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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Father Involvement During Early Childhood: A Systematic Review of the Literature	73
Multigenerational social support in the face of the COVID‐19 pandemic	69
Interlinking structural racism and heteropatriarchy: Rethinking family structure's effects on child outcomes in a racialized, unequal society	41
A scoping review of research on well‐being across diverse family structures: Rethinking approaches for understanding contemporary families	38
What makes a good mother? Two decades of research reflecting social norms of motherhood	34
Relational Dialectics Theory	32
Family theorizing for social justice: A critical praxis	24
Progress and gaps: A systematic review of the family demographics and family subsystems represented in top family science journals 2008–2018	23
The return of race science and why it matters for family science	20
Understanding Differential Effectiveness of Behavioral Parent Training from a Family Systems Perspective: Families Are Greater than “Some of Their Parts”	20
What does it mean to be Black and White? A meta‐ethnographic review of racial socialization in Multiracial families	18
Association of Parent–child Experiences with Insecure Attachment in Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis	18
How families matter for health inequality during the COVID‐19 pandemic	17
A Context‐Informed Perspective of Child Risk and Protection: Deconstructing Myths in the Risk Discourse	17
Intersectionality and fatherhood: Theorizing non‐hegemonic fatherhoods	17
Single and flourishing: Transcending the deficit narratives of single life	16
Toward More Accurate Measures of Family Structure: Accounting for Sibling Complexity	16
Racism and the mechanisms maintaining racial stratification in Black families	16
Parenting as a Communication Process: Integrating Interpersonal Communication Theory and Parenting Styles Conceptualization	15
Multidimensional family development theory: A reconceptualization of family development	14
Bored of the rings: Methodological and analytic approaches to operationalizing Bronfenbrenner's PPCT model in research practice	14
Queering singlehood: Examining the intersection of sexuality and relationship status from a queer lens	14
Siblings' similarities and dissimilarities: A review of theoretical perspectives and empirical insights	14
Understanding singlehood as a complex and multifaceted experience: Insights from relationship science	13
The temporal intersectional minority stress model: Reimagining minority stress theory	13

Attachment Development in Adolescent Romantic Relationships: A Conceptual Model	13
The importance of family‐focused and strengths‐based approaches to interventions for grandfamilies	12
Quantitative criticalism: Guidelines for conducting transformative quantitative family science research	11
Intersectionality within family sciences and family therapy journals from 2010 to 2020	11
The stability of singlehood: Limitations of the relationship status paradigm and a new theoretical framework for reimagining singlehood	11
Unsettling the family sciences: Introducing settler colonial theory through a theoretical analysis of the family and racialized injustice	11
To be young, conscious and Black: The cumulative witnessing of racial violence for Black youth and families	10
The state of theory in elder family financial exploitation: A systematic review	10
Applying the family stress model to parental acculturative stress and Latinx youth adjustment: A review of the literature	10
Theorizing Ambiguous Gain: Opportunities for Family Scholarship	9
Fathering and masculine norms: Implications for the socialization of children's emotion regulation	9
It's not the rotten apples!Why family scholars should adopt a structural perspective on racism	8
Self of the parent: An expanded social cognitive perspective on parent–child sexual communication	8
Defining and measuring singlehood in family studies	8
Family separation and transnational fathering practices for immigrant Northern Triangle families	8
Transnational fathers: New theoretical and conceptual challenges	8
Intersectionality in studying and theorizing singlehood	8
Toward an integrative framework of intergenerational coparenting within family systems: A scoping review	8
It's about gender: A critical review of the literature on the domestic division of work	7
Engaging parents in preventive programs for adolescent mental health: A socio‐ecological framework	7
Stress and resilience among resettling refugee youth: An illustrative review and new applications for the family stress model	7
Critically feminizing family science: Using femme theory to generate novel approaches for the study of families and relationships	7
Routines and coparenting as interrelated family management systems	6
How sociocultural contexts may shape the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on couples' relationships	6
Honor killings in Muslim and Western countries in modern times: A critical literature review and definitional implications	6
(Re)Conceptualizing Black motherwork as political activism	6
Intersectional stigma and developmental competence among youth living with HIV	6
The relationship between the reminiscence of relationship‐defining memories and marital outcomes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	6
Parenting in context: A systematic review of the correlates of autonomy support	6
Kaleidoscopic perspectives on theorizing singlehood	5
Not a single meaning: Definition and evolution of singlehood in France and the United States	5
Voluntary and involuntary singlehood: Salience of concepts from four theories	5
Parent‐adolescent conflict processes and their measurement: A systematic review	5
Men, families, and the reconceptualization of masculinities	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