OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Convoy Model and Later‐Life Family Relationships	55
Processing Proximal Processes: What Bronfenbrenner Meant, What He Didn't Mean, and What He Should Have Meant	51
Multigenerational social support in the face of the COVID‐19 pandemic	51
Father Involvement During Early Childhood: A Systematic Review of the Literature	43
White Supremacy and the Web of Family Science: Implications of the Missing Spider	39
Sibling Relationships in Adulthood: Research Findings and New Frontiers	29
The Gender‐as‐Relational Approach for Theorizing About Romantic Relationships of Sexual and Gender Minority Mid‐ to Later‐Life Adults	28
A scoping review of research on well‐being across diverse family structures: Rethinking approaches for understanding contemporary families	26
Interlinking structural racism and heteropatriarchy: Rethinking family structure's effects on child outcomes in a racialized, unequal society	24
Relational Dialectics Theory	23
Measurement of Parental Autonomy Support: A Review of Theoretical Concerns and Developmental Considerations	20
Family theorizing for social justice: A critical praxis	19
Understanding Differential Effectiveness of Behavioral Parent Training from a Family Systems Perspective: Families Are Greater than “Some of Their Parts”	17
Family Dynamics During Emerging Adulthood: Reviewing, Integrating, and Challenging the Field	17
Relationship Satisfaction Across the Transition to Parenthood Among Interracial Couples: An Integrative Model	17
Progress and gaps: A systematic review of the family demographics and family subsystems represented in top family science journals 2008–2018	16
The Families of LGBTQ Older Adults: Theoretical Approaches to Creative Family Connections in the Context of Marginalization, Social‐Historical Change, and Resilience	16
Who Counts as Family Later in Life? Following Theoretical Leads	15
What does it mean to be Black and White? A meta‐ethnographic review of racial socialization in Multiracial families	14
Association of Parent–child Experiences with Insecure Attachment in Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis	14
Intersectionality and fatherhood: Theorizing non‐hegemonic fatherhoods	14
A Context‐Informed Perspective of Child Risk and Protection: Deconstructing Myths in the Risk Discourse	13
How families matter for health inequality during the COVID‐19 pandemic	13
Toward More Accurate Measures of Family Structure: Accounting for Sibling Complexity	13
The return of race science and why it matters for family science	12

Intersectionality within family sciences and family therapy journals from 2010 to 2020	11
What makes a good mother? Two decades of research reflecting social norms of motherhood	10
Parenting as a Communication Process: Integrating Interpersonal Communication Theory and Parenting Styles Conceptualization	10
Siblings' similarities and dissimilarities: A review of theoretical perspectives and empirical insights	9
Attachment Development in Adolescent Romantic Relationships: A Conceptual Model	9
Parent Self‐Compassion and Supportive Responses to Child Difficult Emotion: An Intergenerational Theoretical Model Rooted in Attachment	9
Multidimensional family development theory: A reconceptualization of family development	9
Fathering and masculine norms: Implications for the socialization of children's emotion regulation	9
Queering singlehood: Examining the intersection of sexuality and relationship status from a queer lens	8
Theorizing Ambiguous Gain: Opportunities for Family Scholarship	8
The importance of family‐focused and strengths‐based approaches to interventions for grandfamilies	8
Bored of the rings: Methodological and analytic approaches to operationalizing Bronfenbrenner's PPCT model in research practice	8
To be young, conscious and Black: The cumulative witnessing of racial violence for Black youth and families	7
Consequences of Later‐Life Divorce and Widowhood for Adult Well‐Being: A Call for the Convalescence Model	7
Unsettling the family sciences: Introducing settler colonial theory through a theoretical analysis of the family and racialized injustice	7
Quantitative criticalism: Guidelines for conducting transformative quantitative family science research	7
The state of theory in elder family financial exploitation: A systematic review	7
Applying the family stress model to parental acculturative stress and Latinx youth adjustment: A review of the literature	6
It's about gender: A critical review of the literature on the domestic division of work	6
A 10‐Year Portrait of Theorizing in Family Gerontology: Making the Mosaic Visible	6
Stress and resilience among resettling refugee youth: An illustrative review and new applications for the family stress model	6
Intersectionality in studying and theorizing singlehood	6
Engaging parents in preventive programs for adolescent mental health: A socio‐ecological framework	6
Family separation and transnational fathering practices for immigrant Northern Triangle families	6
The stability of singlehood: Limitations of the relationship status paradigm and a new theoretical framework for reimagining singlehood	6
Parenting in context: A systematic review of the correlates of autonomy support	5
Honor killings in Muslim and Western countries in modern times: A critical literature review and definitional implications	5
Single and flourishing: Transcending the deficit narratives of single life	5
Beyond W.E.I.R.D. (Western, educated, industrial, rich, democratic)‐centric theories and perspectives: masculinity and fathering in Chinese societies	5
Age‐dissimilar couple relationships: 25 years in review	5
Understanding singlehood as a complex and multifaceted experience: Insights from relationship science	5
Self of the parent: An expanded social cognitive perspective on parent–child sexual communication	5
(Re)Conceptualizing Black motherwork as political activism	5
Racism and the mechanisms maintaining racial stratification in Black families	4
Routines and coparenting as interrelated family management systems	4
