Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Article	Citations
Eliminating hepatitis B: the ball is in our court	875
Child poverty in 2023: inequity in times of crises	325
Paediatric group A streptococcal disease in England: a primary care perspective	215
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2024; 8: 482–90	193
Optimised versus standard dosing of vancomycin in infants with Gram-positive sepsis (NeoVanc): a multicentre, randomised, open-label, phase 2b, non-inferiority trial	180
Primaquine for children, once and for all	176
The health and wellbeing case for children's suffrage	175
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children needs its own identity: the case of psychotropic medicines	167
Gamblification: risks of digital gambling games to adolescents	133
Tackling post-discharge mortality in children living in LMICs to reduce child deaths	131
Which children in the USA have access to heroic salvage therapy?	131
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	130
Preventing reproductive coercion in adolescence	128
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	118
Tackling childhood cancer in sub-Saharan Africa	110
Current treatment outcomes of congenital heart disease and future perspectives	106
Obesity-related asthma in children and adolescents	99
The global prevalence of and factors associated with Helicobacter pylori infection in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis	97
Just getting bi?	93
Self-asphyxial behaviour in adolescents	90
Social determinants, inequality, and autism	89
New fellows of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences	89
Noma: a neglected oro-facial childhood disease	85
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2022; 6: 150–57	82
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 684–85	77

European clinical trials in paediatric radiation oncology	75
Medically cleared and waiting for healing to begin	73
Adolescents and the International Conference on Population and Development at 30	72
Continuation of gender-affirming hormones in transgender people starting puberty suppression in adolescence: a cohort study in the Netherlands	71
Clinical phenotypes and prognostic features of embryonal tumours with multi-layered rosettes: a Rare Brain Tumor Registry study	66
Trajectories of airflow limitation from childhood to early adulthood: an analysis of six population-based birth cohorts	65
Rare and severe adverse events in children with inflammatory bowel disease: analysis of data from the PIBD-SETQuality Safety Registry	59
A call to action: children's hospitals, child health, and the climate crisis	57
Investing in childhood cancer registries to drive progress	57
Adolescent girls at the intersection of poverty, migration, and gender	57
Growth of children who are HIV-exposed but uninfected: a systematic review and meta-analysis	55
Neonatal research outcomes: the ethical imperative to change attitudes	52
Trust, but verify: a new potential association between food allergy and asthma in children	51
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	51
The importance of sleep for adolescents' long-term development	49
Digital media and mental health: understanding the evidence	49
Coping with and challenging the impacts of COVID-19	49
“As we grieved, we grew”	48
Correction Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 588–98	47
Thank you to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health's statistical and peer reviewers in 2023	47
When vaccine adverse event reporting generates hope, not fear	46
Ethical and legal considerations in the care of children and young people with high consequence infectious diseases (HCIDs): an approach to decision making	45
The healing powers of music	45
Pathological demand avoidance: further research is required – Authors' reply	45
Come and learn: an invitation from Zvandiri Youth Advocates	44
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	43
UNICEF Innocenti Film Festival	43
Caring for children with cancer evacuated from Ukraine	42
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	42
Intersectionality, gender norms, and young adolescents in context: a review of longitudinal multicountry research programmes to shape future action	41
Early targeted heart rate aerobic exercise versus placebo stretching for sport-related concussion in adolescents: a randomised controlled trial	40
The gift of a good beginning	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
Substandard and falsified medicines for children: UHC has a preventive role	39
Achievement goals and adolescent depression: implications for school-based interventions	39
Off-label is not always off-evidence: authorising paediatric indications for old medicines	38
WHO Health for All Film Festival	38
Children are not future producers and customers: a plea for the moral imperative of acting now	36
Childhood cancer: exercise is medicine	34
Delay in death registration among adolescents and young adults in England and Wales	34
Prevalence of hypertension and high-normal blood pressure among young adults in Zimbabwe: findings from a large, cross-sectional population-based survey	34
Refreshing our International Advisory Board and Youth Advisory Panel	34
The neglect of kwashiorkor	33
Recovery from mRNA COVID-19 vaccine-related myocarditis	33
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	33
Harnessing n-of-1 trials for personalised paediatric care in the era of information overload	33
Out of Zimbabwe: fragmented families and mental health	32
Adjunctive dexamethasone and 30-day all-cause death after hospital admission in paediatric pneumococcal meningitis: a propensity score 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
Autism incidence and spatial analysis in more than 7 million pupils in English schools: a retrospective, longitudinal, school registry study	31

Direct oral anticoagulants for use in paediatrics	31
Newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy in Australia: a non-randomised cohort study	30
The expanding field of genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: current understanding and future perspectives	30
Neonatal sepsis and antimicrobial resistance in Africa	30
School bullying in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis	30
Neurological manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalised children and adolescents in the UK: a prospective national cohort study	29
Mental health consequences of child marriage	29
Management of children and young people with idiopathic pituitary stalk thickening, central diabetes insipidus, or both: a national clinical practice consensus guideline	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
