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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Parent–child coregulation as a dynamic system: a commentary on Wass et al. (2024)157
Psychoneuroendocrine stress response in female and male youth with major depressive disorder145
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Commentary: Promoting positive mental health during pregnancy—reflections on Lähdepuro et al. (2023)73
Commentary: Cognitive stimulation and executive functions in the prevention and treatment of childhood disorders – reflection on Phillips et al., 202370
Testing the social motivation theory of autism: the role of co‐occurring anxiety68
Impulsivity as key bridge symptoms in cross‐sectional and longitudinal networks of ADHD and ODD63
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) study62
Prospective association between evening circadian preference and academic functioning in adolescents: the role of daytime sleepiness60
Obsessive‐compulsive disorder in children and youth: neurocognitive function in clinic and community samples59
Developmental deviation in delay discounting as a transdiagnostic indicator of risk for child psychopathology59
Editorial Perspective: Reducing mental health disparities among underserved youth: using technology to equip parents as agents of change48
A prospective study of the relative contribution of adolescent peer support quantity and quality to depressive symptoms47
Reward‐ and threat‐related neural function associated with risk and presence of depression in adolescents: a study using a composite risk score in Brazil46
Adolescent sleep quality and quantity and educational attainment: a test of multiple mechanisms using sibling difference models45
Social connectedness and adolescent suicide risk44
Annual Research Review: Neuroimmune network model of depression: a developmental perspective44
Co‐development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic trait trajectories from childhood to early adulthood44
Risk factors for nonfatal self‐harm and suicide among adolescents: two nested case–control studies conducted in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink42
Unique prediction of developmental psychopathology from genetic and familial risk41
Commentary on ‘Grandparental care and child mental health: a systematic review and meta‐analysis40
Time–frequency and functional connectivity analysis in drug‐naive adolescents with depression based on electroencephalography using a visual cognitive task: A comparative study39
Editorial: ‘The giant’s shoulders’: understanding Michael Rutter’s impact on science and society39
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Treatments with versus without medication for children with behavioural difficulties in clinical practice: an economic evaluation with observational data36
Annual Research Review: Cash transfer programs and young people's mental health – a review of studies in the United States35
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Effects of individual differences, society, and culture on youth‐rated problems and strengths in 38 societies35
Characterizing the ASD–ADHD phenotype: measurement structure and invariance in a clinical sample33
The acute effects of community violence on young children's regulatory, behavioral, and developmental outcomes in a low‐income urban sample in Brazil33
Research Review: A meta‐analysis of relapse rates in cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and related disorders in youth33
Commentary: Global perspectives on resilience and callous‐unemotional traits – a reflection on Obando et al. (2022)33
Adding to the neuroimmune network model: A commentary on Nusslock et al. (2024)32
Commentary: Optimism for the future of research on disruptive behaviors – an appreciation of good science as illustrated by Nobakht, Steinsbekk & Wichstrom (2023)32
Concurrent and longitudinal associations of developmental language disorder with peer victimization in adolescence: evidence from a co‐twin study31
Shorter night‐time sleep duration and later sleep timing from infancy to adolescence30
Editorial: Innovation in child and adolescent mental health interventions30
Research Review: The most effective parenting program content for disruptive child behavior – a network meta‐analysis30
Practitioner Review: It's time to bridge the gap – understanding the unmet needs of consumers with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic review and recommendations29
Gut mycobiome dysbiosis and its impact on intestinal permeability in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder29
Psychiatric comorbidity of eating disorders in children between the ages of 9 and 1029
Latent class analysis to characterize neonatal risk for neurodevelopmental differences28
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Navigating early risks: Differential outcomes in middle childhood and the compensatory role of kindergarten experiences28
Commentary: Will genomics revolutionise research on gene–environment interplay?28
Research Review: Help‐seeking intentions, behaviors, and barriers in college students – a systematic review and meta‐analysis25
Association between infant feeding and ADHD development in childhood: a birth cohort study in Taiwan24
Testing different sources of environmental unpredictability on adolescent functioning: ancestral cue versus statistical learning and the role of temperament24
Clinical precursors of tics: an EMTICS study24
Anxiety symptom trajectories from treatment to 5‐ to 12‐year follow‐up across childhood and adolescence24
A multivariate genetic analysis of anxiety sensitivity, environmental sensitivity and reported life events in adolescents23
Not in education, employment and training: pathways from toddler difficult temperament23
Categorical and dimensional approaches to the developmental relationship between ADHD and irritability23
