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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Commentary: Promoting positive mental health during pregnancy—reflections on Lähdepuro et al. (2023)112
Impulsivity as key bridge symptoms in cross‐sectional and longitudinal networks of ADHD and ODD101
Co‐development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic trait trajectories from childhood to early adulthood75
Testing the social motivation theory of autism: the role of co‐occurring anxiety73
Perinatal hardship and infant neurodevelopment: insights from a global pandemic70
Avoidance habit learning in adolescents and young women with anorexia nervosa: an fMRI study62
A prospective study of the relative contribution of adolescent peer support quantity and quality to depressive symptoms57
Annual Research Review: Neuroimmune network model of depression: a developmental perspective56
Predictive and incremental validity of adolescent callous‐unemotional traits: longitudinal prediction of antisocial and social outcomes in early adulthood55
Developmental deviation in delay discounting as a transdiagnostic indicator of risk for child psychopathology55
Parent–child coregulation as a dynamic system: a commentary on Wass et al. (2024)54
Editorial Perspective: Reducing mental health disparities among underserved youth: using technology to equip parents as agents of change53
Psychoneuroendocrine stress response in female and male youth with major depressive disorder50
Unique prediction of developmental psychopathology from genetic and familial risk48
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Commentary: Cognitive stimulation and executive functions in the prevention and treatment of childhood disorders – reflection on Phillips et al., 202342
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) study42
Social connectedness and adolescent suicide risk41
Prospective association between evening circadian preference and academic functioning in adolescents: the role of daytime sleepiness41
Adolescent sleep quality and quantity and educational attainment: a test of multiple mechanisms using sibling difference models41
Commentary on ‘Grandparental care and child mental health: a systematic review and meta‐analysis39
Risk factors for nonfatal self‐harm and suicide among adolescents: two nested case–control studies conducted in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink39
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Editorial: ‘The giant’s shoulders’: understanding Michael Rutter’s impact on science and society38
Commentary: Global perspectives on resilience and callous‐unemotional traits – a reflection on Obando et al. (2022)37
Commentary: Optimism for the future of research on disruptive behaviors – an appreciation of good science as illustrated by Nobakht, Steinsbekk & Wichstrom (2023)37
Adding to the neuroimmune network model: A commentary on Nusslock et al. (2024)37
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Editorial: Innovation in child and adolescent mental health interventions35
Shorter night‐time sleep duration and later sleep timing from infancy to adolescence34
Annual Research Review: Cash transfer programs and young people's mental health – a review of studies in the United States33
Treatments with versus without medication for children with behavioural difficulties in clinical practice: an economic evaluation with observational data33
Practitioner Review: It's time to bridge the gap – understanding the unmet needs of consumers with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic review and recommendations32
Time–frequency and functional connectivity analysis in drug‐naive adolescents with depression based on electroencephalography using a visual cognitive task: A comparative study32
Gut mycobiome dysbiosis and its impact on intestinal permeability in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder32
Concurrent and longitudinal associations of developmental language disorder with peer victimization in adolescence: evidence from a co‐twin study32
Competition between the positive youth development and the psychopathological system among adolescents: less vulnerability or more scarring?30
The role of comorbid childhood mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions in the persistence of ADHD symptoms: systematic review and meta‐analys29
Effects of individual differences, society, and culture on youth‐rated problems and strengths in 38 societies28
Annual Research Review: Early conduct problems – precursors, outcomes, and etiology28
Research Review: What we have learned about early detection and intervention of borderline personality disorder28
Latent class analysis to characterize neonatal risk for neurodevelopmental differences27
Characterizing the ASD–ADHD phenotype: measurement structure and invariance in a clinical sample27
The acute effects of community violence on young children's regulatory, behavioral, and developmental outcomes in a low‐income urban sample in Brazil27
Infant and preschool attachment, continuity and relationship to caregiving sensitivity: findings from a new population‐based Australian cohort26
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A multivariate genetic analysis of anxiety sensitivity, environmental sensitivity and reported life events in adolescents26
