OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Jfr-Journal of Family Research 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Social inequalities and the wellbeing of family caregivers across European care regimes	79
Modern fathers' dilemma of work-family reconciliation. Findings from the German Youth Institute Survey AID:A II	39
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Economic hardship and intimate partner violence: An analysis of perpetrators in Germany	21
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Research note: Gender and educational differences in childcare time: Evidence from the Czech Republic	17
Family rituals in postdivorce families: The role of family structure and relationship quality for parents' and stepparents' attendance at children's birthdays	16
The intergenerational transmission of loneliness between parents and their adult children	15
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Children's strains, parents' pains? How adult children's union dissolution influences older parents' health	14
Migrant-native differentials in the uptake of (in)formal childcare in Belgium: The role of mothers’ employment opportunities and care availability	14
People with memory illnesses and their spouses as actors in the hybrid care model	12
A challenging responsibility - care for older parents in Turkish immigrant families	12
Parental relationship quality and children's behavioural problems: Childcare quality as a protective factor?	12
Family-provided long-term care and its coverage in European pension systems	12
Ideals and norms related to fatherhood in Europe: A comparative perspective from the European Social Survey	11
Workin' moms ain't doing so bad: Evidence on the gender gap in working hours at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Continuity, coping and finding meanings in everyday life: Storytelling by family members of people with young onset dementia	10
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment situation and financial well-being of families with children in Austria: Evidence from the first ten months of the crisis	10
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Employment conditions and non-coresidential partnership in very-low fertility countries: Italy and Japan	9
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Children’s well-being and intra-household family relationships during the first COVID-19 lockdown in France	9
Stimulation beliefs, parental reading involvement, and social inequalities in children's language development	8
The shadow fathers: Barriers to whole family approach in social work?	7

Gendered integration? How recently arrived male and female refugees fare on the German labour market	7
Whom to turn to? The association between childhood living arrangement and the parent-child relationship	7
Kinship, inter- and intraethnic social networks and refugees' division of housework	7
Research note: Family structure and attitudes toward filial obligations among younger and middle-aged adults	6
Childcare and housework during the first lockdown in Austria: Traditional division or new roles?	6
Doing exclusivity by doing family? 'Noble' family practices between transformation and persistence	6
Unraveling the threads of vulnerability and resilience: Young men's journey through unintended fatherhood	6
What can parents do? The causal mediating role of parenting in explaining SES differences in children's language development	6
The division of child care during the coronavirus crisis in Germany: How did short-time work affect fathers' engagement?	6
Work-family conflict and partners' agreement on fertility preferences among dual-earner couples: Does women's employment status matter?	6
What will the coronavirus do to our kids? Parents in Austria dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on their children	6
Parental leave vs. competition for clients: Motherhood penalty in competitive work environments	5
Parents' nonstandard work schedules and parents' perception of adolescent social and emotional wellbeing	5
Changing roles of religiosity and patriarchy in women's employment in different religions in Europe between 2004 and 2016	5
Exploring COVID-19 lockdowns as unexpected paternity leave: One shock, diverse gender ideologies	5
Editorial: The ongoing internationalization of the Journal of Family Research	4
The relation between joint physical custody, interparental conflict, and children's mental health	4
Transition to fatherhood and adjustments in working hours: The importance of organizational policy feedback	4
Work-to-family conflict and parenting practices: Examining the role of working from home among lone and partnered working mothers	4
Tired of the double burden? The impact of work-to-family and family-to-work conflict on sleep duration	4
Perceived consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and childbearing intentions in Poland	4
Is Spanish parental leave 'traditionalising' the gender distribution of childcare and housework?	4
Divergent rhythms of motherhood. Patterns of paid and unpaid work and domestic outsourcing among mothers in the United Kingdom and Western Germany	4
Working longer with working-time flexibility: Only when job commitment is high and family commitment is low?	4
Changes in care provision to older parents during COVID-19 and the well-being of adult children: The moderating roles of the child-parent relationship and pandemic-related measures	3
Income, ethnic diversity and family life in East London during the first wave of the pandemic: An assets approach	3
Stepgrandparent-stepgrandchild contact in diverse family contexts: Stepfamily structure and existing family relationships	3
Trait-specific testing of the equal environment assumption: The case of school grades and upper secondary school attendance	3
Parental separation and intergenerational support	3
Parents' experiences of work-family conflict: Does it matter if coworkers have children?	3
Uncertainty in fertility intentions from a life course perspective: Which life course markers matter?	3
Transitions to parenthood, flexible working and time-based work-to-family conflicts: A gendered life course and organisational change perspective	3
Child-perceived parental support and knowledge in shared physical custody and other living arrangements for children	3
Good mental health despite work-family conflict? The within-domain and cross-domain buffering potentials of family and work resources	3
Childcare, work or worries? What explains the decline in parents' well-being at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany?	3
Social risks of family carers in the context of welfare state policies	2
What explains the sex differences in family leisure activities of children? A genetically sensitive analysis with twin data	2
Review article: Parenting leaves, workplace characteristics, male health, and the pandemic: Currents in policy-related fatherhood research in higher income countries	2
Care involvement and power relations. Parenting and gender in contemporary Poland	2
Spouses' division of labor and marital stability: Applying the multiple-equilibrium theory to cohort trends of divorce in East and West Germany	2
The mental load in separated families	2
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Research note: The educational gradient of divorce in the Czech Republic during the late post-socialist transition	2
How socio-cultural factors and opportunity costs shape the transition to a third child	2
Change in maternal well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Did pre-pandemic social support and parenting stress buffer or aggravate mental health disparities among lone and partnered mothers in Germa	2
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Characteristics of parents living apart in Norway: Comparing four residence arrangements	2
Strengths and problems of families in contact with child protective services during the COVID-19 pandemic	2