Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry is 8. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Socioeconomic and sex inequalities in parent‐reported adolescent mental ill‐health: time trends in four British birth cohorts320
Editorial: Accelerated epigenetic ageing as a consequence of early environmental adversity245
Nature and nurture in fussy eating from toddlerhood to early adolescence: findings from the Gemini twin cohort204
Behavioral characteristics of toddlers later identified with an autism diagnosis, ADHD symptoms, or combined autism and ADHD symptoms186
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The long reach of adversity: Intermediary pathways from maternal adverse childhood experiences to child socio‐emotional and cognitive outcomes141
Co‐development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic trait trajectories from childhood to early adulthood131
A good investment: longer‐term cost savings of sensitive parenting in childhood71
A cross‐lagged twin study of emotional symptoms, social isolation and peer victimisation from early adolescence to emerging adulthood71
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Annual Research Review: Neuroimmune network model of depression: a developmental perspective61
Something old, something new – can adding genomic data to family studies advance our understanding of the impact of nature and nurture on mental health? Commentary on McAdams et al. (2023)61
Alternative hypotheses regarding the association between early engagement in gambling and gambling‐like activities and later problem gambling – a commentary on Richard and King (2023)60
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Parents' prohibitions of peer relationships: why do they undermine social adjustment? A commentary on Kaniusonyte and Laursen (2024)56
Strengthening executive functioning to disrupt binge eating in youth – a commentary on Goldschmidt et al. (2024)55
Commentary: Cognitive stimulation and executive functions in the prevention and treatment of childhood disorders – reflection on Phillips et al., 202350
Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Prenatal stress predicts greater vulnerability to the psychological impacts of future stress exposure during late adol48
Risk factors for nonfatal self‐harm and suicide among adolescents: two nested case–control studies conducted in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink47
Polygenic scores differentially predict developmental trajectories of subtypes of social withdrawal in childhood46
Associations between psychiatric polygenic risk scores and general and specific psychopathology symptoms in childhood and adolescence between and within dizygotic twin pairs44
Early childhood general anesthesia and risk of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder42
Trends in adolescent emotional problems in Wales between 2013 and 2019: the contribution of peer relationships39
Commentary: Technoference or parental phubbing? A call for greater conceptual and operational clarity of parental smartphone use around children38
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Letter to the Editor: Transgender and mental health37
Report from a randomized control trial: improved alignment between circadian biology and sleep–wake behavior as a mechanism of depression symptom improvement in evening‐type adolescents with depressiv37
Impulsivity as key bridge symptoms in cross‐sectional and longitudinal networks of ADHD and ODD37
Substance use outcomes from the Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Extended Long‐term Study (CAMELS)36
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Sexual and gender minority identity, peer victimization, and suicidality in adolescents: A mediation study using the ABCD Study35
Autism spectrum disorder and brain volume link through a set of mTOR‐related genes33
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Emotion regulation as central to psychopathology across childhood and adolescence: a commentary on Nobakht et al. (2023)32
Associations among early life adversity, sleep disturbances, and depressive symptoms in adolescent females and males: a longitudinal investigation32
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Parent–child coregulation as a dynamic system: a commentary on Wass et al. (2024)30
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Editorial Perspective: Adapting western psychological interventions for children and adolescents in LMICs: lessons from Nepal30
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Commentary: Promoting positive mental health during pregnancy—reflections on Lähdepuro et al. (2023)30
Research Review: Grandparental care and child mental health – a systematic review and meta‐analysis29
Brain structure and functional connectivity linking childhood cumulative trauma to COVID‐19 vicarious traumatization29
Facets of impulsivity and reward in relation to binge‐eating disorder course of illness among children: findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study29
Contamination bias in the estimation of child maltreatment causal effects on adolescent internalizing and externalizing behavior problems28
Neural correlates of face familiarity in institutionalised children and links to attachment disordered behaviour28
Personalized at‐home neurofeedback compared to long‐acting methylphenidate in children with ADHD: NEWROFEED, a European randomized noninferiority trial27
Stratifying early‐onset emotional disorders: using genetics to assess persistence in young people of European and South Asian ancestry26
The predictive capacity of psychiatric and psychological polygenic risk scores for distinguishing cases in a child and adolescent psychiatric sample from controls26
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Associations of toddler mechanical/distress feeding problems with psychopathology symptoms five years later25
Prospective association between evening circadian preference and academic functioning in adolescents: the role of daytime sleepiness25
Is heart rate variability biofeedback useful in children and adolescents? A systematic review25