Navigating early risks: Differential outcomes in middle childhood and the compensatory role of kindergarten experiences26
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Continuity of trajectories of autism symptom severity from infancy to childhood25
Anxiety symptom trajectories from treatment to 5‐ to 12‐year follow‐up across childhood and adolescence25
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
Association between infant feeding and ADHD development in childhood: a birth cohort study in Taiwan25
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 a24
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Depression in 3/6‐year‐old children: clinical and psychosocial outcomes in later childhood and adolescence24
Not in education, employment and training: pathways from toddler difficult temperament24
Advancing the treatment of anxiety disorders in transition‐age youth: a review of the therapeutic effects of unconscious exposure24
Commentary: Will genomics revolutionise research on gene–environment interplay?24
Categorical and dimensional approaches to the developmental relationship between ADHD and irritability24
Testing different sources of environmental unpredictability on adolescent functioning: ancestral cue versus statistical learning and the role of temperament24
Research Review: Help‐seeking intentions, behaviors, and barriers in college students – a systematic review and meta‐analysis23
Practitioner Review: Neurobiological consequences of childhood maltreatment – clinical and therapeutic implications for practitioners23
Editorial: Unsettling ‘settled’ science – the importance of questioning received wisdom about the causes of mental health and neuro‐developmental conditions23
Editorial: The critical need to assess pubertal development in studies of child and adolescent psychopathology23
Expansion and commentary on a two generation approach to prenatal opioid exposure – a commentary on Conradt et al. (2023)23
Gender diversity is correlated with dimensional neurodivergent traits but not categorical neurodevelopmental diagnoses in children22
Parenting and adolescent anxiety within families: a biweekly longitudinal study22
Annual Research Review: What processes are dysregulated among emotionally dysregulated youth? – a systematic review22
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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)22
Characteristics of children with a psychiatric disorder in 1999, 2004 and 2017: an analysis of the national child mental health surveys of England22
Editorial Perspective: How can we develop effective and timely interventions for young people with chronic loneliness?22
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Editorial: The near ubiquity of comorbidity – what are the implications for children’s mental health research and practice?22
Atypical cerebellar functional connectivity at 9 months of age predicts delayed socio‐communicative profiles in infants at high and low risk for autism21
Paternal perinatal stress is associated with children's emotional problems at 2 years21
START NOW: a cognitive behavioral skills training for adolescent girls with conduct or oppositional defiant disorder – a randomized clinical trial21
Adolescent eating behaviours: associations with autistic and ADHD traits in childhood and the mediating role of anxiety21
Mental health and social difficulties of late‐diagnosed autistic children, across childhood and adolescence21
Network analysis of ecological momentary assessment identifies frustration as a central node in irritability21
How are children's perceptions of the home environment associated with a general psychopathology factor across childhood?21
Annual Research Review: Perspectives on progress in ADHD science – from characterization to cause21
Editorial Perspective: A systems approach to addressing young people's mental health21
Multi‐level predictors of depression symptoms in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study21
Subclinical hypomania, psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diagnoses: phenotypic and aetiological overlap21
Destigmatizing perceptions about Black adolescent depression: randomized controlled trial of brief social contact–based video interventions20
Sudden gains in modular CBT for mental health disorders in children and young people with epilepsy20
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Neural correlates of children with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder symptoms: large‐scale neuroanatomical analysis of a paediatric population20
Longitudinal relations between impaired executive function and symptoms of psychiatric disorders in childhood20
Editorial Perspective: On the need for clarity about attachment terminology20
Annual Research Review: A systematic review of mental health services for emerging adults – moulding a precipice into a smooth passage20
Editorial: Thinking outside the box – enhancing causal models of neurodevelopmental disorders20
Adolescent functional network connectivity prospectively predicts adult anxiety symptoms related to perceived COVID‐19 economic adversity19
Research Review: Siblings matter. A multi‐level meta‐analysis on the association between cannabis use among adolescent siblings19
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 adolescents19
The impact of COVID‐19 on psychiatric clinical encounters among low‐income racially‐diverse children19
