Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Commentary: Promoting positive mental health during pregnancy—reflections on Lähdepuro et al. (2023)90
Adolescent sleep quality and quantity and educational attainment: a test of multiple mechanisms using sibling difference models88
Commentary: Cognitive stimulation and executive functions in the prevention and treatment of childhood disorders – reflection on Phillips et al., 202381
Decoding and vocabulary improvements mediate sustained gains in reading comprehension: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial of a multicomponent reading intervention80
Perinatal hardship and infant neurodevelopment: insights from a global pandemic71
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Prospective association between evening circadian preference and academic functioning in adolescents: the role of daytime sleepiness70
Impulsivity as key bridge symptoms in cross‐sectional and longitudinal networks of ADHD and ODD65
Can a low‐intensity evidence‐based parenting seminar series promote the mental health and wellbeing of children and families? A cluster randomised trial63
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Co‐development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic trait trajectories from childhood to early adulthood57
Testing the social motivation theory of autism: the role of co‐occurring anxiety54
A prospective study of the relative contribution of adolescent peer support quantity and quality to depressive symptoms52
Neural correlates of child temperament: The role of brain network connectivity in psychopathology risk49
Psychoneuroendocrine stress response in female and male youth with major depressive disorder48
Social connectedness and adolescent suicide risk46
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) study46
Annual Research Review: Neuroimmune network model of depression: a developmental perspective45
Developmental deviation in delay discounting as a transdiagnostic indicator of risk for child psychopathology44
Editorial Perspective: Reducing mental health disparities among underserved youth: using technology to equip parents as agents of change44
Predictive and incremental validity of adolescent callous‐unemotional traits: longitudinal prediction of antisocial and social outcomes in early adulthood42
Avoidance habit learning in adolescents and young women with anorexia nervosa: an fMRI study42
Parent–child coregulation as a dynamic system: a commentary on Wass et al. (2024)41
Violent and sexual victimisation and incident anxiety, mood and substance use disorders in childhood and adolescence: a co‐sibling study39
Commentary: Global perspectives on resilience and callous‐unemotional traits – a reflection on Obando et al. (2022)38
Commentary: Optimism for the future of research on disruptive behaviors – an appreciation of good science as illustrated by Nobakht, Steinsbekk & Wichstrom (2023)38
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Treatments with versus without medication for children with behavioural difficulties in clinical practice: an economic evaluation with observational data37
Adding to the neuroimmune network model: A commentary on Nusslock et al. (2024)36
Commentary on ‘Grandparental care and child mental health: a systematic review and meta‐analysis36
The role of comorbid childhood mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions in the persistence of ADHD symptoms: systematic review and meta‐analys35
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Editorial: Innovation in child and adolescent mental health interventions34
The acute effects of community violence on young children's regulatory, behavioral, and developmental outcomes in a low‐income urban sample in Brazil34
Time–frequency and functional connectivity analysis in drug‐naive adolescents with depression based on electroencephalography using a visual cognitive task: A comparative study34
Concurrent and longitudinal associations of developmental language disorder with peer victimization in adolescence: evidence from a co‐twin study34
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Shorter night‐time sleep duration and later sleep timing from infancy to adolescence32
Annual Research Review: Cash transfer programs and young people's mental health – a review of studies in the United States31
Research Review: Omega‐3 supplementation to reduce antisocial behavior – a systematic review and meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials31
Competition between the positive youth development and the psychopathological system among adolescents: less vulnerability or more scarring?31
Research Review: What we have learned about early detection and intervention of borderline personality disorder31
Practitioner Review: It's time to bridge the gap – understanding the unmet needs of consumers with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic review and recommendations30
Gut mycobiome dysbiosis and its impact on intestinal permeability in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder30
Annual Research Review: Early conduct problems – precursors, outcomes, and etiology30
Advancing the treatment of anxiety disorders in transition‐age youth: a review of the therapeutic effects of unconscious exposure29
Practitioner Review: Neurobiological consequences of childhood maltreatment – clinical and therapeutic implications for practitioners29
Anxiety symptom trajectories from treatment to 5‐ to 12‐year follow‐up across childhood and adolescence29
