Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry is 8. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Socioeconomic and sex inequalities in parent‐reported adolescent mental ill‐health: time trends in four British birth cohorts274
Editorial: Accelerated epigenetic ageing as a consequence of early environmental adversity208
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Nature and nurture in fussy eating from toddlerhood to early adolescence: findings from the Gemini twin cohort157
Behavioral characteristics of toddlers later identified with an autism diagnosis, ADHD symptoms, or combined autism and ADHD symptoms156
The long reach of adversity: Intermediary pathways from maternal adverse childhood experiences to child socio‐emotional and cognitive outcomes136
Social connectedness and adolescent suicide risk96
Personalized at‐home neurofeedback compared to long‐acting methylphenidate in children with ADHD: NEWROFEED, a European randomized noninferiority trial88
Examining changes in parent‐reported child and adolescent mental health throughout the UK's first COVID‐19 national lockdown64
Co‐development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic trait trajectories from childhood to early adulthood53
Effects of methylphenidate on executive functioning in children and adolescents with ADHD after long‐term use: a randomized, placebo‐controlled discontinuation study51
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Something old, something new – can adding genomic data to family studies advance our understanding of the impact of nature and nurture on mental health? Commentary on McAdams et al. (2023)49
Alternative hypotheses regarding the association between early engagement in gambling and gambling‐like activities and later problem gambling – a commentary on Richard and King (2023)48
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Commentary: Cognitive stimulation and executive functions in the prevention and treatment of childhood disorders – reflection on Phillips et al., 202346
Associations of screen use with cognitive development in early childhood: the ELFE birth cohort46
Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Prenatal stress predicts greater vulnerability to the psychological impacts of future stress exposure during late adol45
Risk factors for nonfatal self‐harm and suicide among adolescents: two nested case–control studies conducted in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink44
Polygenic scores differentially predict developmental trajectories of subtypes of social withdrawal in childhood42
Associations between psychiatric polygenic risk scores and general and specific psychopathology symptoms in childhood and adolescence between and within dizygotic twin pairs41
Early childhood general anesthesia and risk of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder40
Letter to the Editor: Transgender and mental health39
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Commentary: Meeting the challenge of multidimensionality in neurodevelopmental disorders—reflections on Johnson et al. (2021)36
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Autism spectrum disorder and brain volume link through a set of mTOR‐related genes35
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Brain activity during facial processing in autism spectrum disorder: an activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta‐analysis of neuroimaging studies35
Immediate impact of child maltreatment on mental, developmental, and physical health trajectories32
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Emotion regulation as central to psychopathology across childhood and adolescence: a commentary on Nobakht et al. (2023)32
Associations among early life adversity, sleep disturbances, and depressive symptoms in adolescent females and males: a longitudinal investigation31
Developmental differences in neural connectivity for semantic processing in youths with autism31
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Commentary: Promoting positive mental health during pregnancy—reflections on Lähdepuro et al. (2023)29
Executive function mediates the prospective association between neurostructural differences within the central executive network and anti‐social behavior after childhood traumatic brain injury29
Editorial Perspective: Adapting western psychological interventions for children and adolescents in LMICs: lessons from Nepal29
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Facets of impulsivity and reward in relation to binge‐eating disorder course of illness among children: findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study28
Research Review: Grandparental care and child mental health – a systematic review and meta‐analysis28
Brain structure and functional connectivity linking childhood cumulative trauma to COVID‐19 vicarious traumatization28
A good investment: longer‐term cost savings of sensitive parenting in childhood27
Contamination bias in the estimation of child maltreatment causal effects on adolescent internalizing and externalizing behavior problems27
A prospective study of the relative contribution of adolescent peer support quantity and quality to depressive symptoms27
Developmental deviation in delay discounting as a transdiagnostic indicator of risk for child psychopathology27
Editorial: Standardizing methods and measures in randomized controlled trials: a necessary catalyst for clinical translation26
Altered theta–beta ratio in infancy associates with family history of ADHD and later ADHD‐relevant temperamental traits25
Neural correlates of face familiarity in institutionalised children and links to attachment disordered behaviour25
Research Review: The effect of school‐based suicide prevention on suicidal ideation and suicide attempts and the role of intervention and contextual factors among adolescents: a meta‐analysis and meta25
Parent–child coregulation as a dynamic system: a commentary on Wass et al. (2024)24
Infants’ neural responses to emotional faces are related to maternal anxiety24
Polygenic scores for schizophrenia and major depression are associated with psychosocial risk factors in children: evidence of gene–environment correlation24
