OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Family Studies is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Does routine communication predict marital satisfaction? Between- and within-person effects	38
Comparison of parental aspirations, success pathways and strategies in lower and upper-middle class families in Türkiye	30
An integrative review on the reintegration challenges for family members of formerly incarcerated individuals	19
Women’s domestic multitasking: the phenomenon of feminization of unpaid work in Polish households during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
High rates of stability in post-separation care arrangements: examining prevalence and predictors in Germany	18
Navigating father-child relationships in single mother families: an exploratory narrative analysis	17
‘Undoing gender’ or selection effects?: fathers’ uptake of leave and involvement in housework and childcare in South Korea	16
From work-shy degenerates to deserving housewives? Acceptance of welfare for single mothers in Germany	16
How parenthood shapes the experiences of disclosure for different generations of sexual minority parents	15
Contextualizing the work-family experiences of women in the Nigerian banking industry	13
A qualitative exploration of the parenting experiences of ex-military fathers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)	13
Risk or fun? Adolescent attitude towards sexting and parental practices	11
Mothers of young children: adapting to the ideals of joint physical custody in Norway	10
Best friends forever and family ties: continuity and change in closeness with parents and friends among Australian adolescents	10
Pre-Separation family relationships and post-separation involvement among nonresident fathers in the United States	9
Gender inequalities in the association between parenthood and health	9
‘Are we falling apart?’: manufacturing familyhood through transnationalism	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
Muggle, Juggle, Snuggle, and Struggle: profiles of parenting experiences of mothers and fathers in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Coping with the absence of parents: growing up in military families in Slovenia	7
Digital media as a tool for children to stay in touch with non-resident parents in Germany	7
Do younger siblings get to have all the fun? Time use and birth order in Indian children and adolescents	7
(Grand)childlessness and depression across men and women’s stages of later life	7
Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships: a South African study	7
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?	7

‘If you restrict my screentime, I won’t talk to you for 20 years!’: experiences of navigating children’s digital worlds as a mother in the UK	7
Family migration in Chinese superstar cities: are fertility intentions of migrants affected by co-resident parents?	7
Differences in economic consequences of union dissolution across gender and ethnic groups in Belgium and Israel	6
It takes two: digital fatherhood and the ‘Ayah ASI’ community in urban Indonesia	6
Judges’ perspectives on changes in the legal minimum age at marriage in Indonesia	6
When men become fathers, women become project leaders: Swedish parenting practices over time	6
Discrepancies in parents’ perceptions of adult children’s well-being: evidence from mother–father–child triads	6
Latino gay men’s disclosure of sexual identity to their fathers: a systematic review	6
The correlates of childrearing marital conflict in Mexico according to urban women parenting preschoolers	6
Mothering in double crisis: pandemic parenting while homeless	6
Separated families’ use of formal and informal childcare across 12 European countries	6
Family dynamics and psychological wellbeing of South Asian migrant youth in Australia	6
Individual, family and neighbourhood factors related to life satisfaction and perceived discrimination among low-income, non-immigrant mothers in seven European countries	5
‘Will I be lonely when I’m old?’ Childfree women’s alternative narratives of ageing without children in Sweden	5
Redefining parenting among parents of children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities in Poland	5
The role of eldest sisters within Arab American sibling dynamics	5
In the innocence bubble: childhood innocence and ethnic-racial socialization of young children in liberal and progressive white U.S. families	5
‘I’m very happy with where she’s at’: a critical analysis of Australian mothers’ constructions of urban children’s local active mobility practices	5
The benefits of intergenerational co-residence: reconsidering the effects of women’s education on their housework hours in urban China	5
Global paternity leave in four multinational corporations: a facilitator of paternal agency?	5
Differences in the evaluation and satisfaction with foster care between kinship and non-kin foster carers	5
The flexibility paradox: why flexible working leads to (self-)exploitation	4
Book Review of Banerjee, Pallavi. 2022 Book Review of Banerjee, Pallavi. 2022 . The Opportunity Trap: High Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failu	4
Accepting social support in single-parent families in Belgium	4
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’	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	4
The cognitive labour of being a ‘good’ dad: differential logics and comparative referents in how fathers conceptualize, strategize, and experience the mental load	4
Self or children? Navigating intensive mothering ideology and maternal agency for rural-to-urban migrant working mothers in China	4
Family and social networks among older people in selected European countries	4
Has ‘Nordic Turn’ in Japan crystalized?: politics of promoting parental leave take-up among fathers and the divergence from the Nordic system	4
What is being a father in Portugal? Examining parental representations and their association with father involvement	4
‘Crazy Dog-Moms’? Gendering relational dynamics, carework, and pet parenting practices in multispecies Canadian homes	4
Beyond the agentic individual: rethinking agency in transnational collectivist Filipino families	4
As sister, as mother: gendered parentification and obligations in large-age-gap sibling families in China	4
Home sweet home? Social mobility and multigenerational coexistence in the European Union	4
The cultural and relational dynamics of family care for older immigrants in Australia	4