Journal of Family Theory & Review

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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Clarifying relationship instability: Exploring the vital role of change in commitment45
Considering human development and family science from an HBCU faculty perspective: Commentary on Dyer28
Family science, land‐grant universities, and the daunting legacy of the land‐grab institution27
Disrupting neoliberalism in the academy: Normalizing loss and enfranchising student grief25
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Critically feminizing family science: Using femme theory to generate novel approaches for the study of families and relationships21
Hui Liu, Corinne Reczek, & Lindsey Wilkinson. 2020. Marriage and health: The well‐being of same‐sex couples. Rutgers University Press. $34.95. Paperback. 280 pp. ISBN: 978197880348020
Happy Singlehood: The rising acceptance and celebration of solo living. Elyakim Kislev. 2019. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. $24.95. Paperback. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780520299146, 0519
Family types and family dimensions: The paradigmatic framework and the circumplex model18
Toward a Du Boisian paradigm of family science16
Development of the racial and ethnic discrimination stress model16
Using critical family theorizing and intersectional feminist praxis to navigate reflexive conversations on race and power in academic settings15
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Context matters: The global adversity of missing family members14
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Defining and measuring singlehood in family studies13
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Family stress and coping in the experience of employment precarity: A theoretical framework13
An examination of power in a triadic model of parent–child–pediatrician relationships related to early childhood gender development12
Grief experiences in parents of adult children with serious mental illness11
Engaging parents in preventive programs for adolescent mental health: A socio‐ecological framework11
Reimagining stagnant perspectives of family structure: Advancing a critical theoretical research agenda10
Academic socialization model: Understanding Chinese children's academic self‐concept and the role of academic achievement10
Parental lying to children: A systematic review10
Fatherhood in the context of preterm birth: A narrative review of contemporary research evidence9
Intergenerational coparenting and child development outcomes: A systematic review8
A theoretical integration of work–family studies with the transactional model of stress8
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Applying the family stress model to parental acculturative stress and Latinx youth adjustment: A review of the literature8
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Addressing campus–community relationships using the three corners marriage model8
Intentional allyship at the intersection: Moving the human sciences forward8
Engaging in literature review, synthesis, and meta‐analysis: A few considerations for family scholars8
Supporting and enhancing attachment resilience is essential for helping high‐risk families: But is the family keyworker the best one for the job?7
Parent‐adolescent conflict processes and their measurement: A systematic review7
Family practice with fathers, social care, and capabilities7
Systems intelligence and families6
Racial discrimination and romantic relationship dynamics among Black Americans: A systematic review6
Parents who migrate without their children: Gendered and psychosocial reconfigurations of parenting in transnational families6
Don't skip class: A new conceptual model for examining classism among adolescents and families6
Genetic moderation of the effects of family‐focused interventions (GxI interaction): A systematic review6
Toward an integrative framework of intergenerational coparenting within family systems: A scoping review6
The return of race science and why it matters for family science5
Türkiye's responses to the 2023 earthquakes: An application of family adjustment and adaptation response model5
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Unveiling motivations and keeping what's sacred: Engaging reflexivity in a research program on diverse romantic relationships5
Immigrant parents and children navigating two languages: A scoping review5
Age‐dissimilar couple relationships: 25 years in review5
Erratum to “Queering family trees: Race, reproductive justice, and lesbian motherhood by Patton‐Imani, Sandra”5
Routines and coparenting as interrelated family management systems4
A personal and relational model of father identity construction4
A framework for how homelessness impacts children's attachments to their caregiver4
Queering family trees: Race, reproductive justice, and lesbian motherhood by Sandra Patton‐Imani4
Currere and legacy in the context of family business: Towards a new theory of intergenerational learning. By SamuelChen: Routledge. 2023. pp. 170. £96.00 ($128.00) (hardback). ISBN: 978100336384
Testimonio as a methodology in the study of sexual and intimate partner violence4
A conceptual model of family well‐being: Bridging constructs, fields, and practice applications4
Relationship education and couples experiencing violence: Is something better than nothing?4
Post‐traumatic stress symptoms and parenting in military families: A systematic integrative review4
Socialized sexual values and meanings ascribed to sex as predictors of the experience of sex: A theoretical model4
Intersectional blackness matters: Why family science should care about the College Board's A.P. African American Studies course controversy3
Singlehood during later life: Theoretical considerations for health and social relationships3
