OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Vocations and Learning 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
An Integrative Approach to Emotional Agency at Work	23
Career Change of Young Talent and the Influence of Knowledge Transfer on Vocational Commitment: a Study of Hospitality Apprentices in Bavaria (Germany)	11
Agency in workplace learning: supervisors’ and students’ interacting strategies in a physiotherapy placement	10
Differential Development of Professional Knowledge and Problem-Solving Skills During VET: The Role of Cognitive Resources, School-Leaving Certificates, and Sociodemographic Background	10
Hardness or Resignation: How Emotional Challenges During Work-Based Education Influence the Professional Becoming of Medical Students and Student Teachers	10
Informal Learning in Business Internships in Higher Education – Findings from a Diary Study	9
The Role of Attending Workplace Learning Practices in Career Paths of Career Specialists	8
A Social Regulation Perspective on Team Reflexivity: The Development of an Analytical Framework	8
Sustainable Employability of Teaching Staff Members? A Multiple-Group Path Analysis of the Role of Age, Self-directed Learning Orientation and Job Characteristics for Employability	8
Teaching Here and Now but for the Future: Vocational Teachers’ Perspective on Teaching in Flux	8
Vocational Teachers’ Craft Knowledge and Working-life Experiences in Building and Construction: a Narrative Study of Embodied and Tacit Learning	8
Learning in a State of Inadequacy: Simulations of Extreme Events as Preparation for Crisis	8
Goal Orientation and Decision-Making in Education	8
Challenges and Risk Factors of Early Leaving from IVET: Perceptions of Students and Schools´ Staff	7
Enactive Design-Based Research in Vocational and Continuing Education and Training	7
Unearthing the Learning of Genomic Medicine in the Workplace: a Qualitative Study	6
How does the learning environment support vocational student learning of domain-general competencies?	6
A Path Towards a Possible Future – Adult Students’ Choice of Vocational Education	6
Intention to Transfer and Transfer Following eLearning in Spain	6
Influence of Guidance on Occupational Image and Traineeship’s Satisfaction of Vocational Students	5
Understanding the Development of Self-Regulated Learning: An Intervention Study to Promote Self-Regulated Learning in Vocational Schools	5
Resources to Increase Older Workers’ Motivation and Intention to Learn	5
Correction to: What Makes a Qualified Chef? Olfactory and Sociodemographic Predictors of Vocational Exam Results in Culinary School Students	5
Real-Time and Long-Term Challenges of Remote Learning and Innovation: Cases from Police and Technology Organisations	5
Correction to: Expertise Development in the Workplace Through Deliberate Practice and Progressive Problem Solving: Insights from Business-to-Business Sales Departments	5

Workplace learning, power, and practice: modes of participation for civilian criminal investigators	5
Correction to: Professional Competence of Vocational Teachers: a Conceptual Review	4
‘What Good Looks Like’: Building a Shared Understanding of Quality Training and Learning in the Mining Industry	4
Learning Professional Knowledge: Bachelor Nursing Students’ Experiences in Learning and Knowledge Quality Outcomes in a Competence-Based Curriculum	4
Effects of Augmented Feedback with Error Self-estimates on Vocational High School Students’ Motor Skill Learning	4
How do workplace educators assess student performance at the workplace? A qualitative systematic review	4
Increasing the Vocational Focus of Knowledge Application in Teams: A Perspective of Team Learning and Industry Clusters	4
Vocational Students’ Perceptions of Self-Regulated Learning in Work-Based VET	4
The interconnection between evaluated and self-assessed performance in full flight simulator training	3
Navigating Affordances for Learning in Clinical Workplaces: A Qualitative Study of General Practitioners’ Continued Professional Development	3
Transition from School to Work – Explaining Persistence Intention in Vocational Education and Training in Switzerland	3
Changing Occupations or Changing Companies—Predictors of Different Types of Premature Contract Terminations in Dual Vocational Education and Training Programs	3
Career Adaptability among Migrant Teachers Re-Entering the Labour Market: a Life Course Perspective	3
How do vocational teachers use technology? The role of perceived digital competence and perceived usefulness in technology use across different teaching profiles	3
Learning to Become Professional in Policing: From Artisan to Professional	3
From Craftsman to Vocational Teacher: A Narrative Study of Tacit Knowledge and the Nexus between Complex Cultures	3
Conditions for Workplace Learning Among Professional ‘Temps’: A Qualitative Study of Temporary Agency Nurses in Sweden	3
The Lived Body and Embodied Instructional Practices in Maritime Basic Safety Training	3
How Personality, Emotions and Situational Characteristics Affect Learning from Social Interactions in the Workplace	3
The Role of Verbal Peer Feedback in the Police: A Scoping Review	3
The Relationship Between Perceived Leader Support and Autonomous Motivation to Learn in the Workplace	3
Factors Explaining Workplace Learning of Turkish Research Assistants	2
Borrowing from Western countries? China’s vocational education, 1840–1895	2
Environmental Factors Affecting Training Transfer Among the Instructors	2
Entering the Labor Market: Networks and Networking Behavior in the School-to-Work Transition	2
‘The wrong’ kind of students or ‘Santa’s workshop’? Teaching practices for newly arrived migrant students in Swedish upper secondary VET	2
On the Role of Role-Theoretical Concepts: Determining Dimensionality or Difficulty in Cross-Occupational Collaboration	2
Explaining skills of prospective teachers – Findings from a simulation study	2
The Role of Trainers in Implementing Virtual Simulation-based Training: Effects on Attitude and TPACK Knowledge	2
Student Involvement in Co-development of Vocational Leadership Programme	2
Constructing a Typology of Learner Archetypes: Insights from Health Professionals’ Lived Experiences of Learning Genomics in the Workplace	2
Digital Transformation of Corporate Technical Education and Training – A Case Study on Instructional Designers´ Perceptions	2