Intersectional stigma and developmental competence among youth living with HIV	4
Transnational fathers: New theoretical and conceptual challenges	4
Defining and measuring singlehood in family studies	4
Using cultural‐ecological theory to construct a mid‐range theory for the development of gratitude as a virtue	4
Immigrant parents and children navigating two languages: A scoping review	4
Advancing Research and Theory on Aging Military Veterans in a Relational Context	3
Toward an integrative framework of intergenerational coparenting within family systems: A scoping review	3
Not a single meaning: Definition and evolution of singlehood in France and the United States	3
Critically feminizing family science: Using femme theory to generate novel approaches for the study of families and relationships	3
The family keyworker as a critical element for attachment resilience in the face of adversity	3
Reopening a can of words: Qualitative secondary data analysis	3
Aging Together in Enduring Couple Relationships: A Life Course Systems Perspective	3
Family stress and coping in the experience of employment precarity: A theoretical framework	3
It's not the rotten apples!Why family scholars should adopt a structural perspective on racism	3
A Goal‐Theoretic Framework for Parental Screen‐Time Monitoring Behavior	3

Dismantling the master's house: Epistemological tensions and revelatory interventions for reimagining a transformational family science	3
A personal and relational model of father identity construction	3
Using critical family theorizing and intersectional feminist praxis to navigate reflexive conversations on race and power in academic settings	3
From safety in silence to speaking up for LGBTQ+ families: A reflection on the personal, professional, and political through a feminist lens	3
The rise of the childless single in South Korea	2
The procreative identities of men in same‐sex relationships choosing surrogacy: A new theoretical understanding	2
Developmental Trajectories of Women's Identity Development	2
Supporting and enhancing attachment resilience is essential for helping high‐risk families: But is the family keyworker the best one for the job?	2
Toward a Du Boisian paradigm of family science	2
Sex and single women in midlife: Theoretical perspectives, recent findings, and future directions	2
Biracial Families: Crossing Boundaries, Blending Cultures, and Challenging Racial Ideologies	2
Studying stepfamilies, surfacing secrets: A reflection on the private motivations behind efforts to humanize family complexity	2
Ethnic and diverse fathering: Moving research forward	2
Singlehood during later life: Theoretical considerations for health and social relationships	2
Men, families, and the reconceptualization of masculinities	2
Navigating the theoretical landscape of loneliness research: How interdisciplinary synergy contributes to further conceptualizations	2
Anomie, gender, and inequality: Developing sociological theory of singlehood from Japanese experiences	2
Attachment resilience in practice: The essential role of family keyworkers	2
Parent‐adolescent conflict processes and their measurement: A systematic review	2
The relationship between the reminiscence of relationship‐defining memories and marital outcomes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	2
He Cheated, She Cheated, We Cheated: Women Speak About Infidelity	1
Safety and security in family life: Experiences of involuntary dislocation	1
Kaleidoscopic perspectives on theorizing singlehood	1
The double ABCM model of marital satisfaction	1
Family keyworker as a non‐clinical and democratic figure to support hard‐to‐reach families from an attachment perspective	1
Transformational family science: Praxis, possibility, and promise	1
Living single in late life among African Americans	1
Celebrating JFTR's Stellar Niche	1
The temporal intersectional minority stress model: Reimagining minority stress theory	1
The New Psychology of Love	1
Genetic moderation of the effects of family‐focused interventions (GxI interaction): A systematic review	1
Grief experiences in parents of adult children with serious mental illness	1
COVID‐19: Family resilience in a context of vulnerability	1
Voluntary and involuntary singlehood: Salience of concepts from four theories	1
Parental consideration of children's experiences: A critical review of parenting constructs	1
Using social exchange theory to examine relationship processes in asexual‐allosexual couples	1
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Pedagogy of the great pandemic of the 21st century: Epistemic implications for individual psychology, family science, and psychotherapies	1
Civil disobedience in the domestic sphere: The case of the Hetero‐gay family	1
Family dynamics and the transition to end‐of‐life caregiving: A brief review and conceptual framework	1
Foster father identity: A theoretical framework	1
An examination of power in a triadic model of parent–child–pediatrician relationships related to early childhood gender development	1
Facing the heat: A descriptive review of the literature on family and community resilience amidst wildfires and climate change	1
Mixing races, maintaining racism? Considering the connection between interracial families, social distance, and racial inequality	1
Dyadic bicultural competence: A new way of conceptualizing patterns of cultural competence in close relationships	1
Introduction to the special issue on theorizing families, anti‐racism, and social justice	1
How sociocultural contexts may shape the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on couples' relationships	1
Sibling dynamics in the context of parental child maltreatment: A theoretical model grounded in data	1
Figuring out how to participate in the system: Using reflexive feminist autoethnography to explore intersectional experiences in the professional and political spheres of academia	1
Qualitative genogram analysis: A methodology for theorizing family dynamics	1
Marital relationships spillover and parental differential treatment of siblings: A multilevel meta‐analysis	1