OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Families Relationships and Societies 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An unbalancing act: gender and parental division in childcare in South Africa	21
Pragmatic parenting: fathers’ roles in helping their young adult sons with autism	14
Silent voices: listening to children of criminalised individuals	14
Better than average? Parental competence beliefs and socioeconomic background	11
Longing for interdependence, aspiring to independence: a qualitative study on parenting in Germany	11
Parental and work-related identities among primary caregiving and primary breadwinning mothers and fathers	10
Development, transformation and uncertainties: reflections on the experience of my generation in China	10
Growing together: displaced women’s resilience and growth in reciprocal relationship	8
Intimacy as a competency: information-seeking practices in (marriage) migration online support groups	8
Intergenerational transmission of social memory: a narrative review1	8
Making sense of what families leave behind: a middle-class schoolgirl’s diaries in 1920s London	6
Family stories: investigating trauma-informed narratives, change behaviours and environments in complex family experiences	6
‘Now there you go, there’s my life. All my life is coming to prisons!’: persistent punishment in the lives of Scottish families affected by imprisonment	6
‘Family doesn’t have to be mom and dad’: an exploration of the meaning of family for care-experienced young people	6
Beyond the voluntariness dichotomy: perspectives of singles regarding relationship formation	6
Living apart together: growing up in transnational families	6
Workplace matters: negotiating a sense of entitlement towards taking time off for childcare among Korean fathers working in Sweden	6
More than mothers: changing intimacies and relationships among low-income women in Chile	6
Shrinking futures: ecologically childfree as emotion management	6
Division of labour in families: an integrative dyadic classification approach	5
Filial support behaviours: associations with filial piety, reciprocity and parent-child contact in China	5
Money practices and couplehood among individuals in the third age in Sweden	5
Doing (in)equality in Swedish families: women’s narratives of outsourcing domestic work	5
Guilt on the go: work-family conflict among long-distance commuter fathers	5
Performing parenthood through digital communication technologies at school: the case of WhatsApp parents’ groups in Chile	5

‘Mentally, I will never be what I was’: the psychological and emotional implications of incarceration on adult family members in Ontario, Canada	4
Voices, imaginaries and agency of Ukrainian and Moldovan transnational children	4
The purchase of cooperativism: creating relational economic practices in situations of precarity	4
Family sociology as a theoretical enterprise? A personal reflection	4
(Not) Again: exploring the impact of second parental dissolution on the mental health of emerging adults	4
Faithfulness without sexual exclusivity: gendered interpretations of faithfulness in rural south-western Uganda, and implications for HIV prevention programmes	4
Care and surveillance of children through domestic Internet of Things	4
‘Run three laps around the house’: a bricolage of rural ideals and co-parenting practices	4
Positioning flexibly scheduled ECEC in the chain of childcare by parents working non-standard hours	4
Neighbours, neighbouring and acquaintanceship: in dialogue with David Morgan	4
Citizenisation in the aftermath of domestic violence: the role of family, community and social networks	3
The sibling relationship under China’s universal two-child policy: exploring the experiences of the first-born child in two-child families with a large age gap	3
‘I try to do something a bit different’: exploring fathers’ integration of care ethics in everyday family lives	3
Postponing the day of your dreams? Modern weddings and the impact of COVID-19	3
Continuity and change in intergenerational relationships: hazelnut-farming families in Giresun, Turkey	3
Challenges in family policy research	3
Involving fathers in family social services in Israel: in the shadow of a conflicted policy	3
Transnational family dynamics in Europe: the need for taking the family perspective in migration	3
Parental stress, coercive and encouraging parenting among Chinese one-child, two-child and three-child families	3
Resourceful family economy during LGBTQ family-forming processes	3
Parental agency and social resilience in families during unexpected societal-level shocks: a case study of the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Care is not a tally sheet: rethinking the field of gender divisions of domestic labour with care-centric conceptual narratives	3
Families, Relationships and Societies: an introduction from the new editorial team	3
‘Stay at home’: analysing the implications of COVID-19 for unpaid carers	3
Representation of migrating mothers in children’s and young adult literature on transnational families	3
Family relatedness: a challenge for making decisions in child welfare	3
The diversity of grandparents in rural China: a new classification based on the shift in grandparents’ ideology and family structure	3
Family structure and children’s cognitive development	3
‘I have to call them’	3
Parenting in the pandemic: exploring the experiences of families with children on Universal Credit before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
How digital technologies become embedded in family life across generations: scoping the agenda for researching ‘platformised relationality’	2
The changing role of migrant grandparents and the emergence of dual-core familism in urban China	2
