OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Families Relationships and Societies is 2. 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
Parental and work-related identities among primary caregiving and primary breadwinning mothers and fathers	9
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
Better than average? Parental competence beliefs and socioeconomic background	7
Development, transformation and uncertainties: reflections on the experience of my generation in China	6
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
‘Family doesn’t have to be mom and dad’: an exploration of the meaning of family for care-experienced young people	5
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
‘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

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
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
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
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