Ka Man Lai

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Ka Man Lai is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Ka Man Lai has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 11 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 9 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Ka Man Lai's work include Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure (13 papers), Infection Control and Ventilation (9 papers) and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (7 papers). Ka Man Lai is often cited by papers focused on Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure (13 papers), Infection Control and Ventilation (9 papers) and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (7 papers). Ka Man Lai collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Hong Kong and China. Ka Man Lai's co-authors include J.N. Lester, Mark D. Scrimshaw, Jonathan W.C. Wong, Michael Davies, Paul Wilkinson, Jonathon Taylor, Ian Ridley, Min Fang, Tsz Wai Ng and Juliana Martins and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Ka Man Lai

54 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Shaping cities for health: complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century

2012 534 citations Yvonne Rydin, Michael Davies et al. The Lancet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ka Man Lai United Kingdom	23	1.2k	958	248	178	177	56	2.5k
Linsheng Yang China	36	1.7k 1.4×	1.6k 1.6×	232 0.9×	86 0.5×	67 0.4×	184	4.7k
Rudolf Schierl Germany	31	1.4k 1.1×	198 0.2×	311 1.3×	459 2.6×	90 0.5×	80	4.1k
Kiyoung Lee South Korea	32	2.0k 1.6×	357 0.4×	749 3.0×	372 2.1×	126 0.7×	244	3.7k
Amir Sapkota United States	34	1.6k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	219 0.9×	119 0.7×	30 0.2×	102	3.9k
Nancy G. Love United States	40	1.5k 1.2×	3.1k 3.3×	938 3.8×	83 0.5×	454 2.6×	183	6.3k
Mark Anglin Harris United States	34	2.0k 1.6×	378 0.4×	92 0.4×	23 0.1×	27 0.2×	120	3.5k
Yuanan Lu United States	38	1.8k 1.5×	424 0.4×	472 1.9×	131 0.7×	9 0.1×	185	4.8k
Dung Phung Australia	33	1.7k 1.4×	710 0.7×	302 1.2×	74 0.4×	43 0.2×	131	4.9k
Kerry A. Kinney United States	29	1.0k 0.8×	489 0.5×	517 2.1×	150 0.8×	173 1.0×	98	2.8k
Thomas G. Robins United States	38	2.0k 1.6×	354 0.4×	372 1.5×	526 3.0×	117 0.7×	148	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ka Man Lai

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lai, Ka Man, Ta-Liang Chen, Chuen‐Chau Chang, Hsi-Hsien Chen, & Yuan‐Wen Lee. (2019). <p>Association between NSAID use and mortality risk in patients with end-stage renal disease: a population-based cohort study</p>. Clinical Epidemiology. Volume 11. 429–441. 17 indexed citations

Ng, Tsz Wai, et al.. (2018). Influence of membrane fatty acid composition and fluidity on airborne survival of Escherichia coli. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 102(7). 3327–3336. 11 indexed citations

Ng, Tsz Wai, Margaret Ip, Christopher Y.H. Chao, et al.. (2018). Differential gene expression in Escherichia coli during aerosolization from liquid suspension. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 102(14). 6257–6267. 21 indexed citations

Ng, Tsz Wai, et al.. (2017). Skin squames contribute to ammonia and volatile fatty acid production from bacteria colonizing in air-cooling units with odor complaints. Indoor Air. 28(2). 258–265. 13 indexed citations

Ng, Tsz Wai, et al.. (2017). Importance of stress-response genes to the survival of airborne Escherichia coli under different levels of relative humidity. AMB Express. 7(1). 71–71. 23 indexed citations

Awasthi, Mukesh Kumar, Ammaiyappan Selvam, Ka Man Lai, & Jonathan W.C. Wong. (2017). Critical evaluation of post-consumption food waste composting employing thermophilic bacterial consortium. Bioresource Technology. 245(Pt A). 665–672. 48 indexed citations

Brown, Julianne R., Julian W. Tang, Louise Pankhurst, et al.. (2015). Influenza virus survival in aerosols and estimates of viable virus loss resulting from aerosolization and air-sampling. Journal of Hospital Infection. 91(3). 278–281. 28 indexed citations

Vardoulakis, Sotiris, Sani Dimitroulopoulou, John E. Thornes, et al.. (2015). Impact of climate change on the domestic indoor environment and associated health risks in the UK. Environment International. 85. 299–313. 208 indexed citations

Vardoulakis, Sotiris, John E. Thornes, Ka Man Lai, et al.. (2014). Health effects of climate change in the UK indoor environment - a critical review. HKBU Institutional Repository (Hong Kong Baptist University). 1 indexed citations

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Goodwin, Robin, et al.. (2012). Interdisciplinary Approaches to Zoonotic Disease. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). e37–e37. 14 indexed citations

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Khan, Mohammad Zain, et al.. (2012). Testing biological effects of hand-washing grey water for reuse in irrigation on an urban farm: a case study. Environmental Technology. 34(4). 545–551. 6 indexed citations

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Taylor, Jonathon, P. Biddulph, Michael Davies, & Ka Man Lai. (2012). Predicting the microbial exposure risks in urban floods using GIS, building simulation, and microbial models. Environment International. 51. 182–195. 9 indexed citations

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Rydin, Yvonne, Michael Davies, Julio D. Dávila, et al.. (2012). Shaping cities for health: complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century. The Lancet. 379(9831). 2079–2108. 534 indexed citations breakdown →

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Taylor, Jonathon, Ka Man Lai, Michael Davies, et al.. (2011). Flood management: Prediction of microbial contamination in large-scale floods in urban environments. Environment International. 37(5). 1019–1029. 79 indexed citations

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Lai, Ka Man, Christian Bottomley, & Ruth McNerney. (2011). Propagation of Respiratory Aerosols by the Vuvuzela. PLoS ONE. 6(5). e20086–e20086. 26 indexed citations

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Lai, Ka Man, Jean Emberlin, & I. Colbeck. (2009). Outdoor environments and human pathogens in air. Environmental Health. 8(Suppl 1). S15–S15. 34 indexed citations

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Cheng, Ka Yu, Ka Man Lai, & Jonathan W.C. Wong. (2008). Effects of pig manure compost and nonionic-surfactant Tween 80 on phenanthrene and pyrene removal from soil vegetated with Agropyron elongatum. Chemosphere. 73(5). 791–797. 73 indexed citations

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Lai, Ka Man. (2005). Using selective media to assess aerosolization damage and ultraviolet germicidal irradiation susceptibility of Serratia marcescens. Aerobiologia. 21(3-4). 173–179. 2 indexed citations

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Lai, Ka Man, Mark D. Scrimshaw, & J.N. Lester. (2002). The Effects of Natural and Synthetic Steroid Estrogens in Relation to their Environmental Occurrence. Critical Reviews in Toxicology. 32(2). 113–132. 100 indexed citations

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Wong, Jonathan W.C., et al.. (2001). Effect of Applying Hong Kong Biosolids and Lime on Nutrient Availability and Plant Growth in an Acidic Loamy Soil. Environmental Technology. 22(12). 1487–1495. 4 indexed citations

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