Commentary: Will genomics revolutionise research on gene–environment interplay?28
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Categorical and dimensional approaches to the developmental relationship between ADHD and irritability27
Editorial: The critical need to assess pubertal development in studies of child and adolescent psychopathology27
Association between infant feeding and ADHD development in childhood: a birth cohort study in Taiwan26
Navigating early risks: Differential outcomes in middle childhood and the compensatory role of kindergarten experiences26
Infant and preschool attachment, continuity and relationship to caregiving sensitivity: findings from a new population‐based Australian cohort26
Continuity of trajectories of autism symptom severity from infancy to childhood26
Type and developmental timing of childhood adversity predicts psychopathology symptoms in a South African birth cohort26
Editorial: Mechanism‐specific developmental windows of opportunity in the prevention of youth psychopathology25
Editorial: Unsettling ‘settled’ science – the importance of questioning received wisdom about the causes of mental health and neuro‐developmental conditions25
Research Review: Help‐seeking intentions, behaviors, and barriers in college students – a systematic review and meta‐analysis25
Research Review: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of sex differences in narrow constructs of restricted and repetitive behaviours and interests 25
Socioeconomic status and risk for child psychopathology: exploring gene–environment interaction in the presence of gene–environment correlation using extended families in the Norwegian Mother, Father 25
Testing different sources of environmental unpredictability on adolescent functioning: ancestral cue versus statistical learning and the role of temperament25
A multivariate genetic analysis of anxiety sensitivity, environmental sensitivity and reported life events in adolescents25
Editorial Perspective: How can we develop effective and timely interventions for young people with chronic loneliness?25
Gender diversity is correlated with dimensional neurodivergent traits but not categorical neurodevelopmental diagnoses in children24
Expansion and commentary on a two generation approach to prenatal opioid exposure – a commentary on Conradt et al. (2023)24
Adolescent eating behaviours: associations with autistic and ADHD traits in childhood and the mediating role of anxiety24
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Translating the nuanced risk for substance use among adolescents treated for attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ) into clinical practice24
Editorial Perspective: A systems approach to addressing young people's mental health24
Parenting and adolescent anxiety within families: a biweekly longitudinal study24
Subclinical hypomania, psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diagnoses: phenotypic and aetiological overlap23
START NOW : a cognitive behavioral skills training for adolescent girls with conduct or oppositional defiant disorder – a randomized clinical trial23
Paternal perinatal stress is associated with children's emotional problems at 2 years23
How are children's perceptions of the home environment associated with a general psychopathology factor across childhood?23
Network analysis of ecological momentary assessment identifies frustration as a central node in irritability22
Characteristics of children with a psychiatric disorder in 1999, 2004 and 2017: an analysis of the national child mental health surveys of England22
Annual Research Review: What processes are dysregulated among emotionally dysregulated youth? – a systematic review22
Annual Research Review: Perspectives on progress in ADHD science – from characterization to cause22
Conduct disorder with limited prosocial emotions: a multimethod study in criminal justice‐involved boys21
The impact of COVID ‐19 on psychiatric clinical encounters among low‐income racially‐diverse children21
Examining bidirectional associations between overprotective parenting and adolescent problem behaviors: a multiverse analysis20
Understanding emotion processing in offspring of mothers with depression – A commentary on Burkhouse and Kujawa (2023)20
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Social media component effects: a commentary on Maheux et al. (2024)20
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Research Review: Sex differences in the clinical correlates of nonsuicidal self‐injury in adolescents – a systematic review19
Editorial: Thinking outside the box – enhancing causal models of neurodevelopmental disorders19
Research Review: Siblings matter. A multi‐level meta‐analysis on the association between cannabis use among adolescent siblings19
Neural correlates of children with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder symptoms: large‐scale neuroanatomical analysis of a paediatric population19
Developmental language disorder and the ubiquity of language in the world – a commentary on Iverson & Williams (2026)19
Using machine‐learning methods to identify early‐life predictors of 11‐year language outcome19
Understanding the relationship between social camouflaging in autism and safety behaviours in social anxiety in autistic and non‐autistic adolescents18
Current evidence and opportunities in child and adolescent public mental health: a research review18
Editorial Perspective: On the need for clarity about attachment terminology18
Practitioner Review: Infant mental health meets cell and molecular biology – a look to the future18
