Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Article	Citations
Paediatric group A streptococcal disease in England: a primary care perspective	958
Eliminating hepatitis B: the ball is in our court	223
Child poverty in 2023: inequity in times of crises	219
Which children in the USA have access to heroic salvage therapy?	204
The health and wellbeing case for children's suffrage	186
Primaquine for children, once and for all	179
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2024; 8: 482–90	144
Tackling post-discharge mortality in children living in LMICs to reduce child deaths	141
Gamblification: risks of digital gambling games to adolescents	141
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children needs its own identity: the case of psychotropic medicines	139
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent mental health and substance use up to March, 2022, in Iceland: a repeated, cross-sectional, population-based study	112
Tackling childhood cancer in sub-Saharan Africa	109
Optimised versus standard dosing of vancomycin in infants with Gram-positive sepsis (NeoVanc): a multicentre, randomised, open-label, phase 2b, non-inferiority trial	103
Preventing reproductive coercion in adolescence	102
Current treatment outcomes of congenital heart disease and future perspectives	100
Single priming and booster dose of ten-valent and 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines and Streptococcus pneumoniae colonisation in children in South Africa: a single-centre, open-label, randomis	95
The global prevalence of and factors associated with Helicobacter pylori infection in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis	93
Obesity-related asthma in children and adolescents	92
Just getting bi?	91
Self-asphyxial behaviour in adolescents	82
New fellows of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences	78
Medically cleared and waiting for healing to begin	76
Adolescents and the International Conference on Population and Development at 30	71
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2022; 6: 150–57	66
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 684–85	64

European clinical trials in paediatric radiation oncology	62
Trajectories of airflow limitation from childhood to early adulthood: an analysis of six population-based birth cohorts	62
Clinical phenotypes and prognostic features of embryonal tumours with multi-layered rosettes: a Rare Brain Tumor Registry study	61
Rare and severe adverse events in children with inflammatory bowel disease: analysis of data from the PIBD-SETQuality Safety Registry	61
Longitudinal association between dysmenorrhoea in adolescence and chronic pain in adulthood: a UK population-based study	60
Social determinants, inequality, and autism	60
Continuation of gender-affirming hormones in transgender people starting puberty suppression in adolescence: a cohort study in the Netherlands	58
Growth of children who are HIV-exposed but uninfected: a systematic review and meta-analysis	56
A call to action: children's hospitals, child health, and the climate crisis	56
Adolescent girls at the intersection of poverty, migration, and gender	53
Come and learn: an invitation from Zvandiri Youth Advocates	52
Trust, but verify: a new potential association between food allergy and asthma in children	51
The importance of sleep for adolescents' long-term development	51
Coping with and challenging the impacts of COVID-19	50
Digital media and mental health: understanding the evidence	49
“As we grieved, we grew”	48
Thank you to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health's statistical and peer reviewers in 2023	47
Correction Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 588–98	47
Neonatal research outcomes: the ethical imperative to change attitudes	46
Pathological demand avoidance: further research is required – Authors' reply	44
Investing in childhood cancer registries to drive progress	44
When vaccine adverse event reporting generates hope, not fear	43
The healing powers of music	43
Early targeted heart rate aerobic exercise versus placebo stretching for sport-related concussion in adolescents: a randomised controlled trial	43
Intersectionality, gender norms, and young adolescents in context: a review of longitudinal multicountry research programmes to shape future action	43
Ethical and legal considerations in the care of children and young people with high consequence infectious diseases (HCIDs): an approach to decision making	42
Recognising context and power in youth mental health	41
UNICEF Innocenti Film Festival	41
Caring for children with cancer evacuated from Ukraine	40
Effectiveness of the quadrivalent live attenuated influenza vaccine against influenza-related hospitalisations and morbidity among children aged 2 to 6 years in Denmark: a nationwide cohort study emul	39
Efficacy and safety of methylphenidate and behavioural parent training for children aged 3–5 years with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, and sh	39
Immunogenicity and safety of the human papillomavirus vaccine in young survivors of cancer in the USA: a single-arm, open-label, phase 2, non-inferiority trial	39
Short-term and long-term risk of mortality and neurodevelopmental impairments after bacterial meningitis during infancy in children in Denmark and the Netherlands: a nationwide matched cohort study	39
The gift of a good beginning	38
Children are not future producers and customers: a plea for the moral imperative of acting now	37
Achievement goals and adolescent depression: implications for school-based interventions	37
Delay in death registration among adolescents and young adults in England and Wales	37
Substandard and falsified medicines for children: UHC has a preventive role	37
