OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Families Relationships and Societies 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.)

Article	Citations
Creating online participatory research spaces: insights from creative, digitally mediated research with children during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Helicopter parenting and female university students’ anxiety: does parents’ gender matter?	16
When equal partners become unequal parents: couple relationships and intensive parenting culture	16
‘She has mellowed me into the idea of SPL’: unpacking relational resources in UK couples’ discussions of Shared Parental Leave take-up	13
Negotiating parenting practices: the arguments and justifications of Finnish couples	12
Care is not a tally sheet: rethinking the field of gender divisions of domestic labour with care-centric conceptual narratives	9
Displaying parenthood, (un)doing gender: parental leave, daycare and working-time adjustments in Sweden and the UK	9
‘Er, not the best time’: methodological and ethical challenges of researching family life during a pandemic	8
Introduction to special issue: relationality in family and intimate practices	8
Being a good digital parent: representations of parents, youth and the parent–youth relationship in expert advice	7
Participant pseudonyms in qualitative family research: a sociological and temporal note	7
Guiding the young child: trajectories of parents’ educational work in Singapore	7
“I thought, Oh shit, because I was 19.” Discourses and practices on young fatherhood in Denmark	6
Relationality and linked lives during transitions to parenthood in Europe: an analysis of institutionally framed work-care divisions	6
Gendering the job demands-resources model: work–family conflict in Taiwan	6
A within-cultural comparison of filial piety beliefs among college students in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau	6
Testing the social exclusivity of marriage thesis in the context of high familism: do social involvement and support vary by marital status in Israel?	5
Decolonising research with black communities: developing equitable and ethical relationships between academic and community stakeholders	5
How involved are involved fathers in Hungary? Exploring caring masculinities in a post-socialist context	5
Unclear endings: difficult friendships and the limits of the therapeutic ethic	5
Becoming primary caregivers? Unemployed fathers caring alone in Spain	4
Involving fathers in family social services in Israel: in the shadow of a conflicted policy	4
Karen Barad’s posthumanist relational ontology: an intra-active approach to theorising and studying family practices	4
Paid parental leave and fathers’ involvement: capturing fathers’ gender beliefs and fathering perceptions	4
A death in the family: experiences of dying and death in which everyday family practices are embedded and enacted	4

