OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Family Studies is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Parental logic among Russian-speaking two-step migrants	19
High rates of stability in post-separation care arrangements: examining prevalence and predictors in Germany	18
Women’s domestic multitasking: the phenomenon of feminization of unpaid work in Polish households during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Coparenting and parental involvement in education: the mediating role of motivational beliefs	18
Does routine communication predict marital satisfaction? Between- and within-person effects	14
Factors affecting the length of unpaid parental leave in Spain	13
A conceptual model of parenting children with disabilities	12
‘Undoing gender’ or selection effects?: fathers’ uptake of leave and involvement in housework and childcare in South Korea	11
Work-parenthood conflicts at the operator and professional levels in Chile’s mining industry: a gender analysis	11
Risk or fun? Adolescent attitude towards sexting and parental practices	10
Navigating father-child relationships in single mother families: an exploratory narrative analysis	10
The utility of the Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) for refugee background parents	10
A qualitative exploration of the parenting experiences of ex-military fathers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)	10
Age composition of young children and parental well-being in Japan	10
Similarities and differences between coparenting and parental gatekeeping: implications for father involvement research	9
Transnational parenting in settled families: social class, migration experiences and child rearing among Polish migrants in Germany	9
Pre-Separation family relationships and post-separation involvement among nonresident fathers in the United States	8
‘She’s Like Family’: transnational Filipino families, voluntary kin and the circulation of care	8
Contextualizing the work-family experiences of women in the Nigerian banking industry	8
‘We were actually able to sit down and talk’: Australian parents and practitioners navigating dynamics of power and emotion in Family Dispute Resolution	8
Best friends forever and family ties: continuity and change in closeness with parents and friends among Australian adolescents	8
‘It is an endless love that makes you think only of his well-being’ – the experiences and accounts of ‘motherly love’ among Israeli mothers with transgender (trans) children	8
A meta-analysis examining the relationship between parents’ sexual orientation and children's developmental outcomes	8
‘Are we falling apart?’: manufacturing familyhood through transnationalism	7
Attitudes towards multi-child families and their relationship with fertility preferences and other characteristics	7

Mothering in double crisis: pandemic parenting while homeless	6
Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships: a South African study	6
Muggle, Juggle, Snuggle, and Struggle: profiles of parenting experiences of mothers and fathers in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
(Grand)childlessness and depression across men and women’s stages of later life	6
Coping with the absence of parents: growing up in military families in Slovenia	6
Work-family decision-making processes at the transition to parenthood: why aren’t heterosexual couples discussing some of the most important decisions of their lives?	5
Discrepancies in parents’ perceptions of adult children’s well-being: evidence from mother–father–child triads	5
When men become fathers, women become project leaders: Swedish parenting practices over time	5
Family dynamics and psychological wellbeing of South Asian migrant youth in Australia	5
Family migration in Chinese superstar cities: are fertility intentions of migrants affected by co-resident parents?	5
Perceptions of parents of youth with disabilities toward school-based parent engagement	5
The correlates of childrearing marital conflict in Mexico according to urban women parenting preschoolers	4
Individual, family and neighbourhood factors related to life satisfaction and perceived discrimination among low-income, non-immigrant mothers in seven European countries	4
Judges’ perspectives on changes in the legal minimum age at marriage in Indonesia	4
Differences in economic consequences of union dissolution across gender and ethnic groups in Belgium and Israel	4
Fathers stepping up? A cross-national comparison of fathers’ domestic labour and parents’ satisfaction with the division of domestic labour during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Has ‘Nordic Turn’ in Japan crystalized?: politics of promoting parental leave take-up among fathers and the divergence from the Nordic system	3
Re-defining stigmatization: intersectional stigma of single mothers in Thailand	3
Siblings of children diagnosed with cancer: being faced with a moral dilemma	3
‘In our family, we don’t watch those things’: parents’ discursive constructions of decision-making connected with family media practices	3
Differences in the evaluation and satisfaction with foster care between kinship and non-kin foster carers	3
Book Review of Banerjee, Pallavi. 2022 Book Review of Banerjee, Pallavi. 2022 . The Opportunity Trap: High Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failu	3
Self or children? Navigating intensive mothering ideology and maternal agency for rural-to-urban migrant working mothers in China	3
Diaspora grand-mothering in Nigeria	3
Latino gay men’s disclosure of sexual identity to their fathers: a systematic review	3
‘I’m very happy with where she’s at’: a critical analysis of Australian mothers’ constructions of urban children’s local active mobility practices	3
The flexibility paradox: why flexible working leads to (self-)exploitation	3
A qualitative exploration of Black women’s familial socialization on controlling images of Black womanhood and the internalization of respectability politics	3
The loss of a grandchild during pregnancy: an exploration of long-term outcomes for grandparents and their families	3
The benefits of intergenerational co-residence: reconsidering the effects of women’s education on their housework hours in urban China	3
Taking turns: lesbian couples’ decision of (first) birth mother in Sweden	3
The involution of middle-class tiger moms? An exploration of parental expectations in a Coastal Region of China	2
Frictions between familism and neoliberalism: exploring the intergenerational ambivalence narratives of migrant older parents in China	2
Towards a fuller understanding of the healing of childhood parental wounds: an international study of adult children’s forgiveness. ‘No matter how deep the hurt’	2
Motherhood, role conflict, and identity: South African mothers’ experiences amid a pandemic	2
Gender differences in marital satisfaction across cultural contexts: does ‘knowing one’s spouse’s friends’ matter?	2
Defining transnational families across countries and time: an analysis of academic discourse on the phenomenon between 2003 and 2023	2
‘We also need to exist somehow’ – families negotiating everyday ethics during Covid-19 in Denmark	2
Breaking with traditions? How parental separation affects adolescents’ gender ideologies in the UK	2
Forgotten voices: the plight of prisoners’ families	2
East Asian Mothers’ attitudes towards their children’s education in England: dialectics of East Asian and English education	2
Family and social networks among older people in selected European countries	2
‘I don't know if I want to have children at some point’: meanings of parenthood and reproductive decisions	2
Postmaterialism and voluntary childlessness	2
Trapped in a maze: how social control institutions drive family poverty and inequality Trapped in a maze: how social control institutions drive family poverty and inequality	2
‘No more secrets, it’s over!’: small stories about late adoption disclosure of Chilean adults	2
Black women caregivers’ homeplace fortification in response to negative news media	2
Exploring the lived experience of parental infidelity	2
‘An invisible injury’: intrapersonal experiences of adults discovering misattributed paternity	2
Care practices in Finnish families with young children: a capabilities approach	2

Wives’ enduring responsibility? The exercises and outcomes of gender power in urban Chinese families	2
Changes over 15 years in lone parenting of Irish persons with intellectual disability	2
Accepting social support in single-parent families in Belgium	2
Exploring the caring of fathers in low-income, rural communities in South Africa	2
Digital and traditional communication with kin: displacement or reinforcement?	2
Parents living in poverty and the welfare system: the conditions for trust	2
Internal migration in Chile and the psychosocial well-being of families-of-origin	2
Doing family in three – two partners and an animal companion	2
Child sexual abuse prevention – the strategies of protective mothers and fathers: a systematic review	2
Predictors of father involvement: the influence of the grandfather	2
Single by chance or by choice? The social meanings of singlehood and narratives of choice among unpartnered adults in Israel	2