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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Family Theory & Review 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Convoy Model and Later‐Life Family Relationships	58
Processing Proximal Processes: What Bronfenbrenner Meant, What He Didn't Mean, and What He Should Have Meant	54
Multigenerational social support in the face of the COVID‐19 pandemic	54
Father Involvement During Early Childhood: A Systematic Review of the Literature	49
Sibling Relationships in Adulthood: Research Findings and New Frontiers	32
The Gender‐as‐Relational Approach for Theorizing About Romantic Relationships of Sexual and Gender Minority Mid‐ to Later‐Life Adults	31
Interlinking structural racism and heteropatriarchy: Rethinking family structure's effects on child outcomes in a racialized, unequal society	28
A scoping review of research on well‐being across diverse family structures: Rethinking approaches for understanding contemporary families	27
Relational Dialectics Theory	24
Measurement of Parental Autonomy Support: A Review of Theoretical Concerns and Developmental Considerations	23
Progress and gaps: A systematic review of the family demographics and family subsystems represented in top family science journals 2008–2018	19
Family theorizing for social justice: A critical praxis	19
What makes a good mother? Two decades of research reflecting social norms of motherhood	19
Understanding Differential Effectiveness of Behavioral Parent Training from a Family Systems Perspective: Families Are Greater than “Some of Their Parts”	18
The Families of LGBTQ Older Adults: Theoretical Approaches to Creative Family Connections in the Context of Marginalization, Social‐Historical Change, and Resilience	18
Family Dynamics During Emerging Adulthood: Reviewing, Integrating, and Challenging the Field	18
What does it mean to be Black and White? A meta‐ethnographic review of racial socialization in Multiracial families	15
Intersectionality and fatherhood: Theorizing non‐hegemonic fatherhoods	14
The return of race science and why it matters for family science	14
Association of Parent–child Experiences with Insecure Attachment in Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis	14
Toward More Accurate Measures of Family Structure: Accounting for Sibling Complexity	13
A Context‐Informed Perspective of Child Risk and Protection: Deconstructing Myths in the Risk Discourse	13
How families matter for health inequality during the COVID‐19 pandemic	13
Parenting as a Communication Process: Integrating Interpersonal Communication Theory and Parenting Styles Conceptualization	11
Intersectionality within family sciences and family therapy journals from 2010 to 2020	11

Attachment Development in Adolescent Romantic Relationships: A Conceptual Model	10
Quantitative criticalism: Guidelines for conducting transformative quantitative family science research	10
Multidimensional family development theory: A reconceptualization of family development	9
Fathering and masculine norms: Implications for the socialization of children's emotion regulation	9
To be young, conscious and Black: The cumulative witnessing of racial violence for Black youth and families	9
The importance of family‐focused and strengths‐based approaches to interventions for grandfamilies	9
Parent Self‐Compassion and Supportive Responses to Child Difficult Emotion: An Intergenerational Theoretical Model Rooted in Attachment	9
Queering singlehood: Examining the intersection of sexuality and relationship status from a queer lens	9
Siblings' similarities and dissimilarities: A review of theoretical perspectives and empirical insights	9
Bored of the rings: Methodological and analytic approaches to operationalizing Bronfenbrenner's PPCT model in research practice	9
Theorizing Ambiguous Gain: Opportunities for Family Scholarship	8
Single and flourishing: Transcending the deficit narratives of single life	8
Unsettling the family sciences: Introducing settler colonial theory through a theoretical analysis of the family and racialized injustice	7
Understanding singlehood as a complex and multifaceted experience: Insights from relationship science	7
Applying the family stress model to parental acculturative stress and Latinx youth adjustment: A review of the literature	7
The stability of singlehood: Limitations of the relationship status paradigm and a new theoretical framework for reimagining singlehood	7
The state of theory in elder family financial exploitation: A systematic review	7
Family separation and transnational fathering practices for immigrant Northern Triangle families	6
Self of the parent: An expanded social cognitive perspective on parent–child sexual communication	6
Engaging parents in preventive programs for adolescent mental health: A socio‐ecological framework	6
It's about gender: A critical review of the literature on the domestic division of work	6
A 10‐Year Portrait of Theorizing in Family Gerontology: Making the Mosaic Visible	6
Stress and resilience among resettling refugee youth: An illustrative review and new applications for the family stress model	6
Intersectionality in studying and theorizing singlehood	6
Transnational fathers: New theoretical and conceptual challenges	6
Beyond W.E.I.R.D. (Western, educated, industrial, rich, democratic)‐centric theories and perspectives: masculinity and fathering in Chinese societies	5
(Re)Conceptualizing Black motherwork as political activism	5
Critically feminizing family science: Using femme theory to generate novel approaches for the study of families and relationships	5
Intersectional stigma and developmental competence among youth living with HIV	5
Honor killings in Muslim and Western countries in modern times: A critical literature review and definitional implications	5
Age‐dissimilar couple relationships: 25 years in review	5
Parenting in context: A systematic review of the correlates of autonomy support	5
Racism and the mechanisms maintaining racial stratification in Black families	5
Defining and measuring singlehood in family studies	5
It's not the rotten apples!Why family scholars should adopt a structural perspective on racism	4
