Welcome to the Zeitschrift für Familienforschung | Journal of Family Research, the leading European journal for family-related research in the social sciences and humanities.

The Zeitschrift für Familienforschung | Journal of Family Research is ranked in the Social Sciences Citation Index.

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15.11.019

Issue 3/2019 - a Special Issue on “Family migration processes in a comparative perspective”, edited by Can Aybek and Nadja Milewski - is in preparation for December 2019.

28.10.2025

JFR is pleased to announce that the journal is represented on “Twitter”. Feel free to join our channel on https://twitter.com/family_journal.

21.10.2025

We are pleased to announce that JFR will move its website to a new online submission system by the new year. Our URL - www.journal-of-family-research.eu - will remain the same.

13.09.2026

Issue 2/2019 - a Special Issue on “Families, health, and well-being,” edited by Oliver Arránz-Becker, Małgorzata Mikucka and Christof Wolf - is out now. See the table of contents here: Volume 31 (2019) – Issue 2.