Table 1 The top 100 cited articles in depression among children and adolescents
Rank | Article | Journal | Years | Citations | ACY | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Children’s Depression, Inventory (CDI) | Psychological Bulletin | 1985 | 3949 | 101.26 | Scales/measurement |
2 | Rating-scales to assess depression in school-aged children | Acta Paedopsychiatr | 1981 | 1701 | 39.56 | Scales/measurement |
3 | Development of depression from preadolescence to young adulthood: Emerging gender differences in a 10-year longitudinal study | Journal of Abnormal Psychology | 1998 | 1582 | 60.85 | Epidemiology |
4 | Development of a short questionnaire for use in epidemiological studies of depression in children and adolescents | International Journal of Methods In Psychiatric Research | 1995 | 1458 | 50.28 | Scales/measurement |
5 | The use of the center for epidemiologic studies depression scale in adolescents and young-adults | Journal of Youth and Adolescence | 1991 | 1436 | 43.52 | Scales/measurement |
6 | The emergence of gender differences in depression during adolescence | Psychological Bulletin | 1994 | 1347 | 44.90 | Epidemiology |
7 | Depression in adolescence | Lancet | 2012 | 1302 | 108.50 | review |
8 | Adolescent psychopathology:I. Prevalence and incidence of depression and other DSM-III-R disorders in high school students | Journal of Abnormal Psychology | 1993 | 1274 | 41.10 | Epidemiology |
9 | The risk for early-adulthood anxiety and depressive disorders in adolescents with anxiety and depressive disorders | JAMA Psychiatry | 1998 | 1249 | 48.04 | Medical psychiatry |
10 | Fluoxetine, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and their combination for adolescents with depression: Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS) randomized controlled trial | Journal of the American Medical Association | 2004 | 1234 | 61.70 | Clinical/management |
11 | Childhood and adolescent depression: A review of the past 10 years | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 1996 | 1217 | 43.46 | review |
12 | Comorbidity of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder with conduct, depressive, anxiety, and other disorders | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1991 | 1194 | 36.18 | Medical psychiatry |
13 | Assessment of symptoms of DSM-IV anxiety and depression in children: A revised child anxiety and depression scale | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 2000 | 1172 | 48.83 | Scales/measurement |
14 | Violence and risk of PTSD, major depression, substance abuse/dependence, and comorbidity: Results from the national survey of adolescents | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 2003 | 1033 | 49.19 | Medical psychiatry |
15 | Development of gender differences in depression: An elaborated cognitive vulnerability-transactional stress theory | Psychological Bulletin | 2001 | 932 | 40.52 | Pathogenesis |
16 | The children’s depression inventory—a systematic evaluation of psychometric properties | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1984 | 853 | 21.33 | Scales/measurement |
17 | Adolescent onset of the gender difference in lifetime rates of major depression: A theoretical model | JAMA Psychiatry | 2000 | 840 | 35.00 | Epidemiology |
18 | Mood disorders in children and adolescents: An epidemiologic perspective | Biological Psychiatry | 2001 | 802 | 34.87 | Epidemiology |
19 | National trends in the prevalence and treatment of depression in adolescents and young adults | Pediatrics | 2016 | 797 | 99.63 | Epidemiology |
20 | Global prevalence of depressive and anxiety symptoms in children and adolescents during covid-19 a meta-analysis | JAMA Pediatrics | 2021 | 760 | 253.33 | Epidemiology |
21 | Adolescents' emotion regulation in daily life: Links to depressive symptoms and problem behavior | Child Development | 2003 | 751 | 35.76 | Psychosocial characteristics |
22 | Major depressive disorder in older adolescents: Prevalence, risk factors, and clinical implications | Clinical Psychology Review | 1998 | 734 | 28.23 | review |
23 | A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of fluoxetine in children and adolescents with depression | JAMA Psychiatry | 1997 | 729 | 27.00 | Clinical/management |
24 | Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in childhood depression: Systematic review of published versus unpublished data | Lancet | 2004 | 716 | 35.80 | Clinical/management |
