OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Social and Personal Relationships is 24. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
What makes them last? Predicting time to relationship dissolution in adolescent women’s intimate relationships with male partners	71
First impression sexual scripts of romantic encounters: Effect of gender on verbal and non verbal immediacy behaviors in American media dating culture	59
When couples fight about money, what do they fight about?	53
The relationship between LGBT older adults’ social network structure and function	49
Confidants for life: Examining sibling relationship positivity and disclosure in U.S. Latinx college students while considering the role of familism	47
Weathering racism and colorism: Exploring concurrent and short-term longitudinal associations between discrimination, colorism, psychosocial health, and Black and Latinx emerging adults’ relationship	45
Self-disclosure in social media and psychological well-being: A meta-analysis	42
Dyadic effects of attachment and relationship functioning	39
Advancing understanding of overparenting and child adjustment: Mechanisms, methodology, context, and development	39
Parental separation and children’s well-being: Does the quality of parent-child relationships moderate the effect?	37
Loneliness in the Maltese population: A comparison of data from 2019 and 2022	36
Effects of mediated communication on conflict behavior, resolution, and affect in romantic couples	35
Daily stress, family functioning and mental health among Palestinian couples in Israel during COVID-19: A moderated mediation model	34
Resolving the cultural loneliness paradox of choice: The role of cultural norms about individual choice regarding relationships in explaining loneliness in four European countries	33
Moving from “balancing” to “blending”: The role of identity integration for working parents	33
Bidirectional longitudinal relationships between parents’ positive co-parenting, marital satisfaction, and parental involvement	32
Directly-measured smartphone screen time predicts well-being and feelings of social connectedness	29
Attachment anxiety in daily experiences of romantic relationships: An expansion of the mutual cyclical growth model	29
Friendship dynamics of young men with non-exclusive sexual orientations: Group diversity, physical intimacy and emotionality	28
Parenting a child with a disability: Fathers’ perceptions of the couple relationship	28
Linking maternal involvement in child online learning to child adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic: The moderating role of maternal mindfulness	27
Daily and longitudinal associations between relationship catastrophizing and sexual well-being in the postpartum period	26
Concrete and symbolic continuing bonds with a deceased person: The psychometric properties of the continuing bonds scale in bereaved surviving family members	26
The impact of attachment threat on mental state identification: The mediating role of negative emotion and the moderating role of attachment styles	24
An actor-partner model of partner phubbing, mobile phone conflict, and relationship satisfaction between romantic partners in Liberia	24