Barbara Maughan

26.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
213 papers, 18.2k citations indexed

About

Barbara Maughan is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Education and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara Maughan has authored 213 papers receiving a total of 18.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Clinical Psychology, 43 papers in Education and 28 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Barbara Maughan's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (114 papers), Child Abuse and Trauma (46 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (29 papers). Barbara Maughan is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (114 papers), Child Abuse and Trauma (46 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (29 papers). Barbara Maughan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Brazil. Barbara Maughan's co-authors include Michael Rutter, Andrew Pickles, Stephan Collishaw, Robert Goodman, Richard Rowe, Louise Arseneault, Edward D. Barker, Janet Ouston, Peter Mortimore and Beverly Jeanne Armento and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Barbara Maughan

206 papers receiving 16.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Fifteen Thousand Hours: Secondary Schools and Their Effects on Children

1980 1.6k citations Michael Rutter, Barbara Maughan et al. profile →
Financial cost of social exclusion: follow up study of antisocial children into adulthood

2001 701 citations Sophie K. Scott, Martín Knapp et al. BMJ profile →
Adult Health Outcomes of Childhood Bullying Victimization: Evidence From a Five-Decade Longitudinal British Birth Cohort

2014 549 citations Ryu Takizawa, Barbara Maughan et al. profile →
Continuities and discontinuities in psychopathology between childhood and adult life

2006 545 citations Michael Rutter, Barbara Maughan et al. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry profile →
Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder in a national sample: developmental epidemiology

2004 506 citations Barbara Maughan, Richard Rowe et al. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry profile →
Resilience to adult psychopathology following childhood maltreatment: Evidence from a community sample

2007 504 citations Stephan Collishaw, Michael Rutter et al. profile →
Child-to-adult neurodevelopmental and mental health trajectories after early life deprivation: the young adult follow-up of the longitudinal English and Romanian Adoptees study

2017 222 citations Edmund Sonuga‐Barke, Mark Kennedy et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Barbara Maughan United Kingdom	72	10.8k	4.6k	3.9k	2.6k	2.0k	213	18.2k
Louise Arseneault United Kingdom	80	12.6k 1.2×	3.5k 0.8×	6.4k 1.6×	4.5k 1.7×	2.8k 1.4×	235	23.8k
Tamsin Ford United Kingdom	62	14.1k 1.3×	4.0k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	4.8k 1.8×	2.2k 1.1×	444	22.1k
Jan van der Ende Netherlands	65	9.8k 0.9×	3.0k 0.6×	2.8k 0.7×	2.4k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	234	14.2k
Kirby Deater‐Deckard United States	67	11.5k 1.1×	5.0k 1.1×	4.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	2.6k 1.3×	288	16.0k
Michel Boivin Canada	71	10.5k 1.0×	5.6k 1.2×	7.5k 2.0×	1.4k 0.5×	2.3k 1.1×	424	19.5k
Mark R. Dadds Australia	80	14.4k 1.3×	3.2k 0.7×	6.0k 1.6×	1.7k 0.6×	2.4k 1.2×	288	19.1k
Rob McGee New Zealand	56	7.4k 0.7×	2.6k 0.6×	2.3k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	229	13.6k
Daniel S. Shaw United States	79	17.3k 1.6×	6.3k 1.4×	5.5k 1.4×	1.5k 0.6×	2.9k 1.4×	456	22.0k
Renate Houts United States	63	6.5k 0.6×	2.2k 0.5×	2.7k 0.7×	2.8k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	132	17.9k
Susan H. Spence Australia	59	11.8k 1.1×	4.0k 0.9×	3.3k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	205	16.2k

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Graham, Philip & Barbara Maughan. (2025). Child mental health problems and poverty. BJPsych Bulletin. 49(6). 427–429.