Time after time: failure to identify and support females with ADHD – a Swedish population register study19
Understanding emotion processing in offspring of mothers with depression – A commentary on Burkhouse and Kujawa (2023)19
Current evidence and opportunities in child and adolescent public mental health: a research review18
Perceived sleep quality predicts aggressive offending in adolescence and young adulthood18
Social media component effects: a commentary on Maheux et al. (2024)18
Research Review: Sex differences in the clinical correlates of nonsuicidal self‐injury in adolescents – a systematic review17
Correction to “Peer contagion dynamics in the friendships of children with ADHD17
Oral language enrichment in preschool improves children's language skills: a cluster randomised controlled trial17
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
Commentary: The global prevalence of depression and anxiety symptoms among college students and its influencing factors – a commentary on Li et al. (2022)17
Genetic and environmental influences on temperament development across the preschool period16
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
Different sensory dimensions in infancy are associated with separable etiological influences and with autistic traits in toddlerhood16
Instrumental learning and behavioral persistence in children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity‐disorder: does reinforcement frequency matter?16
Replication of a predictive model for youth ADHD in an independent sample from a developing country16
Twenty‐year longitudinal birth cohort study of individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder before seven years of age16
Parent‐child interaction at age 5 months: genetic and environmental contributions and associations with later socio‐communicative development16
The association between temperament and polygenic score for psychopathology from infancy to middle childhood16
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
Integrative analysis of genomic and exposomic influences on youth mental health15
Editorial: Using parenting interventions as treatments and brain development – are we at the end of the beginning yet?15
Internet‐delivered therapist‐assisted cognitive therapy for adolescent social anxiety disorder (OSCA): a randomised controlled trial addressing preliminary efficacy and mechanisms of action14
Patterns of maladaptive exercise behavior from ages 14–24 in a longitudinal cohort14
Practitioner Review: Dyadic teacher–child relationships: comparing theories, empirical evidence and implications for practice14
Brief digital psychological intervention to prevent relapse of non‐suicidal self‐injury behavior in adolescents: A randomized controlled trial14
Impact of a Pediatric Mental Health Crisis Service in the emergency department on hospital resource utilization: an interrupted time series analysis14
Intergenerational effects of the Fast Track intervention on the home environment: A randomized control trial14
Predictors of language regression and its association with subsequent communication development in children with autism14
More time awake after sleep onset is linked to reduced ventral striatum response to rewards in youth with anxiety14
Not screens but their context of use impact cognitive development: a commentary on Yang et al. (2023)14
Evocative effects of children's education‐associated genetics on maternal parenting: results from the Norwegian mother, father and child cohort study14
A randomized controlled trial of technology‐enhanced behavioral parent training: sustained parent skill use and child outcomes at follow‐up14
Detecting adolescent depression through passive monitoring of linguistic markers in smartphone communication14
The intergenerational impact of mothers and fathers on children's word reading development14
Parent‐ and teacher‐reported associations from adolescent bifactor models of psychopathology: an outcome‐wide association study of 26 outcomes in mid‐life14
Neuroimaging biomarkers in school‐aged children with autism: MRI ‐measured lipid content in the limbic system14
Predictors of Environmental Sensitivity in Syrian refugee children14
Self‐ and co‐regulation of physiological activity during mother‐daughter interactions: The role of adolescent non‐suicidal self‐injury14
Polygenic risk score and peer victimisation independently predict depressive symptoms in adolescence: results from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Children Development13
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?13
Early relational origins of Theory of Mind: A two‐study replication13
Daily fluctuations in adolescents' sleep predict next‐day attention, sleepiness, and fatigue: an ecological momentary assessment study over 28 days13
The Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme is associated with lasting improvements in children's language and reading skills13
Irritability and rejection‐elicited aggression in adolescents and young adults13
Do meaningful dimensions of childhood adversity exist? Data‐driven evidence from two prospective cohort studies13
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Connecting the dots: social networks in the classroom and white matter connections in the brain12
An online, father‐inclusive parenting intervention for reducing child conduct problems: a randomised controlled trial of family man12
