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Papers

(The median citation count of Jfr-Journal of Family Research 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment situation and financial well-being of families with children in Austria: Evidence from the first ten months of the crisis	27
Whom to turn to? The association between childhood living arrangement and the parent-child relationship	21
Research note: Family structure and attitudes toward filial obligations among younger and middle-aged adults	19
Continuity, coping and finding meanings in everyday life: Storytelling by family members of people with young onset dementia	18
Research note: Singlehood and hope in Japan	17
Parents' nonstandard work schedules and parents' perception of adolescent social and emotional wellbeing	17
Childcare, work or worries? What explains the decline in parents' well-being at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany?	14
Parental social class and home-leaving in Italy: A changing landscape with persistent inequalities	14
Transition to fatherhood and adjustments in working hours: The importance of organizational policy feedback	12
Working longer with working-time flexibility: Only when job commitment is high and family commitment is low?	12
Growing diversity in couples' work patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria	10
Labour markets, families and public policies shaping gender relations and parenting: Introduction to the Special Issue	10
Job insecurity and child well-being in single-parent families in Europe: A matter of family and gender policy	10
Who suffered most? Parental stress and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	9
Flexible working for all? How collective constructions by Austrian employers and employees perpetuate gendered inequalities	9
Individualization and contemporary fatherhood	8
Coparenting and conflicts between work and family: Between-within analysis of German mothers and fathers	8
Has Covid-19 increased gender inequalities in professional advancement? Cross-country evidence on productivity differences between male and female software developers	8
Arranging childcare in two Nordic countries: A comparison of ECEC start in Iceland and Sweden	8
Partnership constellation and poverty beyond the migrant/non-migrant dichotomy: An exploratory, gendered analysis in Germany	7
Workin' moms ain't doing so bad: Evidence on the gender gap in working hours at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Family lives during the COVID-19 pandemic in European Societies: Introduction to the Special Issue	7
Research note: Gender and educational differences in childcare time: Evidence from the Czech Republic	6

Employment conditions and non-coresidential partnership in very-low fertility countries: Italy and Japan	6
What can parents do? The causal mediating role of parenting in explaining SES differences in children's language development	6
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Work-family conflict and partners' agreement on fertility preferences among dual-earner couples: Does women's employment status matter?	6
Ideals and norms related to fatherhood in Europe: A comparative perspective from the European Social Survey	6
Changes in care provision to older parents during COVID-19 and the well-being of adult children: The moderating roles of the child-parent relationship and pandemic-related measures	6
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Changes in economic deprivation and parental self-efficacy: Unemployment, poverty, and the mediating effect of psychological distress	5
Redistribution revisited: The impact of family membership on rights over resources	5
Managing uncertainty: Lone parents' time horizons and agency in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Good mental health despite work-family conflict? The within-domain and cross-domain buffering potentials of family and work resources	5
Changes in subjective wellbeing during widowhood: Gender differences and the buffering effect of the close social network	4
Research note: The persistent risk of in-work poverty following the birth of a first, second, and third child across the life course	4
New forms of family care in cultural and institutional contexts. Introduction to the Special Collection	4
Unraveling the threads of vulnerability and resilience: Young men's journey through unintended fatherhood	4
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The role of gender and equity norms in the social acceptance of outsourcing housework	4
You will take care of me when I am old: Norms on children’s caregiver obligations - An analysis with data from the European Values Study	4
The shadow fathers: Barriers to whole family approach in social work?	4
The division of child care during the coronavirus crisis in Germany: How did short-time work affect fathers' engagement?	4
Work-family conflict from the perspective of the family: Introduction to the Special Issue	4
Gender differences in the association between nonstandard work schedules and work-family conflict: A mixed methods analysis in France	4
Stimulation beliefs, parental reading involvement, and social inequalities in children's language development	4
Stepgrandparent-stepgrandchild contact in diverse family contexts: Stepfamily structure and existing family relationships	4
Childcare and housework during the first lockdown in Austria: Traditional division or new roles?	3
Income, ethnic diversity and family life in East London during the first wave of the pandemic: An assets approach	3
Close but far away: Intergenerational relationships between retirement migrants and adult children	3
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young adults experiencing dual family life after high-conflict divorce	3
Who should have (no) children? Results of a vignette experiment in Switzerland	3
Review article: Parenting leaves, workplace characteristics, male health, and the pandemic: Currents in policy-related fatherhood research in higher income countries	3
Research note: The educational gradient of divorce in the Czech Republic during the late post-socialist transition	3
Spouses' division of labor and marital stability: Applying the multiple-equilibrium theory to cohort trends of divorce in East and West Germany	3
Parents' hourly wages in female same-sex and different-sex couples: The role of partner's gender and employers	3
Youth living arrangements and household employment deprivation: Evidence from Spain	3
Characteristics of parents living apart in Norway: Comparing four residence arrangements	3
Families facing the Italian lockdown: Temporal adjustments and new caring practices in shared physical custody arrangements	3
Women's agency and childbirth: The effect of transition to motherhood and subsequent births on women's agency in Egypt	3
National family policies and the association between flexible working arrangements and work-to-family conflict across Europe	3
Norms about parental employment in Eastern and Western Germany: Results of a factorial survey experiment	2
The family side of work-family conflict: A literature review of antecedents and consequences	2
Tired of the double burden? The impact of work-to-family and family-to-work conflict on sleep duration	2
Is Spanish parental leave 'traditionalising' the gender distribution of childcare and housework?	2
Research note: Continuity or change: Intergenerational patrilocal residence patterns among Indians in India and abroad (USA, UK, and Canada)	2
Family rituals in postdivorce families: The role of family structure and relationship quality for parents' and stepparents' attendance at children's birthdays	2
What explains the sex differences in family leisure activities of children? A genetically sensitive analysis with twin data	2
Modern fathers' dilemma of work-family reconciliation. Findings from the German Youth Institute Survey AID:A II	2
Children's strains, parents' pains? How adult children's union dissolution influences older parents' health	2
Needing a child to be fulfilled? The relevance of social norms around childbearing desires in collective orientations and individual meanings	2
Doing exclusivity by doing family? 'Noble' family practices between transformation and persistence	2
Care involvement and power relations. Parenting and gender in contemporary Poland	2

Editorial: The ongoing internationalization of the Journal of Family Research