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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 22
Depression in 3/6‐year‐old children: clinical and psychosocial outcomes in later childhood and adolescence22
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Continuity of trajectories of autism symptom severity from infancy to childhood22
Advancing the treatment of anxiety disorders in transition‐age youth: a review of the therapeutic effects of unconscious exposure21
Practitioner Review: Neurobiological consequences of childhood maltreatment – clinical and therapeutic implications for practitioners21
Infant and preschool attachment, continuity and relationship to caregiving sensitivity: findings from a new population‐based Australian cohort21
Research Review: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of sex differences in narrow constructs of restricted and repetitive behaviours and interests in autistic children, adolescents, and a21
Patterns of delay in early gross motor and expressive language milestone attainment in probands with genetic conditions versus idiopathic ASD from SFARI registries21
Editorial: The critical need to assess pubertal development in studies of child and adolescent psychopathology21
Editorial: Unsettling ‘settled’ science – the importance of questioning received wisdom about the causes of mental health and neuro‐developmental conditions21
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Parenting and adolescent anxiety within families: a biweekly longitudinal study20
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Editorial Perspective: A systems approach to addressing young people's mental health20
Characteristics of children with a psychiatric disorder in 1999, 2004 and 2017: an analysis of the national child mental health surveys of England20
Expansion and commentary on a two generation approach to prenatal opioid exposure – a commentary on Conradt et al. (2023)20
Cognitive control processes in behavior therapy for youth with Tourette’s disorder20
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Paternal perinatal stress is associated with children's emotional problems at 2 years19
Network analysis of ecological momentary assessment identifies frustration as a central node in irritability19
Gender diversity is correlated with dimensional neurodivergent traits but not categorical neurodevelopmental diagnoses in children19
The early course and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder in very young children: diagnostic prevalence and predictors in hospital‐attending children and a randomized controlled proof‐of‐concept19
Editorial Perspective: How can we develop effective and timely interventions for young people with chronic loneliness?19
Editorial: The near ubiquity of comorbidity – what are the implications for children’s mental health research and practice?19
Translating the nuanced risk for substance use among adolescents treated for attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) into clinical practice: a commentary on McCabe et al. (2023)19
Multi‐level predictors of depression symptoms in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study19
START NOW: a cognitive behavioral skills training for adolescent girls with conduct or oppositional defiant disorder – a randomized clinical trial19
Research Review: Sex differences in the clinical correlates of nonsuicidal self‐injury in adolescents – a systematic review18
Aetiology of shame and its association with adolescent depression and anxiety: results from a prospective twin and sibling study18
Longitudinal relations between impaired executive function and symptoms of psychiatric disorders in childhood18
Sudden gains in modular CBT for mental health disorders in children and young people with epilepsy18
Social media component effects: a commentary on Maheux et al. (2024)18
Mental health and social difficulties of late‐diagnosed autistic children, across childhood and adolescence18
Editorial: Thinking outside the box – enhancing causal models of neurodevelopmental disorders18
Perceived sleep quality predicts aggressive offending in adolescence and young adulthood18
Neural correlates of children with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder symptoms: large‐scale neuroanatomical analysis of a paediatric population18
Atypical cerebellar functional connectivity at 9 months of age predicts delayed socio‐communicative profiles in infants at high and low risk for autism18
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Annual Research Review: Perspectives on progress in ADHD science – from characterization to cause18
Annual Research Review: What processes are dysregulated among emotionally dysregulated youth? – a systematic review18
The impact of COVID‐19 on psychiatric clinical encounters among low‐income racially‐diverse children17
Using machine‐learning methods to identify early‐life predictors of 11‐year language outcome17
Adolescent functional network connectivity prospectively predicts adult anxiety symptoms related to perceived COVID‐19 economic adversity17
Editorial Perspective: On the need for clarity about attachment terminology17
Understanding the relationship between social camouflaging in autism and safety behaviours in social anxiety in autistic and non‐autistic adolescents17
Annual Research Review: A systematic review of mental health services for emerging adults – moulding a precipice into a smooth passage17
Understanding emotion processing in offspring of mothers with depression – A commentary on Burkhouse and Kujawa (2023)17
Follow‐up of the Cool Little Kids translational trial into middle childhood17
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
Time after time: failure to identify and support females with ADHD – a Swedish population register study17
