E. Ma

55.2k total citations · 36 hit papers
417 papers, 46.6k citations indexed

About

E. Ma is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, E. Ma has authored 417 papers receiving a total of 46.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 294 papers in Materials Chemistry, 270 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 61 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in E. Ma's work include Microstructure and mechanical properties (129 papers), Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (124 papers) and Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties (56 papers). E. Ma is often cited by papers focused on Microstructure and mechanical properties (129 papers), Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (124 papers) and Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties (56 papers). E. Ma collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. E. Ma's co-authors include Yongqiang Cheng, H. W. Sheng, Xiaolei Wu, K.T. Ramesh, Jun Ding, Sheng Cheng, Zhiwei Shan, Ju Li, Ting Zhu and Jian Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

E. Ma

409 papers receiving 45.6k citations

Hit Papers

Atomic packing and short-... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2006 2010 2013 2003 2007 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Atomic packing and short-to-medium-range order in metallic glasses
    2006 1.7k citations E. Ma et al. profile →
  2. Atomic-level structure and structure–property relationship in metallic glasses
    2010 1.4k citations Yongqiang Cheng, E. Ma profile →
  3. Shear bands in metallic glasses
    2013 1.3k citations Yongqiang Cheng, E. Ma et al. profile →
  4. Deformation Twinning in Nanocrystalline Aluminum
    2003 1.0k citations Mingwei Chen, E. Ma et al. Science profile →
  5. Toward a quantitative understanding of mechanical behavior of nanocrystalline metals
    2007 966 citations E. Ma et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  6. Nanostructured high-strength molybdenum alloys with unprecedented tensile ductility
    2013 926 citations E. Ma et al. Nature Materials profile →
  7. Towards strength–ductility synergy through the design of heterogeneous nanostructures in metals
    2017 886 citations E. Ma, Ting Zhu Materials Today profile →
  8. Three strategies to achieve uniform tensile deformation in a nanostructured metal
    2004 819 citations E. Ma et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  9. Atomic Level Structure in Multicomponent Bulk Metallic Glass
    2009 767 citations E. Ma et al. profile →
  10. Effect of nanocrystalline and ultrafine grain sizes on the strain rate sensitivity and activation volume: fcc versus bcc metals
    2004 765 citations E. Ma et al. profile →
  11. Simultaneously Increasing the Ductility and Strength of Nanostructured Alloys
    2006 749 citations E. Ma et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  12. Designing crystallization in phase-change materials for universal memory and neuro-inspired computing
    2019 698 citations Wei Zhang, Riccardo Mazzarello et al. profile →
  13. Strengthening in multi-principal element alloys with local-chemical-order roughened dislocation pathways
    2019 602 citations E. Ma et al. profile →
  14. Direct observation of chemical short-range order in a medium-entropy alloy
    2021 580 citations E. Ma et al. profile →
  15. Strong crystal size effect on deformation twinning
    2010 576 citations Zhiwei Shan, Ju Li et al. profile →
  16. Reducing the stochasticity of crystal nucleation to enable subnanosecond memory writing
    2017 516 citations Feng Rao, Keyuan Ding et al. Science profile →
  17. Tensile ductility and necking of metallic glass
    2007 499 citations E. Ma et al. Nature Materials profile →
  18. Interactions between non-screw lattice dislocations and coherent twin boundaries in face-centered cubic metals
