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 2020-12-01 to 2024-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Creating online participatory research spaces: insights from creative, digitally mediated research with children during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
When equal partners become unequal parents: couple relationships and intensive parenting culture	16
Negotiating parenting practices: the arguments and justifications of Finnish couples	13
‘She has mellowed me into the idea of SPL’: unpacking relational resources in UK couples’ discussions of Shared Parental Leave take-up	13
Displaying parenthood, (un)doing gender: parental leave, daycare and working-time adjustments in Sweden and the UK	9
Care is not a tally sheet: rethinking the field of gender divisions of domestic labour with care-centric conceptual narratives	9
Introduction to special issue: relationality in family and intimate practices	8
‘Er, not the best time’: methodological and ethical challenges of researching family life during a pandemic	8
Guiding the young child: trajectories of parents’ educational work in Singapore	7
Being a good digital parent: representations of parents, youth and the parent–youth relationship in expert advice	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
Unclear endings: difficult friendships and the limits of the therapeutic ethic	5
Decolonising research with black communities: developing equitable and ethical relationships between academic and community stakeholders	5
Motivations and reactions to social undervaluation of single people in married society: an Indonesian perspective	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
Becoming primary caregivers? Unemployed fathers caring alone in Spain	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
Paid parental leave and fathers’ involvement: capturing fathers’ gender beliefs and fathering perceptions	4
Mothering practices across three generations of Chinese women: from liberated woman, virtuous wife and good mother, to intensive full-time mother	3
Couples’ time management systems: your time, my time or our time?	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
(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
Postponing the day of your dreams? Modern weddings and the impact of COVID-19	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
Shifting roles, changing relations: considerations when doing ethnographic research with multiple families	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
Family practices in non-cohabiting intimate relationships in China: doing mobile intimacy, emotion and intergenerational caring practices	2
Beyond the ‘stop gap’: young (adult) women’s experiences of living with parents in the aftermath of the Greek austerity crisis	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
Displaying intimate friendships: Chinese children’s practices of friendships at school	2
Parenting in the pandemic: exploring the experiences of families with children on Universal Credit before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
‘There’s a huge hole left in the middle of the family’: locating family practices within the context of (sibling) bereavement	2
Is my best friend toxic? A textual analysis of online advice on difficult relationships	2
Citizenisation in the aftermath of domestic violence: the role of family, community and social networks	2
Longing for interdependence, aspiring to independence: a qualitative study on parenting in Germany	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
A systematic review of family and social relationships: implications for sex trafficking recruitment and victimisation	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
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
Positioning flexibly scheduled ECEC in the chain of childcare by parents working non-standard hours	2