Taking stock of the present and looking to the future of ADHD research: a commentary on Sonuga‐Barke et al. (2023)24
Supporting caregivers within caregiver‐mediated interventions: a commentary on Brown et al. (2024)24
Early manifestations of genetic risk for neurodevelopmental disorders24
Obsessive‐compulsive disorder in children and youth: neurocognitive function in clinic and community samples23
Infants’ neural responses to emotional faces are related to maternal anxiety23
It takes a safe village to raise a child—a commentary on Dana McCoy et al. (2023)22
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Evaluating a program to prevent anxiety in children of anxious parents: a randomized controlled trial22
Neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions in 600 Swedish children with the avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder phenotype21
On the importance of parenting in externalizing disorders: an evaluation of indirect genetic effects in families21
Annual Research Review: Health anxiety in children and adolescents—developmental aspects and cross‐generational influences21
Characteristics of complex posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in young people with PTSD following multiple trauma exposure20
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Irritability and rejection‐elicited aggression in adolescents and young adults20
Editorial Perspective: The paradox of precision health in early development – building large samples to yield individual‐level measures19
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Editorial: From adolescence into young adulthood – the importance of a longitudinal perspective across development in child and adolescent mental health19
Development of a risk calculator to predict attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder in very preterm/very low birth weight newborns19
A network approach to the investigation of childhood irritability: probing frustration using social stimuli19
Mapping the duration and severity of preschool‐aged children's depressive moods and behaviors19
The association between early regulatory problems and adult peer relationship quality is mediated by the brain's allostatic‐interoceptive system19
Early relational origins of Theory of Mind: A two‐study replication19
Commentary: Taking stock and moving forward – the need to consider the influence of loss to follow‐up in autism screening research19
Reward‐ and threat‐related neural function associated with risk and presence of depression in adolescents: a study using a composite risk score in Brazil19
Commentary response: Smartphone use and parenting: re‐stratifying the multiverse for families of young children19
Heritability of children's Secure Base Script Knowledge in middle childhood: a twin study with the Attachment Script Assessment19
Editorial Perspective: Reducing mental health disparities among underserved youth: using technology to equip parents as agents of change18
A twin study of genetic and environmental contributions to attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder over time18
Editorial: COVID‐19: lessons learned for suicide prevention18
A commentary on Perlstein et al. (2023): the past and future of treating youth with limited prosocial emotions18
Editorial: Prevention is the best cure18
Research Review: Integrated healthcare for children and young people in secondary/tertiary care – a systematic review18
Annual Research Review: Prenatal opioid exposure – a two‐generation approach to conceptualizing neurodevelopmental outcomes18
Editorial Perspective: Misaligned incentives in mental health research – the case for Registered Reports18
Family vulnerability and disruption during the COVID‐19 pandemic: prospective pathways to child maladjustment18
Mediation of 6‐year mid‐childhood follow‐up outcomes after pre‐school social communication (PACT) therapy for autistic children: randomised controlled trial18
Effects of engaging fathers and bundling parenting and nutrition interventions on early child development and maternal and paternal parenting in Mara, Tanzania: a factorial cluster‐randomized controll17
Mental disorders in preadolescent children at familial high‐risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder – a four‐year follow‐up study17
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) study17
The trajectory of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms and its dynamic relationship with inhibitory control17
Editorial: It is time to modernize the concept of ADHD!17
Testing the social motivation theory of autism: the role of co‐occurring anxiety17
Adolescent sleep quality and quantity and educational attainment: a test of multiple mechanisms using sibling difference models17
Feeling anxious and being engaged in a warming world: climate anxiety and adolescents' pro‐environmental behavior16
A methylation study implicates the rewiring of brain neural circuits during puberty in the emergence of sex differences in depression symptoms16
Evaluating the sensitivity to threat and affiliative reward (STAR) model in relation to the development of conduct problems and callous‐unemotional traits across early adolescenc16
Commentary: State of transitional care for emerging adults – reflections on Anderson et al.16
Annual Research Review: Youth firearm violence disparities in the United States and implications for prevention16
Associations of screen use with cognitive development in early childhood: the ELFE birth cohort15
Commentary: Best practices and processes for assessment of autism spectrum disorder – the intended role of standardized diagnostic instruments15
Immediate impact of child maltreatment on mental, developmental, and physical health trajectories15
Psychoneuroendocrine stress response in female and male youth with major depressive disorder15
Commentary to “Translational machine learning for child and adolescent psychiatry”15
Bidirectional associations between screen time and children’s externalizing and internalizing behaviors14
Examining changes in parent‐reported child and adolescent mental health throughout the UK's first COVID‐19 national lockdown14