1-year follow-up of oral versus intravenous antibiotics in children and adolescents with uncomplicated bone and joint infections: a nationwide, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial in Denmark	36
Refreshing our International Advisory Board and Youth Advisory Panel	36
Harnessing n-of-1 trials for personalised paediatric care in the era of information overload	36
Effect of a youth-led early childhood care and education programme on children's development and learning in rural Sindh, Pakistan (LEAPS): a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised implementation trial	35
The neglect of kwashiorkor	35
Off-label is not always off-evidence: authorising paediatric indications for old medicines	35
Comparison of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika among children in Nicaragua across 18 years: a single-centre, prospective cohort study	35
Adjunctive dexamethasone and 30-day all-cause death after hospital admission in paediatric pneumococcal meningitis: a propensity score analysis	34
Autism incidence and spatial analysis in more than 7 million pupils in English schools: a retrospective, longitudinal, school registry study	34
Newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy in Australia: a non-randomised cohort study	33
Childhood cancer: exercise is medicine	33
The expanding field of genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: current understanding and future perspectives	33

Out of Zimbabwe: fragmented families and mental health	33
Diagnostic test accuracy of procalcitonin and C-reactive protein for predicting invasive and serious bacterial infections in young febrile infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis	30
Late effects after high-risk neuroblastoma (LEAHRN): a multicentre, cross-sectional cohort study from the Children's Oncology Group	30
Recovery from mRNA COVID-19 vaccine-related myocarditis	30
Neonatal sepsis and antimicrobial resistance in Africa	29
Direct oral anticoagulants for use in paediatrics	29
Mental health consequences of child marriage	28
Growing up modulated: paediatric neuromodulation needs a new ethical framework	28
Clinical and statistical insights from the FEED1 trial	28
Re-integrating Africa's street children	27
Prevalence of hypertension and high-normal blood pressure among young adults in Zimbabwe: findings from a large, cross-sectional population-based survey	27
Lebanese youth's struggle amid socioeconomic turmoil	27
School bullying in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis	27
Human papillomavirus vaccination for young survivors of cancer	26
Growing up in the shadow of terrorism	26
Antara Ganguli: rethinking gender equality in and through education	26
New insights into the link between childhood adversity and epigenetic changes	26
The future of rhabdomyosarcoma trials	26
Shared grief is half the sorrow	25
Severe anaemia and paediatric mortality after hospital discharge in Africa	25
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 89–99	25
Different is not deficient: respecting diversity in early childhood development – Authors' reply	24
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 383–92	24
Feeling at home in the motherland	24
US medical groups sue to reverse overhaul of vaccine recommendations	24
Paediatric endovascular thrombectomy: balancing strength of numbers and accuracy of precision medicine	24
Advancing severity grading for risk-differentiated paediatric pneumonia care	23
Who protects the children and women of Sudan?	23
Treatment of polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Latin America: recommendations from the Pan-American League of Associations for Rheumatology	23
Comparative physiological effects of antipsychotic drugs in children and young people: a network meta-analysis	22
Capturing adolescent realities in the global data revolution	22
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 766–75	22
Efficacy and safety of switching from intravenous to oral antibiotics (amoxicillin–clavulanic acid) versus a full course of intravenous antibiotics in neonates with probable bacterial infection (RAIN)	22
Child health prioritisation in national adaptation policies on climate change: a policy document analysis across 160 countries	22
Global, regional, and national burdens of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in adolescents and young adults aged 10–24 years from 1990 to 2019: a trend analysis based on the Global Burden	22
Child and adolescent health through storytelling	21
Changing embedded assumptions, one story at a time	21
Intersex is not a secret	21
“His mind, however, was now…released.”	21
Urgently expanding access to improved treatment for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis	21
Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit people: a paediatric health crisis	20
Adolescent e-cigarette use screening: enabling health-care providers	20
Fact versus fiction: the extraordinary lives of care-experienced, fostered, and adopted children	20
Medicate or operate: epilepsy surgery could save lives	20
LGBTQ youth activits in Poland	20
The UK Illegal Migration Bill: a child rights violation and safeguarding catastrophe	19
The Step Safely guidelines: a catalyst to address the burden of falls in children and adolescents	19
Adolescent girls at the fore: UNICEF's Gender Action Plan	19
Paediatric acute liver failure: a multidisciplinary perspective on when a critically ill child is unsuitable for liver transplantation	19
Association between caregiver concern for clinical deterioration and critical illness in children presenting to hospital: a prospective cohort study	18
Immunological effects and safety of live rotavirus vaccination after antenatal exposure to immunomodulatory biologic agents: a prospective cohort study from the Canadian Immunization Research Network	18
