Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Article	Citations
Eliminating hepatitis B: the ball is in our court	903
Child poverty in 2023: inequity in times of crises	329
Paediatric group A streptococcal disease in England: a primary care perspective	216
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2024; 8: 482–90	203
Optimised versus standard dosing of vancomycin in infants with Gram-positive sepsis (NeoVanc): a multicentre, randomised, open-label, phase 2b, non-inferiority trial	188
Primaquine for children, once and for all	177
The health and wellbeing case for children's suffrage	175
Preventing reproductive coercion in adolescence	133
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children needs its own identity: the case of psychotropic medicines	133
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	132
Gamblification: risks of digital gambling games to adolescents	131
The global prevalence of and factors associated with Helicobacter pylori infection in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis	125
Which children in the USA have access to heroic salvage therapy?	116
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	108
Current treatment outcomes of congenital heart disease and future perspectives	101
Tackling post-discharge mortality in children living in LMICs to reduce child deaths	99
Tackling childhood cancer in sub-Saharan Africa	97
Obesity-related asthma in children and adolescents	94
Just getting bi?	90
Self-asphyxial behaviour in adolescents	89
Social determinants, inequality, and autism	87
New fellows of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences	83
Noma: a neglected oro-facial childhood disease	81
Continuation of gender-affirming hormones in transgender people starting puberty suppression in adolescence: a cohort study in the Netherlands	76
Trajectories of airflow limitation from childhood to early adulthood: an analysis of six population-based birth cohorts	75

Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2022; 6: 150–57	75
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 684–85	72
European clinical trials in paediatric radiation oncology	71
Rare and severe adverse events in children with inflammatory bowel disease: analysis of data from the PIBD-SETQuality Safety Registry	67
Medically cleared and waiting for healing to begin	62
Adolescents and the International Conference on Population and Development at 30	61
Clinical phenotypes and prognostic features of embryonal tumours with multi-layered rosettes: a Rare Brain Tumor Registry study	59
Longitudinal association between dysmenorrhoea in adolescence and chronic pain in adulthood: a UK population-based study	58
A call to action: children's hospitals, child health, and the climate crisis	58
Growth of children who are HIV-exposed but uninfected: a systematic review and meta-analysis	55
Adolescent girls at the intersection of poverty, migration, and gender	55
Trust, but verify: a new potential association between food allergy and asthma in children	54
Coping with and challenging the impacts of COVID-19	53
The importance of sleep for adolescents' long-term development	53
Digital media and mental health: understanding the evidence	49
Correction Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 588–98	48
“As we grieved, we grew”	48
Thank you to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health's statistical and peer reviewers in 2023	48
When vaccine adverse event reporting generates hope, not fear	47
Ethical and legal considerations in the care of children and young people with high consequence infectious diseases (HCIDs): an approach to decision making	46
The healing powers of music	46
Pathological demand avoidance: further research is required – Authors' reply	46
Come and learn: an invitation from Zvandiri Youth Advocates	45
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	44
UNICEF Innocenti Film Festival	44
Intersectionality, gender norms, and young adolescents in context: a review of longitudinal multicountry research programmes to shape future action	43
Caring for children with cancer evacuated from Ukraine	43
Investing in childhood cancer registries to drive progress	43
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
Recognising context and power in youth mental health	40
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	40
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	40
Neonatal research outcomes: the ethical imperative to change attitudes	39
Achievement goals and adolescent depression: implications for school-based interventions	36
Early targeted heart rate aerobic exercise versus placebo stretching for sport-related concussion in adolescents: a randomised controlled trial	36
Substandard and falsified medicines for children: UHC has a preventive role	36
The gift of a good beginning	36
Off-label is not always off-evidence: authorising paediatric indications for old medicines	35
Children are not future producers and customers: a plea for the moral imperative of acting now	34
Refreshing our International Advisory Board and Youth Advisory Panel	34
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	34
Delay in death registration among adolescents and young adults in England and Wales	34
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
Prevalence of hypertension and high-normal blood pressure among young adults in Zimbabwe: findings from a large, cross-sectional population-based survey	33
The expanding field of genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: current understanding and future perspectives	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	33
