Families, Relationships and Societies

Aims & Scope

Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships.

It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course.

Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches.

The title 'Families, Relationships and Societies' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures.

International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices.

It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis.

High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues.

Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family.

Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.1
2024	1.10

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	12264

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	186

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.467

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	25

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• More than the sum of its parts? Contemporary fatherhood policy, practice and discourse

  Citation: 118

  Authors: Esther, Tina

• Blinded by neuroscience: social policy, the family and the infant brain

  Citation: 108

  Authors: David, Sue

• Let’s stop feeding the risk monster: towards a social model of ‘child protection’

  Citation: 98

  Authors: Brid, Anna, Kate, Joanne

• Conforming to intensive parenting ideals: willingness, reluctance and social context

  Citation: 56

  Authors: Ciara, Lyn

• Parenting support policies in Europe

  Citation: 55

  Authors: Mary

• Why do people live apart together?

  Citation: 52

  Authors: Simon, Julia, Miranda, Sasha, Mariya

• Farewell to family? Notes on an argument for retaining the concept

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Rosalind, Val

• Poverty and child neglect – the elephant in the room?

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Anna

• The price of love: the prioritisation of childcare and income earning among UK fathers

  Citation: 36

  Authors: Caroline J., Simon B., Cary L., Paul

• ‘Realising the (troubled) family’, ‘crafting the neoliberal state’

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Stephen

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