| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Child abuse: Adolescent records vs. adult recall | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1990 | 5,477 |
| 2 | Development and validation of a brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2003 | 4,091 |
| 3 | Identification of Child Maltreatment With the Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales: Development and Psychometric Data for a National Sample of American Parents | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1998 | 1,898 |
| 4 | Poly-victimization: A neglected component in child victimization | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2007 | 1,512 |
| 5 | Sexual abuse in a national survey of adult men and women: Prevalence, characteristics, and risk factors | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1990 | 1,447 |
| 6 | The interrelatedness of multiple forms of childhood abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2004 | 1,252 |
| 7 | A review of the long-term effects of child sexual abuse | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1992 | 1,109 |
| 8 | Peer victimization and internalizing problems in children: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2010 | 1,107 |
| 9 | The impact of exposure to domestic violence on children and young people: A review of the literature | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2008 | 986 |
| 10 | The incidence and prevalence of intrafamilial and extrafamilial sexual abuse of female children | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1983 | 852 |
| 11 | Maltreatment and disabilities: a population-based epidemiological study | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2000 | 841 |
| 12 | The long-term impact of the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of children: A community study | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1996 | 837 |
| 13 | The child sexual abuse accomodation syndrome | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1983 | 814 |
| 14 | The economic burden of child maltreatment in the United States and implications for prevention | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2012 | 813 |
| 15 | Stress and parenting during the global COVID-19 pandemic | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2020 | 810 |
| 16 | Prevalence and psychological sequelae of self-reported childhood physical and sexual abuse in a general population sample of men and women | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2003 | 787 |
| 17 | The international epidemiology of child sexual abuse | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1994 | 752 |
| 18 | Long-term physical and mental health consequences of childhood physical abuse: Results from a large population-based sample of men and women | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2007 | 735 |
| 19 | The sexual abuse of Afro-American and White-American women in childhood | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1985 | 705 |
| 20 | Exposure to childhood sexual and physical abuse and adjustment in early adulthood | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2008 | 701 |
| 21 | Child neglect: developmental issues and outcomes☆ | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2002 | 678 |
| 22 | A longitudinal analysis of risk factors for child maltreatment: findings of a 17-year prospective study of officially recorded and self-reported child abuse and neglect | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1998 | 648 |
| 23 | Children and youth in foster care: disentangling the relationship between problem behaviors and number of placements | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2000 | 624 |
| 24 | The Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire: Reliability, validity, and national norms | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2005 | 607 |
| 25 | The Effects of Organizational Climate and Interorganizational Coordination on the Quality and Outcomes of Children’s Service Systems | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1998 | 600 |
| 26 | Onset of physical abuse and neglect: Psychiatric, substance abuse, and social risk factors from prospective community data | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1996 | 585 |
| 27 | The long-term sequelae of child and adolescent abuse: A longitudinal community study | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1996 | 581 |
| 28 | Symptomatology associated with childhood sexual victimization in a nonclinical adult sample | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1988 | 549 |
| 29 | Impacts of adverse childhood experiences on health, mental health, and substance use in early adulthood: A cohort study of an urban, minority sample in the U.S. | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2013 | 533 |
| 30 | Resilience to adult psychopathology following childhood maltreatment: Evidence from a community sample | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2007 | 525 |
| 31 | How neighborhoods influence child maltreatment: A review of the literature and alternative pathways | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2007 | 523 |
| 32 | Differential adult symptomatology associated with three types of child abuse histories | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1990 | 510 |
| 33 | A review of the short-term effects of child sexual abuse | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1991 | 507 |
| 34 | Childhood victimization and lifetime revictimization | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2008 | 504 |
| 35 | Unpacking the impact of adverse childhood experiences on adult mental health | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2017 | 503 |
| 36 | Lifetime assessment of poly-victimization in a national sample of children and youth | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2009 | 497 |
| 37 | Childhood sexual abuse and adult developmental outcomes: Findings from a 30-year longitudinal study in New Zealand | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2013 | 492 |
| 38 | Assessing the reliability of retrospective reports of adverse childhood experiences among adult HMO members attending a primary care clinic | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2004 | 489 |
| 39 | A structured forensic interview protocol improves the quality and informativeness of investigative interviews with children: A review of research using the NICHD Investigative Interview Protocol | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2007 | 466 |
| 40 | Predicting rejection of her infant from mother's representation of her own experience: Implications for the abused-abusing intergenerational cycle | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1984 | 450 |
| 41 | Understanding the relationship between neighborhood poverty and specific types of child maltreatment | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1996 | 449 |
| 42 | Trauma changes everything: Examining the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and serious, violent and chronic juvenile offenders | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2015 | 446 |
| 43 | Web of deceit: A literature review of Munchausen syndrome by proxy | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1987 | 445 |
| 44 | Childhood emotional maltreatment and later psychological distress among college students: The mediating role of maladaptive schemas | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2009 | 445 |
| 45 | Adverse childhood experiences and associated health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2019 | 444 |
| 46 | Emotional abuse and neglect (psychological maltreatment): a conceptual framework | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2002 | 435 |
| 47 | Re-victimization patterns in a national longitudinal sample of children and youth | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2007 | 419 |
| 48 | A revised inventory of Adverse Childhood Experiences | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2015 | 412 |
| 49 | Parenting behavior and the risk of becoming a victim and a bully/victim: A meta-analysis study | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2013 | 408 |
| 50 | The impact of adverse childhood experiences on an urban pediatric population | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2011 | 407 |