Scaling up home‐visiting to promote early childhood development and prevent violence in Rwanda: a hybrid type‐2 effectiveness‐implementation trial14
A prospective study of the relative contribution of adolescent peer support quantity and quality to depressive symptoms14
Editorial: Do lockdowns scar? Three putative mechanisms through which COVID‐19 mitigation policies could cause long‐term harm to young people's mental health14
A randomised controlled trial (MindChamp) of a mindfulness‐based intervention for children with ADHD and their parents14
Social skills and symptoms of anxiety disorders from preschool to adolescence: a prospective cohort study14
Social connectedness and adolescent suicide risk14
Subjective and objective experiences of childhood adversity: a meta‐analysis of their agreement and relationships with psychopathology14
Altered theta–beta ratio in infancy associates with family history of ADHD and later ADHD‐relevant temperamental traits13
Cognitive, psychosocial, and behaviour gains at age 31 years from the Jamaica early childhood stimulation trial13
A commentary on Kim et al.'s (2025) mapping the multifaceted approaches and impacts of adverse childhood experiences: an umbrella review of meta‐analyses for Journal of Child Psychology and Psychia13
Aberrant brain network topology in youth with a familial risk for bipolar disorder: a task‐based fMRI connectome study13
Editorial Perspective: How Sir Michael Rutter revolutionised our understanding of human development: An introduction to a systematic Digest of his life’s work13
Developmental deviation in delay discounting as a transdiagnostic indicator of risk for child psychopathology13
Autistic traits in childhood and post‐traumatic stress disorder as young adults: a cohort study13
Research Review: The effect of school‐based suicide prevention on suicidal ideation and suicide attempts and the role of intervention and contextual factors among adolescents: a meta‐analysis and meta13
Unique prediction of developmental psychopathology from genetic and familial risk13
A commentary on Zuniga‐Montanez and Davies et al.: how did COVID‐19 affect young children's language environment and language development? A scoping review13
Editorial Perspective: Are treatments for childhood mental disorders helpful in the long run? An overview of systematic reviews13
Polygenic scores for schizophrenia and major depression are associated with psychosocial risk factors in children: evidence of gene–environment correlation13
Editorial: The world is a changin’ and is a dangerous place for children's and adolescents' mental health13
Annual Research Review: Psychosis in children and adolescents: key updates from the past 2 decades on psychotic disorders, psychotic experiences, and psychosis risk13
Editorial: ‘The giant’s shoulders’: understanding Michael Rutter’s impact on science and society13
Using DNA to predict behaviour problems from preschool to adulthood12
Commentary: The impact of Covid‐19 on psychopathology in children and young people worldwide – reflections on Newlove‐Delgado et al. (2023)12
The interaction between polygenic risk and environmental influences: A direct test of the 3P model of insomnia in adolescents12
Editorial: The new genetics of autism12
Explaining the influence of non‐shared environment (NSE) on symptoms of behaviour problems from preschool to adulthood: mind the missing NSE gap12
Research Review: A review of the past decade of family and genomic studies on adolescent mental health12
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Correlates and predictors of the severity of suicidal ideation in adolescence: an examination of brain connectomics and psychosocial characteristics12
Examining longitudinal associations between interpersonal outcomes and general psychopathology factors across preadolescence using random intercept cross‐lagged panel model12
Brain tissue microstructure in a prospective, longitudinal, population‐based cohort of preterm and term‐born young adults12
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Commentary on the power of predictability: patterns of signals in early life shape neurodevelopment and mental health trajectories11
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Time–frequency and functional connectivity analysis in drug‐naive adolescents with depression based on electroencephalography using a visual cognitive task: A comparative study11
The role of pubertal development in the association between trauma and internalising symptoms in female youth11
Editorial Perspective: Challenges of research focusing on child and adolescent mental health during the COVID‐19 era: what studies are needed?11
The influence of loss to follow‐up in autism screening research: Taking stock and moving forward11
Editorial: 'Safety in numbers'? Big data discovery strategies in neuro‐developmental science – contributions and caveats11
Psychiatric comorbidity of eating disorders in children between the ages of 9 and 1011
Commentary: Machine learning for autism spectrum disorder diagnosis – challenges and opportunities – a commentary on Schulte‐Rüther et al. (2022)11
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Commentary on ‘Grandparental care and child mental health: a systematic review and meta‐analysis11
Exploring the relationships between pathogen‐specific prenatal infections requiring inpatient admission and domains of offspring behaviour at age 511
Editorial Perspective: When to start de‐implementation of interventions: the case of cognitive training for children with ADHD11
Interactions between infant characteristics and parenting factors rarely replicate across cohorts and developmental domains11
An online, father‐inclusive parenting intervention for reducing child conduct problems: a randomised controlled trial of family man11
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Adding to the neuroimmune network model: A commentary on Nusslock et al. (2024)10
Associations between trauma exposure and irritability within the family unit: a network approach10
Shorter night‐time sleep duration and later sleep timing from infancy to adolescence10
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Positive and negative social media experiences and proximal risk for suicidal ideation in adolescents10