Using cultural‐ecological theory to construct a mid‐range theory for the development of gratitude as a virtue	4
Immigrant parents and children navigating two languages: A scoping review	4
Kaleidoscopic perspectives on theorizing singlehood	4
Marital relationships spillover and parental differential treatment of siblings: A multilevel meta‐analysis	4
The family keyworker as a critical element for attachment resilience in the face of adversity	4
Routines and coparenting as interrelated family management systems	4
A Goal‐Theoretic Framework for Parental Screen‐Time Monitoring Behavior	3
The temporal intersectional minority stress model: Reimagining minority stress theory	3
Singlehood during later life: Theoretical considerations for health and social relationships	3
The relationship between the reminiscence of relationship‐defining memories and marital outcomes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	3
Not a single meaning: Definition and evolution of singlehood in France and the United States	3
From safety in silence to speaking up for LGBTQ+ families: A reflection on the personal, professional, and political through a feminist lens	3
How sociocultural contexts may shape the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on couples' relationships	3
Reopening a can of words: Qualitative secondary data analysis	3
Toward an integrative framework of intergenerational coparenting within family systems: A scoping review	3

A personal and relational model of father identity construction	3
Family stress and coping in the experience of employment precarity: A theoretical framework	3
Transformational family science: Praxis, possibility, and promise	3
Advancing Research and Theory on Aging Military Veterans in a Relational Context	3
Dismantling the master's house: Epistemological tensions and revelatory interventions for reimagining a transformational family science	3
Aging Together in Enduring Couple Relationships: A Life Course Systems Perspective	3
Parent‐adolescent conflict processes and their measurement: A systematic review	3
Using critical family theorizing and intersectional feminist praxis to navigate reflexive conversations on race and power in academic settings	3
Sex and single women in midlife: Theoretical perspectives, recent findings, and future directions	3
Men, families, and the reconceptualization of masculinities	2
Anomie, gender, and inequality: Developing sociological theory of singlehood from Japanese experiences	2
The procreative identities of men in same‐sex relationships choosing surrogacy: A new theoretical understanding	2
Supporting and enhancing attachment resilience is essential for helping high‐risk families: But is the family keyworker the best one for the job?	2
The rise of the childless single in South Korea	2
Navigating the theoretical landscape of loneliness research: How interdisciplinary synergy contributes to further conceptualizations	2
Studying stepfamilies, surfacing secrets: A reflection on the private motivations behind efforts to humanize family complexity	2
Developmental Trajectories of Women's Identity Development	2
Toward a Du Boisian paradigm of family science	2
The double ABCM model of marital satisfaction	2
Introduction to the special issue on theorizing families, anti‐racism, and social justice	2
Biracial Families: Crossing Boundaries, Blending Cultures, and Challenging Racial Ideologies	2
Attachment resilience in practice: The essential role of family keyworkers	2
Ethnic and diverse fathering: Moving research forward	2
Family dynamics and the transition to end‐of‐life caregiving: A brief review and conceptual framework	1
Racial discrimination and romantic relationship dynamics among Black Americans: A systematic review	1
Unveiling motivations and keeping what's sacred: Engaging reflexivity in a research program on diverse romantic relationships	1
Context matters: The global adversity of missing family members	1
Safety and security in family life: Experiences of involuntary dislocation	1
Voluntary and involuntary singlehood: Salience of concepts from four theories	1
Family keyworker as a non‐clinical and democratic figure to support hard‐to‐reach families from an attachment perspective	1
Sibling dynamics in the context of parental child maltreatment: A theoretical model grounded in data	1
Celebrating JFTR's Stellar Niche	1
Figuring out how to participate in the system: Using reflexive feminist autoethnography to explore intersectional experiences in the professional and political spheres of academia	1
Parental support is not enough: How parental socialization theories can advance LGBTQ+ youth family research, practice, and health	1
Genetic moderation of the effects of family‐focused interventions (GxI interaction): A systematic review	1
An examination of power in a triadic model of parent–child–pediatrician relationships related to early childhood gender development	1
COVID‐19: Family resilience in a context of vulnerability	1
Women at the margins: Experiences with spousal incarceration in India	1
Parental consideration of children's experiences: A critical review of parenting constructs	1
Using social exchange theory to examine relationship processes in asexual‐allosexual couples	1
Living single in late life among African Americans	1
Civil disobedience in the domestic sphere: The case of the Hetero‐gay family	1
Qualitative genogram analysis: A methodology for theorizing family dynamics	1
Foster father identity: A theoretical framework	1
Grief experiences in parents of adult children with serious mental illness	1
Facing the heat: A descriptive review of the literature on family and community resilience amidst wildfires and climate change	1
Mixing races, maintaining racism? Considering the connection between interracial families, social distance, and racial inequality	1
Dyadic bicultural competence: A new way of conceptualizing patterns of cultural competence in close relationships	1
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Pedagogy of the great pandemic of the 21st century: Epistemic implications for individual psychology, family science, and psychotherapies	1