OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Marriage choices, social homogamy and modernization in Milan, 1890-1899 and 1950-1959	10
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	7
The effect of parental loss on child survival in nineteenth century rural Estonia	4
Absent parents, sick children, and epistolary relationships in England, c.1640-c.1750	4
Did the grandmother’s exposure to environmental stress during pregnancy affect the birth body size of her grandchildren? The Polish evidence	3
Health and lifespan of Swiss men born in an alpine region in 1905–1907	3
Dogs in the picture: restoring the queer history of the Irish family	3
A Re-examination of Birth Control in the First Half of Twentieth Century Japan: Yoshioka Yayoi’s Anti-birth Control Position	3
Aging women as sexual beings. Expertise between the 1950s and 1970s in state socialist Czechoslovakia	3
‘We treat each other as equal partners’ the understanding of companionate marriage in postwar Poland	3
Change and adaptation. Jewish households in Lviv, Worms and Poznan in early modern times	3
Marriage, land and law. Signing a marriage contract in Normandy and Ile-de-France, at the time of the Napoleonic Code	2
Standing on the shoulders of giants. Paternal life course effects on son’s heights outcomes in the Netherlands 1820-1960	2
Assessing gender discrimination during infancy and childhood using twins: The case of rural Spain, 1750-1950	2
Public unemployment relief and health during the great depression	2
Wanted: marriage partner! Partner preferences in newspaper contact adverts in the Netherlands, 1900-1955	2
Saving the best for last? Old age retirement among the Urban middle classes in Leiden and Regensburg (c. 1650- c. 1800)	2
Gendered survival differentials of adopted children in northeast Japan, 1716–1870	2
The US baby boom and the 1935 Social Security Act	2
Indirect pathways of multigenerational persistence: the role of uncles and assortative mating in the Netherlands, 1857-1922	2
Correction	2
The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919	2
Three myths about old age before modernity – and why historians should care	2
Family and labour in an Angolan cash-crop economy, 1910	2
Why did the civil code of Meiji Japan provide the same surname for couples? Westernization, de-Chineseization, and the construction of a national state	2

‘From the cradle to the grave I am my father’s daughter!’ Women and their married names in Transylvania in the second half of 19^th century	2
The necessity of small loans: the borrowing and lending among low-income earners in early 20th century Sweden	2
Pets and the eighteenth-century British family	2
Birth order, sibling size and educational attainment in twentieth century Spain	2
The expatriation act of 1907, marital assimilation, and citizenship-based intermarriage in the U.S.	2
Restrained freedom? Widows, blended families and inheritance in eighteenth-century urban Sri Lanka	2
Financing marriage in early modern Italy: innovative dowry funds in Florence and Bologna	2
Financing transfers: buying, exchanging and inheriting properties in early modern southern Tyrol	2
‘Glad to the heart to see any of my brothers’: exploring Irish family life through sibling relationships	1
RIFNET. A new agenda for the Irish family: messy realities & messier lives	1
Dangerous liaisons, or strategies for family management in eighteenth-century Venice	1
School maturity and the quest for normalcy: how parental complaints shaped expertise and state policies in socialist Hungary and East Germany, 1960s-1980s	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
The invisibility of Portuguese stepfamilies: the relationships between stepparents, stepchildren and half-siblings in eighteenth– and nineteenth–century Porto	1
The quest for a partner in the past and today: exploring trends and drivers in partner preferences and selection through new sources and approaches	1
Family history and memory in photo albums of Latvian women after World War II	1
‘The many lessons which the care of some gentle, loveable animal would give’: animals, pets, and emotions in children’s welfare institutions, 1870–1920	1
Changing patterns of hierarchy within Swedish stepfamilies in the late 1700s	1
The gift of life after slavery: close-kin ownership, slavery and manumission in Suriname 1765-1795	1
Transition to consistent contraceptive practices in Finland – access to abortion and birth control, 1950s–1970s	1
Zadruga on trial – the 19 ^th century Serbian joint family household between protection of collective possession and affirmation of private propert	1
An emotional biography of spousal abandonment: crisis and identities among women admitted to the Casa de Misericordia in Barcelona (eighteenth century)	1
What about the widows? Widowhood and households in Cape Town 1938/1939	1
Genealogy in social media: navigating time and space	1
Tables and families. Value, emotions and aesthetics of conviviality in two culinary manuscripts of the Mexican elites of the 19th century	1
“Actions speak louder than words: constance of France and motherhood in 12th-century Norman Italy”	1
Were Small-town New Yorkers Life-cycle Savers?	1
Models of leaving home: patterns and trends in Sweden, 1830–1959	1
‘Missing girls’ in historical Europe: reopening the debate	1
Social homogamy in Spain at the time of modernisation, 1841–70	1
Simulating the evolution of height in the Netherlands in recent history	1
A question of equity? The ‘value’ of male and female virginity in late 18^th and early 19^th century Athens	1
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
The Irish family, marital breakdown and the Josie Airey case, c . 1974-1981	1
The Wolf , the island and the sea: truancy and escaping slavery in Curacao (1837–1863)	1
Unemployment, divorce, and longevity: the major factors of the fertility upward evolution in Tunisia, during 1998-2018: a dynamic panel data analysis	1
The Tibetan stem family in historical perspective	1
Infant and child sex ratios in late Imperial Russia	1
Rebuilding life after slavery. Manumission, emancipation, and family networks in European empires, 1750–1900	1
Childhood growth and socioeconomic outcomes in early adulthood evidence from the inter-war United States	1
Influence of parental death on child mortality and the phenomenon of the stepfamily in western Bohemia in 1708–1834	1
Years of plenty, years of want? An introduction to finance and the family life cycle	1
Gendered mortality of children and adolescents in nineteenth-century Denmark. Exploring patterns of sex ratios and mortality rates	1
Introduction to the special issue mothers and fathers in medieval and early modern Europe	1
Breaking secular endogamy. The growth of intermarriage among the Gitanos/Calé of Spain (1900–2006)	1