Lebanese youth's struggle amid socioeconomic turmoil	28
Growing up in the shadow of terrorism	28
Re-integrating Africa's street children	28
The future of rhabdomyosarcoma trials	27
Human papillomavirus vaccination for young survivors of cancer	26
New insights into the link between childhood adversity and epigenetic changes	26
Shared grief is half the sorrow	26
Feeling at home in the motherland	26
Advancing severity grading for risk-differentiated paediatric pneumonia care	25
2-year outcomes of ranibizumab versus laser therapy for the treatment of very low birthweight infants with retinopathy of prematurity (RAINBOW extension study): prospective follow-up of an open label,	25
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 89–99	25
Severe anaemia and paediatric mortality after hospital discharge in Africa	25
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 383–92	25
Antara Ganguli: rethinking gender equality in and through education	25
Paediatric endovascular thrombectomy: balancing strength of numbers and accuracy of precision medicine	25
Comparative physiological effects of antipsychotic drugs in children and young people: a network meta-analysis	25
Treatment of polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Latin America: recommendations from the Pan-American League of Associations for Rheumatology	25
Child health prioritisation in national adaptation policies on climate change: a policy document analysis across 160 countries	25
Capturing adolescent realities in the global data revolution	25
Different is not deficient: respecting diversity in early childhood development – Authors' reply	24
Urgently expanding access to improved treatment for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis	24
Neuropsychological and neurophysiological predictors and consequences of cannabis and illicit substance use during neurodevelopment: a systematic review of longitudinal studies	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
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)	24
Changing embedded assumptions, one story at a time	23
“His mind, however, was now…released.”	23
Child and adolescent health through storytelling	23
LGBTQ youth activits in Poland	22
Adolescent e-cigarette use screening: enabling health-care providers	22
The Step Safely guidelines: a catalyst to address the burden of falls in children and adolescents	21
Medicate or operate: epilepsy surgery could save lives	21
Fact versus fiction: the extraordinary lives of care-experienced, fostered, and adopted children	21
Adolescent girls at the fore: UNICEF's Gender Action Plan	20
Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit people: a paediatric health crisis	20
Intersex is not a secret	20
The UK Illegal Migration Bill: a child rights violation and safeguarding catastrophe	20
Social vulnerability as a risk factor for death due to severe paediatric COVID-19	19
The critical state of children's health during the Sudan crisis	19
Children: innocent victims of war in Ukraine	19
Shifting stigma about autistic young people	19
Prospective associations between ADHD symptoms and physical conditions from early childhood to adolescence: a population-based longitudinal study	18
Lung function trajectories and determinants in early life	18
Current status and challenges in prenatal and neonatal screening, diagnosis, and management of congenital heart disease in China	18
Association between caregiver concern for clinical deterioration and critical illness in children presenting to hospital: a prospective cohort study	18
Real-world effectiveness of nirsevimab immunisation against bronchiolitis in infants: a case–control study in Paris, France	18
Paediatric acute liver failure: a multidisciplinary perspective on when a critically ill child is unsuitable for liver transplantation	18
Dismantling barriers and biases against adolescent mothers	18
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	18
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2021; 5: 852–61	18
Gender service for children: a battle for health in a culture war	17
Missed opportunities to develop childhood cancer programmes in Africa	17
“Complicated feelings of home”: stories of child migration to the UK	17
Prioritising snakebite in the child and adolescent health agenda	17
Clinical encounters with yourself: share, disclose, or overexpose?	17
Tafenoquine exposure assessment, safety, and relapse prevention efficacy in children with Plasmodium vivax malaria: open-label, single-arm, non-comparative, multicentre, pharmacokinetic bridging, phas	17
For youth, for Justice	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	16
Achievement goals and adolescent mental health in individualist versus collectivist cultures	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	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
Postoperative speech impairment and surgical approach to posterior fossa tumours in children: a prospective European multicentre cohort study	15
Weight-loss medications: promoting health and not harm	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
The pain of being a young person experiencing chronic pain	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
PECARN prediction rule for cervical spine imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt trauma: a multicentre prospective observational study	15
Incorporating parental values in complex paediatric and perinatal decisions	15
Global, regional, and country estimates of metabolic syndrome burden in children and adolescents in 2020: a systematic review and modelling analysis	15
Progress and challenges of HIV and other STIs in adolescents and young adults	14

Paediatric non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcomas: towards global collaboration	14
Lessons from UK historical cohort studies of lower respiratory tract infections – Authors' reply	14
Bridging the worlds of art and health care	14
Death by accident: the curse of mobility	14
Regret, informed decision making, and respect for autonomy of trans young people	13
Bullying and health inequalities for children and adolescents with disability	13
Rare and severe adverse events in children with inflammatory bowel disease	13
Regenerative medicine: prenatal approaches	13
Blood transfusion for children in sub-Saharan Africa: 200 years on	13
Determinants of lung function development from birth to age 5 years: an interrupted time series analysis of a South African birth cohort	13
Correction Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2024; 8: 51–62	13
Helping adolescents cope with the burden of scoliosis	13
Self-advocacy and barriers for young people accessing health care in the Scottish Highlands	13
