Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Article	Citations
Eliminating hepatitis B: the ball is in our court	1001
Which children in the USA have access to heroic salvage therapy?	228
Primaquine for children, once and for all	227
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2024; 8: 482–90	217
Gamblification: risks of digital gambling games to adolescents	187
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	181
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children needs its own identity: the case of psychotropic medicines	154
The health and wellbeing case for children's suffrage	147
Preventing reproductive coercion in adolescence	141
Child poverty in 2023: inequity in times of crises	116
Paediatric group A streptococcal disease in England: a primary care perspective	113
Tackling post-discharge mortality in children living in LMICs to reduce child deaths	105
Global prevalence of hypertension among children and adolescents aged 19 years or younger: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis	104
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	103
The global prevalence of and factors associated with Helicobacter pylori infection in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis	100
Current treatment outcomes of congenital heart disease and future perspectives	99
Optimised versus standard dosing of vancomycin in infants with Gram-positive sepsis (NeoVanc): a multicentre, randomised, open-label, phase 2b, non-inferiority trial	95
Tackling childhood cancer in sub-Saharan Africa	95
Obesity-related asthma in children and adolescents	88
Medically cleared and waiting for healing to begin	82
Adolescents and the International Conference on Population and Development at 30	78
Self-asphyxial behaviour in adolescents	76
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 684–85	68
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2022; 6: 150–57	67
Just getting bi?	65

New fellows of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences	65
Rare and severe adverse events in children with inflammatory bowel disease: analysis of data from the PIBD-SETQuality Safety Registry	63
European clinical trials in paediatric radiation oncology	63
Social determinants, inequality, and autism	63
Longitudinal association between dysmenorrhoea in adolescence and chronic pain in adulthood: a UK population-based study	62
Trajectories of airflow limitation from childhood to early adulthood: an analysis of six population-based birth cohorts	61
Continuation of gender-affirming hormones in transgender people starting puberty suppression in adolescence: a cohort study in the Netherlands	59
Toward climate-smart, mental health-safe schools	56
Growth of children who are HIV-exposed but uninfected: a systematic review and meta-analysis	55
Adolescent girls at the intersection of poverty, migration, and gender	54
The healing powers of music	53
Pathological demand avoidance: further research is required – Authors' reply	53
Caring for children with cancer evacuated from Ukraine	52
Intersectionality, gender norms, and young adolescents in context: a review of longitudinal multicountry research programmes to shape future action	50
Recognising context and power in youth mental health	49
Ethical and legal considerations in the care of children and young people with high consequence infectious diseases (HCIDs): an approach to decision making	49
UNICEF Innocenti Film Festival	48
Correction Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 588–98	48
Thank you to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health's statistical and peer reviewers in 2023	48
Trust, but verify: a new potential association between food allergy and asthma in children	46
Neonatal research outcomes: the ethical imperative to change attitudes	44
Coping with and challenging the impacts of COVID-19	43
“As we grieved, we grew”	43
Digital media and mental health: understanding the evidence	43
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	41
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	41
When vaccine adverse event reporting generates hope, not fear	41
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	41
Investing in childhood cancer registries to drive progress	41
The importance of sleep for adolescents' long-term development	40
Achievement goals and adolescent depression: implications for school-based interventions	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	40
Come and learn: an invitation from Zvandiri Youth Advocates	40
Refreshing our International Advisory Board and Youth Advisory Panel	40
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	39
Harnessing n-of-1 trials for personalised paediatric care in the era of information overload	39
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	37
Children are not future producers and customers: a plea for the moral imperative of acting now	37
Mental health consequences of child marriage	37
Neonatal sepsis and antimicrobial resistance in Africa	37
Out of Zimbabwe: fragmented families and mental health	37
Growing up modulated: paediatric neuromodulation needs a new ethical framework	37
Autism incidence and spatial analysis in more than 7 million pupils in English schools: a retrospective, longitudinal, school registry study	37
Late effects after high-risk neuroblastoma (LEAHRN): a multicentre, cross-sectional cohort study from the Children's Oncology Group	35