Obsessive‐compulsive disorder in children and youth: neurocognitive function in clinic and community samples24
Stratifying early‐onset emotional disorders: using genetics to assess persistence in young people of European and South Asian ancestry23
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Annual Research Review: Health anxiety in children and adolescents—developmental aspects and cross‐generational influences22
It takes a safe village to raise a child—a commentary on Dana McCoy et al. (2023)22
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Report from a randomized control trial: improved alignment between circadian biology and sleep–wake behavior as a mechanism of depression symptom improvement in evening‐type adolescents with depressiv22
Characteristics of complex posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in young people with PTSD following multiple trauma exposure21
Commentary response: Smartphone use and parenting: re‐stratifying the multiverse for families of young children21
Irritability and rejection‐elicited aggression in adolescents and young adults21
Aberrant brain network topology in youth with a familial risk for bipolar disorder: a task‐based fMRI connectome study20
Early relational origins of Theory of Mind: A two‐study replication20
Editorial: From adolescence into young adulthood – the importance of a longitudinal perspective across development in child and adolescent mental health20
The association between early regulatory problems and adult peer relationship quality is mediated by the brain's allostatic‐interoceptive system19
Substance use outcomes from the Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Extended Long‐term Study (CAMELS)19
Mapping the duration and severity of preschool‐aged children's depressive moods and behaviors19
A randomised controlled trial (MindChamp) of a mindfulness‐based intervention for children with ADHD and their parents19
A network approach to the investigation of childhood irritability: probing frustration using social stimuli19
Heritability of children's Secure Base Script Knowledge in middle childhood: a twin study with the Attachment Script Assessment19
Development of a risk calculator to predict attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder in very preterm/very low birth weight newborns19
Editorial Perspective: The paradox of precision health in early development – building large samples to yield individual‐level measures19
On the importance of parenting in externalizing disorders: an evaluation of indirect genetic effects in families18
Commentary: Taking stock and moving forward – the need to consider the influence of loss to follow‐up in autism screening research18
Reward‐ and threat‐related neural function associated with risk and presence of depression in adolescents: a study using a composite risk score in Brazil18
Cognitive, psychosocial, and behaviour gains at age 31 years from the Jamaica early childhood stimulation trial18
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Editorial Perspective: Misaligned incentives in mental health research – the case for Registered Reports17
Social skills and symptoms of anxiety disorders from preschool to adolescence: a prospective cohort study17
A twin study of genetic and environmental contributions to attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder over time17
Editorial Perspective: Reducing mental health disparities among underserved youth: using technology to equip parents as agents of change17
Annual Research Review: Prenatal opioid exposure – a two‐generation approach to conceptualizing neurodevelopmental outcomes17
Commentary: Best practices and processes for assessment of autism spectrum disorder – the intended role of standardized diagnostic instruments16
Impulsivity as key bridge symptoms in cross‐sectional and longitudinal networks of ADHD and ODD16
A commentary on Perlstein et al. (2023): the past and future of treating youth with limited prosocial emotions16
Does maternal psychopathology bias reports of offspring symptoms? A study using moderated non‐linear factor analysis16
Trends in adolescent emotional problems in Wales between 2013 and 2019: the contribution of peer relationships16
Editorial: Prevention is the best cure16
Family vulnerability and disruption during the COVID‐19 pandemic: prospective pathways to child maladjustment15
Research Review: Integrated healthcare for children and young people in secondary/tertiary care – a systematic review15
A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of Well Parent Japan in routine care in Japan: The training and nurturing support for mothers (TRANSFORM) study15
Supporting caregivers within caregiver‐mediated interventions: a commentary on Brown et al. (2024)15
Editorial: COVID‐19: lessons learned for suicide prevention15
Mediation of 6‐year mid‐childhood follow‐up outcomes after pre‐school social communication (PACT) therapy for autistic children: randomised controlled trial15
Editorial: Do lockdowns scar? Three putative mechanisms through which COVID‐19 mitigation policies could cause long‐term harm to young people's mental health15
Commentary: Technoference or parental phubbing? A call for greater conceptual and operational clarity of parental smartphone use around children15
Testing the social motivation theory of autism: the role of co‐occurring anxiety15
Editorial Perspective: Are treatments for childhood mental disorders helpful in the long run? An overview of systematic reviews15
The predictive capacity of psychiatric and psychological polygenic risk scores for distinguishing cases in a child and adolescent psychiatric sample from controls14
Effects of engaging fathers and bundling parenting and nutrition interventions on early child development and maternal and paternal parenting in Mara, Tanzania: a factorial cluster‐randomized controll14
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Prospective association between evening circadian preference and academic functioning in adolescents: the role of daytime sleepiness14
