Most cited papers in Higher Education and Employability
What are the most cited papers in Higher Education and Employability?
The most cited paper in Higher Education and Employability is "Making Vocational Choices: A Theory of Vocational Personalities and Work Environments" (John L. Holland, 1973), with 5,060 citations. Next come "Does entrepreneurial self-efficacy distinguish entrepreneurs from managers?" (3,035) and "The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Education: Development, Trends, and Challenges" (2,402).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 582 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Making Vocational Choices: A Theory of Vocational Personalities and Work Environments John L. Holland | 1973 | 5,060 |
| 2 | Does entrepreneurial self-efficacy distinguish entrepreneurs from managers? Chao C. Chen, Patricia Gene Greene, Ann Crick · Journal of Business Venturing | Jul 1998 | 3,035 |
| 3 | The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Education: Development, Trends, and Challenges Donald F. Kuratko · Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | 15 Aug 2005 | 2,402 |
| 4 | Career Adapt-Abilities Scale: Construction, reliability, and measurement equivalence across 13 countries Mark L. Savickas, Erik J. Porfeli · Journal of Vocational Behavior | 25 Jan 2012 | 2,351 |
| 5 | Do entrepreneurship programmes raise entrepreneurial intention of science and engineering students? The effect of learning, inspiration and resources Vangelis Souitaris, Stefania Zerbinati, Andreas Al‐Laham · Journal of Business Venturing | 29 Aug 2006 | 2,324 |
| 6 | Relation of self-efficacy beliefs to academic outcomes: A meta-analytic investigation. Karen D. Multon, Steven D. Brown, Robert W. Lent · Journal of Counseling Psychology | 1991 | 2,218 |
| 7 | Employability: A psycho-social construct, its dimensions, and applications Mel Fugate, Angelo J. Kinicki, Blake E. Ashforth · Journal of Vocational Behavior | 19 Feb 2004 | 2,169 |
| 8 | Development and validation of the job crafting scale Maria Tims, Arnold B. Bakker, Daantje Derks · Journal of Vocational Behavior | 28 May 2011 | 2,030 |
| 9 | Non‐formal learning and tacit knowledge in professional work Michael R. Eraut · British Journal of Educational Psychology | Mar 2000 | 2,020 |
| 10 | Gender, Entrepreneurial Self–Efficacy, and Entrepreneurial Career Intentions: Implications for Entrepreneurship Education Fiona Wilson, Jill Kickul, Deborah Marlino · Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | May 2007 | 1,972 |
| 11 | Life designing: A paradigm for career construction in the 21st century Mark L. Savickas, Laura Nota, Jérôme Rossier et al. · Journal of Vocational Behavior | 5 May 2009 | 1,915 |
| 12 | The definition and measurement of job involvement. Thomas M. Lodahl, Mathilde Kejnar · Journal of Applied Psychology | Feb 1965 | 1,809 |
| 13 | Enterprise Education: Influencing Students’ Perceptions of Entrepreneurship Nicole E. Peterman, Jessica Kennedy · Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | Mar 2003 | 1,769 |
| 14 | The Relationship between Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Meta–Analytic Review Tae Jun Bae, Shanshan Qian, Chao Miao et al. · Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | Mar 2014 | 1,765 |
| 15 | Defining Twenty-First Century Skills Marilyn Binkley, Ola Erstad, Joan L. Herman et al. | 13 Oct 2011 | 1,721 |
| 16 | The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda Ghulam R. Nabi, Francisco Liñán, Alain Jean-Claude Fayolle et al. · Academy of Management Learning and Education | 10 Mar 2016 | 1,656 |
| 17 | Executive Perceptions of the Top 10 Soft Skills Needed in Today’s Workplace Marcel Robles · Business Communication Quarterly | 8 Oct 2012 | 1,614 |
| 18 | Entrepreneurship Education Luke Pittaway, Jason Cope · International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship | Oct 2007 | 1,522 |
| 19 | AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PREDICTORS OF EXECUTIVE CAREER SUCCESS Timothy A. Judge, Daniel M. Cable, John W. Boudreau et al. · Personnel Psychology | Sep 1995 | 1,517 |
| 20 | The Enterprise University: Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia Paul TJ James, Simon Marginson, Mark Considine · Academe | 2002 | 1,512 |
| 21 | Dropouts and turnover: The synthesis and test of a causal model of student attrition John P. Bean · Research in Higher Education | 1980 | 1,511 |
| 22 | The Theory and Practice of Career Construction. Mark L. Savickas | 2005 | 1,460 |
| 23 | Entrepreneurship Education: Known Worlds and New Frontiers Heidi M. Neck, Patricia Gene Greene · Journal of Small Business Management | 29 Dec 2010 | 1,404 |