25 | Suicidality in pediatric patients treated with antidepressant drugs | JAMA Psychiatry | 2006 | 700 | 38.89 | Clinical/management |
26 | Age, gender, race, socioeconomic status, and birth cohort differences on the children's depression inventory: A meta-analysis | Journal of Abnormal Psychology | 2002 | 699 | 31.77 | Scales/measurement |
27 | Suicidality and depression disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual youth: A meta-analytic review | Journal of Adolescent Health | 2011 | 698 | 53.69 | Medical psychiatry |
28 | Mental health, educational, and social role outcomes of adolescents with depression | JAMA Psychiatry | 2002 | 690 | 31.36 | Psychosocial characteristics |
29 | Puberty and depression: The roles of age, pubertal status and pubertal timing | Psychological Medicine | 1998 | 682 | 26.23 | Epidemiology |
30 | Major depression in the national comorbidity survey-adolescent supplement: Prevalence, correlates, and treatment | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 2015 | 677 | 75.22 | Review |
31 | Screening for adolescent depression: a comparison of depression scales | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 1991 | 667 | 20.21 | Scales/measurement |
32 | Is there an epidemic of child or adolescent depression? | Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry | 2006 | 663 | 36.83 | Epidemiology |
33 | Normative and reliability data for the children’s depression inventory | Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology | 1986 | 655 | 17.24 | Scales/measurement |
34 | Depressed adolescents grown up | Journal of the American Medical Association | 1999 | 647 | 25.88 | Medical psychiatry |
35 | Stress, sensitive periods and maturational events in adolescent depression | Trends in Neurosciences | 2008 | 646 | 40.38 | Pathogenesis |
36 | Adolescent peer relations, friendships, and romantic relationships: Do they predict social anxiety and depression? | Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology | 2005 | 638 | 33.58 | Pathogenesis |
37 | Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the enigma major depressive disorder working group | Molecular Psychiatry | 2017 | 636 | 90.86 | Pathogenesis |
38 | Increases in depressive symptoms, suicide-related outcomes, and suicide rates among u.s. Adolescents after 2010 and links to increased new media screen time | Clinical Psychological Science | 2018 | 621 | 103.50 | Medical psychiatry |
39 | Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with depressive disorders | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 2007 | 603 | 35.47 | Scales/measurement |
40 | The validity of depressive disorder in childhood and the development of a self-rating scale: A research report | Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry | 1981 | 600 | 13.95 | Scales/measurement |
41 | Depressive-disorders in childhood. I. A longitudinal prospective-study of characteristics and recovery | JAMA Psychiatry | 1984 | 594 | 14.85 | Review |
42 | Bullying, depression, and suicidality in adolescents | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 2007 | 592 | 34.82 | Pathogenesis |
43 | The development of depression in children and adolescents | American Psychologist | 1998 | 592 | 22.77 | Pathogenesis |
44 | Trajectories of stressful life events and depressive symptoms during adolescence | Developmental Psychology | 1994 | 590 | 19.67 | Pathogenesis |
45 | Predictors and consequences of childhood depressive symptoms: A 5-year longitudinal-study | Journal of Abnormal Psychology | 1992 | 585 | 18.28 | Pathogenesis |
46 | Social supports and serotonin transporter gene moderate depression in maltreated children | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2004 | 583 | 29.15 | Pathogenesis |
47 | Effects of psychotherapy for depression in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis | Psychological Bulletin | 2006 | 582 | 32.33 | Clinical/management |
48 | Testing standard and modular designs for psychotherapy treating depression, anxiety, and conduct problems in youth | JAMA Psychiatry | 2012 | 573 | 47.75 | Scales/measurement |
49 | A prospective study of the role of depression in the development and persistence of adolescent obesity | Pediatrics | 2002 | 571 | 25.95 | Medical psychiatry |
50 | Adult outcomes of childhood and adolescent depression. I. Psychiatric status | JAMA Psychiatry | 1990 | 570 | 16.76 | Psychosocial characteristics |
