OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Families Relationships and Societies is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Longing for interdependence, aspiring to independence: a qualitative study on parenting in Germany	32
Better than average? Parental competence beliefs and socioeconomic background	18
Silent voices: listening to children of criminalised individuals	11
Parental and work-related identities among primary caregiving and primary breadwinning mothers and fathers	9
Pragmatic parenting: fathers’ roles in helping their young adult sons with autism	9
Development, transformation and uncertainties: reflections on the experience of my generation in China	7
Gendered perceptions of workaholism and the gender gap in parenting time	7
Growing together: displaced women’s resilience and growth in reciprocal relationship	7
An unbalancing act: gender and parental division in childcare in South Africa	7
Family stories: investigating trauma-informed narratives, change behaviours and environments in complex family experiences	6
Intergenerational transmission of social memory: a narrative review1	6
Workplace matters: negotiating a sense of entitlement towards taking time off for childcare among Korean fathers working in Sweden	6
Intimacy as a competency: information-seeking practices in (marriage) migration online support groups	6
More than mothers: changing intimacies and relationships among low-income women in Chile	5
Making sense of what families leave behind: a middle-class schoolgirl’s diaries in 1920s London	5
‘Now there you go, there’s my life. All my life is coming to prisons!’: persistent punishment in the lives of Scottish families affected by imprisonment	5
Living apart together: growing up in transnational families	5
Doing (in)equality in Swedish families: women’s narratives of outsourcing domestic work	5
Filial support behaviours: associations with filial piety, reciprocity and parent-child contact in China	5
‘Family doesn’t have to be mom and dad’: an exploration of the meaning of family for care-experienced young people	5
Shrinking futures: ecologically childfree as emotion management	5
Positioning flexibly scheduled ECEC in the chain of childcare by parents working non-standard hours	4
Performing parenthood through digital communication technologies at school: the case of WhatsApp parents’ groups in Chile	4
Beyond the voluntariness dichotomy: perspectives of singles regarding relationship formation	4
Families, Relationships and Societies: an introduction from the new editorial team	3

‘I have to call them’	3
The sibling relationship under China’s universal two-child policy: exploring the experiences of the first-born child in two-child families with a large age gap	3
‘Run three laps around the house’: a bricolage of rural ideals and co-parenting practices	3
Care and surveillance of children through domestic Internet of Things	3
Division of labour in families: an integrative dyadic classification approach	3
The purchase of cooperativism: creating relational economic practices in situations of precarity	3
Parental stress, coercive and encouraging parenting among Chinese one-child, two-child and three-child families	3
Involving fathers in family social services in Israel: in the shadow of a conflicted policy	3
Postponing the day of your dreams? Modern weddings and the impact of COVID-19	3
‘Stay at home’: analysing the implications of COVID-19 for unpaid carers	3
Family relatedness: a challenge for making decisions in child welfare	3
Money practices and couplehood among individuals in the third age in Sweden	3
Voices, imaginaries and agency of Ukrainian and Moldovan transnational children	3
Representation of migrating mothers in children’s and young adult literature on transnational families	3
Transnational family dynamics in Europe: the need for taking the family perspective in migration	3
The diversity of grandparents in rural China: a new classification based on the shift in grandparents’ ideology and family structure	3
Resourceful family economy during LGBTQ family-forming processes	3
‘Er, not the best time’: methodological and ethical challenges of researching family life during a pandemic	3
Family sociology as a theoretical enterprise? A personal reflection	3
Citizenisation in the aftermath of domestic violence: the role of family, community and social networks	3
Neighbours, neighbouring and acquaintanceship: in dialogue with David Morgan	3
Guilt on the go: work-family conflict among long-distance commuter fathers	3
Faithfulness without sexual exclusivity: gendered interpretations of faithfulness in rural south-western Uganda, and implications for HIV prevention programmes	3
‘I try to do something a bit different’: exploring fathers’ integration of care ethics in everyday family lives	3