Sudden gains in modular CBT for mental health disorders in children and young people with epilepsy18
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Oral language enrichment in preschool improves children's language skills: a cluster randomised controlled trial17
Replication of a predictive model for youth ADHD in an independent sample from a developing country17
Adolescent functional network connectivity prospectively predicts adult anxiety symptoms related to perceived COVID ‐19 economic adversity17
Time after time: failure to identify and support females with ADHD – a Swedish population register study17
Daily fluctuations in adolescents' sleep predict next‐day attention, sleepiness, and fatigue: an ecological momentary assessment study over 28 days17
Annual Research Review: The impact of Covid‐19 on psychopathology in children and young people worldwide: systematic review of studies with pre‐ and within‐pandemic data17
Instrumental learning and behavioral persistence in children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity‐disorder: does reinforcement frequency matter?17
Parent‐ and teacher‐reported associations from adolescent bifactor models of psychopathology: an outcome‐wide association study of 26 outcomes in mid‐life16
Correction to “Peer contagion dynamics in the friendships of children with ADHD16
Predictors of Environmental Sensitivity in Syrian refugee children16
Impact of a Pediatric Mental Health Crisis Service in the emergency department on hospital resource utilization: an interrupted time series analysis16
Practitioner Review: Common elements in treatments for youth suicide attempts and self‐harm – a practitioner review based on review of treatment elements associated with intervention benefits16
The association between temperament and polygenic score for psychopathology from infancy to middle childhood16
Not screens but their context of use impact cognitive development: a commentary on Yang et al. (2023)16
Network structure of reward sensitivity and its temporal interactions with depression: a cross‐lagged panel network analysis16
Brief digital psychological intervention to prevent relapse of non‐suicidal self‐injury behavior in adolescents: A randomized controlled trial16
Polygenic risk score and peer victimisation independently predict depressive symptoms in adolescence: results from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Children Development16
Do early gains deliver lasting impact? Understanding why long‐term effects of language intervention fade out16
Self‐ and co‐regulation of physiological activity during mother‐daughter interactions: The role of adolescent non‐suicidal self‐injury15
Efficacy of guided and unguided web‐assisted self‐help for parents of children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder: A three‐arm randomized controlled trial15
Patterns of maladaptive exercise behavior from ages 14–24 in a longitudinal cohort15
Different sensory dimensions in infancy are associated with separable etiological influences and with autistic traits in toddlerhood15
The intergenerational impact of mothers and fathers on children's word reading development15
Editorial: Using parenting interventions as treatments and brain development – are we at the end of the beginning yet?15
Neuroimaging biomarkers in school‐aged children with autism: MRI ‐measured lipid content in the limbic system15
Internet‐delivered therapist‐assisted cognitive therapy for adolescent social anxiety disorder ( OSCA ): a randomised controlled trial addressing pre15
Personally meaningful life events from adolescence to young adulthood: a longitudinal natural language processing analysis15
Parent‐child interaction at age 5 months: genetic and environmental contributions and associations with later socio‐communicative development15
Evocative effects of children's education‐associated genetics on maternal parenting: results from the Norwegian mother, father and child cohort study15
Integrative analysis of genomic and exposomic influences on youth mental health15
The Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme is associated with lasting improvements in children's language and reading skills14
Early relational origins of Theory of Mind: A two‐study replication14
The nature and nurture of primary and secondary callous–unemotional traits: evidence from two independent twin samples14
Detecting adolescent depression through passive monitoring of linguistic markers in smartphone communication14
Irritability and rejection‐elicited aggression in adolescents and young adults14
Capturing change in restricted and repetitive behaviour in preschoolers with ASD : A comparison of direct behavioural observation and parent report14
Do meaningful dimensions of childhood adversity exist? Data‐driven evidence from two prospective cohort studies14
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Taking stock of the present and looking to the future of ADHD research: a commentary on Sonuga‐Barke et al. (2023)14
Elevated neurofilament light levels in acute anorexia nervosa are associated with alterations in white matter volume and connectivity networks14
Testing reciprocal associations between child anxiety and parenting across early interventions for inhibited preschoolers13
Unraveling psychosis risk in sexual minorities: temporal dynamics of social defeat and suspiciousness in adolescence13
Taking theory of mind research into much needed new terrain – a commentary on Kochanska et al. (2025)13
