OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Dogs in the picture: restoring the queer history of the Irish family	19
The expatriation act of 1907, marital assimilation, and citizenship-based intermarriage in the U.S.	8
The gift of life after slavery: close-kin ownership, slavery and manumission in Suriname 1765-1795	7
Reproductive responses to revolution and repression in Finland, 1917–1919	7
The invisibility of Portuguese stepfamilies: the relationships between stepparents, stepchildren and half-siblings in eighteenth– and nineteenth–century Porto	6
Familial lives in concordia : gender roles, social dynamics and emotions in Ancient Rome	6
Sharing memory and identity across generations: an interdisciplinary memory conversation and oral history project	6
Marriages of love and convenience: The French dating market and the revolution of romantic love (19th-20th century)	5
‘Look past the darkness and into the light’: British Chinese caterers’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic ¹	5
Editorial	5
Mortality, morcellation, and the market: the impact of epidemic disease mortality on land distribution in a seventeenth-century-Holland village	5
Centralized power, decentralized ambitions: the reconfiguration of local power during the transition from Goryeo to Joseon Korea	4
Living together, loving together: pet families in the 21st century	4
Tracing the missing pieces of the puzzle: how individual cause-of-death data can break through unresolved debates on historical and contemporary health issues	4
Children as pawns on the national Chess board: children in Israel’s 1948 war of Independence	4
’Whither do you now wish to go?’: slavery, flight and longing in and around Manado (Indonesia) in the age of abolition	4
Black boxes in nominal record linkage with historical sources	4
Wanted: marriage partner! Partner preferences in newspaper contact adverts in the Netherlands, 1900-1955	3
Settlement and the intergenerational dispersion of kin as a spatial process in the nineteenth century US	3
Transatlantic crossings: travel, family visits and emotions in the early American republic	3
Kin networks of local officials in 19th and Early 20th century China	3
The US baby boom and the 1935 Social Security Act	3
The ‘pro-life’ generation: generational renewal and historical continuities in the fight against abortion in Belgium (1968–2023)	3
The quest for a partner in the past and today: exploring trends and drivers in partner preferences and selection through new sources and approaches	3
Introduction to the special issue mothers and fathers in medieval and early modern Europe	3

School maturity and the quest for normalcy: how parental complaints shaped expertise and state policies in socialist Hungary and East Germany, 1960s-1980s	3
Adolescent growth and convict transportation to nineteenth-century Australia	3
Stability and survival: Creole widowhood in St. Eustatius, 1780s-1820s	3
Transition to consistent contraceptive practices in Finland: access to abortion and birth control, 1950s–1970s	3
An approach to historical demography and family history through a life course	3
Assessing the determinants of intragenerational social mobility across occupational trajectories in Southern Europe: Catalonia (1880s-1950s)	2
Marriage, Financial Constraints, and Morality in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Colonial Jamaica	2
Simulating the evolution of height in the Netherlands in recent history	2
Standing on the shoulders of giants. Paternal life course effects on son’s heights outcomes in the Netherlands 1820-1960	2
Models of leaving home: patterns and trends in Sweden, 1830–1959	2
Unveiling alternative quantitative narratives of gender and employment in Southern Europe from 19th- and 20th-Century photographs: from pixels to socioeconomic insights using computer vision technique	2
Daughters over sons: could physical labor and social stress have shaped birth patterns of single mothers in 19th-century Poznań?	2
Widowhood and female agency in the Dutch-colonial Indian Ocean World. Rethinking social networks through local women’s lives (1750–1800)	2
The metamorphoses of illegitimacy in São Jorge Island (Azores, Portugal) 1600–1910	2
Infant and child sex ratios in late Imperial Russia	2
Dangerous liaisons, or strategies for family management in eighteenth-century Venice	2
Uncommon sex ratio at birth during the Second World War: evidence from Poland	2
Pensions and household structure: Pennsylvania Railroad retirees in 1900, 1910, and 1920	2
From pragmatism to passion: changing partner preferences in Dutch matrimonial and contact advertisements, 1841–1995	2
