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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The virus changed everything, didn’t it? Couples’ division of housework and childcare before and during the Corona crisis	76
Who suffered most? Parental stress and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	39
Examining transnational care circulation trajectories within immobilizing regimes of migration: Implications for proximate care	29
Introduction to the Special Issue “Transnational care: Families confronting borders”	27
Family lives on hold: Bureaucratic bordering in male refugees’ struggle for transnational care	24
Perceived consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and childbearing intentions in Poland	24
Gendered integration? How recently arrived male and female refugees fare on the German labour market	21
Childcare and housework during the first lockdown in Austria: Traditional division or new roles?	21
Migrant-native differentials in the uptake of (in)formal childcare in Belgium: The role of mothers’ employment opportunities and care availability	17
Work-to-family conflict, family-to-work conflict and their relation to perceived parenting and the parent-child relationship before and during the first Covid-19 lockdown	16
Transitions to parenthood, flexible working and time-based work-to-family conflicts: A gendered life course and organisational change perspective	15
Children’s well-being and intra-household family relationships during the first COVID-19 lockdown in France	15
The relation between joint physical custody, interparental conflict, and children's mental health	14
Gender-specific patterns and determinants of spillover between work and family: The role of partner support in dual-earner couples	14
A regimes-of-mobility-and-welfare approach: The impact of migration and welfare policies on transnational social support networks of older migrants in Australia	14
Forced migrant families' assemblages of care and social protection between solidarity and inequality	13
Uncertainty in fertility intentions from a life course perspective: Which life course markers matter?	12
Childcare, work or worries? What explains the decline in parents' well-being at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany?	12
Resources of families adapting the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: A mixed-method study of coping strategies and family and child outcomes	12
Trait-specific testing of the equal environment assumption: The case of school grades and upper secondary school attendance	12
The family side of work-family conflict: A literature review of antecedents and consequences	11
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	11
The COVID-19 pandemic and changes in the level of contact between older parents and their non-coresident children: A European study	10
From "guest workers" to EU migrants: A gendered view on the labour market integration of different arrival cohorts in Germany	10
Workin' moms ain't doing so bad: Evidence on the gender gap in working hours at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic	10

Marriage migration and women's entry into the German labour market	9
What will the coronavirus do to our kids? Parents in Austria dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on their children	9
For better or worse: How more flexibility in working time arrangements and parental leave experiences affect fathers' working and childcare hours in Germany	9
The double penalty: How female migrants manage family responsibilities in the Spanish dual labour market	8
Managing uncertainty: Lone parents' time horizons and agency in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
The division of child care during the coronavirus crisis in Germany: How did short-time work affect fathers' engagement?	7
Changing mobility regimes and care: Central American women confronting processes of entrapment in southern Mexico	7
Female employment and migration in European countries: Introduction to the Special Issue	7
Changing roles of religiosity and patriarchy in women's employment in different religions in Europe between 2004 and 2016	7
Network explanations of the gender gap in migrants’ employment patterns: Use of online and offline networks in the Netherlands	6
Social isolation as a consequence of transitions in partner relationships: How formations and endings of partner relationships affect the risk of social disconnectedness	6
Good mental health despite work-family conflict? The within-domain and cross-domain buffering potentials of family and work resources	6
The labor market participation of recently-arrived immigrant women in Germany	6
Employed parents' reactions to work-family conflicts: Adaptive strategies of scaling back in Germany	6
Work-family conflict and partners' agreement on fertility preferences among dual-earner couples: Does women's employment status matter?	6
Flexible working for all? How collective constructions by Austrian employers and employees perpetuate gendered inequalities	6
Attitudes towards sharing housework in couple context: An empirical, factorial survey approach	6
Gendered occupational aspirations among German youth: Role of parental occupations, gender division of labour, and family structure	5
Intergenerational care in corona times: Practices of care in Swedish families during the pandemic	5
First-time motherhood and intergenerational solidarities during COVID-19	5
Exploring COVID-19 lockdowns as unexpected paternity leave: One shock, diverse gender ideologies	5
Family lives during the COVID-19 pandemic in European Societies: Introduction to the Special Issue	4
Work-family conflict from the perspective of the family: Introduction to the Special Issue	4
Parental leave vs. competition for clients: Motherhood penalty in competitive work environments	4
When parents wish to reduce their work hours: Does sorting into occupations and work organizations explain gender differences in working-time adjustments?	4
Polish migrant fathers using parental leave in Norway	4
Kinship, inter- and intraethnic social networks and refugees' division of housework	4
Linking ages – un/doing age and family in the Covid-19 pandemic	4
A meta-analytic investigation of the relationships between different dimensions of family strengths and personal and family well-being	4
Parents' experiences of work-family conflict: Does it matter if coworkers have children?	4
The intergenerational transmission of loneliness between parents and their adult children	3
Migration and intergenerational stability in female employment: The impact of differences between sending and receiving countries	3
Job insecurity and child well-being in single-parent families in Europe: A matter of family and gender policy	3
Work-to-family conflict and parenting practices: Examining the role of working from home among lone and partnered working mothers	3
Social inequalities and the wellbeing of family caregivers across European care regimes	3
Parental repartnering and child well-being: What role does coresidence play?	3
Youth living arrangements and household employment deprivation: Evidence from Spain	3
Social risks of family carers in the context of welfare state policies	3
People with memory illnesses and their spouses as actors in the hybrid care model	3
You will take care of me when I am old: Norms on children’s caregiver obligations - An analysis with data from the European Values Study	3
Families facing the Italian lockdown: Temporal adjustments and new caring practices in shared physical custody arrangements	3
Envisaging post-Brexit immobility: Polish migrants’ care intentions concerning their elderly parents	3
Regretting fatherhood in Spain	2
Can fathers' leave take-up dismantle gendered parental responsibilities? Evidence from Finland	2
The mental load in separated families	2
The shadow fathers: Barriers to whole family approach in social work?	2
Family-provided long-term care and its coverage in European pension systems	2
Individualization and contemporary fatherhood	2
Labour markets, families and public policies shaping gender relations and parenting: Introduction to the Special Issue	2
Working longer with working-time flexibility: Only when job commitment is high and family commitment is low?	2

Parental relationship quality and children's behavioural problems: Childcare quality as a protective factor?	2
Has Covid-19 increased gender inequalities in professional advancement? Cross-country evidence on productivity differences between male and female software developers	2
Characteristics of parents living apart in Norway: Comparing four residence arrangements	2
Is Spanish parental leave 'traditionalising' the gender distribution of childcare and housework?	2
A challenging responsibility - care for older parents in Turkish immigrant families	2