Ben Ma

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Ben Ma is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Ma has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 12 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 10 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ben Ma's work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (9 papers), Water Treatment and Disinfection (8 papers) and Antenna Design and Analysis (8 papers). Ben Ma is often cited by papers focused on Perovskite Materials and Applications (9 papers), Water Treatment and Disinfection (8 papers) and Antenna Design and Analysis (8 papers). Ben Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Ben Ma's co-authors include Karl G. Linden, Shufen Chen, Wei Huang, Shaobin Liu, Kun Cao, Wei Shen, Wei Wang, Borui Bian, Charles P. Gerba and Mark D. Sobsey and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Ben Ma

50 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Lead-Free Perovskite Materials for Solar Cells

2021 307 citations Minghao Wang, Wei Wang et al. Nano-Micro Letters profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben Ma China	22	536	348	333	283	222	52	1.4k
Weidong Xia China	24	739 1.4×	563 1.6×	153 0.5×	160 0.6×	74 0.3×	131	1.9k
K.S. Almugren Saudi Arabia	15	194 0.4×	348 1.0×	76 0.2×	65 0.2×	21 0.1×	95	806
Changyu Wu China	20	323 0.6×	416 1.2×	79 0.2×	68 0.2×	44 0.2×	77	1.5k
Zhuo Chen China	22	504 0.9×	170 0.5×	648 1.9×	160 0.6×	138 0.6×	110	1.5k
Wenchun Wang China	28	1.4k 2.6×	494 1.4×	96 0.3×	116 0.4×	106 0.5×	131	2.3k
Guolong Chen China	17	429 0.8×	311 0.9×	69 0.2×	17 0.1×	96 0.4×	71	977
Yu‐Chuan Chen China	19	217 0.4×	417 1.2×	85 0.3×	124 0.4×	13 0.1×	67	1.5k
George A. Stanciu Romania	22	361 0.7×	505 1.5×	91 0.3×	35 0.1×	58 0.3×	163	1.7k
Randy D. Curry United States	14	390 0.7×	197 0.6×	40 0.1×	135 0.5×	41 0.2×	122	992

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Ma

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Nan, Yang Gao, Ben Ma, et al.. (2025). Assessing source water reservoirs as pre-treatment units for simultaneous control of autochthonous and runoff pollution through artificial mixing and aeration technology. Water Research. 290. 125029–125029.

Ma, Ben, et al.. (2024). Biofilm inactivation using LED systems emitting germicidal UV and antimicrobial blue light. Water Research. 267. 122449–122449. 3 indexed citations

Li, Dongqin, Gang Li, Xiaolin Wei, et al.. (2024). Long-term aging behavior and mechanism of CMSX-4 nickel-based single crystal superalloy at 950 ℃ and 1050 ℃. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1004. 175763–175763. 8 indexed citations

Ma, Ben, Mariana Lanzarini-Lopes, Paul Westerhoff, et al.. (2024). Control of biofilms with UV light: a critical review of methodologies, research gaps, and future directions. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 10(12). 3056–3073. 6 indexed citations

Ma, Ben, et al.. (2023). Nitrate Protects Microorganisms and Promotes Formation of Toxic Nitrogenous Byproducts during Water Disinfection by Far-UVC Radiation. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(24). 9064–9074. 36 indexed citations

Ma, Ben, Jing Zhao, Wanxin Li, et al.. (2023). Rapid Inactivation of Fungal Spores in Drinking Water by Far-UVC Photolysis of Free Chlorine. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(51). 21876–21887. 24 indexed citations

Ma, Ben, et al.. (2023). Reflection of UVC wavelengths from common materials during surface UV disinfection: Assessment of human UV exposure and ozone generation. The Science of The Total Environment. 869. 161848–161848. 14 indexed citations

Ma, Ben, et al.. (2022). Inactivation of biofilm-bound bacterial cells using irradiation across UVC wavelengths. Water Research. 217. 118379–118379. 38 indexed citations

Ma, Ben, et al.. (2021). Consensus Sliding-Mode Fault-Tolerant Control for Second-Order Multi-Agent Systems. Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics. 25(6). 974–981. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Minghao, Wei Wang, Ben Ma, et al.. (2021). Lead-Free Perovskite Materials for Solar Cells. Nano-Micro Letters. 13(1). 62–62. 307 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ma, Ben, Junwen Chen, Minghao Wang, et al.. (2020). Passivating Charged Defects with 1,6-Hexamethylenediamine To Realize Efficient and Stable Tin-Based Perovskite Solar Cells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(30). 16289–16299. 36 indexed citations

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Xu, Xin, Junwen Chen, Ben Ma, et al.. (2020). Oriented Perovskite Crystal towards Efficient Charge Transport in FASnI₃ Perovskite Solar Cells. Solar RRL. 4(10). 30 indexed citations

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Xu, Xin, Kun Cao, Wenjing Zhu, et al.. (2020). Improved Crystallization and Stability of Mixed-Cation Tin Iodide for Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 3(6). 5415–5426. 22 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qing, Hongtao Yu, Ziwei Liu, et al.. (2019). Organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite quantum dot light-emitting diodes using a graphene electrode and modified PEDOT:PSS. RSC Advances. 9(36). 20931–20940. 9 indexed citations

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Yao, Yao, Hongtao Yu, Yanan Wu, et al.. (2019). Efficient Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Trioctylphosphine Oxide-Passivated Organometallic Halide Perovskites. ACS Omega. 4(5). 9150–9159. 30 indexed citations

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Ma, Ben, Xin Xu, Wei Wang, et al.. (2019). Indepth Studies on Working Mechanism of Plasmon-Enhanced Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells Incorporated with Ag@SiO₂ Core–Shell Nanocubes. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2(5). 3605–3613. 23 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhong, Ben Ma, Raymond M. Hozalski, et al.. (2019). Bench-scale column evaluation of factors associated with changes in N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) precursor concentrations during drinking water biofiltration. Water Research. 167. 115103–115103. 17 indexed citations

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Ma, Ben, William A. Arnold, & Raymond M. Hozalski. (2018). The relative roles of sorption and biodegradation in the removal of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in GAC-sand biofilters. Water Research. 146. 67–76. 44 indexed citations

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Bian, Borui, et al.. (2013). Cylindrical optimized nonmagnetic concentrator with minimized scattering. Optics Express. 21(S2). A231–A231. 18 indexed citations

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Zhou, Wen-Wen, Ben Ma, Ya‐Jie Tang, Jian‐Jiang Zhong, & Xiaodong Zheng. (2012). Enhancement of validamycin A production by addition of ethanol in fermentation of Streptomyces hygroscopicus 5008. Bioresource Technology. 114. 616–621. 29 indexed citations

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