OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Family Theory & Review is 5. 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
Multigenerational social support in the face of the COVID‐19 pandemic	54
Processing Proximal Processes: What Bronfenbrenner Meant, What He Didn't Mean, and What He Should Have Meant	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
What makes a good mother? Two decades of research reflecting social norms of motherhood	19
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
Family Dynamics During Emerging Adulthood: Reviewing, Integrating, and Challenging the Field	18
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
What does it mean to be Black and White? A meta‐ethnographic review of racial socialization in Multiracial families	15
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
Intersectionality and fatherhood: Theorizing non‐hegemonic fatherhoods	14
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
Toward More Accurate Measures of Family Structure: Accounting for Sibling Complexity	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

Quantitative criticalism: Guidelines for conducting transformative quantitative family science research	10
Attachment Development in Adolescent Romantic Relationships: A Conceptual Model	10
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
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
Theorizing Ambiguous Gain: Opportunities for Family Scholarship	8
Single and flourishing: Transcending the deficit narratives of single life	8
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
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
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
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
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
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