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Singapore
2026

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D-Index
71
Citations
28788
World Ranking
2120
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Siow Ann Chong is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research focuses primarily on psychology and medicine, with significant contributions in clinical psychology, social psychology, general health professions, psychiatry and mental health, and health.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research

Siow Ann Chong has coauthored frequently with the following researchers:

  • Mythily Subramaniam (127 publications)
  • Edimansyah Abdin (89 publications)
  • Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar (68 publications)
  • Saleha Shafie (48 publications)
  • Shazana Shahwan (40 publications)

Their recent papers include:

  • Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia, 2022, Nature
  • A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Interaction Testing and Polygenic Risk Scoring to Estimate the Association of Common Genetic Variants With Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia, 2022, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Independent and combined associations of sleep duration and sleep quality with common physical and mental disorders: Results from a multi-ethnic population-based study, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • A cross-sectional study on the perceived barriers to physical activity and their associations with domain-specific physical activity and sedentary behaviour, 2022, BMC Public Health

Frequent publication venues for Siow Ann Chong include:

  • Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore (13 publications)
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (11 publications)
  • BMC Psychiatry (7 publications)
  • Frontiers in Public Health (6 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (5 publications)

Best Publications

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Economic burden of multimorbidity among older adults: impact on healthcare and societal costs

    Louisa Picco;Evanthia Achilla;Edimansyah Abdin;Siow Ann Chong

  • Resilience and burden in caregivers of older adults: moderating and mediating effects of perceived social support

    Hui Lin Ong;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Edimansyah Abdin;Rajeswari Sambasivam

  • Stigma towards people with mental disorders and its components - a perspective from multi-ethnic Singapore

    M. Subramaniam;E. Abdin;L. Picco;S. Pang

  • Tracking the mental health of a nation: prevalence and correlates of mental disorders in the second Singapore mental health study.

    Mythily Subramaniam;Edimanysah Abdin;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Saleha Binte Shafie

  • A population-based survey of mental disorders in Singapore.

    Siow Ann Chong;Edimansyah Abdin;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Derrick Heng

  • Subjective quality of life in first episode schizophrenia spectrum disorders with comorbid depression

    Kang Sim;Rathi Mahendran;Samuel G. Siris;Stephan Heckers

  • A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts

    Guiyan Ni;Jian Zeng;Joana A. Revez;Ying Wang

  • Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help: Factor Structure and Socio-Demographic Predictors.

    Louisa Picco;Edimanysah Abdin;Siow Ann Chong;Shirlene Pang

  • Post-SARS psychological morbidity and stigma among general practitioners and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in Singapore

    S Verma;S Mythily;Y H Chan;J P Deslypere

  • Diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance in patients with schizophrenia.

    Mythily Subramaniam;Siow-Ann Chong;Elaine Pek

  • Prevalence of dementia in people aged 60 years and above: Results from the WiSE study

    Mythily Subramaniam;Siow Ann Chong;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Edimansyah Abdin

  • Symptomatic and functional remission in patients with first-episode psychosis.

    S. Verma;M. Subramaniam;E. Abdin;L. Y. Poon

  • Quality of Life in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Impact of the Disorder and of Treatment

    Mythily Subramaniam;Pauline Soh;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Louisa Picco

  • Obsessive–compulsive disorder: prevalence, correlates, help-seeking and quality of life in a multiracial Asian population

    Mythily Subramaniam;Edimansyah Abdin;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Siow Ann Chong

  • Internalized stigma among psychiatric outpatients: Associations with quality of life, functioning, hope and self-esteem

    Louisa Picco;Shirlene Pang;Ying Wen Lau;Anitha Jeyagurunathan

  • Genetic correlation between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and schizophrenia

    Russell L. McLaughlin;Dick Schijven;Wouter van Rheenen;Kristel R. van Eijk

  • Combined analysis of 635 patients confirms an age-related association of the serotonin 2A receptor gene with tardive dyskinesia and specificity for the non-orofacial subtype

    Bernard Lerer;Ronnen H. Segman;Ene Choo Tan;Vincenzo S. Basile

Frequent Co-Authors

Mythily Subramaniam
Mythily Subramaniam Institute of Mental Health
Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar
Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar Institute of Mental Health
Jianjun Liu
Jianjun Liu Genome Institute of Singapore
Menachem Fromer
Menachem Fromer Broad Institute
Tune H. Pers
Tune H. Pers University of Copenhagen
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Manuel Mattheisen
Manuel Mattheisen Dalhousie University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Joel N. Hirschhorn
Joel N. Hirschhorn Boston Children's Hospital

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