The experience of qualitative research with young fathers: considerations of gender, class and reflexive practice	4
Displaying morally responsible motherhood: lone mothers accounting for work during non-standard hours	4
Motivations and reactions to social undervaluation of single people in married society: an Indonesian perspective	4
(No) recourse to lunch: a frontline view of free school meals and immigration control during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Parental leave – and then what? A study of new parents’ negotiations about work, care and parental leave	3
Doing family while poor: agentic hopelessness as lived knowledge	3
Parental and work-related identities among primary caregiving and primary breadwinning mothers and fathers	3
How young, disadvantaged fathers are affected by socioeconomic and relational barriers: a UK-based qualitative study	3
Couples’ time management systems: your time, my time or our time?	3
Unsettling maternal futures in climate crisis: towards cohabitability?	3
Instigating father-inclusive practice interventions with young fathers and multi-agency professionals: the transformative potential of qualitative longitudinal and co-creative methodologies	3
Perceptions of gender equality and engaged fatherhood among young fathers: parenthood and the welfare state in Sweden and the UK	3
Mothering practices across three generations of Chinese women: from liberated woman, virtuous wife and good mother, to intensive full-time mother	3
Postponing the day of your dreams? Modern weddings and the impact of COVID-19	3
Research relationalities and shifting sensitivities: doing ethnographic research about Brexit and everyday family relationships	3
What does Rachel Carson have to do with family sociology and family policies? Ecological imaginaries, relational ontologies, and crossing social imaginaries	3
Knowledge generation and former carers: reflections and ways forward	3
Is my best friend toxic? A textual analysis of online advice on difficult relationships	2
Beyond the ‘stop gap’: young (adult) women’s experiences of living with parents in the aftermath of the Greek austerity crisis	2
Longing for interdependence, aspiring to independence: a qualitative study on parenting in Germany	2
Putting up (with) the paying guest: negotiating hospitality and the boundaries of the commercial home in private lodging arrangements	2
Displaying intimate friendships: Chinese children’s practices of friendships at school	2
A systematic review of family and social relationships: implications for sex trafficking recruitment and victimisation	2
Family practices in non-cohabiting intimate relationships in China: doing mobile intimacy, emotion and intergenerational caring practices	2
Citizenisation in the aftermath of domestic violence: the role of family, community and social networks	2
A school-based cross-sectional study to understand the public health measures needed to improve the emotional and mental wellbeing of young carers aged 12 to 14 years	2
Family practices, deportability and administrative violence: an ethnographic study on asylum seekers’ family life in the Swedish migration context	2
Attitudes of young people in Germany towards parental involvement in paid work: evidence of intergenerational transmission	2
Intimacy, relationality and interdependencies: relationships in families dealing with gambling harms during COVID-19	2
Conscious coupling: loss of public promises of a life-long bond? An exploration of authenticity and autonomy in commitment processes across contemporary long-term relationship forms	2
Persistent stigma despite social change: experiences of stigma among single women who were pregnant or mothers in the Republic of Ireland 1996–2010	2
“I’m finally allowed to be me”: parent-child estrangement and psychological wellbeing	2
Gendered perceptions of workaholism and the gender gap in parenting time	2
Intergenerational transmission of environmental household practices among South Korean families: continuity and change	2
Parenting in the pandemic: exploring the experiences of families with children on Universal Credit before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Shifting roles, changing relations: considerations when doing ethnographic research with multiple families	2
‘There’s a huge hole left in the middle of the family’: locating family practices within the context of (sibling) bereavement	2
Mixed-sex civil partnerships and relationality: a perspective from law	1
Parents’ social networks, transitional moments and the shaping role of digital communications: an exploratory study in Austria, Denmark, England and Portugal	1
Names in adoption law and policy: representations of family, rights and identities	1
Pre-problem families: predictive analytics and the future as the present	1
Engaging with uncertainty: studying child and family welfare in precarious times	1
Using technology in family relationships lived apart	1
Family relatedness: a challenge for making decisions in child welfare	1
‘For me, it was a liberation, like being free again.’ A qualitative approach to the care trajectories of divorced mothers in Spain	1
Reordering family practices in an unequal and disorderly world: contemporary adoption and contact in the UK	1
Paternal and maternal love for married and unmarried sons and daughters	1
Filial support behaviours: associations with filial piety, reciprocity and parent-child contact in China	1
Complex marital paradigms: divergence between the importance of getting married and being married	1
Fostering ‘digital citizens’ in Norway: experiences of migrant mothers	1

Theorising fatherhood: challenges and suggestions	1
‘Never mind, we can’t help you’: young people’s experiences of the imprisonment of a sibling	1
Growing together: displaced women’s resilience and growth in reciprocal relationship	1
Family sociology as a theoretical enterprise? A personal reflection	1
Positioning flexibly scheduled ECEC in the chain of childcare by parents working non-standard hours	1
Alone and together in domestic space: navigating spatial and conceptual relationship boundaries in Finnish small-scale communes	1
Money practices and couplehood among individuals in the third age in Sweden	1
‘It is important that my kids see us all spending time together and that we do spend time together’: Pacific mothers and fathers displaying post-separation family connections	1
‘Friends are those who can help you out’: unpacking the understanding and experiences of friendship among young migrant workers in China	1
Caveats and criteria: intercultural courtships of shengnü (‘leftover women’) and Western men in urban China	1
Knowledge forms and gendered moralities in policies of infant care in Brazil	1
Couples’ daily childcare schedules: gendered patterns and variations	1
From being ‘at risk’ to being ‘a risk’: journeys into parenthood among young women experiencing adversity	1
A conversation with Pat Armstrong about Creative Teamwork: Developing Rapid Site-Switching Ethnography	1
Researching parental leave during a pandemic: lessons from black feminist theory and relationality	1
Good men need to be you dandang: negotiating masculinity in intimate relationships in contemporary China	1
Family structure and children’s cognitive development	1
The changing role of migrant grandparents and the emergence of dual-core familism in urban China	1
Male infertility as relational: an analysis of men’s reported encounters with family members and friends in the context of delayed conception	1
Readiness parenting: practices of care by parents of children with chronic kidney disease in Portugal	1
Challenges in family policy research	1
More than mothers: changing intimacies and relationships among low-income women in Chile	1