The social skills of autistic boys in preschool: the contributions of their dyadic and triadic interactions with their parents12
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Altered theta–beta ratio in infancy associates with family history of ADHD and later ADHD‐relevant temperamental traits12
Taking stock of the present and looking to the future of ADHD research: a commentary on Sonuga‐Barke et al. (2023)12
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
Temperament and executive functioning correlates of ADHD symptom severity during early versus middle childhood12
Taking theory of mind research into much needed new terrain – a commentary on Kochanska et al. (2025)12
Unraveling psychosis risk in sexual minorities: temporal dynamics of social defeat and suspiciousness in adolescence12
Editorial: Qualitative contributions to translational science – Practical pointers towards methodological pluralism in child psychology and psychiatry12
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The role of pubertal development in the association between trauma and internalising symptoms in female youth12
Interactions between infant characteristics and parenting factors rarely replicate across cohorts and developmental domains12
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Dynamics of depression symptoms in adolescents during three types of psychotherapy and post‐treatment follow‐up12
Capturing change in restricted and repetitive behaviour in preschoolers with ASD : A comparison of direct behavioural observation and parent report12
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Research Review: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of infant and toddler temperament as predictors of childhood attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder11
Practitioner Review: Clinical utility of the QbTest for the assessment and diagnosis of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic review and meta‐analysis11
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 adolescence11
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
The interaction between polygenic risk and environmental influences: A direct test of the 3P model of insomnia in adolescents11
Testing reciprocal associations between child anxiety and parenting across early interventions for inhibited preschoolers11
Research Reviews: Advances in methods for evaluating child and adolescent mental health interventions11
The developmental psychopathology of detection and dual control – a commentary on Fox et al. (2023)11
Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US population over the past 75 years11
Editorial perspective: Leaving the baby in the bathwater in neurodevelopmental research11
Editorial Perspective: Another look at ‘optimal outcome’ in autism spectrum disorder11
Impaired sensory–motor integration in children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder during visual search11
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Applying autism screening research to real‐world scenarios: a commentary on Sheldrick et al. (2023)11
Response to uncertainty in developmental origins of health and disease research: commentary on Nomura et al. (2022)11
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
Editorial Perspective: Rapid responses to understand and address children and young people’s mental health in the context of COVID‐1910
The longitudinal role of sleep on self‐harm during adolescence: A birth cohort study10
Developmental trajectories of child and adolescent emotional problems: associations with early adult alcohol use behaviors10
Exposure to prenatal infection and the development of internalizing and externalizing problems in children: a longitudinal population‐based study10
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Prediction of early‐onset bipolar using electronic health records10
Psychostimulant treatment uniquely reduces left uncinate fasciculus microstructural integrity in ADHD youth with a familial risk for bipolar I disord10
Adolescent psychotic experiences before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic: a prospective cohort study10
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Toward a nuanced assessment of the role of intensive home visiting in improving outcomes for families: commentary on Catherine et al. (2023)10
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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
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Maternal mental health mediates the effects of pandemic‐related stressors on adolescent psychopathology during COVID‐1910
Sensory hyperacusis as a predictor of anxiety in adolescence10
Erratum for Commentary to “Translational machine learning for child and adolescent psychiatry” by Davatzikos and Satterthwaite (2022)10
Editorial: Does the polygenic revolution herald a watershed in the study of GE interplay in developmental psychopathology? Some considerations for the Special Issue reader10
Attentional biases for sad faces in offspring of mothers with a history of major depression: trajectories of change from childhood to adolescence10
Commentary: The roles of mothers versus fathers in intergenerational family risk – a commentary on Rothenberg et al. (2023)10
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