Silence in turns: traces of discrimination in different generations of Turkish migrant families in Hamburg (1961–2021)	2
Assessing epidemic outbreaks in late medieval Catalonia (1348–1530): from communities to family units	2
Public unemployment relief and health during the great depression	2
The new rules: housing shortage as an explanation for family and household change across large metro areas in Canada, 1981–2021	2
Household, family, and community responses to the direct costs of epidemics	2
Youth Defence, young people and anti-abortion activism in Ireland, c. 1992–97	2
Historical trends in female nuptiality in Italy and analysis of possible underlying reasons	2
Dynamic interplay of kinship and net-fertility: a comprehensive analysis across demographic transitions in Mexico	2
The Russian peasant family in the twentieth century: a structural-typological and dynamic analysis	2
Racial preferences in dating apps: an experimental approach	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
Stress and survival: analysing child mortality among elite families in Bohemia 1816–1920	1
Globalization and the impact of the late 19th-century agrarian crisis on well-being: anthropometric evidence from rural Catalonia	1
Rural matriarchs: hypogamy, kinship networks and female agency in 19th-century Frisia	1
Households and communities: evolution in Homo sapiens	1
New women willing to be concubines? Extramarital cohabitation, family politics, and state in modern China	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
Gendered mortality of children and adolescents in nineteenth-century Denmark. Exploring patterns of sex ratios and mortality rates	1
An emotional biography of spousal abandonment: crisis and identities among women admitted to the Casa de Misericordia in Barcelona (eighteenth century)	1
Faster extraction of matrimonial advertisements from digital archives using a signal processing pipeline: a case study on a 20th-Century Spanish newspaper	1
Causes, connections, and continuous measures: where we are going in family history	1
Plague and hunger. Epidemic-induced pressures on household purchasing power in fourteenth-century Flanders	1
‘Came to her dressed in mans cloaths’: transgender histories and queer approaches to the family in eighteenth-century Ireland	1
Genealogy in social media: navigating time and space	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
“Actions speak louder than words: constance of France and motherhood in 12th-century Norman Italy”	1
Correction	1
Trends in assortative mating in the United States, 1700–1910. Evidence from FamiLinx data	1
Varieties of egalitarianism: gender ideologies in the late socialism of the German Democratic Republic	1
‘I praie ye send for the courall’: children’s coral as the physical embodiment of parental hopes and fears in early modern England	1
What hypotheses can research on son preference in Asia offer for European historical demographic research?	1

Rebuilding life after slavery. Manumission, emancipation, and family networks in European empires, 1750–1900	1
Moving targets in historical family demography. Reflections on a personal research agenda	1
Revisiting violence, slavery and domestic authority in the Dutch empire	1
The role of migrant networks on economic outcomes during the age of mass migration: Swedish immigrants in the U.S. 1900–1920	1
Breaking secular endogamy. The growth of intermarriage among the Gitanos/Calé of Spain (1900–2006)	1
Conspiracy or care? Excess mortality and institutionalised children in the Netherlands, 1860s–1960s	1
Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas, 1550–1900	1
Locked-in: the early modern family as an institutional solution	1
Correction	1
Did migration alter the path of the demographic transition for French Canadians in the United States?	1
Personal advertising and dating culture in World War II Finland	1
Nutritional status and adult mortality in a mid-20^th century Gambian population: do different types of physical ‘capital’ have different associations with mortality?	1
Weaponizing the law: Acción Familiar and ‘pro-life’ strategic litigation in Spain (1985–1990)	1
The anti-abortion movement, Catholic Church, and communist state: Poland in the 1970s and 1980s	1
A large-scale study on the seasonality of marriages (Italy 1810–12)	1
Imperial surveillance of marital distress: the Tute divorce case and the British Raj	1
Fixed vows, fluid times: partner selection in rural Estonia, 1834‒1917	1
Everyday life, child rearing, and fatherhood in Ottoman middle class families at the turn of the 20th century	1
Work, marriage, and childbearing trajectories in Derbyshire, 1881–1911	1
What about the widows? Widowhood and households in Cape Town 1938/1939	1