OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Family Theory & Review is 5. 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
Multigenerational social support in the face of the COVID‐19 pandemic	51
Processing Proximal Processes: What Bronfenbrenner Meant, What He Didn't Mean, and What He Should Have Meant	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
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
Understanding Differential Effectiveness of Behavioral Parent Training from a Family Systems Perspective: Families Are Greater than “Some of Their Parts”	17
The Families of LGBTQ Older Adults: Theoretical Approaches to Creative Family Connections in the Context of Marginalization, Social‐Historical Change, and Resilience	16
Progress and gaps: A systematic review of the family demographics and family subsystems represented in top family science journals 2008–2018	16
Who Counts as Family Later in Life? Following Theoretical Leads	15
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
What does it mean to be Black and White? A meta‐ethnographic review of racial socialization in Multiracial families	14
How families matter for health inequality during the COVID‐19 pandemic	13
Toward More Accurate Measures of Family Structure: Accounting for Sibling Complexity	13
A Context‐Informed Perspective of Child Risk and Protection: Deconstructing Myths in the Risk Discourse	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
Parenting as a Communication Process: Integrating Interpersonal Communication Theory and Parenting Styles Conceptualization	10
What makes a good mother? Two decades of research reflecting social norms of motherhood	10
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
Siblings' similarities and dissimilarities: A review of theoretical perspectives and empirical insights	9
Bored of the rings: Methodological and analytic approaches to operationalizing Bronfenbrenner's PPCT model in research practice	8
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
Quantitative criticalism: Guidelines for conducting transformative quantitative family science research	7
The state of theory in elder family financial exploitation: A systematic review	7
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
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
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
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
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