51 | Major depression in community adolescents—age at onset, episode duration, and time to recurrence | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 1994 | 569 | 18.97 | Epidemiology |
52 | Subthreshold depression in adolescence and mental health outcomes in adulthood | JAMA Psychiatry | 2005 | 549 | 28.89 | Epidemiology |
53 | Psychometric properties of the revised child anxiety and depression scale in a clinical sample | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 2005 | 541 | 28.47 | Scales/measurement |
54 | Does bullying cause emotional problems? A prospective study of young teenagers | British Medical Journal | 2001 | 536 | 23.30 | Pathogenesis |
55 | Sleepyteens: Social media use in adolescence is associated with poor sleep quality, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem | Journal of Adolescence | 2016 | 535 | 66.88 | Pathogenesis |
56 | Prevalence and treatment of depression, anxiety, and conduct problems in us children | Journal of Pediatrics | 2019 | 534 | 106.80 | Review |
57 | Childhood abuse and neglect: Specificity of effects on adolescent and young adult depression and suicidality | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 1999 | 530 | 21.20 | Pathogenesis |
58 | The prevention of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents: A meta-analytic review | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 2006 | 522 | 29.00 | Prevention |
59 | Gene-environment interaction analysis of serotonin system markers with adolescent depression | Molecular Psychiatry | 2004 | 520 | 26.00 | Pathogenesis |
60 | Sex differences in adolescent depression: Stress exposure and reactivity models | Child Development | 2007 | 516 | 30.35 | Pathogenesis |
61 | Comorbidity of anxiety and depression in children and adolescents: 20 years after | Psychological Bulletin | 2014 | 515 | 51.50 | Medical psychiatry |
62 | Association of serum interleukin 6 and c-reactive protein in childhood with depression and psychosis in young adult life a population-based longitudinal study | JAMA psychiatry | 2014 | 514 | 51.40 | Pathogenesis |
63 | Depression in adolescence | American Psychologist | 1993 | 510 | 16.45 | Review |
64 | The association of insomnia with anxiety disorders and depression: Exploration of the direction of risk | Journal of Psychiatric Research | 2006 | 502 | 27.89 | Medical psychiatry |
65 | An investigation of mental health status of children and adolescents in china during the outbreak of Covid-19 | Journal of Affective Disorders | 2020 | 499 | 124.75 | Epidemiology |
66 | Internalizing problems of childhood and adolescence: Prospects, pitfalls, and progress in understanding the development of anxiety and depression | Development and Psychopathology | 2000 | 498 | 20.75 | review |
67 | Scales to assess child and adolescent depression—checklists, screens, and nets | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 1988 | 494 | 13.72 | Scales/measurement |
68 | The comorbid psychiatric symptoms of internet addiction: Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression, social phobia, and hostility | Journal of Adolescent Health | 2007 | 491 | 28.88 | Medical psychiatry |
69 | Pubertal transition, stressful life events, and the emergence of gender differences in adolescent depressive symptoms | Developmental Psychology | 2001 | 489 | 21.26 | Pathogenesis |
70 | Adult sequelae of adolescent depressive symptoms | JAMA Psychiatry | 1986 | 487 | 12.82 | Psychosocial characteristics |
71 | Comorbidity of anxiety and depression in children and adolescents | Psychological Bulletin | 1992 | 486 | 15.19 | Medical psychiatry |
72 | Developmental changes in hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal activity over the transition to adolescence: Normative changes and associations with puberty | Development And Psychopathology | 2009 | 483 | 32.20 | Pathogenesis |
73 | A clinical psychotherapy trial for adolescent depression comparing cognitive, family, and supportive therapy | JAMA Psychiatry | 1997 | 482 | 17.85 | Clinical/management |
74 | Offspring of depressed parents—10 years later | JAMA Psychiatry | 1997 | 468 | 17.33 | Epidemiology |
75 | Internet addiction in korean adolescents and its relation to depression and suicidal ideation: A questionnaire survey | International Journal of Nursing Studies | 2006 | 464 | 25.78 | Pathogenesis |
