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Professor Dieter Wolke and Dr Tanya Lereya's paper on bullying features as the most cited paper of the 2010s in Archives of Disease and Childhood 100th Anniversary list of most influential papers
The Archives of Disease in Childhood (ADC), the leading publication in Child Health in the UK by the British Medical Association celebrates the 100th Anniversary. As of 2025, ADC has published over 38000 documents. Celebrating this anniversary - they have looked back at the most influential papers over the decades by pointing out the most cited articles of the main ADC edition in every decade. First century: Most cited papers in Archives of Disease in Childhood | Archives of Disease in Childhood
Dieter Wolke is pleased that the ADC paper, co-authored with then postdoc Dr Tanya Lereya was the most cited in the 2010s. The paper focussed on the long term effects of bullying and the implications for public health. Doctors need to ask about bullying and consider it in their practice!
The full citation is: Long-term effects of bullying | Archives of Disease in Childhood. the paper is open access!
Furthermore, another research paper with Dieter's collaborators then in Basel made it in the top 5 most cited by ADC in the 2010s: Associations between problems with crying, sleeping and/or feeding in infancy and long-term behavioural outcomes in childhood: a meta-analysis | Archives of Disease in Childhood. Since completing his PhD thesis Dieter has been researching and lecturing on the long term effects of crying, feeding and sleeping problems in infancy and toddlerhood and their treatment.