OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of History of the Family is 2. 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
’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
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
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
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
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
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