OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Marriage and Family is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Issue Information	38
Support matters: How formal and informal institutions shape young Indians' work‐family preferences	37
Unplanned costs and benefits: Gender and spousal spillover effects of retirement on health	37
Early‐life disadvantage and parent‐to‐child financial transfers	32
Between‐firm sorting and parenthood wage gaps in the US service sector	31
Converging mothers' employment trajectories between East and West Germany? A focus on the 2008‐childcare‐reform	27
Paternal incarceration and children's reading achievement: The role of maternal caregiving quality	26
Resettlement and Relational Adjustment: Gender and Liberian Couple Relationships After Forced Migration	25
Getting married in a highly individualized context: Commitment and gender equality matter	25
The asymmetric effects of improving and declining marital satisfaction on cognitive function	24
Work as overload or enhancement for family caregivers of older adults: Assessment of experienced well‐being over the day	23
Paternity leave‐taking and early childhood development: A longitudinal analysis in Singapore	22
Relationship quality in midlife: A comparison of dating, living apart together, cohabitation, and marriage	22
Differences by sexual orientation in romantic relationship attitudes and skills among adolescents	21
Parents' childbearing motivations, parenting, and child adjustment: From pregnancy to20‐monthspostpartum	21
Parenthood and Subjective Financial Well‐Being: Reconsidering the Economic Consequences of Parenthood	21
Attitudes toward same‐sex couple parents: A decade of change	19
Privileged dependence, precarious autonomy: Parent/young adult relationships through the lens of COVID‐19	19
Parenting stress in lockdown: The role of changes in Children's routines and Parents' relationship with live‐in grandparents	19
Familism among Latino/a adolescents: Evidence from time‐use data	17
How Do Employers View Applicants With and Without Children?	17
The impact of narratives of the future on fertility intentions in Norway	16
How Does Taking Parental Leave Affect the Wages of Highly Educated Parents?	16
What is your type? Latent classes of newly married couples' gender ideologies	15

Tracking types of non‐parents in the United States	15
Trans family systems framework: Theorizing families' gender investments and divestments in cisnormativity	14
Introduction to mid‐decade Special Issue on Theory and Methods	14
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Intergenerational associations of maternal depression with daughters' family formation	13
Maternal differential treatment and adult children's well‐being when mothers have cognitive impairment	13
Gender differences in the economic consequences of life‐long singlehood among older white U.S. adults	13
“You're biracial but…”: Multiracial socialization discourse among mommy bloggers with Black and non‐Black multiracial children	13
Family and religion in flux: Relationship complexity, type of religiosity, and race/ethnicity	13
Parenting stress and attachment insecurity in young adulthood: A social relations model	12
Adult children's responsiveness to parental needs during the pandemic	12
A Typology of Younger Adults' Nuclear and Extended Family Relations in the United States	12
Issue Information	12
A longitudinal dyadic analysis of gender ideology during the transition into parenthood	12
Leveraging protections, navigating punishments: How adult children of undocumented immigrants mediate illegality in Latinx families	11
Gone too long or back too soon? Perceptions of paid parental leave‐taking and variations by gender and family structure	11
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Telecommuting and gender inequalities in parents' paid and unpaid work before and during theCOVID‐19 pandemic	11
How gender shapes sibling tension in adulthood following parental death	11
Occupational autonomy, paid maternity leave, and mothers' return to work after childbirth	11
Does perceived gender conflict shape young Koreans' attitudes toward marriage and childbearing?	10
Issue Information	10
Keeping us young? Grandchild caregiving and older adults' cognitive functioning	10
Theorizing White heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality	10
Associations between parental precarious work schedules and child behavior problems among low‐income families	10
I am home. The circle is complete: The reunification of fostered/adopted relatives	10
Intergenerational and digital solidarity: Associations with depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic	10
State minimum wage increases delay marriage and reduce divorce among low‐wage households	10