The stability of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule‐2 in children aged 14–36 months with elevated likelihood for autism13
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Editorial: Qualitative contributions to translational science – Practical pointers towards methodological pluralism in child psychology and psychiatry13
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The social skills of autistic boys in preschool: the contributions of their dyadic and triadic interactions with their parents13
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Dynamics of depression symptoms in adolescents during three types of psychotherapy and post‐treatment follow‐up13
Impaired sensory–motor integration in children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder during visual search13
An online, father‐inclusive parenting intervention for reducing child conduct problems: a randomised controlled trial of family man13
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Research Review: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of infant and toddler temperament as predictors of childhood attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder12
Editorial: ‘Have you seen me lately’ – Revisiting our understanding of significant mental health disorders for children and adolescents12
Interactions between infant characteristics and parenting factors rarely replicate across cohorts and developmental domains12
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Temperament and executive functioning correlates of ADHD symptom severity during early versus middle childhood12
The role of pubertal development in the association between trauma and internalising symptoms in female youth12
Reciprocal relations between interparental aggression and symptoms of oppositional defiant and conduct disorders: a seven‐wave cohort study of within‐family effects from preschool to adolescence12
Adolescent psychotic experiences before and during the COVID ‐19 pandemic: a prospective cohort study12
The interaction between polygenic risk and environmental influences: A direct test of the 3P model of insomnia in adolescents12
Editorial: ADHD persistence – the interplay of genes, socioeconomic context, and symptom domains over development12
Practitioner Review: Clinical utility of the QbTest for the assessment and diagnosis of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic revie12
Editorial perspective: Leaving the baby in the bathwater in neurodevelopmental research12
Commentary: An impressive state‐of‐the‐science account and an exciting springboard for new paths: the present and future of research on early conduct problems – a commentary on Hyde et al. (2025)11
The longitudinal role of sleep on self‐harm during adolescence: A birth cohort study11
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Psychostimulant treatment uniquely reduces left uncinate fasciculus microstructural integrity in ADHD youth with a familial risk for bipolar I disord11
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Research Reviews: Advances in methods for evaluating child and adolescent mental health interventions11
Response to uncertainty in developmental origins of health and disease research: commentary on Nomura et al. (2022)11
Sensory hyperacusis as a predictor of anxiety in adolescence11
Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US population over the past 75 years11
The developmental psychopathology of detection and dual control – a commentary on Fox et al. (2023)11
Research Review: Pharmacological and non‐pharmacological treatments for adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic review of the literature10
Effectiveness of the school‐based internet intervention StresSOS for the prevention of mental health problems in young people: a randomized controlled tr10
Attentional biases for sad faces in offspring of mothers with a history of major depression: trajectories of change from childhood to adolescence10
Childhood mental health difficulties mediate the long‐term association between early‐life adversity at age 3 and poorer cognitive functioning at ages 11 and 1410
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Research Review: Shared and distinct structural and functional brain alterations in adolescents with major depressive disorder – a multimodal meta‐analysis10
A double‐blind randomized controlled trial of personalized upper‐alpha neurofeedback in children with ADHD10
Applying autism screening research to real‐world scenarios: a commentary on Sheldrick et al. (2023)10
Editorial: Does the polygenic revolution herald a watershed in the study of GE interplay in developmental psychopathology? Some considerations for th10
Improving child mental health and learning outcomes and reducing stigma and discrimination in conflict setting: findings from a cluster randomized controlled trial of a classroom‐based psychosocial in10
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Prediction of early‐onset bipolar using electronic health records10
The association between 24‐hr movement patterns and self‐harm incidence in adolescence10
Developmental trajectories of child and adolescent emotional problems: associations with early adult alcohol use behaviors10
Methodological provocations for detecting context‐dependent ADHD ‐risk coupling: a commentary on Goueta et al. (2025)10
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Anthropometric differences between twins at birth and their association with later cognitive performance10
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