Chenyan Ma

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 828 citations indexed

About

Chenyan Ma is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Chenyan Ma has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 828 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 6 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 5 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Chenyan Ma's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (6 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (4 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (4 papers). Chenyan Ma is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (6 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (4 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (4 papers). Chenyan Ma collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Belgium. Chenyan Ma's co-authors include Yang Dan, Wei-Cheng Chang, Peng Zhong, Siyu Zhang, Min Xu, Brandon Weissbourd, Seiji Nishino, Noriaki Sakai, Shinjae Chung and Liqun Luo and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Chenyan Ma

9 papers receiving 822 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.

Basal forebrain circuit for sleep-wake control

2015 370 citations Min Xu, Shinjae Chung et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chenyan Ma United States	9	625	410	260	139	97	9	828
Patricia Bonnavion United States	12	591 0.9×	268 0.7×	525 2.0×	244 1.8×	107 1.1×	18	892
Danqian Liu United States	9	393 0.6×	244 0.6×	175 0.7×	92 0.7×	57 0.6×	14	568
Stephen Thankachan United States	14	686 1.1×	352 0.9×	431 1.7×	230 1.7×	64 0.7×	22	845
Marion Inostroza Germany	18	1.0k 1.7×	707 1.7×	157 0.6×	233 1.7×	96 1.0×	34	1.4k
Sawako Tabuchi Japan	9	629 1.0×	238 0.6×	498 1.9×	324 2.3×	94 1.0×	11	815
Nicolas Vautrelle United Kingdom	11	542 0.9×	442 1.1×	109 0.4×	103 0.7×	115 1.2×	16	787
Richard Boyce Canada	9	833 1.3×	391 1.0×	395 1.5×	248 1.8×	42 0.4×	12	962
Laurie L. Wellman United States	20	636 1.0×	279 0.7×	204 0.8×	207 1.5×	63 0.6×	58	984
Ivana Gritti Italy	11	622 1.0×	613 1.5×	208 0.8×	102 0.7×	193 2.0×	17	958
Gerald A. Marks United States	19	891 1.4×	625 1.5×	391 1.5×	245 1.8×	167 1.7×	37	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chenyan Ma

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chenyan Ma. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chenyan Ma based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Chenyan Ma. Chenyan Ma is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Du, Yong-lan, Chenyan Ma, Hui Chen, et al.. (2023). Dopamine release and negative valence gated by inhibitory neurons in the laterodorsal tegmental nucleus. Neuron. 111(19). 3102–3118.e7. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Bing, Chenyan Ma, Xinlu Ding, et al.. (2023). Circuit mechanism for suppression of frontal cortical ignition during NREM sleep. Cell. 186(26). 5739–5750.e17. 9 indexed citations

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Yao, Yuanyuan, Zeke Barger, Mohammad Saffari Doost, et al.. (2022). Cardiovascular baroreflex circuit moonlights in sleep control. Neuron. 110(23). 3986–3999.e6. 33 indexed citations

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Li, Bing, et al.. (2020). Inhibition of impulsive action by projection-defined prefrontal pyramidal neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(29). 17278–17287. 48 indexed citations

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Liu, Danqian, Weifu Li, Chenyan Ma, et al.. (2020). A common hub for sleep and motor control in the substantia nigra. Science. 367(6476). 440–445. 83 indexed citations

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Ma, Chenyan, Peng Zhong, Danqian Liu, et al.. (2019). Sleep Regulation by Neurotensinergic Neurons in a Thalamo-Amygdala Circuit. Neuron. 103(2). 323–334.e7. 52 indexed citations

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Zhong, Peng, Zhe Zhang, Zeke Barger, et al.. (2019). Control of Non-REM Sleep by Midbrain Neurotensinergic Neurons. Neuron. 104(4). 795–809.e6. 53 indexed citations

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Zhang, Siyu, Min Xu, Wei-Cheng Chang, et al.. (2016). Organization of long-range inputs and outputs of frontal cortex for top-down control. Nature Neuroscience. 19(12). 1733–1742. 165 indexed citations

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Xu, Min, Shinjae Chung, Siyu Zhang, et al.. (2015). Basal forebrain circuit for sleep-wake control. Nature Neuroscience. 18(11). 1641–1647. 370 indexed citations breakdown →

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