Grandparents' and domestic helpers' childcare support: Implications for well‐being in Asian families	10
Lingering shadows of childhood corporal punishment: Family trajectories across decades	9
Negotiating good motherhood: Foodwork, emotion work, and downscaling	9
Family socioeconomic status and children's screen time	9
Sexual passion in couple relationships: Emerging patterns from dyadic response surface analysis	9
Black–White disparities in nuclear family trajectories and parents' postsecondary transfers to adult children	9
“If I got it, she got it”: Black mothers' food provision and symbiotic mothering	9
Adultification in the context of childhood exposure to domestic violence	9
Emerging digital inequality in early life: Parenting and differential usage of digital devices among urban preschoolers in China	9
Educational experiences and American young adults' childbearing goals: A research note	9
Effects of welfare reform on maternal engagement and involvement with young adolescents	9
Mealtime emotion work: Gendered politics of care and power at the table	9
Interparental conflict and mindful parenting practices: Transactional effects between mothers and fathers	8
Child support debt and the well‐being of disadvantaged fathers of color	8
Intimate Partner Violence: A Dyadic Examination of Self‐Differentiation and Responsive Caregiving	8
The emotional management of motherhood: Foodwork, maternal guilt, and emotion work	8
Burdens of the what‐if: Vicarious anti‐Black racism and stress for Black mothers	8
Issue Information	8
Race and ethnic differences in step‐ versus biological parent support to adult children	8
Latent change modeling of Latino parent–child conflict and pathways to mental health	8
My relatives are waiting: Barriers to tribal enrollment of fostered/adopted American Indians	8
“Normal” childhood in the lives of financially struggling white daughters and mothers	7

Does income moderate basic relationship processes?	7
Converging trends in developmental child care time by fathers' education? Comment on Cha and Park (2021)	7
Frontline love: Romantic partners of frontline doctors and nurses during the New York City COVID‐19 outbreak	7
Effects of extended paternity leave on family dynamics	7
Assessing the deinstitutionalization of marriage thesis: Changes in the meaning of cohabitation over the relationship life course	7
Stepfamily formation and the educational outcomes of children in Sweden	7
Mothering in the streets: Familial adaptation strategies of street‐identified Black American mothers	7
Early Maternal Parenting Profiles and Subsequent Child Well‐Being in an Asian Cohort	7
Gender inequality in intergenerational contact after parental separation in the digital era	7
Stability and relevance of marriage desires: Importance of age norms and partnering opportunities	7
Stigma arising from youth police contact: The protective role ofmother–youthcloseness	7
Other adults in the United States: Improving survey measures of youths' non‐parental adult relationships	7
Young‐age exposure to armed conflict and women's experiences of intimate partner violence	7
Desired fertility and educational aspirations: Adolescent goals in rapidly changing social contexts	7
Parent–teen dyadic experiences of racism: Implications for Black familial racial socialization	7
The longitudinal associations between personality traits and psychological intimate partner violence	7
Parental Gender and Adult Attachment Style in the Transition to Parenthood: Implications for Parent–Infant Interaction, Parenting Stress, and Parental Leave Practices	6
“I don't try to seek him out”: Views of child support over time	6
Two sides of a coin: The relationship between work autonomy and childbearing	6
Temporary Aid for Needy Families as family policy for first time mothers	6
Indian Wives of Incarcerated Men Tell Their Own Stories: An Intersectional Narrative Analysis of Disenfranchisement and Resilience	6
Cash‐for‐Care and the Cost of Parenthood: Evidence From Same‐Sex and Adoptive Parents	6
A Brief Report Comparing Younger and Older Cohabitors	6
Qualitative family research: Innovative, flexible, theoretical, reflexive	6
Correction to “Parent–child contact, closeness, and conflict across the transition to adulthood”	6
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The rising midlife first marriage rate in the U.S.	6
Issue Information	6
Mate preferences and marriage‐related behaviors: The case of Japan	6
Forgotten Family Relationships: How Incarcerated Brothers Experience Sibling Support	6
The Changing Links Between Socioeconomic Status and Single Women's Entry Into Parenthood	6
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An increasing disinterest in fatherhood among childless men in the United States: A brief report	6