Mabel Yap

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Mabel Yap is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Mabel Yap has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Clinical Psychology, 3 papers in Social Psychology and 3 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Mabel Yap's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (3 papers), Mental Health Treatment and Access (3 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (3 papers). Mabel Yap is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (3 papers), Mental Health Treatment and Access (3 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (3 papers). Mabel Yap collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, Netherlands and United States. Mabel Yap's co-authors include Paul Deurenberg, WA van Staveren, Mythily Subramaniam, John Wang, Siow Ann Chong, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, G. Schmidt, Derrick Heng, Kian Woon Kwok and Edimansyah Abdin and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Obesity, Journal of Psychosomatic Research and Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

In The Last Decade

Mabel Yap

9 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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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.

Body mass index and percent body fat: a meta analysis among different ethnic groups

1998 1.1k citations Paul Deurenberg, Mabel Yap et al. International Journal of Obesity profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mabel Yap Singapore	9	673	598	267	243	188	9	1.7k
María Medrano Spain	22	544 0.8×	447 0.7×	189 0.7×	261 1.1×	157 0.8×	91	1.8k
Nehama Goldberger Israel	17	541 0.8×	292 0.5×	116 0.4×	151 0.6×	167 0.9×	39	1.4k
M. Mümtaz Mazıcıoğlu Türkiye	21	786 1.2×	638 1.1×	286 1.1×	252 1.0×	69 0.4×	94	1.9k
Shifan Dai United States	20	745 1.1×	320 0.5×	240 0.9×	96 0.4×	90 0.5×	51	1.5k
Estela Blanco Chile	24	546 0.8×	214 0.4×	196 0.7×	271 1.1×	148 0.8×	92	1.4k
Øystein Krüger Norway	13	340 0.5×	218 0.4×	461 1.7×	214 0.9×	100 0.5×	26	1.8k
Andrew Currie United Kingdom	22	769 1.1×	634 1.1×	74 0.3×	130 0.5×	135 0.7×	64	2.8k
Mariacristina Vecchio France	17	185 0.3×	241 0.4×	156 0.6×	219 0.9×	199 1.1×	24	1.7k
Ilka Lowensteyn Canada	23	592 0.9×	198 0.3×	256 1.0×	159 0.7×	262 1.4×	51	1.8k
Diana P. Pozuelo‐Carrascosa Spain	23	418 0.6×	269 0.4×	110 0.4×	111 0.5×	108 0.6×	71	1.5k

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Bougie, Olga, Mabel Yap, Lindsey Sikora, Teresa E. Flaxman, & Sukhbir S. Singh. (2018). Influence of Race/Ethnicity in Prevalence and Presentation of Endometriosis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology. 25(7). S14–S15. 8 indexed citations

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Subramaniam, Mythily, Louisa Picco, Vincent Yaofeng He, et al.. (2012). Body mass index and risk of mental disorders in the general population: Results from the Singapore Mental Health Study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 74(2). 135–141. 12 indexed citations

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Chong, Siow Ann, Edimansyah Abdin, Cathy D. Sherbourne, et al.. (2012). Treatment gap in common mental disorders: the Singapore perspective. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 21(2). 195–202. 55 indexed citations

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Chong, Siow Ann, Edimansyah Abdin, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, et al.. (2012). A Population-based Survey of Mental Disorders in Singapore. Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore. 41(2). 49–66. 134 indexed citations

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Subramaniam, Mythily, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Derrick Heng, et al.. (2012). The Singapore Mental Health Study: an overview of the methodology. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. 21(2). 149–157. 72 indexed citations

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Yap, Mabel, et al.. (2005). Impact of working status on breastfeeding in Singapore. European Journal of Public Health. 15(4). 424–430. 65 indexed citations

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Deurenberg, Paul & Mabel Yap. (1999). The assessment of obesity: methods for measuring body fat and global prevalence of obesity. Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 13(1). 1–11. 110 indexed citations

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Deurenberg, Paul, et al.. (1999). The impact of body build on the relationship between body mass index and percent body fat. International Journal of Obesity. 23(5). 537–542. 160 indexed citations

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Deurenberg, Paul, Mabel Yap, & WA van Staveren. (1998). Body mass index and percent body fat: a meta analysis among different ethnic groups. International Journal of Obesity. 22(12). 1164–1171. 1068 indexed citations breakdown →

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