    2008 464 citations E. Ma et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  19. Dynamically reinforced heterogeneous grain structure prolongs ductility in a medium-entropy alloy with gigapascal yield strength
    2018 460 citations E. Ma et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  20. Tailoring heterogeneities in high-entropy alloys to promote strength–ductility synergy
    2019 447 citations E. Ma et al. profile →
  21. Bulk metallic glass formation in the binary Cu–Zr system
    2004 445 citations E. Ma et al. profile →
  22. Optimizing the strength and ductility of fine structured 2024 Al alloy by nano-precipitation
    2007 433 citations E. Ma et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  23. Local order influences initiation of plastic flow in metallic glass: Effects of alloy composition and sample cooling history
    2008 387 citations E. Ma et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  24. Grain rotation mediated by grain boundary dislocations in nanocrystalline platinum
    2014 362 citations Lihua Wang, Jiao Teng et al. profile →
  25. Soft spots and their structural signature in a metallic glass
    2014 358 citations Jun Ding, Yongqiang Cheng et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  26. Large plasticity in magnesium mediated by pyramidal dislocations
    2019 351 citations Boyu Liu, Fei Liu et al. Science profile →
  27. Correlation between the elastic modulus and the intrinsic plastic behavior of metallic glasses: The roles of atomic configuration and alloy composition
    2009 343 citations Yongqiang Cheng, E. Ma et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  28. Phase-change heterostructure enables ultralow noise and drift for memory operation
    2019 328 citations Keyuan Ding, Jiangjing Wang et al. Science profile →
  29. Dynamic shear deformation of a CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy with heterogeneous grain structures
    2018 319 citations E. Ma et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  30. Tailoring planar slip to achieve pure metal-like ductility in body-centred-cubic multi-principal element alloys
    2023 215 citations Jun Ding, Ke Jin et al. Nature Materials profile →
  31. Unusual dislocation behavior in high-entropy alloys
    2020 211 citations E. Ma Scripta Materialia profile →
  32. An organic electrochemical transistor for multi-modal sensing, memory and processing
    2023 203 citations Wei Zhang, E. Ma et al. profile →
  33. Tracking the sliding of grain boundaries at the atomic scale
    2022 192 citations Lihua Wang, Yin Zhang et al. Science profile →
  34. Uniting tensile ductility with ultrahigh strength via composition undulation
    2022 168 citations Suzhi Li, Yang Ren et al. profile →
  35. Chemical inhomogeneities in high-entropy alloys help mitigate the strength-ductility trade-off
    2024 89 citations E. Ma et al. profile →
  36. Machine-learning design of ductile FeNiCoAlTa alloys with high strength
    2025 21 citations Dezhen Xue, Shaohua Gao et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
E. Ma 34.3k 32.4k 7.0k 6.6k 6.2k 417 46.6k
J. Eckert 43.9k 1.3× 27.6k 0.9× 2.9k 0.4× 9.2k 1.4× 4.7k 0.8× 1.5k 56.5k
Akihisa Inoue 66.6k 1.9× 43.4k 1.3× 2.2k 0.3× 17.4k 2.6× 6.3k 1.0× 1.9k 79.2k
K. Lu 34.1k 1.0× 33.5k 1.0× 12.9k 1.8× 1.6k 0.2× 6.0k 1.0× 406 45.4k
H. Gleiter 15.4k 0.4× 21.9k 0.7× 5.9k 0.8× 2.5k 0.4× 2.1k 0.3× 347 28.9k
Christopher A. Schuh 16.5k 0.5× 14.8k 0.5× 5.6k 0.8× 3.2k 0.5× 3.1k 0.5× 344 23.8k
David J. Srolovitz 10.7k 0.3× 21.0k 0.6× 6.7k 1.0× 1.5k 0.2× 3.6k 0.6× 514 30.5k
J. P. Hirth 16.4k 0.5× 24.7k 0.8× 10.5k 1.5× 1.3k 0.2× 3.4k 0.6× 423 33.9k
K. Hono 19.6k 0.6× 17.6k 0.5× 3.4k 0.5× 1.2k 0.2× 5.8k 0.9× 872 40.5k
William D. Nix 16.7k 0.5× 23.7k 0.7× 20.3k 2.9× 2.6k 0.4× 2.7k 0.4× 389 44.5k
A.L. Greer 18.3k 0.5× 13.3k 0.4× 1.3k 0.2× 5.4k 0.8× 4.2k 0.7× 384 23.0k

