Yap Seng Chong

25.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
568 papers, 13.7k citations indexed

About

Yap Seng Chong is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yap Seng Chong has authored 568 papers receiving a total of 13.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 223 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 199 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 150 papers in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Recurrent topics in Yap Seng Chong's work include Birth, Development, and Health (118 papers), Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (98 papers) and Gestational Diabetes Research and Management (89 papers). Yap Seng Chong is often cited by papers focused on Birth, Development, and Health (118 papers), Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (98 papers) and Gestational Diabetes Research and Management (89 papers). Yap Seng Chong collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Yap Seng Chong's co-authors include Peter D. Gluckman, Keith M. Godfrey, Michael J. Meaney, Seang‐Mei Saw, Fabian Yap, Lynette Pei‐Chi Shek, Yung Seng Lee, Kenneth Kwek, Shefaly Shorey and Kok Hian Tan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yap Seng Chong

536 papers receiving 13.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Prevalence and incidence of postpartum depression among healthy mothers: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2018 643 citations Shefaly Shorey, Cornelia Yin Ing Chee et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Yap Seng Chong	5.3k	4.3k	3.1k	2.0k	1.9k	568	13.7k
Michelle A. Williams	5.1k 1.0×	5.2k 1.2×	5.9k 1.9×	3.2k 1.6×	1.8k 0.9×	448	18.3k
Tine Brink Henriksen	4.2k 0.8×	5.8k 1.3×	3.5k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	405	14.6k
Per Magnus	3.7k 0.7×	5.3k 1.2×	3.6k 1.2×	1.7k 0.8×	2.0k 1.1×	417	17.6k
Abdullah Al Mamun	3.8k 0.7×	3.0k 0.7×	1.7k 0.5×	2.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	376	11.6k
Abigail Fraser	3.1k 0.6×	5.5k 1.3×	3.6k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	3.1k 1.6×	289	16.1k
Fangbiao Tao	2.9k 0.5×	2.2k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	2.8k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	615	12.0k
Hein Raat	4.3k 0.8×	3.5k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	3.0k 1.4×	1.7k 0.9×	460	15.9k
Sheryl L. Rifas‐Shiman	8.4k 1.6×	6.9k 1.6×	4.7k 1.5×	1.3k 0.6×	4.3k 2.2×	432	23.1k
Lynn Rosenberg	5.1k 1.0×	2.4k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	2.2k 1.1×	628	28.2k
Marjo‐Riitta Järvelin	5.7k 1.1×	6.2k 1.4×	2.8k 0.9×	3.0k 1.5×	2.2k 1.2×	553	26.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yap Seng Chong

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tan, Ai Peng, Marielle V. Fortier, Michael J. Meaney, et al.. (2025). Maternal Childhood Maltreatment, Development of Amygdala Volume, and Anxiety Symptoms in Offspring. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 65(3). 420–431.

Labus, Jennifer S., Jia Xu, Neerja Karnani, et al.. (2025). Childhood gut microbiome is linked to internalizing symptoms at school age via the functional connectome. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9359–9359.

Guan, Lihuan, Lei Feng, Roger Ho, et al.. (2025). The SG90 cohort of the oldest-old in Singapore. European Journal of Epidemiology. 40(9). 1133–1141.

Buthmann, Jessica L., Tarik Benmarhnia, Jonathan Huang, et al.. (2025). Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter During Pregnancy Is Associated With Hippocampal Development in Offspring. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. 5(4). 100490–100490.

Whitcomb, Brian W., Damaskini Valvi, C. Chen, et al.. (2025). Transplacental transfer efficiency of environmental chemicals in association with gestational diabetes mellitus. Environment International. 205. 109865–109865.

Chen, Ashley, et al.. (2024). Gestational diabetes mellitus and development of intergenerational overall and subtypes of cardiovascular diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Cardiovascular Diabetology. 23(1). 320–320. 11 indexed citations

Ng, Kwun Kei, Xing Qian, Siwei Liu, et al.. (2024). Rate of brain aging associates with future executive function in Asian children and older adults. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations

Sadananthan, Suresh Anand, Jadegoud Yaligar, Kok Hian Tan, et al.. (2024). Even moderate liver fat accumulation below conventional fatty liver cutoffs is linked to multiple metabolomic alterations and gestational dysglycemia in Asian women of reproductive age. BMC Medicine. 22(1). 561–561. 5 indexed citations

Choolani, Mahesh, Cornelia Yin Ing Chee, Huso Yi, et al.. (2024). The effectiveness of Parentbot - a digital healthcare assistant - on parenting outcomes: A randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 160. 104906–104906. 3 indexed citations

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Kee, Michelle Z. L., Ai Peng Tan, Bobby K. Cheon, et al.. (2024). Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Risk for Childhood Depression: Role of Executive Functions. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 64(8). 946–958.

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Tham, Elaine K.H., Haiyan Xu, Xiuju Fu, et al.. (2023). Associations between sleep trajectories up to 54 months and cognitive school readiness in 4 year old preschool children. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1136448–1136448. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Ling‐Jun, Jerry Kok Yen Chan, Johan G. Eriksson, et al.. (2023). Preconception maternal retinal venular widening and steeper resistance increments in the utero-fetoplacental circulation in pregnancy. iScience. 26(12). 108535–108535.

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Huang, Jian, Ai Peng Tan, Evelyn Law, et al.. (2023). Maternal preconception circulating blood biomarker mixtures, child behavioural symptom scores and the potential mediating role of neonatal brain microstructure: the S-PRESTO cohort. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 38–38. 2 indexed citations

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Loy, See Ling, Chee Wai Ku, Yin Bun Cheung, et al.. (2023). Modifiable Risk Factor Score and Fecundability in a Preconception Cohort in Singapore. JAMA Network Open. 6(2). e2255001–e2255001. 6 indexed citations

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Yang, Jiaxi, Yiqing Song, Audrey J. Gaskins, et al.. (2023). Mediterranean diet and female reproductive health over lifespan: a systematic review and meta-analysis. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 229(6). 617–631. 20 indexed citations

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Li, Ling‐Jun, Ximeng Wang, Yap Seng Chong, et al.. (2023). Exploring preconception signatures of metabolites in mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus using a non-targeted approach. BMC Medicine. 21(1). 99–99. 7 indexed citations

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Cai, Shirong, Elaine K.H. Tham, Haiyan Xu, et al.. (2022). Trajectories of reported sleep duration associate with early childhood cognitive development. SLEEP. 46(2). 13 indexed citations

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Wong, Gerard, Jacquelyn M. Weir, Kevin Huynh, et al.. (2021). The placental lipidome of maternal antenatal depression predicts socio-emotional problems in the offspring. Translational Psychiatry. 11(1). 107–107. 12 indexed citations

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Huang, Jonathan, Shirong Cai, Zhongwei Huang, et al.. (2021). Analyses of child cardiometabolic phenotype following assisted reproductive technologies using a pragmatic trial emulation approach. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5613–5613. 12 indexed citations

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Chen, Ling‐Wei, Izzuddin M. Aris, Jonathan Y. Bernard, et al.. (2016). Associations of Maternal Dietary Patterns during Pregnancy with Offspring Adiposity from Birth Until 54 Months of Age. Nutrients. 9(1). 2–2. 66 indexed citations

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