James Ma

912 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 467 citations indexed

About

James Ma is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, James Ma has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 467 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 3 papers in Information Systems and 3 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in James Ma's work include Topic Modeling (4 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 papers) and Innovative Education and Learning Practices (2 papers). James Ma is often cited by papers focused on Topic Modeling (4 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 papers) and Innovative Education and Learning Practices (2 papers). James Ma collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. James Ma's co-authors include Kai Yang, Zilin Zhang, Dongxu Wang, Rui Zhang, Irene Li, Tao Yu, Dragomir Radev, Zifan Li, Michihiro Yasunaga and Daniel Zeng and has published in prestigious journals such as Information Systems Frontiers, Mind Culture and Activity and Social Semiotics.

In The Last Decade

James Ma

10 papers receiving 433 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Spider: A Large-Scale Human-Labeled Dataset for Complex and Cross-Domain Semantic Parsing and Text-to-SQL Task

2018 385 citations Tao Yu, Rui Zhang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Ma United Kingdom	6	331	120	65	58	47	11	467
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio Italy	10	190 0.6×	91 0.8×	38 0.6×	28 0.5×	23 0.5×	84	361
Nattiya Kanhabua Germany	15	301 0.9×	201 1.7×	76 1.2×	32 0.6×	35 0.7×	44	493
Ivan Koychev Bulgaria	10	320 1.0×	177 1.5×	31 0.5×	31 0.5×	23 0.5×	50	431
Youngho Kim South Korea	9	159 0.5×	222 1.9×	44 0.7×	23 0.4×	30 0.6×	32	362
James Williams United States	9	112 0.3×	87 0.7×	133 2.0×	30 0.5×	8 0.2×	46	308
Maurice Coyle Ireland	9	103 0.3×	341 2.8×	46 0.7×	69 1.2×	25 0.5×	22	404
Daniel Tunkelang United States	6	131 0.4×	123 1.0×	82 1.3×	37 0.6×	29 0.6×	16	293
Rishi Bommasani United States	7	330 1.0×	40 0.3×	36 0.6×	15 0.3×	18 0.4×	15	435
Francesca Carmagnola Italy	7	130 0.4×	179 1.5×	67 1.0×	53 0.9×	21 0.4×	20	283
Lynda Tamine France	11	186 0.6×	154 1.3×	44 0.7×	25 0.4×	28 0.6×	44	322

Countries citing papers authored by James Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Ma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Ma

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

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Kong, Lingyue, et al.. (2025). Adolescent pathological internet use reduce academic self-efficacy in China: The mediating role of meaning in life and the moderating role of coping style. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. 22. 100981–100981.

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Yu, Tao, Rui Zhang, Kai Yang, et al.. (2018). Spider: A Large-Scale Human-Labeled Dataset for Complex and Cross-Domain Semantic Parsing and Text-to-SQL Task. 3911–3921. 385 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Ma, James. (2016). Semiotising the student perception of learning outcomes in British higher education. Social Semiotics. 27(2). 227–242. 6 indexed citations

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Ma, James. (2014). The Synergy of Peirce and Vygotsky as an Analytical Approach to the Multimodality of Semiotic Mediation. Mind Culture and Activity. 21(4). 374–389. 13 indexed citations

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Ma, James. (2012). Exploring the complementary effect of post-structuralism on sociocultural theory of mind and activity. Social Semiotics. 23(3). 444–456. 5 indexed citations

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Ma, James, Daniel Zeng, & Huimin Zhao. (2010). Modeling the growth of complex software function dependency networks. Information Systems Frontiers. 14(2). 301–315. 5 indexed citations

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Ma, James, et al.. (2009). An Inference-rules based Categorial Grammar Learner for Simulating Language Acquisition. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 29–37. 1 indexed citations

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Ma, James, et al.. (2009). Unsupervised Syntax Learning with Categorial Grammars using Inference Rules. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 127–136. 1 indexed citations

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Ma, James. (2008). ‘Reading the word and the world’ – how mind and culture are mediated through the use of dual-language storybooks. Education 3-13. 36(3). 237–251. 21 indexed citations

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Hu, Paul Jen‐Hwa, Daniel Zeng, Hsinchun Chen, et al.. (2007). System for Infectious Disease Information Sharing and Analysis: Design and Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. 11(4). 483–492. 26 indexed citations

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Ma, James, et al.. (2007). Automatically Determining Web Site Comprehensibility. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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