Recovery from mRNA COVID-19 vaccine-related myocarditis	35
Off-label is not always off-evidence: authorising paediatric indications for old medicines	34
Childhood cancer: exercise is medicine	34
Delay in death registration among adolescents and young adults in England and Wales	34
The neglect of kwashiorkor	34
The gift of a good beginning	34

Direct oral anticoagulants for use in paediatrics	33
The expanding field of genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: current understanding and future perspectives	33
Comparison of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika among children in Nicaragua across 18 years: a single-centre, prospective cohort study	33
Newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy in Australia: a non-randomised cohort study	31
Prevalence of hypertension and high-normal blood pressure among young adults in Zimbabwe: findings from a large, cross-sectional population-based survey	30
Substandard and falsified medicines for children: UHC has a preventive role	30
School bullying in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis	30
Clinical and statistical insights from the FEED1 trial	29
Adjunctive dexamethasone and 30-day all-cause death after hospital admission in paediatric pneumococcal meningitis: a propensity score analysis	29
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	29
Re-integrating Africa's street children	28
Antara Ganguli: rethinking gender equality in and through education	27
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 89–99	27
US medical groups sue to reverse overhaul of vaccine recommendations	26
Paediatric endovascular thrombectomy: balancing strength of numbers and accuracy of precision medicine	26
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 383–92	26
Human papillomavirus vaccination for young survivors of cancer	25
Capturing adolescent realities in the global data revolution	25
Advancing severity grading for risk-differentiated paediatric pneumonia care	25
Growing up in the shadow of terrorism	25
New insights into the link between childhood adversity and epigenetic changes	25
Treatment of polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Latin America: recommendations from the Pan-American League of Associations for Rheumatology	25
Feeling at home in the motherland	25
Shared grief is half the sorrow	24
Severe anaemia and paediatric mortality after hospital discharge in Africa	24
Different is not deficient: respecting diversity in early childhood development – Authors' reply	23
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 766–75	23
Lebanese youth's struggle amid socioeconomic turmoil	23
The future of rhabdomyosarcoma trials	23
Urgently expanding access to improved treatment for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis	22
Who protects the children and women of Sudan?	22
Child health prioritisation in national adaptation policies on climate change: a policy document analysis across 160 countries	22
Dismantling barriers and biases against adolescent mothers	22
Comparative physiological effects of antipsychotic drugs in children and young people: a network meta-analysis	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
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	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
Paediatric acute liver failure: a multidisciplinary perspective on when a critically ill child is unsuitable for liver transplantation	22
The critical state of children's health during the Sudan crisis	21
Shifting stigma about autistic young people	21
“His mind, however, was now…released.”	20
Adolescent e-cigarette use screening: enabling health-care providers	20
Medicate or operate: epilepsy surgery could save lives	20
Child and adolescent health through storytelling	20
Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit people: a paediatric health crisis	20
LGBTQ youth activits in Poland	20
Intersex is not a secret	20
The UK Illegal Migration Bill: a child rights violation and safeguarding catastrophe	20
Adolescent girls at the fore: UNICEF's Gender Action Plan	19
Association between caregiver concern for clinical deterioration and critical illness in children presenting to hospital: a prospective cohort study	19
The Step Safely guidelines: a catalyst to address the burden of falls in children and adolescents	19
Prospective associations between ADHD symptoms and physical conditions from early childhood to adolescence: a population-based longitudinal study	19
Fact versus fiction: the extraordinary lives of care-experienced, fostered, and adopted children	19
Clinical encounters with yourself: share, disclose, or overexpose?	18
Current status and challenges in prenatal and neonatal screening, diagnosis, and management of congenital heart disease in China	18
Lung function trajectories and determinants in early life	18
Real-world effectiveness of nirsevimab immunisation against bronchiolitis in infants: a case–control study in Paris, France	18
Building momentum to improve childhood cancer outcomes in Asia	18
Children: innocent victims of war in Ukraine	18
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	17
“Complicated feelings of home”: stories of child migration to the UK	17
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2021; 5: 852–61	17
Weight-loss medications: promoting health and not harm	17