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All Works

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Su, Zhengxiong, Xiaoyang Zhou, Ling Jin, et al.. (2025). Interstitial oxygen solutes promote atomic-scale heterogeneities to achieve superior irradiation tolerance in body-centered cubic multi-principal element alloys. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 227. 142–154. 7 indexed citations
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Cheng, Qing, W.Q. Ming, Jun Ding, et al.. (2025). Amplifying Suzuki segregation and hardening in a concentrated solid solution alloy. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 232. 156–169. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Bozhao, et al.. (2025). Quantifying the local compositional fluctuation and Shannon entropy inherent in multi-principal element alloys. Scripta Materialia. 259. 116559–116559. 3 indexed citations
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Nie, Chao, Xueyang Shen, Junying Zhang, et al.. (2025). Role of Seed Layer in Growing Atomically Flat TiTe 2 /Sb 2 Te 3 Heterostructure Thin Films at the Wafer Scale. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 12(21).
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Gao, Shaohua, Jinyu Zhang, Wenli Song, et al.. (2024). A Complex Concentrated Alloy with Record‐High Strength‐Toughness at 77 K. Advanced Materials. 37(4). e2410923–e2410923. 11 indexed citations
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Ma, E. & Jun Ding. (2024). Compositional fluctuation and local chemical ordering in multi-principal element alloys. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 220. 233–244. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Hanyi, et al.. (2024). Deformable monoclinic gallium telluride with high in-plane structural anisotropy. Materials Today. 80. 250–261. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Bozhao, et al.. (2024). Minimizing the diffusivity difference between vacancies and interstitials in multi-principal element alloys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(5). e2314248121–e2314248121. 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Xudong, Wen Zhou, Shehzad Ahmed, et al.. (2023). Multiscale simulations of growth-dominated Sb2Te phase-change material for non-volatile photonic applications. npj Computational Materials. 9(1). 13 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuecun, Huanhuan Lu, Zhangjie Wang, et al.. (2023). Significant mechanical softening of copper under coupled electric and magnetic stimuli. Scripta Materialia. 231. 115438–115438. 6 indexed citations
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Xie, Degang, Rongrong Zhang, Xiaohan Dai, et al.. (2023). Long-distance interface diffusion induced non-volume-conserved deformation in self-supported submicron-sized aluminum pillars. Acta Materialia. 255. 119092–119092. 1 indexed citations
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Huang, Longchao, Dengke Chen, Degang Xie, et al.. (2023). Quantitative tests revealing hydrogen-enhanced dislocation motion in α-iron. Nature Materials. 22(6). 710–716. 75 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhen, Zhengxiong Su, Bozhao Zhang, et al.. (2023). Effect of local chemical order on the irradiation-induced defect evolution in CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(15). e2218673120–e2218673120. 39 indexed citations
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Wang, Lihua, Yin Zhang, Zhi Zeng, et al.. (2022). Tracking the sliding of grain boundaries at the atomic scale. Science. 375(6586). 1261–1265. 192 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jiang, Tingting, Xudong Wang, Jiangjing Wang, et al.. (2022). In situ characterization of vacancy ordering in Ge-Sb-Te phase-change memory alloys. Fundamental Research. 4(5). 1235–1242. 7 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yuxing, Xudong Wang, Wei Zhang, et al.. (2022). Unraveling Crystallization Mechanisms and Electronic Structure of Phase‐Change Materials by Large‐Scale Ab Initio Simulations. Advanced Materials. 34(11). e2109139–e2109139. 44 indexed citations
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Liu, Boyu, Fei Liu, Nan Yang, et al.. (2019). Large plasticity in magnesium mediated by pyramidal dislocations. Science. 365(6448). 73–75. 351 indexed citations breakdown →
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Du, Qing, Xiongjun Liu, Qiaoshi Zeng, et al.. (2019). Reentrant glass transition leading to ultrastable metallic glass. Materials Today. 34. 66–77. 58 indexed citations
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Ding, Keyuan, Jiangjing Wang, Yuxing Zhou, et al.. (2019). Phase-change heterostructure enables ultralow noise and drift for memory operation. Science. 366(6462). 210–215. 328 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cheng, Yongqiang, Jun Ding, & E. Ma. (2012). Local Topology vs. Atomic-Level Stresses as a Measure of Disorder: Correlating Structural Indicators for Metallic Glasses. Materials Research Letters. 1(1). 3–12. 75 indexed citations

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