Dan Ma

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Dan Ma is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Ma has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 6 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Dan Ma's work include Animal Virus Infections Studies (4 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (4 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (4 papers). Dan Ma is often cited by papers focused on Animal Virus Infections Studies (4 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (4 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (4 papers). Dan Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Dan Ma's co-authors include Peilong Lu, Yigong Shi, Chuangye Yan, Linfeng Sun, Rui Zhou, Guanghui Yang, Xiao‐chen Bai, Sjors H. W. Scheres, Yanyu Zhao and Tian Xie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Dan Ma

47 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

An atomic structure of human γ-secretase

2015 406 citations Xiao‐chen Bai, Chuangye Yan et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dan Ma China	21	1.1k	433	210	185	168	49	2.1k
Martin Ott Sweden	35	4.0k 3.5×	370 0.9×	170 0.8×	250 1.4×	207 1.2×	73	5.4k
Mineyuki Mizuguchi Japan	28	1.6k 1.4×	445 1.0×	141 0.7×	132 0.7×	72 0.4×	130	2.6k
Yujia Zhai China	24	1.1k 1.0×	119 0.3×	127 0.6×	81 0.4×	164 1.0×	93	2.2k
Heinz D. Osiewacz Germany	44	4.6k 4.0×	651 1.5×	172 0.8×	184 1.0×	943 5.6×	152	5.9k
Hironori Aramaki Japan	22	777 0.7×	210 0.5×	325 1.5×	90 0.5×	173 1.0×	72	1.7k
Julian Weghuber Austria	28	1.1k 1.0×	167 0.4×	33 0.2×	146 0.8×	414 2.5×	104	2.7k
Xue Tang China	27	980 0.9×	470 1.1×	85 0.4×	47 0.3×	211 1.3×	140	2.5k
Bruno Miroux France	30	3.6k 3.2×	2.4k 5.5×	853 4.1×	200 1.1×	143 0.9×	68	5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Dan Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dan Ma

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Ma

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dan Ma. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dan 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 Dan Ma. Dan Ma is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Fang, Yu, et al.. (2025). Water-regulated viscosity-plasticity phase transitions in a peptide self-assembled muscle-like hydrogel. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1058–1058. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Mingyu, Genxu Wang, Maoyuan Zhao, et al.. (2025). Jujuboside A in ameliorating insomnia in mice via GABAergic modulation of the PVT. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 349. 119939–119939.

Yang, Kai, Xinyu Wang, Kaijie Li, et al.. (2024). Epidemiological investigation and analysis of the infection of porcine circovirus in Xinjiang. Virology Journal. 21(1). 230–230. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Huan, Yumei Wang, Dan Ma, et al.. (2024). Core microbes identification and synthetic microbiota construction for the production of Xiaoqu light-aroma Baijiu. Food Research International. 183. 114196–114196. 24 indexed citations

Tang, Fengyan, Li Zhang, Dan Ma, et al.. (2024). Causal relationships between gut microbiota, gut metabolites, and diabetic neuropathy: A mendelian randomization study. Clinical Nutrition ESPEN. 62. 128–136. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Xin, Weijia Zhang, Wenhui Xue, et al.. (2023). Design of Multicomponent Peptide Fibrils with Ordered and Programmable Compositional Patterns. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(22). e202303684–e202303684. 9 indexed citations

Wang, Zhenyu, Kai Huang, Dan Ma, et al.. (2022). Porcine circovirus type 2 infection inhibits the activation of type I interferon signaling via capsid protein and host gC1qR. Veterinary Microbiology. 266. 109354–109354. 11 indexed citations

Wang, Zhenyu, Xingchen Wu, Dan Ma, et al.. (2021). PCV2 targets cGAS to inhibit type I interferon induction to promote other DNA virus infection. PLoS Pathogens. 17(9). e1009940–e1009940. 60 indexed citations

Ma, Ruifang, Omid Haji‐Ghassemi, Dan Ma, et al.. (2020). Structural basis for diamide modulation of ryanodine receptor. Nature Chemical Biology. 16(11). 1246–1254. 95 indexed citations

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Bai, Xiao‐chen, Chuangye Yan, Guanghui Yang, et al.. (2015). An atomic structure of human γ-secretase. Nature. 525(7568). 212–217. 406 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ma, Dan, Dan Guo, Wei Li, & Hongwen Zhao. (2015). Mdig, a lung cancer-associated gene, regulates cell cycle progression through p27KIP1. Tumor Biology. 36(9). 6909–6917. 5 indexed citations

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Lu, Peilong, Dan Ma, Chuangye Yan, et al.. (2014). Structure and mechanism of a eukaryotic transmembrane ascorbate-dependent oxidoreductase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(5). 1813–1818. 53 indexed citations

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Zeng, Jing, et al.. (2014). Rapid detection of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in raw oysters using immunomagnetic separation combined with loop-mediated isothermal amplification. International Journal of Food Microbiology. 174. 123–128. 35 indexed citations

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Lu, Peilong, Xiao‐chen Bai, Dan Ma, et al.. (2014). Three-dimensional structure of human γ-secretase. Nature. 512(7513). 166–170. 274 indexed citations

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Lu, Peilong, Dan Ma, Yuling Chen, et al.. (2013). L-glutamine provides acid resistance for Escherichia coli through enzymatic release of ammonia. Cell Research. 23(5). 635–644. 184 indexed citations

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Ma, Dan, Peilong Lu, Chuangye Yan, et al.. (2012). Structure and mechanism of a glutamate–GABA antiporter. Nature. 483(7391). 632–636. 163 indexed citations

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Wei, Haiyan, et al.. (2012). A novel method of real-time reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification developed for rapid and quantitative detection of human astrovirus. Journal of Virological Methods. 188(1-2). 126–131. 16 indexed citations

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Sun, Junfeng, et al.. (2011). Testosterone modulation of cardiac β-adrenergic signals in a rat model of heart failure. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 172(3). 518–525. 27 indexed citations

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Ma, Dan & John F. Morris. (2002). Protein synthetic machinery in the dendrites of the magnocellular neurosecretory neurons of wild-type Long-Evans and homozygous Brattleboro rats. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy. 23(3). 171–186. 22 indexed citations

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Morris, John F., et al.. (1999). Chapter 1.2 Functions of the perikaryon and dendrites in magnocellular vasopressin-secreting neurons: New insights from ultrastructural studies. Progress in brain research. 119. 21–30. 19 indexed citations

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