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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Longing for interdependence, aspiring to independence: a qualitative study on parenting in Germany	30
An unbalancing act: gender and parental division in childcare in South Africa	13
Gendered perceptions of workaholism and the gender gap in parenting time	9
Pragmatic parenting: fathers’ roles in helping their young adult sons with autism	9
Parental and work-related identities among primary caregiving and primary breadwinning mothers and fathers	9
Better than average? Parental competence beliefs and socioeconomic background	7
Growing together: displaced women’s resilience and growth in reciprocal relationship	6
Intimacy as a competency: information-seeking practices in (marriage) migration online support groups	6
Development, transformation and uncertainties: reflections on the experience of my generation in China	6
Intergenerational transmission of social memory: a narrative review1	5
Doing (in)equality in Swedish families: women’s narratives of outsourcing domestic work	5
Living apart together: growing up in transnational families	5
Family stories: investigating trauma-informed narratives, change behaviours and environments in complex family experiences	5
More than mothers: changing intimacies and relationships among low-income women in Chile	5
Workplace matters: negotiating a sense of entitlement towards taking time off for childcare among Korean fathers working in Sweden	5
Making sense of what families leave behind: a middle-class schoolgirl’s diaries in 1920s London	5
‘Family doesn’t have to be mom and dad’: an exploration of the meaning of family for care-experienced young people	5
‘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	4
Performing parenthood through digital communication technologies at school: the case of WhatsApp parents’ groups in Chile	4
Neighbours, neighbouring and acquaintanceship: in dialogue with David Morgan	4
Shrinking futures: ecologically childfree as emotion management	4
Positioning flexibly scheduled ECEC in the chain of childcare by parents working non-standard hours	4
Voices, imaginaries and agency of Ukrainian and Moldovan transnational children	4
Filial support behaviours: associations with filial piety, reciprocity and parent-child contact in China	4
Faithfulness without sexual exclusivity: gendered interpretations of faithfulness in rural south-western Uganda, and implications for HIV prevention programmes	4

Transnational family dynamics in Europe: the need for taking the family perspective in migration	3
‘Run three laps around the house’: a bricolage of rural ideals and co-parenting practices	3
Care and surveillance of children through domestic Internet of Things	3
Resourceful family economy during LGBTQ family-forming processes	3
‘I try to do something a bit different’: exploring fathers’ integration of care ethics in everyday family lives	3
The diversity of grandparents in rural China: a new classification based on the shift in grandparents’ ideology and family structure	3
Representation of migrating mothers in children’s and young adult literature on transnational families	3
“I thought, Oh shit, because I was 19.” Discourses and practices on young fatherhood in Denmark	3
Division of labour in families: an integrative dyadic classification approach	3
Family sociology as a theoretical enterprise? A personal reflection	3
‘I have to call them’	3
‘Er, not the best time’: methodological and ethical challenges of researching family life during a pandemic	3
Citizenisation in the aftermath of domestic violence: the role of family, community and social networks	3
Money practices and couplehood among individuals in the third age in Sweden	3
Family relatedness: a challenge for making decisions in child welfare	3
Parental stress, coercive and encouraging parenting among Chinese one-child, two-child and three-child families	3
Involving fathers in family social services in Israel: in the shadow of a conflicted policy	3
Families, Relationships and Societies: an introduction from the new editorial team	2
Reordering family practices in an unequal and disorderly world: contemporary adoption and contact in the UK	2
Trau(Ma): memories of a vindictive mother	2
Sharing as displaying: parents’ sharenting practices within conflictual separations	2
Mixed-sex civil partnerships: developing a morality of love	2
Parental agency and social resilience in families during unexpected societal-level shocks: a case study of the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Cultivating parental virtuosi: therapeutic grammar and neuro-claims in Danish parenting courses	2
Parenting in the pandemic: exploring the experiences of families with children on Universal Credit before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
A sociology of forgiveness in relationships: why the sociology of personal life should be interested in forgiveness	2
The experience of qualitative research with young fathers: considerations of gender, class and reflexive practice	2
How digital technologies become embedded in family life across generations: scoping the agenda for researching ‘platformised relationality’	2
Good men need to be you dandang: negotiating masculinity in intimate relationships in contemporary China	2
‘The main thing I worry about is being approachable enough’: parents talking to their children about relationships and sex in England	2
How young, disadvantaged fathers are affected by socioeconomic and relational barriers: a UK-based qualitative study	2
Schooling, work and house life: women’s triple shifts in times of a global health crisis	2
Postponing the day of your dreams? Modern weddings and the impact of COVID-19	2
Care is not a tally sheet: rethinking the field of gender divisions of domestic labour with care-centric conceptual narratives	2
Configuring the digital relationship landscape: a feminist new materialist analysis of a couple relationship app	2
The changing role of migrant grandparents and the emergence of dual-core familism in urban China	2
Two families, many stories and the value of autobiography	2
My brother’s keeper: masculinities, social mobility and the role of familial care for working-class men	2
Family structure and children’s cognitive development	2
Challenges in family policy research	2
Parents’ social networks, transitional moments and the shaping role of digital communications: an exploratory study in Austria, Denmark, England and Portugal	1
Conflicting views? How personal attitudes and perceived public opinion towards formal childcare differ	1
Relationships, technology and the role of living arrangements during social lockdown related to COVID-19	1
‘This unusual lifestyle is full of highs and lows’: exploring social harms with kinship carers in North East England	1
Doing family while poor: agentic hopelessness as lived knowledge	1
Can you keep a secret? Family histories, secrets and ethics	1
Is my best friend toxic? A textual analysis of online advice on difficult relationships	1
Shifting roles, changing relations: considerations when doing ethnographic research with multiple families	1
‘Never mind, we can’t help you’: young people’s experiences of the imprisonment of a sibling	1
Father-inclusion: a sensitising concept and framing strategy for addressing the systemic exclusion of men as-fathers across services	1

Family practices in non-cohabiting intimate relationships in China: doing mobile intimacy, emotion and intergenerational caring practices	1
Navigating young fatherhood in contemporary South Africa: does the provider status still matter?	1
The digital governmentality of marriage migration: policing US spousal reunification, national belonging and borders in digital spaces	1
Parental depressiveness and children’s emotional problems	1
Otherland: accounts of ordinary childless/freeness on Mumsnet	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
From being ‘at risk’ to being ‘a risk’: journeys into parenthood among young women experiencing adversity	1
Persistent stigma despite social change: experiences of stigma among single women who were pregnant or mothers in the Republic of Ireland 1996–2010	1
Navigating young adult aspirations and dilemmas: benefits, challenges and lessons learned as a Swedish student living abroad in the UK and US	1
Being a good digital parent: representations of parents, youth and the parent–youth relationship in expert advice	1
‘Friends are those who can help you out’: unpacking the understanding and experiences of friendship among young migrant workers in China	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
Ideal features of post-divorce co-parenting: family professionals’ constructions	1
Intergenerational transmission of environmental household practices among South Korean families: continuity and change	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