Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Article	Citations
Eliminating hepatitis B: the ball is in our court	260
Which children in the USA have access to heroic salvage therapy?	190
Primaquine for children, once and for all	183
The case for action in paediatric neuromodulation – Author's reply	137
Gamblification: risks of digital gambling games to adolescents	128
The health and wellbeing case for children's suffrage	117
Child poverty in 2023: inequity in times of crises	115
Paediatric group A streptococcal disease in England: a primary care perspective	112
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children needs its own identity: the case of psychotropic medicines	107
Preventing reproductive coercion in adolescence	106
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	104
Tackling post-discharge mortality in children living in LMICs to reduce child deaths	103
Tackling childhood cancer in sub-Saharan Africa	85
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2024; 8: 482–90	84
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2026; 10: 103–10	81
Thank you to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health statistical and peer reviewers in 2025	81
Early fetal intervention: balancing technological breakthroughs and long-term morbidity	80
Obesity-related asthma in children and adolescents	79
Global prevalence of hypertension among children and adolescents aged 19 years or younger: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis	76
Current treatment outcomes of congenital heart disease and future perspectives	72
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	71
Medically cleared and waiting for healing to begin	71
Adolescents and the International Conference on Population and Development at 30	68
Trajectories of airflow limitation from childhood to early adulthood: an analysis of six population-based birth cohorts	66
Self-asphyxial behaviour in adolescents	66

New fellows of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences	65
Just getting bi?	64
A spotlight on Streetlights Uganda	63
Social determinants, inequality, and autism	63
Toward climate-smart, mental health-safe schools	61
Continuation of gender-affirming hormones in transgender people starting puberty suppression in adolescence: a cohort study in the Netherlands	58
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 684–85	58
Longitudinal association between dysmenorrhoea in adolescence and chronic pain in adulthood: a UK population-based study	57
Rare and severe adverse events in children with inflammatory bowel disease: analysis of data from the PIBD-SETQuality Safety Registry	56
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 837–47	56
Pathological demand avoidance: further research is required – Authors' reply	55
Adolescent girls at the intersection of poverty, migration, and gender	55
The healing powers of music	53
“As we grieved, we grew”	51
Thank you to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health's statistical and peer reviewers in 2023	51
Coping with and challenging the impacts of COVID-19	50
Trust, but verify: a new potential association between food allergy and asthma in children	48
When vaccine adverse event reporting generates hope, not fear	48
Ethical and legal considerations in the care of children and young people with high consequence infectious diseases (HCIDs): an approach to decision making	48
Recognising context and power in youth mental health	47
Neonatal research outcomes: the ethical imperative to change attitudes	47
Caring for children with cancer evacuated from Ukraine	46
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	46
Investing in childhood cancer registries to drive progress	46
Correction Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 588–98	45
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	44
Landmark verdicts against social media companies in the USA	44
Intersectionality, gender norms, and young adolescents in context: a review of longitudinal multicountry research programmes to shape future action	44
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	44
Come and learn: an invitation from Zvandiri Youth Advocates	44
Growth of children who are HIV-exposed but uninfected: a systematic review and meta-analysis	43
Achievement goals and adolescent depression: implications for school-based interventions	42
The importance of sleep for adolescents' long-term development	42
Recovery from mRNA COVID-19 vaccine-related myocarditis	41
The gift of a good beginning	40
Asking the big questions about health inequalities	39
Children are not future producers and customers: a plea for the moral imperative of acting now	39
Growing up modulated: paediatric neuromodulation needs a new ethical framework	38
Delay in death registration among adolescents and young adults in England and Wales	37
Safety of in vivo gene therapy in children: mechanisms and management of liver injury	37
Substandard and falsified medicines for children: UHC has a preventive role	37
Comparison of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika among children in Nicaragua across 18 years: a single-centre, prospective cohort study	37
Mental health consequences of child marriage	36
Clinical and statistical insights from the FEED1 trial	36