Destigmatizing perceptions about Black adolescent depression: randomized controlled trial of brief social contact–based video interventions17
Research Review: Siblings matter. A multi‐level meta‐analysis on the association between cannabis use among adolescent siblings17
Commentary: The global prevalence of depression and anxiety symptoms among college students and its influencing factors – a commentary on Li et al. (2022)17
Current evidence and opportunities in child and adolescent public mental health: a research review17
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 trial16
The intergenerational impact of mothers and fathers on children's word reading development16
Oral language enrichment in preschool improves children's language skills: a cluster randomised controlled trial16
Correction to “Peer contagion dynamics in the friendships of children with ADHD16
Parent‐child interaction at age 5 months: genetic and environmental contributions and associations with later socio‐communicative development16
The Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme is associated with lasting improvements in children's language and reading skills16
Different sensory dimensions in infancy are associated with separable etiological influences and with autistic traits in toddlerhood16
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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 benefits15
The association between temperament and polygenic score for psychopathology from infancy to middle childhood15
Daily fluctuations in adolescents' sleep predict next‐day attention, sleepiness, and fatigue: an ecological momentary assessment study over 28 days15
Patterns of maladaptive exercise behavior from ages 14–24 in a longitudinal cohort15
Twenty‐year longitudinal birth cohort study of individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder before seven years of age15
Replication of a predictive model for youth ADHD in an independent sample from a developing country15
A randomized controlled trial of technology‐enhanced behavioral parent training: sustained parent skill use and child outcomes at follow‐up15
Do meaningful dimensions of childhood adversity exist? Data‐driven evidence from two prospective cohort studies15
Instrumental learning and behavioral persistence in children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity‐disorder: does reinforcement frequency matter?15
Polygenic risk score and peer victimisation independently predict depressive symptoms in adolescence: results from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Children Development14
Editorial Perspective: COVID‐19‐related publications on young people’s mental health – what have been the key trends so far and what should come next?14
Predictors of language regression and its association with subsequent communication development in children with autism14
Intergenerational effects of the Fast Track intervention on the home environment: A randomized control trial14
Detecting adolescent depression through passive monitoring of linguistic markers in smartphone communication14
More time awake after sleep onset is linked to reduced ventral striatum response to rewards in youth with anxiety13
Alpha oscillatory activity during attentional control in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention‐Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and ASD+ADHD13
Integrative analysis of genomic and exposomic influences on youth mental health13
Internet‐delivered therapist‐assisted cognitive therapy for adolescent social anxiety disorder (OSCA): a randomised controlled trial addressing preliminary efficacy and mechanisms of action13
Early relational origins of Theory of Mind: A two‐study replication13
Cognitive, psychosocial, and behaviour gains at age 31 years from the Jamaica early childhood stimulation trial13
Trust and childhood maltreatment: evidence of bias in appraisal of unfamiliar faces13
Self‐ and co‐regulation of physiological activity during mother‐daughter interactions: The role of adolescent non‐suicidal self‐injury13
Practitioner Review: Dyadic teacher–child relationships: comparing theories, empirical evidence and implications for practice13
Parent‐ and teacher‐reported associations from adolescent bifactor models of psychopathology: an outcome‐wide association study of 26 outcomes in mid‐life13
Irritability and rejection‐elicited aggression in adolescents and young adults13
Personalized at‐home neurofeedback compared to long‐acting methylphenidate in children with ADHD: NEWROFEED, a European randomized noninferiority trial13
Altered theta–beta ratio in infancy associates with family history of ADHD and later ADHD‐relevant temperamental traits13
Not screens but their context of use impact cognitive development: a commentary on Yang et al. (2023)13
Genetic and environmental influences on temperament development across the preschool period13
Editorial: Using parenting interventions as treatments and brain development – are we at the end of the beginning yet?13
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A methylation study implicates the rewiring of brain neural circuits during puberty in the emergence of sex differences in depression symptoms13
Taking stock of the present and looking to the future of ADHD research: a commentary on Sonuga‐Barke et al. (2023)13
Is heart rate variability biofeedback useful in children and adolescents? A systematic review12
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The role of pubertal development in the association between trauma and internalising symptoms in female youth12
Taking theory of mind research into much needed new terrain – a commentary on Kochanska et al. (2025)12
Research Review: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of infant and toddler temperament as predictors of childhood attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder12
