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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Change and adaptation. Jewish households in Lviv, Worms and Poznan in early modern times	15
Dogs in the picture: restoring the queer history of the Irish family	12
The expatriation act of 1907, marital assimilation, and citizenship-based intermarriage in the U.S.	7
Restrained freedom? Widows, blended families and inheritance in eighteenth-century urban Sri Lanka	7
The gift of life after slavery: close-kin ownership, slavery and manumission in Suriname 1765-1795	6
Familial lives in concordia : gender roles, social dynamics and emotions in Ancient Rome	5
The invisibility of Portuguese stepfamilies: the relationships between stepparents, stepchildren and half-siblings in eighteenth– and nineteenth–century Porto	5
Sharing memory and identity across generations: an interdisciplinary memory conversation and oral history project	5
Mortality, morcellation, and the market: the impact of epidemic disease mortality on land distribution in a seventeenth-century-Holland village	4
Marriages of love and convenience: The French dating market and the revolution of romantic love (19th-20th century)	4
‘Look past the darkness and into the light’: British Chinese caterers’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic ¹	4
Marriage patterns of Irish convict women in nineteenth-century Tasmania	4
Love during China’s Cultural Revolution: evidence from a ‘sent-down’ couple’s private letters 1968–1977	3
Stepfamilies, inheritance, and living arrangements in a rural society of Germany	3
Female family heads in fascist Italy: a study of the 1931 population census	3
Mobile land: modes of transfer – varieties of contexts	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
Early-life conditions, height and mortality of nineteenth-century Dutch vagrant women	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
Introduction to the special issue mothers and fathers in medieval and early modern Europe	2
Transatlantic crossings: travel, family visits and emotions in the early American republic	2
Changing patterns of hierarchy within Swedish stepfamilies in the late 1700s	2
Daughters over sons: could physical labor and social stress have shaped birth patterns of single mothers in 19th-century Poznań?	2

Stability and survival: Creole widowhood in St. Eustatius, 1780s-1820s	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
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
Public unemployment relief and health during the great depression	2
Pensions and household structure: Pennsylvania Railroad retirees in 1900, 1910, and 1920	2
Dynamic interplay of kinship and net-fertility: a comprehensive analysis across demographic transitions in Mexico	2
The ‘pro-life’ generation: generational renewal and historical continuities in the fight against abortion in Belgium (1968–2023)	2
The US baby boom and the 1935 Social Security Act	2
A Re-examination of Birth Control in the First Half of Twentieth Century Japan: Yoshioka Yayoi’s Anti-birth Control Position	2
The Russian peasant family in the twentieth century: a structural-typological and dynamic analysis	2
Assessing epidemic outbreaks in late medieval Catalonia (1348–1530): from communities to family units	2
Uncommon sex ratio at birth during the Second World War: evidence from Poland	2
Assessing the determinants of intragenerational social mobility across occupational trajectories in Southern Europe: Catalonia (1880s-1950s)	2
Equal but not identical. Modes of partible inheritance in early-modern Schlanders (South Tyrol) and medieval Lambach (Upper Austria) compared	2
From pragmatism to passion: changing partner preferences in Dutch matrimonial and contact advertisements, 1841–1995	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
School maturity and the quest for normalcy: how parental complaints shaped expertise and state policies in socialist Hungary and East Germany, 1960s-1980s	2
Wanted: marriage partner! Partner preferences in newspaper contact adverts in the Netherlands, 1900-1955	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
Living together, loving together: pet families in the 21st century	2
Transition to consistent contraceptive practices in Finland: access to abortion and birth control, 1950s–1970s	2
Dangerous liaisons, or strategies for family management in eighteenth-century Venice	2
The necessity of small loans: the borrowing and lending among low-income earners in early 20th century Sweden	2
Models of leaving home: patterns and trends in Sweden, 1830–1959	2
Historical trends in female nuptiality in Italy and analysis of possible underlying reasons	2
Marriage, Financial Constraints, and Morality in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Colonial Jamaica	2
Work, marriage, and childbearing trajectories in Derbyshire, 1881–1911	1
Breaking secular endogamy. The growth of intermarriage among the Gitanos/Calé of Spain (1900–2006)	1
Simulating the evolution of height in the Netherlands in recent history	1
Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas, 1550–1900	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
“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
A large-scale study on the seasonality of marriages (Italy 1810–12)	1
Did migration alter the path of the demographic transition for French Canadians in the United States?	1
The role of migrant networks on economic outcomes during the age of mass migration: Swedish immigrants in the U.S. 1900–1920	1
Plague and hunger. Epidemic-induced pressures on household purchasing power in fourteenth-century Flanders	1
The new rules: housing shortage as an explanation for family and household change across large metro areas in Canada, 1981–2021	1
What about the widows? Widowhood and households in Cape Town 1938/1939	1
‘Missing girls’ in interwar Poland: child sex ratios and their correlates across multiple borderlands	1
The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919	1
Assessing gender discrimination during infancy and childhood using twins: The case of rural Spain, 1750-1950	1
Gendered mortality of children and adolescents in nineteenth-century Denmark. Exploring patterns of sex ratios and mortality rates	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
Household, family, and community responses to the direct costs of epidemics	1
Infant and child sex ratios in late Imperial Russia	1
Racial preferences in dating apps: an experimental approach	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
Genealogy in social media: navigating time and space	1
Were Small-town New Yorkers Life-cycle Savers?	1