Journal of Family Theory & Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Family Theory & Review 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.)
ArticleCitations
Father Involvement During Early Childhood: A Systematic Review of the Literature73
Multigenerational social support in the face of the COVID‐19 pandemic69
Interlinking structural racism and heteropatriarchy: Rethinking family structure's effects on child outcomes in a racialized, unequal society41
A scoping review of research on well‐being across diverse family structures: Rethinking approaches for understanding contemporary families38
What makes a good mother? Two decades of research reflecting social norms of motherhood34
Relational Dialectics Theory32
Family theorizing for social justice: A critical praxis24
Progress and gaps: A systematic review of the family demographics and family subsystems represented in top family science journals 2008–201823
Understanding Differential Effectiveness of Behavioral Parent Training from a Family Systems Perspective: Families Are Greater than “Some of Their Parts”20
The return of race science and why it matters for family science20
Association of Parent–child Experiences with Insecure Attachment in Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis18
What does it mean to be Black and White? A meta‐ethnographic review of racial socialization in Multiracial families18
Intersectionality and fatherhood: Theorizing non‐hegemonic fatherhoods17
How families matter for health inequality during the COVID‐19 pandemic17
A Context‐Informed Perspective of Child Risk and Protection: Deconstructing Myths in the Risk Discourse17
Racism and the mechanisms maintaining racial stratification in Black families16
Single and flourishing: Transcending the deficit narratives of single life16
Toward More Accurate Measures of Family Structure: Accounting for Sibling Complexity16
Parenting as a Communication Process: Integrating Interpersonal Communication Theory and Parenting Styles Conceptualization15
Bored of the rings: Methodological and analytic approaches to operationalizing Bronfenbrenner's PPCT model in research practice14
Queering singlehood: Examining the intersection of sexuality and relationship status from a queer lens14
Siblings' similarities and dissimilarities: A review of theoretical perspectives and empirical insights14
Multidimensional family development theory: A reconceptualization of family development14
Attachment Development in Adolescent Romantic Relationships: A Conceptual Model13
Understanding singlehood as a complex and multifaceted experience: Insights from relationship science13
The temporal intersectional minority stress model: Reimagining minority stress theory13
The importance of family‐focused and strengths‐based approaches to interventions for grandfamilies12
Unsettling the family sciences: Introducing settler colonial theory through a theoretical analysis of the family and racialized injustice11
Quantitative criticalism: Guidelines for conducting transformative quantitative family science research11
Intersectionality within family sciences and family therapy journals from 2010 to 202011
The stability of singlehood: Limitations of the relationship status paradigm and a new theoretical framework for reimagining singlehood11
Applying the family stress model to parental acculturative stress and Latinx youth adjustment: A review of the literature10
To be young, conscious and Black: The cumulative witnessing of racial violence for Black youth and families10
The state of theory in elder family financial exploitation: A systematic review10
Fathering and masculine norms: Implications for the socialization of children's emotion regulation9
Theorizing Ambiguous Gain: Opportunities for Family Scholarship9
Intersectionality in studying and theorizing singlehood8
Toward an integrative framework of intergenerational coparenting within family systems: A scoping review8
It's not the rotten apples!Why family scholars should adopt a structural perspective on racism8
Self of the parent: An expanded social cognitive perspective on parent–child sexual communication8
Defining and measuring singlehood in family studies8
Family separation and transnational fathering practices for immigrant Northern Triangle families8
Transnational fathers: New theoretical and conceptual challenges8
Stress and resilience among resettling refugee youth: An illustrative review and new applications for the family stress model7
Critically feminizing family science: Using femme theory to generate novel approaches for the study of families and relationships7
It's about gender: A critical review of the literature on the domestic division of work7
Engaging parents in preventive programs for adolescent mental health: A socio‐ecological framework7
Intersectional stigma and developmental competence among youth living with HIV6
The relationship between the reminiscence of relationship‐defining memories and marital outcomes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis6
Parenting in context: A systematic review of the correlates of autonomy support6
Routines and coparenting as interrelated family management systems6
How sociocultural contexts may shape the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on couples' relationships6
Honor killings in Muslim and Western countries in modern times: A critical literature review and definitional implications6
(Re)Conceptualizing Black motherwork as political activism6
Men, families, and the reconceptualization of masculinities5
Beyond W.E.I.R.D. (Western, educated, industrial, rich, democratic)‐centric theories and perspectives: masculinity and fathering in Chinese societies5
Age‐dissimilar couple relationships: 25 years in review5
Kaleidoscopic perspectives on theorizing singlehood5
Not a single meaning: Definition and evolution of singlehood in France and the United States5
Voluntary and involuntary singlehood: Salience of concepts from four theories5
Parent‐adolescent conflict processes and their measurement: A systematic review5
The rise of the childless single in South Korea4
Introduction to the special issue on theorizing families, anti‐racism, and social justice4
Using cultural‐ecological theory to construct a mid‐range theory for the development of gratitude as a virtue4
Singlehood during later life: Theoretical considerations for health and social relationships4
