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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919	10
Aging women as sexual beings. Expertise between the 1950s and 1970s in state socialist Czechoslovakia	7
Class, literacy and social mobility: Madrid, 1880–1905	6
Why were infants dying and what were they dying from? Infant mortality patterns in the Greek urban centre of Hermoupolis, Syros (1860–1940)	4
Family patriarchy and child sex ratios in historical Europe	4
When John met Benny: class, pets and family life in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain	3
Influence of parental death on child mortality and the phenomenon of the stepfamily in western Bohemia in 1708–1834	3
Height, occupation, and intergenerational mobility: an instrumental variable analysis of Dutch men, birth years 1850-1900	3
‘Missing girls’ in historical Europe: reopening the debate	3
An East–West dichotomy? Shifting marriage age patterns in Taiwan and Sweden over two centuries	3
Gendered mortality of children and adolescents in nineteenth-century Denmark. Exploring patterns of sex ratios and mortality rates	3
‘The many lessons which the care of some gentle, loveable animal would give’: animals, pets, and emotions in children’s welfare institutions, 1870–1920	3
Assessing gender discrimination during infancy and childhood using twins: The case of rural Spain, 1750-1950	2
The effect of parental loss on child survival in nineteenth century rural Estonia	2
Adolescent growth and convict transportation to nineteenth-century Australia	2
Personal advertising and dating culture in World War II Finland	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
Family and labour in an Angolan cash-crop economy, 1910	2
Wanted: marriage partner! Partner preferences in newspaper contact adverts in the Netherlands, 1900-1955	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
Animals in the family mini-special issue introduction and historiographical review	2
From pragmatism to passion: changing partner preferences in Dutch matrimonial and contact advertisements, 1841–1995	2
Early-life conditions, height and mortality of nineteenth-century Dutch vagrant women	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
Standing on the shoulders of giants. Paternal life course effects on son’s heights outcomes in the Netherlands 1820-1960	2
Health and lifespan of Swiss men born in an alpine region in 1905–1907	2
What can Europe’s history of gender bias tell us about Asia’s contemporary experience?	2
Queering family history and the lives of Irish men before gay liberation	2
Pets and family relationships in twentieth-century British diaries	2
‘Glad to the heart to see any of my brothers’: exploring Irish family life through sibling relationships	2
The invisibility of Portuguese stepfamilies: the relationships between stepparents, stepchildren and half-siblings in eighteenth– and nineteenth–century Porto	2
The long-term consequences of parental death in childhood on mortality and the role of socioeconomic status: evidence from Sweden at the turn of the 20th century	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
Family history and memory in photo albums of Latvian women after World War II	1
Restrained freedom? Widows, blended families and inheritance in eighteenth-century urban Sri Lanka	1
Stepfamilies, inheritance, and living arrangements in a rural society of Germany	1
Public unemployment relief and health during the great depression	1
Transitory inequalities: how individual-level cause-specific death data can unravel socioeconomic inequalities in infant mortality in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 1864–1955	1
Trends in assortative mating in the United States, 1700–1910. Evidence from FamiLinx data	1
Care and crisis: disaster experiences of Australian parents since 1974	1
Casting shadows: later-life outcomes of stature	1
Households and communities: evolution in Homo sapiens	1
Marriages of love and convenience: The French dating market and the revolution of romantic love (19th-20th century)	1
Love during China’s Cultural Revolution: evidence from a ‘sent-down’ couple’s private letters 1968–1977	1
The Wolf , the island and the sea: truancy and escaping slavery in Curacao (1837–1863)	1
Infant and child sex ratios in late Imperial Russia	1
Models of leaving home: patterns and trends in Sweden, 1830–1959	1
Saving the best for last? Old age retirement among the Urban middle classes in Leiden and Regensburg (c. 1650- c. 1800)	1
Living together, loving together: pet families in the 21st century	1
‘We treat each other as equal partners’ the understanding of companionate marriage in postwar Poland	1
‘Missing girls’ in interwar Poland: child sex ratios and their correlates across multiple borderlands	1
’Whither do you now wish to go?’: slavery, flight and longing in and around Manado (Indonesia) in the age of abolition	1
Debts facing death. Discovering everyday credit practices through testaments in seventeenth-century Buenos Aires	1
Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas, 1550–1900	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
In Loco Parentis: Holland’s orphan chambers in a European context	1
Breaking secular endogamy. The growth of intermarriage among the Gitanos/Calé of Spain (1900–2006)	1
The gift of life after slavery: close-kin ownership, slavery and manumission in Suriname 1765-1795	1
Changing patterns of hierarchy within Swedish stepfamilies in the late 1700s	1
Social homogamy in Spain at the time of modernisation, 1841–70	1
Equal but not identical. Modes of partible inheritance in early-modern Schlanders (South Tyrol) and medieval Lambach (Upper Austria) compared	1
Birth order, sibling size and educational attainment in twentieth century Spain	1
Illegitimate parenthood in early modern Europe	1
Learning from poor single women’s autonomous households in Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries	1
Racial preferences in dating apps: an experimental approach	1
On solid ground? Manumitted slaves, land ownership and registration in eighteenth-century Sri Lanka	1
Mobile land: modes of transfer – varieties of contexts	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
Hurricanes, fertility, and family structure: a study of early 20th century Jamaica	1
Understanding living alone among the young- and middle-aged in China (1990-2010): A gender perspective	1