The social skills of autistic boys in preschool: the contributions of their dyadic and triadic interactions with their parents12
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Interactions between infant characteristics and parenting factors rarely replicate across cohorts and developmental domains12
Editorial: Qualitative contributions to translational science – Practical pointers towards methodological pluralism in child psychology and psychiatry12
Corrigendum for ‘Annual Research Review: The contributions of the RDoC research framework on understanding the neurodevelopmental origins, progression and treatment of mental illnesses’ by 12
A good investment: longer‐term cost savings of sensitive parenting in childhood12
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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?12
Editorial perspective: Leaving the baby in the bathwater in neurodevelopmental research11
The developmental psychopathology of detection and dual control – a commentary on Fox et al. (2023)11
An online, father‐inclusive parenting intervention for reducing child conduct problems: a randomised controlled trial of family man11
Testing reciprocal associations between child anxiety and parenting across early interventions for inhibited preschoolers11
The interaction between polygenic risk and environmental influences: A direct test of the 3P model of insomnia in adolescents11
Prediction of early‐onset bipolar using electronic health records11
Maternal mental health mediates the effects of pandemic‐related stressors on adolescent psychopathology during COVID‐1911
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Connecting the dots: social networks in the classroom and white matter connections in the brain11
Practitioner Review: Clinical utility of the QbTest for the assessment and diagnosis of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic review and meta‐analysis11
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Editorial Perspective: Rapid responses to understand and address children and young people’s mental health in the context of COVID‐1911
Research Review: Pharmacological and non‐pharmacological treatments for adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic review of the literature11
Peer contagion dynamics in the friendships of children with ADHD11
Pathways from maternal shyness to adolescent social anxiety11
Early intervention for inhibited young children: a randomized controlled trial comparing the Turtle Program and Cool Little Kids11
Temperament and executive functioning correlates of ADHD symptom severity during early versus middle childhood11
Editorial Perspective: Another look at ‘optimal outcome’ in autism spectrum disorder11
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Erratum for Commentary to “Translational machine learning for child and adolescent psychiatry” by Davatzikos and Satterthwaite (2022)10
Exposure to prenatal infection and the development of internalizing and externalizing problems in children: a longitudinal population‐based study10
Research Review: Shared and distinct structural and functional brain alterations in adolescents with major depressive disorder' – a multimodal meta‐analysis10
Developmental trajectories of child and adolescent emotional problems: associations with early adult alcohol use behaviors10
Prenatal maternal infections and early childhood developmental outcomes: analysis of linked administrative health data for Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Scotland10
Editorial: Does the polygenic revolution herald a watershed in the study of GE interplay in developmental psychopathology? Some considerations for the Special Issue reader10
Etiological links between autism and difficulties in initiating and maintaining sleep: a familial co‐aggregation and twin study10
Response to uncertainty in developmental origins of health and disease research: commentary on Nomura et al. (2022)10
Adolescent psychotic experiences before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic: a prospective cohort study10
Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US population over the past 75 years10
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Attentional biases for sad faces in offspring of mothers with a history of major depression: trajectories of change from childhood to adolescence10
ADHD in girls and women: a call to action – reflections on Hinshaw et al. (2021)10
ADHD medication adherence reduces risk of committing minor offenses in adolescents10
Research Review: Do antibullying interventions reduce internalizing symptoms? A systematic review, meta‐analysis, and meta‐regression exploring intervention components, moderators, and mechanisms10
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Prenatal caffeine exposure: association with neurodevelopmental outcomes in 9‐ to 11‐year‐old children10
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 adolescence10
Research Reviews: Advances in methods for evaluating child and adolescent mental health interventions10
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Commentary: The roles of mothers versus fathers in intergenerational family risk – a commentary on Rothenberg et al. (2023)10
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
Commentary: The evidence base regarding the long‐term effects of childhood mental disorder treatments needs to be strengthened – reply to Dekkers et al. (2023)10
Intersectional marginalized identities as predictors of time until first reported suicide attempt among preadolescent youth using survival analysis10
A symptom level perspective on reactive and proactive aggressive behaviours and ADHD symptoms in childhood10
Research Review: Neuropsychological functioning in young anorexia nervosa: A meta‐analysis10
Applying autism screening research to real‐world scenarios: a commentary on Sheldrick et al. (2023)10
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