Recovery from mRNA COVID-19 vaccine-related myocarditis	33
Management of children and young people with idiopathic pituitary stalk thickening, central diabetes insipidus, or both: a national clinical practice consensus guideline	32
Autism incidence and spatial analysis in more than 7 million pupils in English schools: a retrospective, longitudinal, school registry study	32

Mental health consequences of child marriage	32
Childhood cancer: exercise is medicine	31
Direct oral anticoagulants for use in paediatrics	31
The neglect of kwashiorkor	31
School bullying in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis	30
Comparison of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika among children in Nicaragua across 18 years: a single-centre, prospective cohort study	30
Neurological manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalised children and adolescents in the UK: a prospective national cohort study	30
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	28
Adjunctive dexamethasone and 30-day all-cause death after hospital admission in paediatric pneumococcal meningitis: a propensity score analysis	28
Lebanese youth's struggle amid socioeconomic turmoil	27
Newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy in Australia: a non-randomised cohort study	27
Neonatal sepsis and antimicrobial resistance in Africa	27
New insights into the link between childhood adversity and epigenetic changes	26
Re-integrating Africa's street children	26
The future of rhabdomyosarcoma trials	26
Growing up in the shadow of terrorism	26
Human papillomavirus vaccination for young survivors of cancer	25
Paediatric endovascular thrombectomy: balancing strength of numbers and accuracy of precision medicine	25
Severe anaemia and paediatric mortality after hospital discharge in Africa	25
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 89–99	25
Shared grief is half the sorrow	25
Feeling at home in the motherland	25
Capturing adolescent realities in the global data revolution	25
Antara Ganguli: rethinking gender equality in and through education	24
US medical groups sue to reverse overhaul of vaccine recommendations	24
Comparative physiological effects of antipsychotic drugs in children and young people: a network meta-analysis	24
Who protects the children and women of Sudan?	23
Treatment of polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Latin America: recommendations from the Pan-American League of Associations for Rheumatology	23
Advancing severity grading for risk-differentiated paediatric pneumonia care	22
Child health prioritisation in national adaptation policies on climate change: a policy document analysis across 160 countries	22
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)	22
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,	22
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 383–92	22
Different is not deficient: respecting diversity in early childhood development – Authors' reply	22
Urgently expanding access to improved treatment for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis	21
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	21
Child and adolescent health through storytelling	21
Changing embedded assumptions, one story at a time	20
LGBTQ youth activits in Poland	20
“His mind, however, was now…released.”	20
Adolescent e-cigarette use screening: enabling health-care providers	20
Medicate or operate: epilepsy surgery could save lives	19
Intersex is not a secret	19
The Step Safely guidelines: a catalyst to address the burden of falls in children and adolescents	19
Fact versus fiction: the extraordinary lives of care-experienced, fostered, and adopted children	19
Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit people: a paediatric health crisis	19
Dismantling barriers and biases against adolescent mothers	18
Paediatric acute liver failure: a multidisciplinary perspective on when a critically ill child is unsuitable for liver transplantation	18
Association between caregiver concern for clinical deterioration and critical illness in children presenting to hospital: a prospective cohort study	18
The critical state of children's health during the Sudan crisis	18
The UK Illegal Migration Bill: a child rights violation and safeguarding catastrophe	18
Adolescent girls at the fore: UNICEF's Gender Action Plan	18
Shifting stigma about autistic young people	18
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2021; 5: 852–61	17
Real-world effectiveness of nirsevimab immunisation against bronchiolitis in infants: a case–control study in Paris, France	17
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	17
Prioritising snakebite in the child and adolescent health agenda	17
Current status and challenges in prenatal and neonatal screening, diagnosis, and management of congenital heart disease in China	17
Children: innocent victims of war in Ukraine	17
Missed opportunities to develop childhood cancer programmes in Africa	17
Gender service for children: a battle for health in a culture war	17
Prospective associations between ADHD symptoms and physical conditions from early childhood to adolescence: a population-based longitudinal study	17
Lung function trajectories and determinants in early life	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
Clinical encounters with yourself: share, disclose, or overexpose?	16
Reversing the neglect of children and adolescents affected by tuberculosis	16
Achievement goals and adolescent mental health in individualist versus collectivist cultures	16
The pain of being a young person experiencing chronic pain	16
“Complicated feelings of home”: stories of child migration to the UK	16