Out of Zimbabwe: fragmented families and mental health	36
Refreshing our International Advisory Board and Youth Advisory Panel	35
Harnessing n-of-1 trials for personalised paediatric care in the era of information overload	34
The neglect of kwashiorkor	34
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	32
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	32

Off-label is not always off-evidence: authorising paediatric indications for old medicines	32
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	31
School bullying in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis	31
Muscle dysmorphia in adolescents and young adults	31
Autism incidence and spatial analysis in more than 7 million pupils in English schools: a retrospective, longitudinal, school registry study	30
Childhood cancer: exercise is medicine	30
Neonatal sepsis and antimicrobial resistance in Africa	30
Prevalence of hypertension and high-normal blood pressure among young adults in Zimbabwe: findings from a large, cross-sectional population-based survey	29
Re-integrating Africa's street children	29
The expanding field of genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: current understanding and future perspectives	29
Late effects after high-risk neuroblastoma (LEAHRN): a multicentre, cross-sectional cohort study from the Children's Oncology Group	29
Antara Ganguli: rethinking gender equality in and through education	29
Adjunctive dexamethasone and 30-day all-cause death after hospital admission in paediatric pneumococcal meningitis: a propensity score analysis	29
Newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy in Australia: a non-randomised cohort study	29
Paediatric endovascular thrombectomy: balancing strength of numbers and accuracy of precision medicine	28
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 383–92	28
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 89–99	28
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 766–75	27
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2022; 6: 86–95	27
Treatment of polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Latin America: recommendations from the Pan-American League of Associations for Rheumatology	27
Advancing severity grading for risk-differentiated paediatric pneumonia care	26
New insights into the link between childhood adversity and epigenetic changes	26
Comparative physiological effects of antipsychotic drugs in children and young people: a network meta-analysis	26
Feeling at home in the motherland	26
US medical groups sue to reverse overhaul of vaccine recommendations	26
Growing up in the shadow of terrorism	26
Capturing adolescent realities in the global data revolution	26
Child health prioritisation in national adaptation policies on climate change: a policy document analysis across 160 countries	25
Cybervictimisation and mental health conditions in young people: findings from a nationally representative longitudinal cohort	25
Severe anaemia and paediatric mortality after hospital discharge in Africa	25
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)	25
The future of rhabdomyosarcoma trials	25
Shared grief is half the sorrow	25
Who protects the children and women of Sudan?	25
Different is not deficient: respecting diversity in early childhood development – Authors' reply	25
Urgently expanding access to improved treatment for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis	24
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	24
The critical state of children's health during the Sudan crisis	23
Medicate or operate: epilepsy surgery could save lives	23
Intersex is not a secret	22
The UK Illegal Migration Bill: a child rights violation and safeguarding catastrophe	22
Prospective associations between ADHD symptoms and physical conditions from early childhood to adolescence: a population-based longitudinal study	22
Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit people: a paediatric health crisis	22
Fact versus fiction: the extraordinary lives of care-experienced, fostered, and adopted children	22
“His mind, however, was now…released.”	22
Adolescent e-cigarette use screening: enabling health-care providers	22
Child and adolescent health through storytelling	22
The Step Safely guidelines: a catalyst to address the burden of falls in children and adolescents	22
Paediatric acute liver failure: a multidisciplinary perspective on when a critically ill child is unsuitable for liver transplantation	21
Paediatric trial guidelines co-designed by those who take part	21
No safe place: ending adolescent digital intimate partner violence	21
Building momentum to improve childhood cancer outcomes in Asia	21
Dismantling barriers and biases against adolescent mothers	21
Mycophenolate mofetil versus prednisone for the initial treatment of idiopathic steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome in children in Germany (INTENT): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, controlled,	20
Association between caregiver concern for clinical deterioration and critical illness in children presenting to hospital: a prospective cohort study	20
Clinical encounters with yourself: share, disclose, or overexpose?	20
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	20
