OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of History of the Family is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919	10
Selective pronatalism in childcare and reproductive health policies in Czechoslovakia	8
Households and entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851–1911	6
Class, literacy and social mobility: Madrid, 1880–1905	5
Intergenerational transmission of longevity is not affected by other familial factors:evidence from 16,905 Dutch families from Zeeland, 1812-1962	5
The weight of history: child protection and parenting with a disability in 20^th Century Iceland	5
Aging women as sexual beings. Expertise between the 1950s and 1970s in state socialist Czechoslovakia	5
Why were infants dying and what were they dying from? Infant mortality patterns in the Greek urban centre of Hermoupolis, Syros (1860–1940)	4
A not so undesirable status? Widowhood options and widows’ living conditions in post-emancipation rural Estonia	4
Family patriarchy and child sex ratios in historical Europe	4
Lonely last days? Social networks and formal care at the deathbed of urban elderly in Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent, 1797	3
Influence of parental death on child mortality and the phenomenon of the stepfamily in western Bohemia in 1708–1834	3
Gendered mortality of children and adolescents in nineteenth-century Denmark. Exploring patterns of sex ratios and mortality rates	3
Introduction: disability, partnership, and family across time and space	3
When John met Benny: class, pets and family life in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain	3
‘Missing girls’ in historical Europe: reopening the debate	3
What can Europe’s history of gender bias tell us about Asia’s contemporary experience?	2
Pets and family relationships in twentieth-century British diaries	2
Parental loss in 18th–19th century Hungary: the impact of the parents’ widowhood and remarriage on their children’s survival, Zsámbék, 1720–1850	2
Childhood growth and socioeconomic outcomes in early adulthood evidence from the inter-war United States	2
The invisibility of Portuguese stepfamilies: the relationships between stepparents, stepchildren and half-siblings in eighteenth– and nineteenth–century Porto	2
Assessing gender discrimination during infancy and childhood using twins: The case of rural Spain, 1750-1950	2
The influence of emancipation reforms on the Polish rural family in western provinces of the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century	2
Adolescent growth and convict transportation to nineteenth-century Australia	2
An East–West dichotomy? Shifting marriage age patterns in Taiwan and Sweden over two centuries	2

Early-life conditions, height and mortality of nineteenth-century Dutch vagrant women	2
Disciplining births: population research and politics in communist Romania	2
Pursuing pronatalism: non-governmental organisations and population and family policy in Sweden and Finland, 1940s–1950s	2
‘The many lessons which the care of some gentle, loveable animal would give’: animals, pets, and emotions in children’s welfare institutions, 1870–1920	2
Health and lifespan of Swiss men born in an alpine region in 1905–1907	2
Animals in the family mini-special issue introduction and historiographical review	2
What hypotheses can research on son preference in Asia offer for European historical demographic research?	2
Stepmothers and stepdaughters in early modern Florence	2
Simulating the evolution of height in the Netherlands in recent history	2
‘New eugenics,’ gender and sexuality: a global perspective on reproductive politics and sex education in Cold War Europe	2
Standing on the shoulders of giants. Paternal life course effects on son’s heights outcomes in the Netherlands 1820-1960	2
The effect of parental loss on child survival in nineteenth century rural Estonia	2
Infant and child sex ratios in late Imperial Russia	1
Restrained freedom? Widows, blended families and inheritance in eighteenth-century urban Sri Lanka	1
‘We treat each other as equal partners’ the understanding of companionate marriage in postwar Poland	1
Learning from poor single women’s autonomous households in Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries	1
‘Missing girls’ in interwar Poland: child sex ratios and their correlates across multiple borderlands	1
Mobile land: modes of transfer – varieties of contexts	1
Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas, 1550–1900	1
Breaking secular endogamy. The growth of intermarriage among the Gitanos/Calé of Spain (1900–2006)	1
Height, occupation, and intergenerational mobility: an instrumental variable analysis of Dutch men, birth years 1850-1900	1
Models of leaving home: patterns and trends in Sweden, 1830–1959	1
Unwed mothers and their illegitimate children in 18^th-century Geneva	1
Birth order, sibling size and educational attainment in twentieth century Spain	1
Stepfamilies, inheritance, and living arrangements in a rural society of Germany	1
‘An astonishing human failure’. The influence of gender on the image of perpetrators of infanticide in the courtroom and crime reporting in the Netherlands, 1960-1989	1
Casting shadows: later-life outcomes of stature	1
Hurricanes, fertility, and family structure: a study of early 20th century Jamaica	1
Transgenerational effects of early-life experiences on descendants’ height and life span. An explorative study using Texel Island (Netherlands) genealogies, 18^th-21^stcenturies	1
Changing patterns of hierarchy within Swedish stepfamilies in the late 1700s	1
Pets and the eighteenth-century British family	1
Public unemployment relief and health during the great depression	1
Illegitimate parenthood in early modern Europe	1
Equal but not identical. Modes of partible inheritance in early-modern Schlanders (South Tyrol) and medieval Lambach (Upper Austria) compared	1
Unwed mothers, urban institutions and female agency in early modern Dutch, German and Italian towns	1
Nutritional status and adult mortality in a mid-20^th century Gambian population: do different types of physical ‘capital’ have different associations with mortality?	1
Love during China’s Cultural Revolution: evidence from a ‘sent-down’ couple’s private letters 1968–1977	1