Sex and single women in midlife: Theoretical perspectives, recent findings, and future directions4
The family keyworker as a critical element for attachment resilience in the face of adversity4
Reopening a can of words: Qualitative secondary data analysis4
A personal and relational model of father identity construction4
Navigating the theoretical landscape of loneliness research: How interdisciplinary synergy contributes to further conceptualizations4
From safety in silence to speaking up for LGBTQ+ families: A reflection on the personal, professional, and political through a feminist lens4
Immigrant parents and children navigating two languages: A scoping review4
Marital relationships spillover and parental differential treatment of siblings: A multilevel meta‐analysis4
Mixing races, maintaining racism? Considering the connection between interracial families, social distance, and racial inequality3
Figuring out how to participate in the system: Using reflexive feminist autoethnography to explore intersectional experiences in the professional and political spheres of academia3
Unveiling motivations and keeping what's sacred: Engaging reflexivity in a research program on diverse romantic relationships3
Transformational family science: Praxis, possibility, and promise3
Ethnic and diverse fathering: Moving research forward3
Family stress and coping in the experience of employment precarity: A theoretical framework3
A scoping review of research on polyamory and consensual non‐monogamy: Implications for a more inclusive family science3
Studying stepfamilies, surfacing secrets: A reflection on the private motivations behind efforts to humanize family complexity3
Dismantling the master's house: Epistemological tensions and revelatory interventions for reimagining a transformational family science3
Using critical family theorizing and intersectional feminist praxis to navigate reflexive conversations on race and power in academic settings3
Grief experiences in parents of adult children with serious mental illness2
Parental support is not enough: How parental socialization theories can advance LGBTQ+ youth family research, practice, and health2
The double ABCM model of marital satisfaction2
The procreative identities of men in same‐sex relationships choosing surrogacy: A new theoretical understanding2
Civil disobedience in the domestic sphere: The case of the Hetero‐gay family2
Supporting and enhancing attachment resilience is essential for helping high‐risk families: But is the family keyworker the best one for the job?2
Family dynamics and the transition toend‐of‐lifecaregiving: A brief review and conceptual framework2
An examination of power in a triadic model of parent–child–pediatrician relationships related to early childhood gender development2
Parental consideration of children's experiences: A critical review of parenting constructs2
A systematic review of research on immigrant parenting of young children in the 21st century (2000–2020)2
Attachment resilience in practice: The essential role of family keyworkers2
Toward a Du Boisian paradigm of family science2
Racial discrimination and romantic relationship dynamics among Black Americans: A systematic review2
Family systems and obesity: A review of key concepts and influences within and between family subsystems and a call for family‐informed interventions2
Routines and child development: A systematic review2
Genetic moderation of the effects of family‐focused interventions (GxI interaction): A systematic review2
Qualitative genogram analysis: A methodology for theorizing family dynamics2
Children's social–emotional learning as emotional labor: Recognizing children's contributions1
Dyadic bicultural competence: A new way of conceptualizing patterns of cultural competence in close relationships1
Sibling dynamics in the context of parental child maltreatment: A theoretical model grounded in data1
Theorizing arranged marriage: The case of South Asian Muslim immigrants in love marriage societies1
Couple and family optimal experiences: Integrating flow theory into the relational sciences1
Intersectional blackness matters: Why family science should care about the College Board's A.P. African American Studies course controversy1
Foster father identity: A theoretical framework1
Facing the heat: A descriptive review of the literature on family and community resilience amidst wildfires and climate change1
Women at the margins: Experiences with spousal incarceration inIndia1
Family: Pacific perspectives1
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Living single in late life among African Americans1
Familial critical consciousness socialization: How key family theories can expand racial‐ethnic socialization research among Asian American families1
Celebrating JFTR's Stellar Niche1
A reproductive justice analysis of Black motherwork1
Queering family trees: Race, reproductive justice, and lesbian motherhood by Sandra Patton‐Imani1
Engaging in literature review, synthesis, and meta‐analysis: A few considerations for family scholars1
Safety and security in family life: Experiences of involuntary dislocation1
Self‐injurious behavior in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities: An interdisciplinary family systems review1
LGBTQ family building: A guide for prospective parents. By Abbie E.Goldberg, Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 2022. pp. 295. $16.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐4338‐3392‐21
Family keyworker as a non‐clinical and democratic figure to support hard‐to‐reach families from an attachment perspective1
JFTR's venues and voices for family theorizing and critical review1
Pedagogy of the great pandemic of the 21st century: Epistemic implications for individual psychology, family science, and psychotherapies1
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Relationship education and couples experiencing violence: Is something better than nothing?1
Parents who migrate without their children: Gendered and psychosocial reconfigurations of parenting in transnational families1
Context matters: The global adversity of missing family members1
COVID‐19: Family resilience in a context of vulnerability1
Using social exchange theory to examine relationship processes in asexual‐allosexual couples1
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