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	17
Gender service for children: a battle for health in a culture war	17
Prioritising snakebite in the child and adolescent health agenda	17
Missed opportunities to develop childhood cancer programmes in Africa	17
PECARN prediction rule for cervical spine imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt trauma: a multicentre prospective observational study	17
For youth, for Justice	17
Achievement goals and adolescent mental health in individualist versus collectivist cultures	17
Incorporating parental values in complex paediatric and perinatal decisions	17
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 837–47	17
Serum GFAP and UCH-L1 for the identification of clinically important traumatic brain injury in children in France: a diagnostic accuracy substudy	16
Tafenoquine exposure assessment, safety, and relapse prevention efficacy in children with Plasmodium vivax malaria: open-label, single-arm, non-comparative, multicentre, pharmacokinetic bridging, phas	16
Reversing the neglect of children and adolescents affected by tuberculosis	16
Early neurodevelopment of HIV-exposed uninfected children in the era of antiretroviral therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis	16
The pain of being a young person experiencing chronic pain	16
Attention to menarche, puberty education, and menstrual health monitoring are essential	15
Biomarkers for early identification of severe febrile illness among children in community settings: spot on?	15
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	15

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
Global, regional, and country estimates of metabolic syndrome burden in children and adolescents in 2020: a systematic review and modelling analysis	15
The example we set: Gen AI, honesty, and authenticity	15
Death by accident: the curse of mobility	15
Self-advocacy and barriers for young people accessing health care in the Scottish Highlands	14
Helping adolescents cope with the burden of scoliosis	14
(Re)imagining inclusion to foster belonging in the lives of disabled children and youth	14
Correction Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2024; 8: 51–62	14
Rare and severe adverse events in children with inflammatory bowel disease	14
Lessons from UK historical cohort studies of lower respiratory tract infections – Authors' reply	14
Bridging the worlds of art and health care	14
Progress and challenges of HIV and other STIs in adolescents and young adults	14
Blood transfusion for children in sub-Saharan Africa: 200 years on	14
Bullying and health inequalities for children and adolescents with disability	14
Challenges and opportunities of female leadership in education	14
Regenerative medicine: prenatal approaches	13
Adolescents in phase 3 HIV clinical trials	13
Vaccination against all odds in Brazil	13
Cancer risk with topical calcineurin inhibitors, pimecrolimus and tacrolimus, for atopic dermatitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Course-correcting youth mental health care	13
Violence against children with disability: an unacceptable scourge of society	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
Determinants of lung function development from birth to age 5 years: an interrupted time series analysis of a South African birth cohort	13
Treating eating disorders in the wake of trauma	13
Kawasaki disease: contemporary perspectives	13
Importance of understanding the reinfection risk of COVID-19 in children	13
Advances in medical management of acute liver failure in children: promoting native liver survival	13
Semaglutide and social media: implications for young women with polycystic ovarian syndrome	13
Authentic First Nations health research	12
Bonface Massah: changemaker and defender for children with albinism	12
This void needs to be filled with colour	12
Lipoprotein apheresis and long-term cardiovascular health: a real answer for children with HoFH?	12
WHO's global roadmap to tackle adolescent hypertension	12
Mpox among children in Africa	11
Difficult questions about long COVID in children	11
Youth engagement at The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health	11
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	11
Finding diamonds in a coal mine	11
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 9	11
Kid Governors and youth civic engagement in the USA	11
Priorities in tackling non-communicable diseases in children and adolescents in China	11
Towards diversity in asthma pharmacogenetics	10
Thank you to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health's clinical and statistical peer reviewers in 2021	10
Malnutrition among pregnant adolescents in the Philippines	10
Subgroups of children with Kawasaki disease: a data-driven cluster analysis	10
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 373–74	10
Severe acute hepatitis in children	10
Redoubling efforts to sustain seasonal malaria chemoprevention	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
What does the future hold for youth in Africa with high blood pressure?	10
Children and armed conflict	10
Supporting the sovereignty of families and cultures	10
Planting seeds: reading about gardening to learn about nutrition	10
Characterising sources of PM2·5 exposure for school children with asthma: a personal exposure study across six cities in sub-Saharan Africa	10