A cross‐lagged twin study of emotional symptoms, social isolation and peer victimisation from early adolescence to emerging adulthood14
Annual Research Review: Psychosis in children and adolescents: key updates from the past 2 decades on psychotic disorders, psychotic experiences, and psychosis risk14
Joint engagement is a potential mechanism leading to increased initiations of joint attention and downstream effects on language: JASPER early intervention for children with ASD14
Adolescent sleep quality and quantity and educational attainment: a test of multiple mechanisms using sibling difference models14
Annual Research Review: Neuroimmune network model of depression: a developmental perspective14
The trajectory of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms and its dynamic relationship with inhibitory control14
Mental disorders in preadolescent children at familial high‐risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder – a four‐year follow‐up study13
Associations of toddler mechanical/distress feeding problems with psychopathology symptoms five years later13
Early manifestations of genetic risk for neurodevelopmental disorders13
Annual Research Review: Youth firearm violence disparities in the United States and implications for prevention13
Feeling anxious and being engaged in a warming world: climate anxiety and adolescents' pro‐environmental behavior13
A methylation study implicates the rewiring of brain neural circuits during puberty in the emergence of sex differences in depression symptoms13
Is heart rate variability biofeedback useful in children and adolescents? A systematic review13
Taking stock of the present and looking to the future of ADHD research: a commentary on Sonuga‐Barke et al. (2023)13
Editorial: It is time to modernize the concept of ADHD!13
Bidirectional associations between screen time and children’s externalizing and internalizing behaviors13
Commentary: State of transitional care for emerging adults – reflections on Anderson et al.13
Subjective and objective experiences of childhood adversity: a meta‐analysis of their agreement and relationships with psychopathology13
Unique prediction of developmental psychopathology from genetic and familial risk13
Parents' prohibitions of peer relationships: why do they undermine social adjustment? A commentary on Kaniusonyte and Laursen (2024)13
Evaluating the sensitivity to threat and affiliative reward (STAR) model in relation to the development of conduct problems and callous‐unemotional traits across early adolescenc13
Commentary to “Translational machine learning for child and adolescent psychiatry”13
Editorial: ‘The giant’s shoulders’: understanding Michael Rutter’s impact on science and society12
The interaction between polygenic risk and environmental influences: A direct test of the 3P model of insomnia in adolescents12
Shifting age of child eating disorder hospitalizations during the Covid‐19 pandemic12
Editorial: The new genetics of autism12
Editorial: Is autism overdiagnosed?12
Childhood psychopathology mediates associations between childhood adversities and multiple health risk behaviours in adolescence: analysis using the ALSPAC birth cohort12
Editorial Perspective: How Sir Michael Rutter revolutionised our understanding of human development: An introduction to a systematic Digest of his life’s work12
Correlates and predictors of the severity of suicidal ideation in adolescence: an examination of brain connectomics and psychosocial characteristics12
Research Review: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of infant and toddler temperament as predictors of childhood attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder11
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Editorial Perspective: Challenges of research focusing on child and adolescent mental health during the COVID‐19 era: what studies are needed?11
Commentary on ‘Grandparental care and child mental health: a systematic review and meta‐analysis11
Exploring the relationships between pathogen‐specific prenatal infections requiring inpatient admission and domains of offspring behaviour at age 511
Latent class analysis to characterize neonatal risk for neurodevelopmental differences11
Sex, ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities and trajectories in child and adolescent mental health in Australia and the UK: findings from national prospective longitudinal studies11
Commentary on the power of predictability: patterns of signals in early life shape neurodevelopment and mental health trajectories11
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Research Review: A meta‐analysis of relapse rates in cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and related disorders in youth11
Longitudinal trajectories of mental health and loneliness for Australian adolescents with‐or‐without neurodevelopmental disorders: the impact of COVID‐19 school lockdowns11
The influence of loss to follow‐up in autism screening research: Taking stock and moving forward11
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Sex differences in attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnosis and clinical care: a national study of population healthcare records in Wales10
Commentary: Holy grails, personalized medicine, and the public health burden of psychopathology – a reflection on Ahuvia et al. (2023)10
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Adding to the neuroimmune network model: A commentary on Nusslock et al. (2024)10
The acute effects of community violence on young children's regulatory, behavioral, and developmental outcomes in a low‐income urban sample in Brazil10
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Patterns of sub‐optimal change following CBT for childhood anxiety10
Commentary: Machine learning for autism spectrum disorder diagnosis – challenges and opportunities – a commentary on Schulte‐Rüther et al. (2022)10
Sleep patterns, sluggish cognitive tempo, and daytime sleepiness – a commentary on Fredrick et al. (2022)10
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Validation of the Parental Understanding and Misperceptions about BAby's Sleep Questionnaire using auto‐videosomnography10