Cultivating parental virtuosi: therapeutic grammar and neuro-claims in Danish parenting courses	2
Two families, many stories and the value of autobiography	2
Relationships, technology and the role of living arrangements during social lockdown related to COVID-19	2
Family practices in non-cohabiting intimate relationships in China: doing mobile intimacy, emotion and intergenerational caring practices	2
Conflicting views? How personal attitudes and perceived public opinion towards formal childcare differ	2
Navigating young adult aspirations and dilemmas: benefits, challenges and lessons learned as a Swedish student living abroad in the UK and US	2
My brother’s keeper: masculinities, social mobility and the role of familial care for working-class men	2
Sharing as displaying: parents’ sharenting practices within conflictual separations	2
How young, disadvantaged fathers are affected by socioeconomic and relational barriers: a UK-based qualitative study	2
Reordering family practices in an unequal and disorderly world: contemporary adoption and contact in the UK	2
Mixed-sex civil partnerships: developing a morality of love	2
Father-inclusion: a sensitising concept and framing strategy for addressing the systemic exclusion of men as-fathers across services	2
Being a good digital parent: representations of parents, youth and the parent–youth relationship in expert advice	2
Assembling parents: how digital parenting is changing in the age of datafication	2
Trau(Ma): memories of a vindictive mother	2
A sociology of forgiveness in relationships: why the sociology of personal life should be interested in forgiveness	2
South Asian Muslim women’s experiences of divorce in Scotland	2
Configuring the digital relationship landscape: a feminist new materialist analysis of a couple relationship app	2

‘The main thing I worry about is being approachable enough’: parents talking to their children about relationships and sex in England	2
‘Never mind, we can’t help you’: young people’s experiences of the imprisonment of a sibling	2
Parents’ social networks, transitional moments and the shaping role of digital communications: an exploratory study in Austria, Denmark, England and Portugal	2
From being ‘at risk’ to being ‘a risk’: journeys into parenthood among young women experiencing adversity	2
Guiding the young child: trajectories of parents’ educational work in Singapore	1
Reinvigorating research on divorce: reflexivity, agency and regulation in marriage and civil partnership dissolution	1
Names in adoption law and policy: representations of family, rights and identities	1
Perspectives on creating an integrated Ukrainian refugee response in Romania	1
Can you keep a secret? Family histories, secrets and ethics	1
Otherland: accounts of ordinary childless/freeness on Mumsnet	1
Navigating young fatherhood in contemporary South Africa: does the provider status still matter?	1
Migration as a social mobility project: the case of return migrant families in India	1
What about a sister wife? Reasons for considering polygyny among Salafis in Switzerland	1
Is my best friend toxic? A textual analysis of online advice on difficult relationships	1
Corrigendum: ‘Trau(Ma): memories of a vindictive mother’	1
Enduring commitment: older couples living apart	1
Naming practices in domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales	1
Family life and intergenerational relationships: hopes and anxieties of two young Chinese women living in the UK	1
Critical reflexivities of women who cared for others during their childhood	1
Parental depressiveness and children’s emotional problems	1
Ideal features of post-divorce co-parenting: family professionals’ constructions	1
A school-based cross-sectional study to understand the public health measures needed to improve the emotional and mental wellbeing of young carers aged 12 to 14 years	1
Doing family while poor: agentic hopelessness as lived knowledge	1
Shifting roles, changing relations: considerations when doing ethnographic research with multiple families	1
‘This unusual lifestyle is full of highs and lows’: exploring social harms with kinship carers in North East England	1
Former partners, still related: remaining kin after separation	1
‘Friends are those who can help you out’: unpacking the understanding and experiences of friendship among young migrant workers in China	1
Home is where the heart is? Older individuals moving closer to a grandchild with disability	1
Family practices, deportability and administrative violence: an ethnographic study on asylum seekers’ family life in the Swedish migration context	1
Unsettling maternal futures in climate crisis: towards cohabitability?	1
Romance, companionship and masculinities in establishing relationships by Mexican Mormon men	1
A new vista on Asian families and intimacies: creating common foundations for knowledge production within and on Asia	1
Engaging with uncertainty: studying child and family welfare in precarious times	1
Therapy talk in narratives of same-sex divorce and civil partnership dissolution	1
Attitudes of young people in Germany towards parental involvement in paid work: evidence of intergenerational transmission	1
Intimacy, relationality and interdependencies: relationships in families dealing with gambling harms during COVID-19	1
Families, Relationships and Societies: a decade of scholarship and agendas for the future	1
The digital governmentality of marriage migration: policing US spousal reunification, national belonging and borders in digital spaces	1
Children’s well-being in times of war: analysing the importance of family through home, objects and relationships	1
Gender and sustainability in our home: a collaborative autoethnography linking experience, scholarship and progressive politics	1