Jiyan Ma

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Jiyan Ma is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jiyan Ma has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 27 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Jiyan Ma's work include Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (40 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (25 papers) and Trace Elements in Health (22 papers). Jiyan Ma is often cited by papers focused on Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (40 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (25 papers) and Trace Elements in Health (22 papers). Jiyan Ma collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Egypt. Jiyan Ma's co-authors include Susan Lindquist, Xinhe Wang, Chonggang Yuan, Fei Wang, David G. Cornwell, Karen Colley, Katelyn Becker, Surachai Supattapone, Daniel J. Walsh and Justin R. Piro and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Jiyan Ma

88 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

Generating a Prion with Bacterially Expressed Recombinant... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 100 200 300 400 500
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. Generating a Prion with Bacterially Expressed Recombinant Prion Protein
    2010 529 citations Fei Wang, Xinhe Wang et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jiyan Ma United States 34 3.3k 1.5k 1.0k 827 763 95 4.4k
Shu G. Chen United States 43 5.6k 1.7× 2.9k 2.0× 1.8k 1.8× 1.8k 2.2× 1.5k 2.0× 90 7.4k
Boon‐Seng Wong United States 30 2.5k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 1.2k 1.2× 155 0.2× 803 1.1× 62 3.6k
Kurt Giles United States 30 2.9k 0.9× 1.6k 1.1× 693 0.7× 1.0k 1.2× 1.4k 1.8× 53 4.1k
Young J. Oh South Korea 35 2.0k 0.6× 445 0.3× 159 0.2× 725 0.9× 552 0.7× 102 3.8k
Cristine Alvès da Costa France 36 1.7k 0.5× 320 0.2× 252 0.2× 860 1.0× 1.3k 1.7× 89 3.8k
Gwendolyn Barceló‐Coblijn Spain 28 1.5k 0.5× 151 0.1× 1.0k 1.0× 374 0.5× 708 0.9× 54 3.4k
David A. Loeffler United States 25 627 0.2× 513 0.3× 377 0.4× 548 0.7× 899 1.2× 74 2.2k
Hilde Nilsen Norway 31 4.0k 1.2× 352 0.2× 135 0.1× 323 0.4× 1.0k 1.3× 99 6.0k
Jerome J. A. Hendriks Belgium 36 1.3k 0.4× 942 0.6× 116 0.1× 162 0.2× 379 0.5× 88 3.5k
Claudia Manzoni United Kingdom 26 1.2k 0.4× 338 0.2× 111 0.1× 786 1.0× 1.0k 1.4× 51 2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Jiyan Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jiyan Ma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jiyan Ma

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Yan, et al.. (2025). Nanobody fusion enhances production of difficult-to-produce secretory proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(3). 108292–108292.
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Jin, Huajun, Vellareddy Anantharam, Ramona J. Bieber Urbauer, et al.. (2024). High-Yield α-Synuclein Purification and Ionic Strength Modification Pivotal to Seed Amplification Assay Performance and Reproducibility. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(11). 5988–5988. 2 indexed citations
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D’Agostino, Carla, Max A. Thorwald, Lindsay Meyerdirk, et al.. (2023). Air pollution nanoparticle and alpha-synuclein fibrils synergistically decrease glutamate receptor A1, depending upon nPM batch activity. Heliyon. 9(4). e15622–e15622. 9 indexed citations
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Ma, Jiyan, et al.. (2023). The priority areas and possible pathways for health cooperation in BRICS countries. Global Health Research and Policy. 8(1). 36–36. 14 indexed citations
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McMeekin, Laura J., Cody Savage, Micah Simmons, et al.. (2022). Estrogen-related receptor gamma regulates mitochondrial and synaptic genes and modulates vulnerability to synucleinopathy. npj Parkinson s Disease. 8(1). 106–106. 19 indexed citations
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Wang, Junchen, Xiaomin Qin, Mengyao Zhao, et al.. (2021). Nitrogen availability affects stem development and response to differential root-zone drought stress in Catalpa bungei. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 186. 104429–104429. 11 indexed citations
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Peelaerts, Wouter, Sonia George, Michaela Johnson, et al.. (2020). Inhibiting the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier does not ameliorate synucleinopathy in the absence of inflammation or metabolic deficits. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 33–33. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Fei, Xinhe Wang, Christina D. Orrú, et al.. (2017). Self-propagating, protease-resistant, recombinant prion protein conformers with or without in vivo pathogenicity. PLoS Pathogens. 13(7). e1006491–e1006491. 32 indexed citations
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Caicedo, Hector Hugo, Yuyu Song, Lisa M. Jungbauer, et al.. (2017). Prion protein inhibits fast axonal transport through a mechanism involving casein kinase 2. PLoS ONE. 12(12). e0188340–e0188340. 14 indexed citations
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Yu, Guohua, Huiyan Liu, Wei Zhou, et al.. (2015). In vivo protein targets for increased quinoprotein adduct formation in aged substantia nigra. Experimental Neurology. 271. 13–24. 19 indexed citations
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Miller, Michael B., Fei Wang, Jiyan Ma, et al.. (2013). Cofactor Molecules Induce Structural Transformation during Infectious Prion Formation. Structure. 21(11). 2061–2068. 58 indexed citations
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Wang, Fei, Xinhe Wang, Chonggang Yuan, & Jiyan Ma. (2010). Generating a Prion with Bacterially Expressed Recombinant Prion Protein. Science. 327(5969). 1132–1135. 529 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Xinhe, Beena Thomas, Rakesh Sachdeva, et al.. (2006). Mechanism of arylating quinone toxicity involving Michael adduct formation and induction of endoplasmic reticulum stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(10). 3604–3609. 148 indexed citations
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Wang, Xinhe, Fei Wang, Man‐Sun Sy, & Jiyan Ma. (2004). Calpain and Other Cytosolic Proteases Can Contribute to the Degradation of Retro-translocated Prion Protein in the Cytosol. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(1). 317–325. 33 indexed citations
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Ma, Jiyan, et al.. (2002). Neurotoxicity and Neurodegeneration When PrP Accumulates in the Cytosol. Science. 298(5599). 1781–1785. 373 indexed citations
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Ma, Jiyan & Susan Lindquist. (2001). Wild-type PrP and a mutant associated with prion disease are subject to retrograde transport and proteasome degradation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98(26). 14955–14960. 236 indexed citations

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