Single and flourishing: Transcending the deficit narratives of single life3
Parental support is not enough: How parental socialization theories can advance LGBTQ+ youth family research, practice, and health3
(Re)Conceptualizing Black motherwork as political activism3
Types, dimensions, and limitations3
Applying Hegelian theory to contemporary family science3
Not a single meaning: Definition and evolution of singlehood in France and the United States3
The relationship between the reminiscence of relationship‐defining memories and marital outcomes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis3
Marital relationships spillover and parental differential treatment of siblings: A multilevel meta‐analysis2
Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment. By Aliya Hamid Rao. 2020. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 291 pp. $85.00. Hardcover. ISBN 9780520298606. $29.95. Paperback. ISBN 972
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To be young, conscious and Black: The cumulative witnessing of racial violence for Black youth and families2
Ethnic and diverse fathering: Moving research forward2
Couple and family optimal experiences: Integrating flow theory into the relational sciences2
Black men's intimate partner violence victimization and help‐seeking experiences: Integrating and applying intersectionality and hegemonic masculinity2
Living apart together: Legal protections for a new form of family, Cynthia GrantBowman2020New York, NY: New York University Press. IBSN: 97814798910472
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Dismantling the master's house: Epistemological tensions and revelatory interventions for reimagining a transformational family science2
The Bronfenbrenner primer: A guide to develecology, Lawrence G.SheltonNew York, NY: Routledge, 2019, pp. 164, $27.96 (paperback)2
Qualitative genogram analysis: A methodology for theorizing family dynamics2
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Unsettling the family sciences: Introducing settler colonial theory through a theoretical analysis of the family and racialized injustice2
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The politics of reproduction: Adoption, abortion, and surrogacy in the age of neoliberalism, ModhumitaRoy and MaryThompson (Eds.), 2019, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University2
The seed: Infertility is a feminist issue. AlexandraKimball. Coach House Books. Ontario, Canada, 2019. $14.95. Paperback. 135 pp. ISBN: 15524538552
A reproductive justice analysis of Black motherwork2
Figuring out how to participate in the system: Using reflexive feminist autoethnography to explore intersectional experiences in the professional and political spheres of academia1
Racism and the mechanisms maintaining racial stratification in Black families1
The association between dual filial piety and life satisfaction: A meta‐analysis1
The associations between relationship self‐regulation, partner regulation, and relationship outcomes: A meta‐analysis1
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Pedagogy of the great pandemic of the 21st century: Epistemic implications for individual psychology, family science, and psychotherapies1
Intersectionality in studying and theorizing singlehood1
The temporal intersectional minority stress model: Reimagining minority stress theory1
Honor killings in Muslim and Western countries in modern times: A critical literature review and definitional implications1
Family dynamics and the transition toend‐of‐lifecaregiving: A brief review and conceptual framework1
More–than–relationship quality: A feminist new materialist analysis of relationship quality and the potential of digital couple interventions1
The secret history of home economics: How trailblazing women harnessed the power of home and changed the way we live. DanielleDreilinger. 2021. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 348 pp.ISBN:1
Purpose: A potential catalyst and anchor for optimal work–family balance and well‐being1
Attachment resilience in practice: The essential role of family keyworkers1
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Theorizing arranged marriage: The case of South Asian Muslim immigrants in love marriage societies1
X. HeDivorce in China: Institutional constraints and gendered outcomes. New York University Press. 2021, https://doi.org/10.18574/97814798055491
Bored of the rings: Methodological and analytic approaches to operationalizing Bronfenbrenner's PPCT model in research practice1
A scoping review of research on well‐being across diverse family structures: Rethinking approaches for understanding contemporary families1
Romantic relationships and attitudes in Asian emerging adults: Review and critique1
Sharenting: A systematic review of the empirical literature1
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Self of the parent: An expanded social cognitive perspective on parent–child sexual communication1
Adolescent pornography consumption: A symbolic interactionist lens1
Progress and gaps: A systematic review of the family demographics and family subsystems represented in top family science journals 2008–20181
Parenting in context: A systematic review of the correlates of autonomy support1
Familial critical consciousness socialization: How key family theories can expand racial‐ethnic socialization research among Asian American families1
Celebrating JFTR's Stellar Niche1
Using cultural‐ecological theory to construct a mid‐range theory for the development of gratitude as a virtue1
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Reopening a can of words: Qualitative secondary data analysis1
Celebrating the “good‐enough families”: Family challenges and resilience during global adversity1
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