OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Family Studies is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Women’s domestic multitasking: the phenomenon of feminization of unpaid work in Polish households during the COVID-19 pandemic	36
Parental logic among Russian-speaking two-step migrants	28
High rates of stability in post-separation care arrangements: examining prevalence and predictors in Germany	18
Comparison of parental aspirations, success pathways and strategies in lower and upper-middle class families in Türkiye	16
An integrative review on the reintegration challenges for family members of formerly incarcerated individuals	16
Does routine communication predict marital satisfaction? Between- and within-person effects	16
Navigating father-child relationships in single mother families: an exploratory narrative analysis	15
‘Undoing gender’ or selection effects?: fathers’ uptake of leave and involvement in housework and childcare in South Korea	14
A conceptual model of parenting children with disabilities	14
How parenthood shapes the experiences of disclosure for different generations of sexual minority parents	13
From work-shy degenerates to deserving housewives? Acceptance of welfare for single mothers in Germany	13
Contextualizing the work-family experiences of women in the Nigerian banking industry	12
A qualitative exploration of the parenting experiences of ex-military fathers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)	11
Risk or fun? Adolescent attitude towards sexting and parental practices	11
‘We were actually able to sit down and talk’: Australian parents and practitioners navigating dynamics of power and emotion in Family Dispute Resolution	10
‘It is an endless love that makes you think only of his well-being’ – the experiences and accounts of ‘motherly love’ among Israeli mothers with transgender (trans) children	9
Mothers of young children: adapting to the ideals of joint physical custody in Norway	9
Pre-Separation family relationships and post-separation involvement among nonresident fathers in the United States	9
Best friends forever and family ties: continuity and change in closeness with parents and friends among Australian adolescents	9
‘Are we falling apart?’: manufacturing familyhood through transnationalism	8
Muggle, Juggle, Snuggle, and Struggle: profiles of parenting experiences of mothers and fathers in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
‘She’s Like Family’: transnational Filipino families, voluntary kin and the circulation of care	8
Digital media as a tool for children to stay in touch with non-resident parents in Germany	8
(Grand)childlessness and depression across men and women’s stages of later life	7
Mothering in double crisis: pandemic parenting while homeless	7

Family migration in Chinese superstar cities: are fertility intentions of migrants affected by co-resident parents?	7
Differences in economic consequences of union dissolution across gender and ethnic groups in Belgium and Israel	6
Coping with the absence of parents: growing up in military families in Slovenia	6
Work-family decision-making processes at the transition to parenthood: why aren’t heterosexual couples discussing some of the most important decisions of their lives?	6
Family dynamics and psychological wellbeing of South Asian migrant youth in Australia	6
Do younger siblings get to have all the fun? Time use and birth order in Indian children and adolescents	6
‘If you restrict my screentime, I won’t talk to you for 20 years!’: experiences of navigating children’s digital worlds as a mother in the UK	6
Perceptions of parents of youth with disabilities toward school-based parent engagement	6
Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships: a South African study	6
Discrepancies in parents’ perceptions of adult children’s well-being: evidence from mother–father–child triads	6
The correlates of childrearing marital conflict in Mexico according to urban women parenting preschoolers	5
The role of eldest sisters within Arab American sibling dynamics	5
Judges’ perspectives on changes in the legal minimum age at marriage in Indonesia	5
Latino gay men’s disclosure of sexual identity to their fathers: a systematic review	5
When men become fathers, women become project leaders: Swedish parenting practices over time	5
Global paternity leave in four multinational corporations: a facilitator of paternal agency?	5
Individual, family and neighbourhood factors related to life satisfaction and perceived discrimination among low-income, non-immigrant mothers in seven European countries	4
The cultural and relational dynamics of family care for older immigrants in Australia	4
‘I’m very happy with where she’s at’: a critical analysis of Australian mothers’ constructions of urban children’s local active mobility practices	4
Differences in the evaluation and satisfaction with foster care between kinship and non-kin foster carers	4
The benefits of intergenerational co-residence: reconsidering the effects of women’s education on their housework hours in urban China	4
The loss of a grandchild during pregnancy: an exploration of long-term outcomes for grandparents and their families	4
‘Crazy Dog-Moms’? Gendering relational dynamics, carework, and pet parenting practices in multispecies Canadian homes	4
Book Review of Banerjee, Pallavi. 2022 Book Review of Banerjee, Pallavi. 2022 . The Opportunity Trap: High Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failu	4
‘Will I be lonely when I’m old?’ Childfree women’s alternative narratives of ageing without children in Sweden	4
Taking turns: lesbian couples’ decision of (first) birth mother in Sweden	4
Fathers stepping up? A cross-national comparison of fathers’ domestic labour and parents’ satisfaction with the division of domestic labour during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Redefining parenting among parents of children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities in Poland	4
What is being a father in Portugal? Examining parental representations and their association with father involvement	4
‘I am just so bossy’. Gendered constructions around work–family conflicts, time, and care work – evidence from the Icelandic context	3
Care practices in Finnish families with young children: a capabilities approach	3
Self or children? Navigating intensive mothering ideology and maternal agency for rural-to-urban migrant working mothers in China	3
Has ‘Nordic Turn’ in Japan crystalized?: politics of promoting parental leave take-up among fathers and the divergence from the Nordic system	3
The involution of middle-class tiger moms? An exploration of parental expectations in a Coastal Region of China	3
Accepting social support in single-parent families in Belgium	3
Predictors of father involvement: the influence of the grandfather	3
East Asian Mothers’ attitudes towards their children’s education in England: dialectics of East Asian and English education	3
As sister, as mother: gendered parentification and obligations in large-age-gap sibling families in China	3
Beyond the agentic individual: rethinking agency in transnational collectivist Filipino families	3
Home sweet home? Social mobility and multigenerational coexistence in the European Union	3
Towards a fuller understanding of the healing of childhood parental wounds: an international study of adult children’s forgiveness. ‘No matter how deep the hurt’	3
Frictions between familism and neoliberalism: exploring the intergenerational ambivalence narratives of migrant older parents in China	3
Single by chance or by choice? The social meanings of singlehood and narratives of choice among unpartnered adults in Israel	3
‘No more secrets, it’s over!’: small stories about late adoption disclosure of Chilean adults	3
The flexibility paradox: why flexible working leads to (self-)exploitation	3
The cognitive labour of being a ‘good’ dad: differential logics and comparative referents in how fathers conceptualize, strategize, and experience the mental load	3
Family and social networks among older people in selected European countries	3
‘I don't know if I want to have children at some point’: meanings of parenthood and reproductive decisions	3
Wives’ enduring responsibility? The exercises and outcomes of gender power in urban Chinese families	3