| Family ties: Communicating identity through jointly told family stories JK Kellas Communication Monographs 72 (4), 365-389, 2005 | 288 | 2005 |
| Finding meaning in difficult family experiences: Sense-making and interaction processes during joint family storytelling J Koenig Kellas, AR Trees The Journal of Family Communication 6 (1), 49-76, 2006 | 227 | 2006 |
| Telling tales: Enacting family relationships in joint storytelling about difficult family experiences AR Trees, JK Kellas Western Journal of Communication 73 (1), 91-111, 2009 | 148 | 2009 |
| What's in a story? The relationship between narrative completeness and adjustment to relationship dissolution JK Kellas, V Manusov Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 20 (3), 285-307, 2003 | 147 | 2003 |
| Communicated narrative sense-making: Understanding family narratives, storytelling, and the construction of meaning through a communicative lens JK Kellas, HK Horstman The Sage handbook of family communication, 76-90, 2014 | 144 | 2014 |
| The ex-files: Trajectories, turning points, and adjustment in the development of post-dissolutional relationships JK Kellas, D Bean, C Cunningham, KY Cheng Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 25 (1), 23-50, 2008 | 139 | 2008 |
| Communicated narrative sense-making theory: Linking storytelling and well-being JK Kellas Engaging theories in family communication, 62-74, 2017 | 114 | 2017 |
| Narrative theories: Making sense of interpersonal communication J Koenig Kellas Engaging theories in interpersonal communication: Multiple perspectives 2 …, 2008 | 113 | 2008 |
| “Say something instead of nothing”: Adolescents’ perceptions of memorable conversations about sex-related topics with their parents A Holman, J Koenig Kellas Communication Monographs 85 (3), 357-379, 2018 | 105 | 2018 |
| Family legacies: Constructing individual and family identity through intergenerational storytelling B Thompson, JK Kellas, J Soliz, J Thompson, A Epp, P Schrodt Narrative Inquiry 19 (1), 106-134, 2009 | 102 | 2009 |
| “Instead of Growing Under Her Heart, I Grew in It”: The Relationship Between Adoption Entrance Narratives and Adoptees' Self-Concept H Kranstuber, JK Kellas Communication Quarterly 59 (2), 179-199, 2011 | 100 | 2011 |
| Giving voice to the silence of family estrangement: Comparing reasons of estranged parents and adult children in a nonmatched sample K Carr, A Holman, J Abetz, JK Kellas, E Vagnoni Journal of Family Communication 15 (2), 130-140, 2015 | 93 | 2015 |
| Exploring links between well-being and interactional sense-making in married couples' jointly told stories of stress J Koenig Kellas, AR Trees, P Schrodt, C LeClair-Underberg, EK Willer Journal of Family Communication 10 (3), 174-193, 2010 | 92 | 2010 |
| Sense-making, socialization, and stigma: Exploring narratives told in families about mental illness E Flood-Grady, J Koenig Kellas Health communication 34 (6), 607-617, 2019 | 85 | 2019 |
| Transmitting relational worldviews: The relationship between mother–daughter memorable messages and adult daughters’ romantic relational schemata JK Kellas Communication Quarterly 58 (4), 458-479, 2010 | 70 | 2010 |
| High school adolescents' perceptions of the parent–child sex talk: How communication, relational, and family factors relate to sexual health A Holman, JK Kellas Southern Communication Journal 80 (5), 388-403, 2015 | 69 | 2015 |
| Accounting for lesbian-headed families: Lesbian mothers' responses to discursive challenges J Koenig Kellas, EA Suter Communication Monographs 79 (4), 475-498, 2012 | 66 | 2012 |
| Motherhood as contested ideological terrain: Essentialist and queer discourses of motherhood at play in female–female co-mothers' talk EA Suter, LM Seurer, S Webb, B Grewe Jr, J Koenig Kellas Communication Monographs 82 (4), 458-483, 2015 | 65 | 2015 |
| Narrating family: Introduction to the special issue on narratives and storytelling in the family JK Kellas Journal of Family Communication 10 (1), 1-6, 2010 | 55 | 2010 |
| Making sense of hurtful mother-in-law messages: Applying attribution theory to the in-law triad CE Rittenour, JK Kellas Communication Quarterly 63 (1), 62-80, 2015 | 53 | 2015 |