76 | Bullying, depression, and suicidal ideation in finnish adolescents: School survey | British Medical Journal | 1999 | 461 | 18.44 | Pathogenesis |
77 | Rumination as a transdiagnostic factor in depression and anxiety | Behaviour Research And Therapy | 2011 | 458 | 35.23 | Pathogenesis |
78 | Reciprocal relations between rumination and bulimic, substance abuse, and depressive symptoms in female adolescents | Journal of Abnormal Psychology | 2007 | 453 | 26.65 | Pathogenesis |
79 | Epidemiology of childhood depressive-disorders: a critical-review | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 1990 | 452 | 13.29 | Epidemiology |
80 | Adolescents' electronic media use at night, sleep disturbance, and depressive symptoms in the smartphone age | Journal of Youth and Adolescence | 2015 | 449 | 49.89 | Pathogenesis |
81 | Low self-esteem prospectively predicts depression in adolescence and young adulthood | Journal of PersonalityaAnd Social Psychology | 2008 | 448 | 28.00 | Pathogenesis |
82 | Targeted prevention of unipolar depressive disorder in an at-risk sample of high-school adolescents—a randomized trial of group cognitive intervention | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 1995 | 447 | 15.41 | Prevention |
83 | Preliminary studies of the reliability and validity of the children’s depression rating-scale | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 1984 | 447 | 11.18 | Scales/measurement |
84 | The clinical picture of major depression in children and adolescents | JAMA Psychiatry | 1987 | 445 | 12.03 | Psychosocial characteristics |
85 | Prospective relations between social support and depression: Differential direction of effects for parent and peer support? | Journal of Abnormal Psychology | 2004 | 442 | 22.10 | Pathogenesis |
86 | Efficacy of paroxetine in the treatment of adolescent major depression: A randomized, controlled trial | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 2001 | 440 | 19.13 | Clinical/management |
87 | Body dissatisfaction prospectively predicts depressive mood and low self-esteem in adolescent girls and boys | Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology | 2006 | 439 | 24.39 | Psychosocial characteristics |
88 | Poly-victimization and risk of posttraumatic, depressive, and substance use disorders and involvement in delinquency in a national sample of adolescents | Journal of Adolescent Health | 2010 | 438 | 31.29 | Pathogenesis |
89 | Evaluation of the patient health questionnaire-9 item for detecting major depression among adolescents | Pediatrics | 2010 | 436 | 31.14 | Scales/measurement |
90 | Switching to another SSRI or to venlafaxine with or without cognitive behavioral therapy for adolescents with SSRI-resistant depression: the TORDIA randomized controlled trial | Journal of the American Medical Association | 2008 | 435 | 27.19 | Clinical/management |
91 | Prevalence of and risk factors for depressive symptoms among young adolescents | Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine | 2004 | 435 | 21.75 | Review |
92 | Adolescent depression: why more girls | Journal of Youth and Adolescence | 1991 | 435 | 13.18 | Pathogenesis |
93 | Depressive comorbidity in children and adolescents: empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1993 | 434 | 14.00 | Medical psychiatry |
94 | Adolescent psychopathology: II. Psychosocial risk-factors for depression | Journal of Abnormal Psychology | 1994 | 433 | 14.43 | Pathogenesis |
95 | Altered striatal activation predicting real-world positive affect in adolescent major depressive disorder | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2009 | 431 | 28.73 | Pathogenesis |
96 | Self-efficacy pathways to childhood depression | Journal of Personality And Social Psychology | 1999 | 431 | 17.24 | Pathogenesis |
97 | Amygdala response to fearful faces in anxious and depressed children | JAMA Psychiatry | 2001 | 429 | 18.65 | Pathogenesis |
98 | Adolescent depressive symptoms as predictors of adult depression: Moodiness or mood disorder? | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1999 | 429 | 17.16 | Pathogenesis |
99 | Depressive-disorders in childhood .2. A longitudinal-study of the risk for a subsequent major depression | JAMA Psychiatry | 1984 | 425 | 10.63 | Pathogenesis |
100 | A randomized trial of a group cognitive intervention for preventing depression in adolescent offspring of depressed parents | JAMA Psychiatry | 2001 | 423 | 18.39 | Clinical/management |