Journal of Career Assessment
journal
Journal of Career Assessment is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Psychology. The journal's editor is Ryan D. Duffy (University of Florida). It has been in publication since 1993 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
Topics include:
Career assessment strategies
Developments in instrumentation
Validation of theoretical constructs
Relationships between existing instruments
Career assessment procedures
Relationships between assessment and career counseling/development
Review articles of career assessment strategies and techniques
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Journal of Career Assessment is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 1.626, ranking it 44 out of 82 journals in the category ‘Psychology, Applied’.
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