Mackes, Nuria, Dennis Golm, Sagari Sarkar, et al.. (2020). Early childhood deprivation is associated with alterations in adult brain structure despite subsequent environmental enrichment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(1). 641–649. 129 indexed citations

Kelly‐Irving, Michelle, et al.. (2019). Adverse childhood experiences and adult mood problems: evidence from a five-decade prospective birth cohort. Psychological Medicine. 50(14). 2444–2451. 21 indexed citations

Meehan, Alan J., Barbara Maughan, & Edward D. Barker. (2019). Health and Functional Outcomes for Shared and Unique Variances of Interpersonal Callousness and Low Prosocial Behavior. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 41(3). 353–365. 11 indexed citations

Barker, Edward D., Esther Walton, Charlotte A. M. Cecil, et al.. (2017). A Methylome-Wide Association Study of Trajectories of Oppositional Defiant Behaviors and Biological Overlap With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Child Development. 89(5). 1839–1855. 17 indexed citations

Cecil, Charlotte A. M., Esther Walton, Sara R. Jaffee, et al.. (2017). Neonatal DNA methylation and early-onset conduct problems: A genome-wide, prospective study. Development and Psychopathology. 30(2). 383–397. 30 indexed citations

Meehan, Alan J., Barbara Maughan, Charlotte A. M. Cecil, & Edward D. Barker. (2016). Interpersonal callousness and co-occurring anxiety: Developmental validity of an adolescent taxonomy.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 126(2). 225–236. 32 indexed citations

Thapar, Anita, et al.. (2016). Childhood hyperactivity and mood problems at mid-life: evidence from a prospective birth cohort. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 52(1). 87–94. 5 indexed citations

Evans‐Lacko, Sara, Ryu Takizawa, Nicola Brimblecombe, et al.. (2016). Childhood bullying victimization is associated with use of mental health services over five decades: a longitudinal nationally representative cohort study. Psychological Medicine. 47(1). 127–135. 85 indexed citations

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Bowes, Lucy, Rebecca Carnegie, Rebecca M. Pearson, et al.. (2015). Risk of depression and self-harm in teenagers identifying with goth subculture: a longitudinal cohort study. The Lancet Psychiatry. 2(9). 793–800. 33 indexed citations

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Piotrowska, Patrycja J., et al.. (2015). Income gradients within child and adolescent antisocial behaviours. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 207(5). 385–391. 10 indexed citations

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Sayal, Kapil, Jon Heron, Barbara Maughan, Richard Rowe, & Paul Ramchandani. (2013). Infant temperament and childhood psychiatric disorder: longitudinal study. Child Care Health and Development. 40(2). 292–297. 41 indexed citations

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Fisher, Helen L., Andrea Schreier, Stanley Zammit, et al.. (2012). Pathways Between Childhood Victimization and Psychosis-like Symptoms in the ALSPAC Birth Cohort. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 39(5). 1045–1055. 158 indexed citations

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Schoon, Ingrid, Elizabeth Jones, Helen Cheng, & Barbara Maughan. (2011). Family hardship, family instability, and children's cognitive development. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 4 indexed citations

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Barker, Edward D., Bonamy R. Oliver, Essi Viding, Randall T. Salekin, & Barbara Maughan. (2011). The impact of prenatal maternal risk, fearless temperament and early parenting on adolescent callous‐unemotional traits: a 14‐year longitudinal investigation. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 52(8). 878–888. 170 indexed citations

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Rowe, Richard, E. Jane Costello, Adrian Angold, William Copeland, & Barbara Maughan. (2010). Developmental pathways in oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 119(4). 726–738. 245 indexed citations

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Gaysina, Darya, Barbara Maughan, & Marcus Richards. (2010). Association of reading problems with speech and motor development: results from a British 1946 birth cohort. Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester). 1 indexed citations

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Buysse, Daniel J., Thomas A. Willis, Frühling Rijsdijk, et al.. (2009). ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN SLEEP QUALITY AND ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SYMPTOMS IN A SAMPLE OF YOUNG ADULT TWINS AND SIBLINGS. SLEEP. 32. 85 indexed citations

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Scott, Sophie K., Martín Knapp, Jane Henderson, & Barbara Maughan. (2001). Financial cost of social exclusion: follow up study of antisocial children into adulthood. BMJ. 323(7306). 191–191. 701 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dowdney, Linda, et al.. (1999). Psychological disturbance and service provision in parentally bereaved children: prospective case-control study. BMJ. 319(7206). 354–357. 61 indexed citations

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