Commentary: Response to commentary by Davis and Kramer (2021)10
Characterizing neuroanatomic heterogeneity in people with and without ADHD based on subcortical brain volumes10
Positive and negative social media experiences and proximal risk for suicidal ideation in adolescents10
Editorial Perspective: When to start de‐implementation of interventions: the case of cognitive training for children with ADHD10
An online, father‐inclusive parenting intervention for reducing child conduct problems: a randomised controlled trial of family man10
Taking theory of mind research into much needed new terrain – a commentary on Kochanska et al. (2025)10
Disentangling the influences of parental genetics on offspring's cognition, education, and psychopathology via genetic and phenotypic pathways10
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Understanding heterogeneity in suicidal thoughts and behaviours and the implications for genetic studies – a commentary on Lannoy et al. (2022)9
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Differential outcomes of tonic and phasic irritability in adolescent girls9
Absence of dynamic neural oscillatory response to environmental conditions marks childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder9
Commentary: Global perspectives on resilience and callous‐unemotional traits – a reflection on Obando et al. (2022)9
Gut mycobiome dysbiosis and its impact on intestinal permeability in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder9
Examining the bidirectional association between emotion recognition and social autistic traits using observational and genetic analyses9
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Commentary: The potential of sleep research to contribute to our understanding on antisocial behaviour – a reflection on Brown, Beardslee, Frick, Steinberg and Cauffman (2022)9
Practitioner Review: It's time to bridge the gap – understanding the unmet needs of consumers with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic review and recommendations9
Micro‐sequences of anger and shame and non‐suicidal self‐injury in youth: an ecological momentary assessment study9
A multi‐method examination of sluggish cognitive tempo in relation to adolescent sleep, daytime sleepiness, and circadian preference9
Editorial: Innovation in child and adolescent mental health interventions9
Psychiatric comorbidity of eating disorders in children between the ages of 9 and 109
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Improving adolescent mental health and protection in humanitarian settings: longitudinal findings from a multi‐arm randomized controlled trial of child‐friendly spaces among South Sudanese refugees in9
Evaluating a treatment selection approach for online single‐session interventions for adolescent depression9
Editorial: 'Safety in numbers'? Big data discovery strategies in neuro‐developmental science – contributions and caveats9
Moderators of response to child‐based and parent‐based child anxiety treatment: a machine learning‐based analysis9
Gene–environment interplay in externalizing behavior from childhood through adulthood9
Alexithymia in individuals maltreated as children and adolescents: a meta‐analysis9
Displays of negative facial affect during parent–adolescent conflict and the bidirectional transmission of social anxiety8
Connecting the dots: social networks in the classroom and white matter connections in the brain8
Practitioner Review: Psychosis in children and adolescents8
The long‐term cost of childhood conduct problems: Finnish Nationwide 1981 Birth Cohort Study8
Editorial Perspective: Prato Research Collaborative for change in parent and child mental health – principles and recommendations for working with children and parents living with parental mental illn8
Using DNA to predict behaviour problems from preschool to adulthood8
Treatments with versus without medication for children with behavioural difficulties in clinical practice: an economic evaluation with observational data8
Editorial: For better or for worse? Intended and unintended consequences of science communication8
Commentary: Natural disaster studies on prenatal stress – moving forward – a commentary/reflection on Nomura et al. (2023)8
Under the skin: does psychiatric outcome of bullying victimization in school persist over time? A prospective intervention study8
Characterizing the ASD–ADHD phenotype: measurement structure and invariance in a clinical sample8
The adult outcome of childhood quasi‐autism arising following extreme institutional deprivation8
How a general vulnerability for psychopathology during adolescence manifests in young adults' daily lives8
Annual Research Review: Attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder in girls and women: underrepresentation, longitudinal processes, and key directions8
Attention to audiovisual speech does not facilitate language acquisition in infants with familial history of autism8
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Early intervention for inhibited young children: a randomized controlled trial comparing the Turtle Program and Cool Little Kids8
Effects of individual differences, society, and culture on youth‐rated problems and strengths in 38 societies8
Transdiagnostic research and the neurodiversity paradigm: commentary on the transdiagnostic revolution in neurodevelopmental disorders by Astle et al.8
Practitioner Review: Clinical utility of the QbTest for the assessment and diagnosis of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic review and meta‐analysis8
Editorial Perspective: Another look at ‘optimal outcome’ in autism spectrum disorder8
Explaining the influence of non‐shared environment (NSE) on symptoms of behaviour problems from preschool to adulthood: mind the missing NSE gap8
Prenatal exposure to a natural disaster and early development of psychiatric disorders during the preschool years: stress in pregnancy study8
Practitioner Review: Assessment and treatment of body dysmorphic disorder in young people8
Testing reciprocal associations between child anxiety and parenting across early interventions for inhibited preschoolers8
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