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Validation of the Parental Understanding and Misperceptions about BAby's Sleep Questionnaire using auto‐videosomnography10
Commentary: Optimism for the future of research on disruptive behaviors – an appreciation of good science as illustrated by Nobakht, Steinsbekk & Wichstrom (2023)10
The acute effects of community violence on young children's regulatory, behavioral, and developmental outcomes in a low‐income urban sample in Brazil10
Commentary: Expanding the vision of Registered Reports for qualitative mental health research: A response and extension to ‘Misaligned incentives in mental health research – the case for Registered Re10
Sex differences in attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnosis and clinical care: a national study of population healthcare records in Wales10
Patterns of sub‐optimal change following CBT for childhood anxiety10
Taking theory of mind research into much needed new terrain – a commentary on Kochanska et al. (2025)10
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Commentary: Response to commentary by Davis and Kramer (2021)10
Editorial: Prevention is the best cure – or is it? A cautionary tale10
Editorial: Innovation in child and adolescent mental health interventions9
Improving adolescent mental health and protection in humanitarian settings: longitudinal findings from a multi‐arm randomized controlled trial of child‐friendly spaces among South Sudanese refugees in9
Commentary: Global perspectives on resilience and callous‐unemotional traits – a reflection on Obando et al. (2022)9
Connecting the dots: social networks in the classroom and white matter connections in the brain9
Commentary: Natural disaster studies on prenatal stress – moving forward – a commentary/reflection on Nomura et al. (2023)9
Effects of individual differences, society, and culture on youth‐rated problems and strengths in 38 societies9
Gut mycobiome dysbiosis and its impact on intestinal permeability in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder9
Micro‐sequences of anger and shame and non‐suicidal self‐injury in youth: an ecological momentary assessment study9
Understanding heterogeneity in suicidal thoughts and behaviours and the implications for genetic studies – a commentary on Lannoy et al. (2022)9
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Absence of dynamic neural oscillatory response to environmental conditions marks childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder9
Attention to audiovisual speech does not facilitate language acquisition in infants with familial history of autism9
How a general vulnerability for psychopathology during adolescence manifests in young adults' daily lives9
Practitioner Review: Psychosis in children and adolescents9
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Commentary: The potential of sleep research to contribute to our understanding on antisocial behaviour – a reflection on Brown, Beardslee, Frick, Steinberg and Cauffman (2022)9
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Editorial Perspective: Another look at ‘optimal outcome’ in autism spectrum disorder9
Practitioner Review: Clinical utility of the QbTest for the assessment and diagnosis of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic review and meta‐analysis9
Erratum for ‘Editorial: The times they are a‐changin': paradigm shifts in child and adolescent psychology and psychiatry’ by Jaffee (2022)8
Commentary: Recognizing our similarities and celebrating our differences – parenting across cultures as a lens toward social justice and equity8
Larger pupil dilation to nonsocial sounds in infants with subsequent autism diagnosis8
Prenatal exposure to a natural disaster and early development of psychiatric disorders during the preschool years: stress in pregnancy study8
Practitioner Review: Assessment and treatment of body dysmorphic disorder in young people8
Childhood and adolescence outcomes in offspring to parents with bipolar disorder: the impact of lifetime parental comorbidity, parental sex, and bipolar subtype8
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Exploring mechanisms behind the increasing gender gap in adolescent psychological symptoms, 2002–2022: the role of national‐level gender equality8
Testing lifecourse theories characterising associations between maternal depression and offspring depression in emerging adulthood: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children8
Does rapid rebound height growth come at a neurocognitive cost for previously institutionalized youth?8
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Editorial: For better or for worse? Intended and unintended consequences of science communication8
Practitioner Review: It's time to bridge the gap – understanding the unmet needs of consumers with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a systematic review and recommendations8
Corrigendum for ‘Annual Research Review: The contributions of the RDoC research framework on understanding the neurodevelopmental origins, progression and treatment of mental illnesses’ by 8
Concurrent and longitudinal associations of developmental language disorder with peer victimization in adolescence: evidence from a co‐twin study8
Temperament and executive functioning correlates of ADHD symptom severity during early versus middle childhood8
Research Review: The most effective parenting program content for disruptive child behavior – a network meta‐analysis8
Testing reciprocal associations between child anxiety and parenting across early interventions for inhibited preschoolers8
Editorial Perspective: Prato Research Collaborative for change in parent and child mental health – principles and recommendations for working with children and parents living with parental mental illn8
Editorial: Qualitative contributions to translational science – Practical pointers towards methodological pluralism in child psychology and psychiatry8
Correction to ‘Maternal mental health mediates the effects of pandemic‐related stressors on adolescent psychopathology during COVID‐19’8
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