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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

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
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
Familial lives in concordia : gender roles, social dynamics and emotions in Ancient Rome	5
Early-life conditions, height and mortality of nineteenth-century Dutch vagrant women	4
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
Centralized power, decentralized ambitions: the reconfiguration of local power during the transition from Goryeo to Joseon Korea	3
Adolescent growth and convict transportation to nineteenth-century Australia	3
’Whither do you now wish to go?’: slavery, flight and longing in and around Manado (Indonesia) in the age of abolition	3
Female family heads in fascist Italy: a study of the 1931 population census	3
Children as pawns on the national Chess board: children in Israel’s 1948 war of Independence	3
Mobile land: modes of transfer – varieties of contexts	3
Stepfamilies, inheritance, and living arrangements in a rural society of Germany	3
Living together, loving together: pet families in the 21st century	3
The necessity of small loans: the borrowing and lending among low-income earners in early 20th century Sweden	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
School maturity and the quest for normalcy: how parental complaints shaped expertise and state policies in socialist Hungary and East Germany, 1960s-1980s	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
Dynamic interplay of kinship and net-fertility: a comprehensive analysis across demographic transitions in Mexico	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
Public unemployment relief and health during the great depression	2
Pensions and household structure: Pennsylvania Railroad retirees in 1900, 1910, and 1920	2
Introduction to the special issue mothers and fathers in medieval and early modern Europe	2
Stability and survival: Creole widowhood in St. Eustatius, 1780s-1820s	2
Wanted: marriage partner! Partner preferences in newspaper contact adverts in the Netherlands, 1900-1955	2
The US baby boom and the 1935 Social Security Act	2
From pragmatism to passion: changing partner preferences in Dutch matrimonial and contact advertisements, 1841–1995	2
Uncommon sex ratio at birth during the Second World War: evidence from Poland	2
Standing on the shoulders of giants. Paternal life course effects on son’s heights outcomes in the Netherlands 1820-1960	2
Equal but not identical. Modes of partible inheritance in early-modern Schlanders (South Tyrol) and medieval Lambach (Upper Austria) compared	2
Marriage, Financial Constraints, and Morality in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Colonial Jamaica	2
Daughters over sons: could physical labor and social stress have shaped birth patterns of single mothers in 19th-century Poznań?	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
Changing patterns of hierarchy within Swedish stepfamilies in the late 1700s	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
Dangerous liaisons, or strategies for family management in eighteenth-century Venice	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