Emily Rosa (born February 6, 1987) is the youngest person to have a research paper published in a peer reviewed medical journal.

At age nine Rosa conceived and executed a scientific study of therapeutic touch which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998.

Her parents, Larry Sarner and Linda Rosa, are leaders of the advocacy group Advocates for Children in Therapy.

George Lundberg, editor of JAMA, aware of the uniqueness of the situation, said: "Age doesn't matter.

In an article in The New York Times, Rosa was likened to the child in the short tale "The Emperor's New Clothes".

[20] But Hufford's analysis did not acknowledge that the first round of tests was, in fact, only a fourth grade science fair project done with no thought of future publication.

[22] However, one published study clarified some of the issues that were raised at the time in parts of the skeptical community[23][24] about the method and analysis of the data.