OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Families Relationships and Societies is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Creating online participatory research spaces: insights from creative, digitally mediated research with children during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
The shame and shaming of parents in the child protection process: findings from a case study of an English child protection service	17
Helicopter parenting and female university students’ anxiety: does parents’ gender matter?	13
When equal partners become unequal parents: couple relationships and intensive parenting culture	13
Disguised compliance or undisguised nonsense? A critical discourse analysis of compliance and resistance in social work practice	13
‘She has mellowed me into the idea of SPL’: unpacking relational resources in UK couples’ discussions of Shared Parental Leave take-up	12
Negotiating parenting practices: the arguments and justifications of Finnish couples	10
Care is not a tally sheet: rethinking the field of gender divisions of domestic labour with care-centric conceptual narratives	8
‘Er, not the best time’: methodological and ethical challenges of researching family life during a pandemic	8
Displaying parenthood, (un)doing gender: parental leave, daycare and working-time adjustments in Sweden and the UK	7
Participant pseudonyms in qualitative family research: a sociological and temporal note	7
Introduction to special issue: relationality in family and intimate practices	7
Being a good digital parent: representations of parents, youth and the parent–youth relationship in expert advice	6
Yang sheng, care and changing family relations in China: about a ‘left-behind’ mother’s diet	6
“I thought, Oh shit, because I was 19.” Discourses and practices on young fatherhood in Denmark	5
A within-cultural comparison of filial piety beliefs among college students in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau	5
How involved are involved fathers in Hungary? Exploring caring masculinities in a post-socialist context	5
Guiding the young child: trajectories of parents’ educational work in Singapore	4
Motivations and reactions to social undervaluation of single people in married society: an Indonesian perspective	4
Relationality and linked lives during transitions to parenthood in Europe: an analysis of institutionally framed work-care divisions	4
Unclear endings: difficult friendships and the limits of the therapeutic ethic	4
Resisting the commodification of intimate life? Paternal love, emotional bordering and narratives of ambivalent family consumerism from Scottish and Romanian fathers	4
Becoming primary caregivers? Unemployed fathers caring alone in Spain	4
Decolonising research with black communities: developing equitable and ethical relationships between academic and community stakeholders	4
Gendering the job demands-resources model: work–family conflict in Taiwan	4

Tracing pathways of relatedness: how identity-release gamete donors negotiate biological (non-)parenthood	3
Involving fathers in family social services in Israel: in the shadow of a conflicted policy	3
A death in the family: experiences of dying and death in which everyday family practices are embedded and enacted	3
Karen Barad’s posthumanist relational ontology: an intra-active approach to theorising and studying family practices	3
Mothering practices across three generations of Chinese women: from liberated woman, virtuous wife and good mother, to intensive full-time mother	3
A systematic review of family and social relationships: implications for sex trafficking recruitment and victimisation	3
Displaying morally responsible motherhood: lone mothers accounting for work during non-standard hours	3
Testing the social exclusivity of marriage thesis in the context of high familism: do social involvement and support vary by marital status in Israel?	3
(No) recourse to lunch: a frontline view of free school meals and immigration control during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Postponing the day of your dreams? Modern weddings and the impact of COVID-19	3
Out-of-place: the lack of engagement with parent networks of caregiving fathers of young children	3
The experience of qualitative research with young fathers: considerations of gender, class and reflexive practice	3
Longing for interdependence, aspiring to independence: a qualitative study on parenting in Germany	2
Gendered perceptions of workaholism and the gender gap in parenting time	2
How young, disadvantaged fathers are affected by socioeconomic and relational barriers: a UK-based qualitative study	2
Parental leave – and then what? A study of new parents’ negotiations about work, care and parental leave	2
Unsettling maternal futures in climate crisis: towards cohabitability?	2
Doing family while poor: agentic hopelessness as lived knowledge	2
Adoption wars: inequality, child welfare and (social) justice	2
Perceptions of gender equality and engaged fatherhood among young fathers: parenthood and the welfare state in Sweden and the UK	2
Intergenerational transmission of environmental household practices among South Korean families: continuity and change	2
Displaying intimate friendships: Chinese children’s practices of friendships at school	2
Couples’ time management systems: your time, my time or our time?	2
Research relationalities and shifting sensitivities: doing ethnographic research about Brexit and everyday family relationships	2
Beyond the ‘stop gap’: young (adult) women’s experiences of living with parents in the aftermath of the Greek austerity crisis	2
What does Rachel Carson have to do with family sociology and family policies? Ecological imaginaries, relational ontologies, and crossing social imaginaries	2
Knowledge generation and former carers: reflections and ways forward	2
Putting up (with) the paying guest: negotiating hospitality and the boundaries of the commercial home in private lodging arrangements	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
‘My own blood’: family relationships of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people in the UK	2
Family practices in non-cohabiting intimate relationships in China: doing mobile intimacy, emotion and intergenerational caring practices	2
Is my best friend toxic? A textual analysis of online advice on difficult relationships	2