Real-world effectiveness of nirsevimab immunisation against bronchiolitis in infants: a case–control study in Paris, France	20
“Complicated feelings of home”: stories of child migration to the UK	20
Children: innocent victims of war in Ukraine	20
Current status and challenges in prenatal and neonatal screening, diagnosis, and management of congenital heart disease in China	20
Missed opportunities to develop childhood cancer programmes in Africa	19
Achievement goals and adolescent mental health in individualist versus collectivist cultures	19
Lung function trajectories and determinants in early life	18
Weight-loss medications: promoting health and not harm	18
Prioritising snakebite in the child and adolescent health agenda	18
Paracetamol, pyrexia, and the prevention of atopy: lessons from PIPPA Tamariki	18
Gender service for children: a battle for health in a culture war	18
Reversing the neglect of children and adolescents affected by tuberculosis	18
Attention to menarche, puberty education, and menstrual health monitoring are essential	17
Bedside model-informed precision dosing of vancomycin in severely ill neonates and children in Belgium (the BENEFICIAL trial): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial	17
For youth, for Justice	17
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 837–47	16
SPIRIT-Children and Adolescents (SPIRIT-C) 2026 extension statement: enhancing the reporting and usefulness of paediatric randomised trial protocols	16
Incorporating parental values in complex paediatric and perinatal decisions	16
The pain of being a young person experiencing chronic pain	16
Tuberculosis research principles and priorities in children and adolescents: an international consensus statement	16
The example we set: Gen AI, honesty, and authenticity	16
Serum GFAP and UCH-L1 for the identification of clinically important traumatic brain injury in children in France: a diagnostic accuracy substudy	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	15

PECARN prediction rule for cervical spine imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt trauma: a multicentre prospective observational study	15
Early neurodevelopment of HIV-exposed uninfected children in the era of antiretroviral therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis	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
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
Death by accident: the curse of mobility	15
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
Adolescents in phase 3 HIV clinical trials	14
Bridging the worlds of art and health care	14
Self-advocacy and barriers for young people accessing health care in the Scottish Highlands	14
Helping adolescents cope with the burden of scoliosis	14
Beyond birthweight: longitudinal insights into twin growth and obesity risk	14
Progress and challenges of HIV and other STIs in adolescents and young adults	14
Lessons from UK historical cohort studies of lower respiratory tract infections – Authors' reply	14
Treating eating disorders in the wake of trauma	14
Violence against children with disability: an unacceptable scourge of society	14
Determinants of lung function development from birth to age 5 years: an interrupted time series analysis of a South African birth cohort	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
Advances in medical management of acute liver failure in children: promoting native liver survival	13
Correction Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2024; 8: 51–62	13
Vaccination against all odds in Brazil	13
Bullying and health inequalities for children and adolescents with disability	13
Importance of understanding the reinfection risk of COVID-19 in children	13
Kawasaki disease: contemporary perspectives	13
Rare and severe adverse events in children with inflammatory bowel disease	13
Challenges and opportunities of female leadership in education	12
The Health Hive: Creating pathways for young people to take an active role in public health research and advocacy	12
Semaglutide and social media: implications for young women with polycystic ovarian syndrome	12
Regenerative medicine: prenatal approaches	12
Long-term kidney outcomes in children and adolescents with hypertension: a propensity-matched cohort study	12
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2026; 10: 255–64	12
Authentic First Nations health research	11
Difficult questions about long COVID in children	11
Lipoprotein apheresis and long-term cardiovascular health: a real answer for children with HoFH?	11
Finding diamonds in a coal mine	11
Kid Governors and youth civic engagement in the USA	11
Bonface Massah: changemaker and defender for children with albinism	11
Priorities in tackling non-communicable diseases in children and adolescents in China	11
This void needs to be filled with colour	11
Malnutrition among pregnant adolescents in the Philippines	10
Children and armed conflict	10
Supporting the sovereignty of families and cultures	10
What does the future hold for youth in Africa with high blood pressure?	10
Severe acute hepatitis in children	10
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 9	9
Youth engagement at The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health	9
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 373–74	9
Cybervictimisation as a marker of broader youth harm	9