The critical state of children's health during the Sudan crisis	18
Real-world effectiveness of nirsevimab immunisation against bronchiolitis in infants: a case–control study in Paris, France	18
Current status and challenges in prenatal and neonatal screening, diagnosis, and management of congenital heart disease in China	18
Prospective associations between ADHD symptoms and physical conditions from early childhood to adolescence: a population-based longitudinal study	18
Dismantling barriers and biases against adolescent mothers	18
Lung function trajectories and determinants in early life	17
Missed opportunities to develop childhood cancer programmes in Africa	17
Clinical encounters with yourself: share, disclose, or overexpose?	17
Children: innocent victims of war in Ukraine	17
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2021; 5: 852–61	17
“Complicated feelings of home”: stories of child migration to the UK	17
Shifting stigma about autistic young people	17
Gender service for children: a battle for health in a culture war	17
Prioritising snakebite in the child and adolescent health agenda	17
The pain of being a young person experiencing chronic pain	16
Weight-loss medications: promoting health and not harm	16
For youth, for Justice	16
Procalcitonin-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection in the UK (BATCH): a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, two-arm, individ	16
Achievement goals and adolescent mental health in individualist versus collectivist cultures	16
Hospital admissions and need for mechanical ventilation in children with respiratory syncytial virus before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a Danish nationwide cohort study	16
Association between the timing of childhood adversity and epigenetic patterns across childhood and adolescence: findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) prospective c	15
Incorporating parental values in complex paediatric and perinatal decisions	15
Early neurodevelopment of HIV-exposed uninfected children in the era of antiretroviral therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Postoperative speech impairment and surgical approach to posterior fossa tumours in children: a prospective European multicentre cohort study	15
Reversing the neglect of children and adolescents affected by tuberculosis	15
Estimated incidence, prevalence, mortality, and registration of childhood cancer (ages 0–14 years) in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region: an analysis of GLOBOCAN 2020 data	15
Global, regional, and country estimates of metabolic syndrome burden in children and adolescents in 2020: a systematic review and modelling analysis	15
Serum GFAP and UCH-L1 for the identification of clinically important traumatic brain injury in children in France: a diagnostic accuracy substudy	15
Tafenoquine exposure assessment, safety, and relapse prevention efficacy in children with Plasmodium vivax malaria: open-label, single-arm, non-comparative, multicentre, pharmacokinetic bridging, phas	15

Death by accident: the curse of mobility	14
PECARN prediction rule for cervical spine imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt trauma: a multicentre prospective observational study	14
Self-advocacy and barriers for young people accessing health care in the Scottish Highlands	14
Adolescents in phase 3 HIV clinical trials	14
Bridging the worlds of art and health care	14
Rare and severe adverse events in children with inflammatory bowel disease	14
Treating eating disorders in the wake of trauma	14
Correction Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2024; 8: 51–62	14
Helping adolescents cope with the burden of scoliosis	14
Lessons from UK historical cohort studies of lower respiratory tract infections – Authors' reply	14
Biomarkers for early identification of severe febrile illness among children in community settings: spot on?	14
Blood transfusion for children in sub-Saharan Africa: 200 years on	14
(Re)imagining inclusion to foster belonging in the lives of disabled children and youth	13
Bullying and health inequalities for children and adolescents with disability	13
Course-correcting youth mental health care	13
Challenges and opportunities of female leadership in education	13
Progress and challenges of HIV and other STIs in adolescents and young adults	13
Advances in medical management of acute liver failure in children: promoting native liver survival	13
Importance of understanding the reinfection risk of COVID-19 in children	13
Beyond birthweight: longitudinal insights into twin growth and obesity risk	13
Long-term kidney outcomes in children and adolescents with hypertension: a propensity-matched cohort study	13
Violence against children with disability: an unacceptable scourge of society	13
Vaccination against all odds in Brazil	12
Kawasaki disease: contemporary perspectives	12
Lipoprotein apheresis and long-term cardiovascular health: a real answer for children with HoFH?	12
Regenerative medicine: prenatal approaches	12
Cancer risk with topical calcineurin inhibitors, pimecrolimus and tacrolimus, for atopic dermatitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Reading people	12
Determinants of lung function development from birth to age 5 years: an interrupted time series analysis of a South African birth cohort	12
Semaglutide and social media: implications for young women with polycystic ovarian syndrome	12
Finding diamonds in a coal mine	12
WHO's global roadmap to tackle adolescent hypertension	11
Malnutrition among pregnant adolescents in the Philippines	11
This void needs to be filled with colour	11
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 373–74	11