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
PECARN prediction rule for cervical spine imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt trauma: a multicentre prospective observational study	15
Procalcitonin-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection in the UK (BATCH): a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, two-arm, individ	15
Weight-loss medications: promoting health and not harm	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
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
Serum GFAP and UCH-L1 for the identification of clinically important traumatic brain injury in children in France: a diagnostic accuracy substudy	15
Incorporating parental values in complex paediatric and perinatal decisions	15
Bridging the worlds of art and health care	14

Progress and challenges of HIV and other STIs in adolescents and young adults	14
Global, regional, and country estimates of metabolic syndrome burden in children and adolescents in 2020: a systematic review and modelling analysis	14
Death by accident: the curse of mobility	14
Early neurodevelopment of HIV-exposed uninfected children in the era of antiretroviral therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Lessons from UK historical cohort studies of lower respiratory tract infections – Authors' reply	14
Blood transfusion for children in sub-Saharan Africa: 200 years on	13
Vaccination against all odds in Brazil	13
Treating eating disorders in the wake of trauma	13
Course-correcting youth mental health care	13
Self-advocacy and barriers for young people accessing health care in the Scottish Highlands	13
Helping adolescents cope with the burden of scoliosis	13
Correction Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2024; 8: 51–62	13
Regret, informed decision making, and respect for autonomy of trans young people	13
Regenerative medicine: prenatal approaches	13
Rare and severe adverse events in children with inflammatory bowel disease	13
Bullying and health inequalities for children and adolescents with disability	13
Violence against children with disability: an unacceptable scourge of society	12
(Re)imagining inclusion to foster belonging in the lives of disabled children and youth	12
Biomarkers for early identification of severe febrile illness among children in community settings: spot on?	12
Adolescents in phase 3 HIV clinical trials	12
Long-term kidney outcomes in children and adolescents with hypertension: a propensity-matched cohort study	12
Importance of understanding the reinfection risk of COVID-19 in children	12
Advances in medical management of acute liver failure in children: promoting native liver survival	12
Cancer risk with topical calcineurin inhibitors, pimecrolimus and tacrolimus, for atopic dermatitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Semaglutide and social media: implications for young women with polycystic ovarian syndrome	12
Challenges and opportunities of female leadership in education	12
Determinants of lung function development from birth to age 5 years: an interrupted time series analysis of a South African birth cohort	12
Kawasaki disease: contemporary perspectives	12
Dose-dependent and joint associations between screen time, physical activity, and mental wellbeing in adolescents: an international observational study	12
Bonface Massah: changemaker and defender for children with albinism	11
Malnutrition among pregnant adolescents in the Philippines	11
Supporting the sovereignty of families and cultures	11
Reading people	11
Planting seeds: reading about gardening to learn about nutrition	11
Thank you to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health's clinical and statistical peer reviewers in 2021	11
Lipoprotein apheresis and long-term cardiovascular health: a real answer for children with HoFH?	11
Towards diversity in asthma pharmacogenetics	11
Children and armed conflict	11
Finding diamonds in a coal mine	11
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 373–74	10
This void needs to be filled with colour	10
Priorities in tackling non-communicable diseases in children and adolescents in China	10
Mpox among children in Africa	10
Redoubling efforts to sustain seasonal malaria chemoprevention	10
Youth engagement at The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health	10
Simplifying medicine dosing for children by harmonising weight bands across therapeutic areas	10
Kid Governors and youth civic engagement in the USA	10
Authentic First Nations health research	10
Severe acute hepatitis in children	10
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 9	10
What does the future hold for youth in Africa with high blood pressure?	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
Global, regional, and national causes of under-5 mortality in 2000–19: an updated systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals	9
Physical activity and exercise for cancer-related cognitive impairment among individuals affected by childhood cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	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
Characterising sources of PM2·5 exposure for school children with asthma: a personal exposure study across six cities in sub-Saharan Africa	9
What is the specific role of schools and daycares in COVID-19 transmission? A final report from a living rapid review	9
Subgroups of children with Kawasaki disease: a data-driven cluster 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
Real-world effectiveness of nirsevimab against respiratory syncytial virus disease in infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis	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