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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of parental loss on child survival in nineteenth century rural Estonia	10
Aging women as sexual beings. Expertise between the 1950s and 1970s in state socialist Czechoslovakia	7
Dogs in the picture: restoring the queer history of the Irish family	6
A Re-examination of Birth Control in the First Half of Twentieth Century Japan: Yoshioka Yayoi’s Anti-birth Control Position	5
Absent parents, sick children, and epistolary relationships in England, c.1640-c.1750	4
Pets and the eighteenth-century British family	4
Assessing gender discrimination during infancy and childhood using twins: The case of rural Spain, 1750-1950	3
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	3
Health and lifespan of Swiss men born in an alpine region in 1905–1907	3
Did the grandmother’s exposure to environmental stress during pregnancy affect the birth body size of her grandchildren? The Polish evidence	3
Change and adaptation. Jewish households in Lviv, Worms and Poznan in early modern times	3
Three myths about old age before modernity – and why historians should care	3
‘We treat each other as equal partners’ the understanding of companionate marriage in postwar Poland	3
Models of leaving home: patterns and trends in Sweden, 1830–1959	2
Social homogamy in Spain at the time of modernisation, 1841–70	2
Restrained freedom? Widows, blended families and inheritance in eighteenth-century urban Sri Lanka	2
‘Missing girls’ in historical Europe: reopening the debate	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
Financing marriage in early modern Italy: innovative dowry funds in Florence and Bologna	2
Public unemployment relief and health during the great depression	2
Birth order, sibling size and educational attainment in twentieth century Spain	2
‘The many lessons which the care of some gentle, loveable animal would give’: animals, pets, and emotions in children’s welfare institutions, 1870–1920	2
Influence of parental death on child mortality and the phenomenon of the stepfamily in western Bohemia in 1708–1834	2
The necessity of small loans: the borrowing and lending among low-income earners in early 20th century Sweden	2
The US baby boom and the 1935 Social Security Act	2

Financing transfers: buying, exchanging and inheriting properties in early modern southern Tyrol	2
Family and labour in an Angolan cash-crop economy, 1910	2
Changing patterns of hierarchy within Swedish stepfamilies in the late 1700s	2
Genealogy in social media: navigating time and space	2
Indirect pathways of multigenerational persistence: the role of uncles and assortative mating in the Netherlands, 1857-1922	2
Correction	2
The expatriation act of 1907, marital assimilation, and citizenship-based intermarriage in the U.S.	2
Why did the civil code of Meiji Japan provide the same surname for couples? Westernization, de-Chineseization, and the construction of a national state	2
Inequalities in North American fertility since 1921	2
Uncommon sex ratio at birth during the Second World War: evidence from Poland	2
Saving the best for last? Old age retirement among the Urban middle classes in Leiden and Regensburg (c. 1650- c. 1800)	2
Standing on the shoulders of giants. Paternal life course effects on son’s heights outcomes in the Netherlands 1820-1960	2
Family history and memory in photo albums of Latvian women after World War II	2
Marriage, land and law. Signing a marriage contract in Normandy and Ile-de-France, at the time of the Napoleonic Code	2
The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919	2
Wanted: marriage partner! Partner preferences in newspaper contact adverts in the Netherlands, 1900-1955	2
‘From the cradle to the grave I am my father’s daughter!’ Women and their married names in Transylvania in the second half of 19^th century	2
Gendered survival differentials of adopted children in northeast Japan, 1716–1870	2
Years of plenty, years of want? An introduction to finance and the family life cycle	2
Height, occupation, and intergenerational mobility: an instrumental variable analysis of Dutch men, birth years 1850-1900	1
What about the widows? Widowhood and households in Cape Town 1938/1939	1
Transgenerational effects of early-life experiences on descendants’ height and life span. An explorative study using Texel Island (Netherlands) genealogies, 18^th-21^stcenturies	1
Zadruga on trial – the 19 ^th century Serbian joint family household between protection of collective possession and affirmation of private propert	1
RIFNET. A new agenda for the Irish family: messy realities & messier lives	1
Simulating the evolution of height in the Netherlands in recent history	1
The Irish family, marital breakdown and the Josie Airey case, c . 1974-1981	1
The invisibility of Portuguese stepfamilies: the relationships between stepparents, stepchildren and half-siblings in eighteenth– and nineteenth–century Porto	1
Rebuilding life after slavery. Manumission, emancipation, and family networks in European empires, 1750–1900	1
Tables and families. Value, emotions and aesthetics of conviviality in two culinary manuscripts of the Mexican elites of the 19th century	1
Plague and hunger. Epidemic-induced pressures on household purchasing power in fourteenth-century Flanders	1
Stepmothers and stepdaughters in early modern Florence	1
Love during China’s Cultural Revolution: evidence from a ‘sent-down’ couple’s private letters 1968–1977	1
‘Glad to the heart to see any of my brothers’: exploring Irish family life through sibling relationships	1
Dangerous liaisons, or strategies for family management in eighteenth-century Venice	1
Unemployment, divorce, and longevity: the major factors of the fertility upward evolution in Tunisia, during 1998-2018: a dynamic panel data analysis	1
Infant and child sex ratios in late Imperial Russia	1
A question of equity? The ‘value’ of male and female virginity in late 18^th and early 19^th century Athens	1
The gift of life after slavery: close-kin ownership, slavery and manumission in Suriname 1765-1795	1
Were Small-town New Yorkers Life-cycle Savers?	1
The new rules: housing shortage as an explanation for family and household change across large metro areas in Canada, 1981–2021	1
An emotional biography of spousal abandonment: crisis and identities among women admitted to the Casa de Misericordia in Barcelona (eighteenth century)	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
Land transactions within rural society in the Middle Rhine Valley (ca. 1400–1535)	1
Transition to consistent contraceptive practices in Finland – access to abortion and birth control, 1950s–1970s	1
Childhood growth and socioeconomic outcomes in early adulthood evidence from the inter-war United States	1
The long-term consequences of parental death in childhood on mortality and the role of socioeconomic status: evidence from Sweden at the turn of the 20th century	1
Gendered mortality of children and adolescents in nineteenth-century Denmark. Exploring patterns of sex ratios and mortality rates	1
School maturity and the quest for normalcy: how parental complaints shaped expertise and state policies in socialist Hungary and East Germany, 1960s-1980s	1
Introduction to the special issue mothers and fathers in medieval and early modern Europe	1
The Wolf , the island and the sea: truancy and escaping slavery in Curacao (1837–1863)	1

The Tibetan stem family in historical perspective	1
“Actions speak louder than words: constance of France and motherhood in 12th-century Norman Italy”	1
Black residents of Windsor, Ontario during the U.S. Civil War: family histories answer questions left open by the 1860, 1861, 1864, 1870, and 1871 censuses	1
Who attends the wedding? Parents and witnesses of suburban brides and grooms (1880-1912)	1
A doctor for the crown princess: child mortality and women’s political agency at the Danish court, 1784–1797	1