, and social support	5
The socioeconomic gap in the development of Korean adolescents’ occupational aspirations while approaching the post-secondary transition	5
Life construction in the Anthropocene context: qualitative research in nine countries	4
Higher education orientation in Türkiye: a cross-educational questionnaire validation and reliability study	4
Psychometric properties of the Childhood Career Development Scale among Iranian elementary school students	4
Decent work in Poland: a preliminary study. Suggestions for educational and counselling practice	4
Perspectives of the future, identity, and career constructions among college students in the face of the climate crisis: an outlook from Southern countries	4
Adolescent educational and occupational anxiety: A three-dimensional model to fit into an attachment framework	4
Correction: Career-related teacher support and decision to choose teaching as a career: a three-wave study of Nigerian and Zambian university students	4
Assessing the effects of career construction counseling on career adaptability for graduate students of business administration	4
The association between work and family importance and job search behavior among career-interrupted men and women	4
Males in nurse technician programs: a social cognitive analysis of gender differences in career development	4
Predictors and consequences of career adaptability of gig workers	4
Cultural translation of career decision-making: understanding practitioners’ perspectives from a multinational study on social and emotional learning	4
The intersections of migration, app-based gig work, and career development: implications for career practice and research	4
Sociocultural and contextual determinants of science career goal at a community college and baccalaureate-granting institution	4
Perceived overqualification of college graduates: assessing antecedents, outcomes, and boundary conditions	4
The interactive effects of self- and parent-referenced career goal discrepancies on young adults’ career indecision	4
The underlying career values of young adults’ protean and traditional career orientations	3
Career development theories in practice: a thematic analysis of practitioner perceptions of the benefits of theoretically informed practice	3
Enhancing employability: a group career intervention protocol for unemployed individuals	3
Graduates’ career choices: an empirically derived process model	3
The path to decent work: exploring career identity, career self-efficacy, and organizational career support in the face of ostracism	3
Career counsellors’ professional agency when working with migrants	3
A longitudinal study of relations among apprentices’ nonwork orientation, decent work, and job satisfaction	3
It is never too late: understanding career shocks–career development nexus from affective events theory	3
Psychological empowerment, work–family facilitation, and job satisfaction among PE teachers: the moderating role of work–family segmentation preferences	3
Uncertainty against Industry 4.0 and job insecurity: the moderated role of perceived employability, age, and educational level	3
The impact of lack of parental career engagement on the career planning ability of vocational high school students: the chain mediating role of career social support and career self-efficacy	3
STEM career interests of Ghanaian adolescents in the context of social cognitive career theory	3
Academic engagement, academic self-efficacy and instructor support in higher education: impacts on postgraduate career intention	3
Linking career exploration and decision self-efficacy to career engagement: a sequential mediation model of career adaptability and career calling	3
Exploring the meaning of education for university students: a longitudinal interpretative phenomenological analysis (LIPA) perspective	3
Interest and its associations with university entrance grades, lecturers’ perceived support, and student dropout	3
Announcements	3
A narrative inquiry into the meaning of career identity of Indian emerging adults amid Covid-19	3
Construction and initial validation of the scale “Goals for Future Design of the 2030 Agenda”	3

Social support and career adaptability: a meta-analysis	3
‘I Know What I Want, But It is a Hard Road Ahead’: adolescents’ future education and careers	3