Bonface Massah: changemaker and defender for children with albinism	11
Authentic First Nations health research	11
Supporting the sovereignty of families and cultures	11
Planting seeds: reading about gardening to learn about nutrition	11
Children and armed conflict	11
Thank you to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health's clinical and statistical peer reviewers in 2021	11
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 9	10
Difficult questions about long COVID in children	10
Redoubling efforts to sustain seasonal malaria chemoprevention	10
What is the specific role of schools and daycares in COVID-19 transmission? A final report from a living rapid review	10
Childhood growth hormone treatment and metabolic and cardiovascular risk in adults born small for gestational age after growth hormone cessation in the Netherlands: a 12-year follow-up study	10
Priorities in tackling non-communicable diseases in children and adolescents in China	10
Youth engagement at The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health	10
Kid Governors and youth civic engagement in the USA	10
Efficacy and safety of ziresovir in hospitalised infants aged 6 months or younger with respiratory syncytial virus infection in China: findings from a phase 3 randomised trial with 24-month follow-up	10
Simplifying medicine dosing for children by harmonising weight bands across therapeutic areas	10
Severe acute hepatitis in children	10
Subgroups of children with Kawasaki disease: a data-driven cluster analysis	10
What does the future hold for youth in Africa with high blood pressure?	10
Characterising sources of PM2·5 exposure for school children with asthma: a personal exposure study across six cities in sub-Saharan Africa	9
Mpox among children in Africa	9
Global, regional, and national causes of under-5 mortality in 2000–19: an updated systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals	9
Physical activity and exercise for cancer-related cognitive impairment among individuals affected by childhood cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Vosoritide therapy in children with achondroplasia aged 3−59 months: a multinational, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial	9
Honouring and learning from youth voices	9
Towards diversity in asthma pharmacogenetics	9
Reported cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children aged 12–20 years in the USA who received a COVID-19 vaccine, December, 2020, through August, 2021: a surveillance investigation	9
Real-world effectiveness of nirsevimab against respiratory syncytial virus disease in infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Standardising training for young people's research advisory groups	8
Early childhood height, weight, and BMI development in children with monogenic obesity: a European multicentre, retrospective, observational study	8
Unintentional injuries in adolescents: a neglected issue in global health	8
Paediatric group A streptococcal disease in England: a primary care perspective – Authors' reply	8
Can the 2024 UK election change the child health trajectory?	8
Long-term sequelae in survivors of high-risk neuroblastoma: the price of success	8
Thank you to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health's statistical and peer reviewers in 2022	8
Real-life benefits of high-efficacy therapies for children with multiple sclerosis	8
School violence: where are the interventions?	8
Keeping schools open in times of health crises: seeing the global picture	8
Current treatment for childhood arterial ischaemic stroke	7
Control of serogroup W meningococcal disease outbreaks: the promise of adolescent vaccination	7
Primaquine for uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax malaria in children younger than 15 years: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis	7
Sinéad Rhodes: setting the record straight on neurodivergence	7
Quality improvement programmes in paediatric sepsis from a global perspective	7
Adolescent acne vulgaris: current and emerging treatments	7
Infant food allergy phenotypes and association with lung function deficits and asthma at age 6 years: a population-based, prospective cohort study in Australia	7
Next steps in treatment of prematurity-associated respiratory disease	7
Raising the bar for measuring childhood adversity	7
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2022; 6: 533–44	6
Enabling participation in physical activity	6
Luciana Rodrigues Silva: paediatric gastroenterologist and trailblazer in Brazil	6
The case for point-of-care HIV viral load testing in Africa	6
Developmental language disorder: a hidden condition	6
Longer-term survival, quality of life, and cost-effectiveness of conservative versus liberal oxygenation targets in critically ill children: a pre-specified analysis from Oxy-PICU, a multicentre, open	6
Mortality after hospital discharge among children younger than 5 years admitted with suspected sepsis in Uganda: a prospective, multisite, observational cohort study	6
Need for a consensus definition of remission in paediatric asthma	6
Impact of an adolescent meningococcal ACWY immunisation programme to control a national outbreak of group W meningococcal disease in England: a national surveillance and modelling study	6
Strengthening sexual and reproductive health education for children and adolescents in China	6
Listen to the parents: caregiver concern and development of critical illness	6
Characteristics of children and adolescents with multidrug-resistant and rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis and their association with treatment outcomes: a systematic review and individual participant	6
Advancing the rights of street and working children	6