Dose-dependent and joint associations between screen time, physical activity, and mental wellbeing in adolescents: an international observational study	13
Course-correcting youth mental health care	13
Treating eating disorders in the wake of trauma	13
Vaccination against all odds in Brazil	13
Supporting Indigenous youth to heal intergenerational trauma	13
Finding diamonds in a coal mine	12
Importance of understanding the reinfection risk of COVID-19 in children	12
Violence against children with disability: an unacceptable scourge of society	12
Long-term kidney outcomes in children and adolescents with hypertension: a propensity-matched cohort study	12
Cancer risk with topical calcineurin inhibitors, pimecrolimus and tacrolimus, for atopic dermatitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Kawasaki disease: contemporary perspectives	12
Challenges and opportunities of female leadership in education	12
(Re)imagining inclusion to foster belonging in the lives of disabled children and youth	12
Semaglutide and social media: implications for young women with polycystic ovarian syndrome	12
Advances in medical management of acute liver failure in children: promoting native liver survival	12
Bonface Massah: changemaker and defender for children with albinism	11
Thank you to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health's clinical and statistical peer reviewers in 2021	11
Reading people	11
Planting seeds: reading about gardening to learn about nutrition	11
Malnutrition among pregnant adolescents in the Philippines	11
Lipoprotein apheresis and long-term cardiovascular health: a real answer for children with HoFH?	11
Supporting the sovereignty of families and cultures	11
Children and armed conflict	10
Authentic First Nations health research	10
Towards diversity in asthma pharmacogenetics	10
Simplifying medicine dosing for children by harmonising weight bands across therapeutic areas	10
Severe acute hepatitis in children	10
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 373–74	10
This void needs to be filled with colour	10
Physical activity and exercise for cancer-related cognitive impairment among individuals affected by childhood cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 9	10
Kid Governors and youth civic engagement in the USA	10
Redoubling efforts to sustain seasonal malaria chemoprevention	10
Youth engagement at The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health	10
Priorities in tackling non-communicable diseases in children and adolescents in China	10
Mpox among children in Africa	10
Subgroups of children with Kawasaki disease: a data-driven cluster analysis	9
Characterising sources of PM2·5 exposure for school children with asthma: a personal exposure study across six cities in sub-Saharan Africa	9
Thank you to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health's statistical and peer reviewers in 2022	9
Real-world effectiveness of nirsevimab against respiratory syncytial virus disease in infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
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	9
What does the future hold for youth in Africa with high blood pressure?	9
Micronutrient powders and diarrhoea risk in infants and young children	9
Honouring and learning from youth voices	9
Reported cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children aged 12–20 years in the USA who received a COVID-19 vaccine, December, 2020, through August, 2021: a surveillance investigation	9
Vosoritide therapy in children with achondroplasia aged 3−59 months: a multinational, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial	9
Difficult questions about long COVID in children	9
WHO's global roadmap to tackle adolescent hypertension	9
Global, regional, and national causes of under-5 mortality in 2000–19: an updated systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals	9
What is the specific role of schools and daycares in COVID-19 transmission? A final report from a living rapid review	9
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	9
Tone-deaf autism representation	8
Advances in familial hypercholesterolaemia in children	8
Adolescent acne vulgaris: current and emerging treatments	8
Raising the bar for measuring childhood adversity	8
Standardising training for young people's research advisory groups	8
School violence: where are the interventions?	8
Keeping schools open in times of health crises: seeing the global picture	8
Paediatric group A streptococcal disease in England: a primary care perspective – Authors' reply	8
A hard knock life	8
Can the 2024 UK election change the child health trajectory?	8
Evidence of lung perfusion defects and ongoing inflammation in an adolescent with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection	8
Real-life benefits of high-efficacy therapies for children with multiple sclerosis	8
Early childhood height, weight, and BMI development in children with monogenic obesity: a European multicentre, retrospective, observational study	7
Primaquine for uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax malaria in children younger than 15 years: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis	7
Current treatment for childhood arterial ischaemic stroke	7
EDCs: a threat to child health	7
Control of serogroup W meningococcal disease outbreaks: the promise of adolescent vaccination	7
Quality improvement programmes in paediatric sepsis from a global perspective	7
Next steps in treatment of prematurity-associated respiratory disease	7
Asthma care for all: mind the missing middle years	7
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2022; 6: 533–44	7
Infant food allergy phenotypes and association with lung function deficits and asthma at age 6 years: a population-based, prospective cohort study in Australia	7
Unintentional injuries in adolescents: a neglected issue in global health	7
Sinéad Rhodes: setting the record straight on neurodivergence	7
The case for point-of-care HIV viral load testing in Africa	7
Longer-term survival, quality of life, and cost-effectiveness of conservative versus liberal oxygenation targets in critically ill children: a pre-specified analysis from Oxy-PICU, a multicentre, open	7
Advancing the rights of street and working children	6
Paediatric group A streptococcal disease in England from October to December, 2022	6
Prevention of food allergy in infancy: the role of maternal interventions and exposures during pregnancy and lactation	6
Paediatric chronic pain as a catalyst for toxic stress	6
Assessment of infant position and timing of stylet removal to improve lumbar puncture success in neonates (NeoCLEAR): an open-label, 2 × 2 factorial, randomised, controlled trial	6