Ernest Ma

17.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
409 papers, 12.7k citations indexed

About

Ernest Ma is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ernest Ma has authored 409 papers receiving a total of 12.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 403 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 122 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 10 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Ernest Ma's work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (388 papers), Neutrino Physics Research (194 papers) and Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (172 papers). Ernest Ma is often cited by papers focused on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (388 papers), Neutrino Physics Research (194 papers) and Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (172 papers). Ernest Ma collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and China. Ernest Ma's co-authors include Utpal Sarkar, G. Rajasekaran, N. G. Deshpande, K. S. Babu, J. W. F. Valle, D. P. Roy, Rahul Srivastava, Michele Frigerio, Qing-Hong Cao and Shao‐Long Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ernest Ma

400 papers receiving 12.6k 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.

Verifiable radiative seesaw mechanism of neutrino mass and dark matter

2006 949 citations Ernest Ma profile →
Pattern of symmetry breaking with two Higgs doublets

1978 576 citations N. G. Deshpande, Ernest Ma Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
Softly brokenA4symmetry for nearly degenerate neutrino masses

2001 527 citations Ernest Ma et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
Underlying A4 symmetry for the neutrino mass matrix and the quark mixing matrix

2003 497 citations Ernest Ma, J. W. F. Valle et al. Physics Letters B profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ernest Ma	12.5k	3.1k	226	151	130	409	12.7k
K. S. Babu	8.6k 0.7×	1.7k 0.5×	294 1.3×	183 1.2×	86 0.7×	244	8.8k
Peter Minkowski	6.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	145 0.6×	221 1.5×	73 0.6×	96	6.4k
Harald Fritzsch	6.9k 0.5×	887 0.3×	299 1.3×	202 1.3×	87 0.7×	151	7.1k
Yosef Nir	5.9k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	188 0.8×	102 0.7×	89 0.7×	129	6.1k
Qaisar Shafi	6.2k 0.5×	2.8k 0.9×	232 1.0×	242 1.6×	85 0.7×	228	6.5k
Apostolos Pilaftsis	7.6k 0.6×	2.0k 0.6×	287 1.3×	243 1.6×	146 1.1×	156	7.9k
Jogesh C. Pati	7.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	289 1.3×	369 2.4×	136 1.0×	124	7.3k
J. Schechter	9.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.3×	373 1.7×	185 1.2×	65 0.5×	191	9.3k
John F. Gunion	10.1k 0.8×	2.6k 0.8×	276 1.2×	131 0.9×	246 1.9×	220	10.3k
Gino Isidori	7.3k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	258 1.1×	106 0.7×	308 2.4×	170	7.4k

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Ma, Ernest, et al.. (2025). Four-electron oxidation and one-electron reduction of the bis(terphenylthiolate) U(ii) complex, U(SAr^iPr6)₂ [Ar^iPr6 = C₆H₃-2,6-(C₆H₂-2,4,6-ⁱPr₃)₂]. Chemical Communications. 61(56). 10319–10322. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Ernest, et al.. (2025). The Divergent Reduction Chemistry of Ln(II) Bis(terphenylthiolate) Complexes, Ln(SAr^iPr6)₂, Leads to KLn(μ-SAr^iPr6)₂, C─H Bond Activation Products, and Two-Electron Reduction Reactivity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(38). 34249–34255.

Borah, Debasish, et al.. (2023). Dark SU(2)→Z3 × Z2 gauge symmetry. Physics Letters B. 842. 137981–137981. 1 indexed citations

Adhikari, Rathin, et al.. (2022). Anomalous magnetic moment and Higgs coupling of the muon in a sequential U(1) gauge model with dark matter. Physical review. D. 105(3). 4 indexed citations

Ma, Ernest. (2016). Neutrino theory: Mass, interactions, connections. 9. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Ernest. (2016). Compendium of models from a gauge U(1) framework. Modern Physics Letters A. 31(18). 1650112–1650112. 2 indexed citations

Ma, Ernest. (2016). Soft A4→Z3 symmetry breaking and cobimaximal neutrino mixing. Physics Letters B. 755. 348–350. 29 indexed citations

Ma, Ernest. (2009). Neutrino Theory: Some Recent Developments. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Ernest & Daijiro Suematsu. (2008). Fermion Triplet Dark Matter and Radiative Neutrino Mass. 66 indexed citations

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Hirsch, M., Ernest Ma, Jorge C. Romão, J. W. F. Valle, & A. Villanova del Moral. (2006). Minimal supergravity threshold effects on the tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing pattern. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Ma, Ernest. (2006). Neutrino Mass Matrix from ∆(27) Symmetry. 68 indexed citations

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Ma, Ernest. (2005). Autogenous Neutrino Mixing. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Ma, Ernest. (2004). Symmetries and Neutrino Masses. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

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Ma, Ernest. (2004). Non-Abelian discrete family symmetries of leptons and quarks. CERN Bulletin. 1 indexed citations

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Ma, Ernest. (2002). 1 Theoretical Expectations for Rare and Forbidden Tau Decays. 6 indexed citations

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Ma, Ernest & D. P. Roy. (2002). Heavy Triplet Leptons and New Gauge Boson. 60 indexed citations

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Ma, Ernest. (2000). Leptogenesis: Neutrinos and new lepton flavor violation at the TeV energy scale. CERN Bulletin. 123–130.

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Ma, Ernest. (1998). Pathways to Naturally Small Neutrino Masses. Physical Review Letters. 81(6). 1171–1174. 411 indexed citations

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Ma, Ernest & Probir Roy. (1997). Neutrino oscillation data versus three light neutrino flavors. arXiv (Cornell University).

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Deshpande, N. G. & Ernest Ma. (1978). Pattern of symmetry breaking with two Higgs doublets. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 18(7). 2574–2576. 576 indexed citations breakdown →

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