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Papers

(The median citation count of History of the Family is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Change and adaptation. Jewish households in Lviv, Worms and Poznan in early modern times	14
Dogs in the picture: restoring the queer history of the Irish family	8
Restrained freedom? Widows, blended families and inheritance in eighteenth-century urban Sri Lanka	7
The expatriation act of 1907, marital assimilation, and citizenship-based intermarriage in the U.S.	6
The invisibility of Portuguese stepfamilies: the relationships between stepparents, stepchildren and half-siblings in eighteenth– and nineteenth–century Porto	5
The gift of life after slavery: close-kin ownership, slavery and manumission in Suriname 1765-1795	5
‘Look past the darkness and into the light’: British Chinese caterers’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic ¹	5
Marriage patterns of Irish convict women in nineteenth-century Tasmania	4
Mortality, morcellation, and the market: the impact of epidemic disease mortality on land distribution in a seventeenth-century-Holland village	4
Mobile land: modes of transfer – varieties of contexts	3
Early-life conditions, height and mortality of nineteenth-century Dutch vagrant women	3
Stepfamilies, inheritance, and living arrangements in a rural society of Germany	3
Living together, loving together: pet families in the 21st century	3
Marriages of love and convenience: The French dating market and the revolution of romantic love (19th-20th century)	3
’Whither do you now wish to go?’: slavery, flight and longing in and around Manado (Indonesia) in the age of abolition	3
Adolescent growth and convict transportation to nineteenth-century Australia	3
Female family heads in fascist Italy: a study of the 1931 population census	3
Love during China’s Cultural Revolution: evidence from a ‘sent-down’ couple’s private letters 1968–1977	3
Centralized power, decentralized ambitions: the reconfiguration of local power during the transition from Goryeo to Joseon Korea	3
Children as pawns on the national Chess board: children in Israel’s 1948 war of Independence	3
Changing patterns of hierarchy within Swedish stepfamilies in the late 1700s	2
Assessing epidemic outbreaks in late medieval Catalonia (1348–1530): from communities to family units	2
‘An astonishing human failure’. The influence of gender on the image of perpetrators of infanticide in the courtroom and crime reporting in the Netherlands, 1960-1989	2
From pragmatism to passion: changing partner preferences in Dutch matrimonial and contact advertisements, 1841–1995	2
Saving the best for last? Old age retirement among the Urban middle classes in Leiden and Regensburg (c. 1650- c. 1800)	2

Models of leaving home: patterns and trends in Sweden, 1830–1959	2
Equal but not identical. Modes of partible inheritance in early-modern Schlanders (South Tyrol) and medieval Lambach (Upper Austria) compared	2
Dynamic interplay of kinship and net-fertility: a comprehensive analysis across demographic transitions in Mexico	2
Transgenerational effects of early-life experiences on descendants’ height and life span. An explorative study using Texel Island (Netherlands) genealogies, 18^th-21^stcenturies	2
The quest for a partner in the past and today: exploring trends and drivers in partner preferences and selection through new sources and approaches	2
A Re-examination of Birth Control in the First Half of Twentieth Century Japan: Yoshioka Yayoi’s Anti-birth Control Position	2
Daughters over sons: could physical labor and social stress have shaped birth patterns of single mothers in 19th-century Poznań?	2
Infant and child sex ratios in late Imperial Russia	2
Uncommon sex ratio at birth during the Second World War: evidence from Poland	2
Public unemployment relief and health during the great depression	2
Historical trends in female nuptiality in Italy and analysis of possible underlying reasons	2
Transition to consistent contraceptive practices in Finland: access to abortion and birth control, 1950s–1970s	2
The US baby boom and the 1935 Social Security Act	2
Wanted: marriage partner! Partner preferences in newspaper contact adverts in the Netherlands, 1900-1955	2
School maturity and the quest for normalcy: how parental complaints shaped expertise and state policies in socialist Hungary and East Germany, 1960s-1980s	2
Pensions and household structure: Pennsylvania Railroad retirees in 1900, 1910, and 1920	2
The new rules: housing shortage as an explanation for family and household change across large metro areas in Canada, 1981–2021	2
The necessity of small loans: the borrowing and lending among low-income earners in early 20th century Sweden	2
Marriage, Financial Constraints, and Morality in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Colonial Jamaica	2
Standing on the shoulders of giants. Paternal life course effects on son’s heights outcomes in the Netherlands 1820-1960	2
The Russian peasant family in the twentieth century: a structural-typological and dynamic analysis	2
Introduction to the special issue mothers and fathers in medieval and early modern Europe	2
Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas, 1550–1900	1
The role of migrant networks on economic outcomes during the age of mass migration: Swedish immigrants in the U.S. 1900–1920	1
Household, family, and community responses to the direct costs of epidemics	1
Dangerous liaisons, or strategies for family management in eighteenth-century Venice	1
Gendered mortality of children and adolescents in nineteenth-century Denmark. Exploring patterns of sex ratios and mortality rates	1
“Actions speak louder than words: constance of France and motherhood in 12th-century Norman Italy”	1
Were Small-town New Yorkers Life-cycle Savers?	1
Social homogamy in Spain at the time of modernisation, 1841–70	1
“Amour à vendre” in Paris: an empirical analysis of the relationship between grain price and sex work in the first half of the nineteenth century	1
‘Missing girls’ in interwar Poland: child sex ratios and their correlates across multiple borderlands	1
Racial preferences in dating apps: an experimental approach	1
Plague and hunger. Epidemic-induced pressures on household purchasing power in fourteenth-century Flanders	1
What about the widows? Widowhood and households in Cape Town 1938/1939	1
Breaking secular endogamy. The growth of intermarriage among the Gitanos/Calé of Spain (1900–2006)	1
Assessing gender discrimination during infancy and childhood using twins: The case of rural Spain, 1750-1950	1
An emotional biography of spousal abandonment: crisis and identities among women admitted to the Casa de Misericordia in Barcelona (eighteenth century)	1
A large-scale study on the seasonality of marriages (Italy 1810–12)	1
Genealogy in social media: navigating time and space	1
Why did the civil code of Meiji Japan provide the same surname for couples? Westernization, de-Chineseization, and the construction of a national state	1
Did migration alter the path of the demographic transition for French Canadians in the United States?	1
Faster extraction of matrimonial advertisements from digital archives using a signal processing pipeline: a case study on a 20th-Century Spanish newspaper	1
‘Came to her dressed in mans cloaths’: transgender histories and queer approaches to the family in eighteenth-century Ireland	1
Simulating the evolution of height in the Netherlands in recent history	1
Correction	1
The influence of emancipation reforms on the Polish rural family in western provinces of the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century	1
Rebuilding life after slavery. Manumission, emancipation, and family networks in European empires, 1750–1900	1
The victims of the last great Bubonic plague epidemic in Ottoman Anatolia: dynamics of mortality by age and gender during the plague epidemic of Kastamonu (1836–1839)	1
The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919	1

Increasing mixed marriages without assimilation: a consequence of historical ethnic emigration in Romania