| 24 | Assessing the impact of entrepreneurship education programmes: a new methodology Alain Jean-Claude Fayolle, Benoît Gailly, Narjisse Lassas-Clerc · Journal of European Industrial Training | Dec 2006 | 1,403 |
| 25 | The protean career: A quarter-century journey Douglas Tim Hall · Journal of Vocational Behavior | 13 May 2004 | 1,391 |
| 26 | Career success in a boundaryless career world Michael B. Arthur, Svetlana N. Khapova, Celeste P.M. Wilderom · Journal of Organizational Behavior | 3 Feb 2005 | 1,390 |
| 27 | Social cognitive model of career self-management: Toward a unifying view of adaptive career behavior across the life span. Robert W. Lent, Steven D. Brown · Journal of Counseling Psychology | 2013 | 1,295 |
| 28 | Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent Research Vincent Tinto · Review of Educational Research | 1975 | 1,241 |
| 29 | The boundaryless career: A competency‐based perspective Robert DeFillippi, Michael B. Arthur · Journal of Organizational Behavior | Jul 1994 | 1,229 |
| 30 | The key to employability: developing a practical model of graduate employability Lorraine Dacre Pool, Peter Sewell · Education + Training | 5 Jun 2007 | 1,228 |
| 31 | A General Approach for Representing Constructs in Organizational Research Richard P. Bagozzi, Jeffrey R. Edwards · Organizational Research Methods | 1998 | 1,222 |
| 32 | The Concept of Employability Ronald William McQuaid, Colin Lindsay · Urban Studies | Feb 2005 | 1,216 |
| 33 | Perspectives into learning at the workplace Päivi Tynjälä · Educational Research Review | 2008 | 1,134 |
| 34 | The Measurement of Entrepreneurial Orientation Jeffrey G. Covin, William John Wales · Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | 2 Mar 2011 | 1,118 |
| 35 | Transition shock: the initial stage of role adaptation for newly graduated Registered Nurses Judy E. Boychuk Duchscher · Journal of Advanced Nursing | 9 Dec 2008 | 1,113 |
| 36 | Graduate Employability, ‘Soft Skills’ Versus ‘Hard’ Business Knowledge: A European Study Jane Andrews, Helen E. Higson · Higher Education in Europe | Dec 2008 | 1,094 |
| 37 | Advances in Career Theory and Research: A Critical Review and Agenda for Future Exploration Sherry E. Sullivan, Yehuda Baruch · Journal of Management | Dec 2009 | 1,067 |
| 38 | A Systematic Review of Business Incubation Research Sean M. Hackett, David M. Dilts · The Journal of Technology Transfer | 2004 | 1,064 |
| 39 | A competence‐based and multidimensional operationalization and measurement of employability Claudia Maria Van der Heijde, BEATRICE I. J. M. VAN DER HEIJDEN · Human Resource Management | 21 Aug 2006 | 1,058 |
| 40 | Protean and boundaryless careers: An empirical exploration Jon P. Briscoe, Douglas Tim Hall, Rachel L. Frautschy DeMuth · Journal of Vocational Behavior | 22 Nov 2005 | 1,042 |
| 41 | The motivation to become an entrepreneur Gerry Segal, Dan Borgia, Jerry Schoenfeld · International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research | Feb 2005 | 1,021 |
| 42 | The concept of personal initiative: Operationalization, reliability and validity in two German samples Michael H. Frese, Doris Fay, Tanja Hilburger et al. · Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology | Jun 1997 | 1,017 |
| 43 | Evaluation of a Short Form of the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale Nancy E. Betz, Karla L. Klein, Karen Taylor · Journal of Career Assessment | Jul 1996 | 1,005 |
| 44 | Workplace-based assessment as an educational tool: AMEE Guide No. 31 John J. Norcini, Vanessa Celeste Burch · Medical Teacher | 2007 | 993 |
| 45 | Understanding Transformation Theory Jack Mezirow · Adult Education Quarterly | Dec 1994 | 975 |
| 46 | Educational Leadership Jenny Eugenia Grigoropoulos · Advances in mobile and distance learning book series | 5 Mar 2021 | 953 |
| 47 | Which factors affect entrepreneurial intention of university students? Duygu Türker, Senem Sonmez Selcuk · Journal of European Industrial Training | 22 Feb 2009 | 951 |
| 48 | Conceptualizing and evaluating career success Peter A. Heslin · Journal of Organizational Behavior | 3 Feb 2005 | 943 |
| 49 | MARGINAL MENTORING: THE EFFECTS OF TYPE OF MENTOR, QUALITY OF RELATIONSHIP, AND PROGRAM DESIGN ON WORK AND CAREER ATTITUDES. Belle Rose Ragins, John Lawrence Cotton, Joel S. Miller · Academy of Management Journal | Dec 2000 | 941 |
| 50 | Self‐perceived employability: development and validation of a scale Andrew T. Rothwell, John T. Arnold · Personnel Review | 2 Jan 2007 | 925 |
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