Kan-Wen Ma

956 total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 698 citations indexed

About

Kan-Wen Ma is a scholar working on Complementary and alternative medicine, Sociology and Political Science and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kan-Wen Ma has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 698 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Complementary and alternative medicine, 1 paper in Sociology and Political Science and 1 paper in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Kan-Wen Ma's work include Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies (3 papers), Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (2 papers) and Chinese history and philosophy (1 paper). Kan-Wen Ma is often cited by papers focused on Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies (3 papers), Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (2 papers) and Chinese history and philosophy (1 paper). Kan-Wen Ma collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Hong Kong. Kan-Wen Ma's co-authors include Jinling Tang and Baoyan Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Acupuncture in Medicine and Medical History.

In The Last Decade

Kan-Wen Ma

4 papers receiving 665 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.

Traditional Chinese medicine

2008 631 citations Jinling Tang, Baoyan Liu 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
Kan-Wen Ma United Kingdom	4	299	221	145	110	101	4	698
You-Ping Zhu Netherlands	7	206 0.7×	235 1.1×	158 1.1×	114 1.0×	202 2.0×	7	667
Qinglin Zha China	17	377 1.3×	432 2.0×	189 1.3×	94 0.9×	67 0.7×	42	876
Ken Wojcikowski Australia	12	200 0.7×	195 0.9×	157 1.1×	106 1.0×	143 1.4×	17	703
Yongqing Hua China	15	173 0.6×	250 1.1×	157 1.1×	173 1.6×	139 1.4×	32	686
Jue Zhou China	13	225 0.8×	193 0.9×	105 0.7×	110 1.0×	99 1.0×	51	770
Supanimit Teekachunhatean Thailand	17	153 0.5×	177 0.8×	112 0.8×	205 1.9×	65 0.6×	53	828
Yun Luo China	13	104 0.3×	265 1.2×	112 0.8×	83 0.8×	117 1.2×	46	580
Yuxia Wang China	14	173 0.6×	247 1.1×	63 0.4×	74 0.7×	98 1.0×	47	665
Mark N. Mead United States	6	185 0.6×	272 1.2×	101 0.7×	42 0.4×	78 0.8×	6	700

Countries citing papers authored by Kan-Wen Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kan-Wen Ma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kan-Wen Ma. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Kan-Wen Ma. The network helps show where Kan-Wen Ma may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kan-Wen Ma

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kan-Wen Ma. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kan-Wen 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 Kan-Wen Ma. Kan-Wen 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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4 of 4 papers shown

1.

Tang, Jinling, Baoyan Liu, & Kan-Wen Ma. (2008). Traditional Chinese medicine. The Lancet. 372(9654). 1938–1940. 631 indexed citations breakdown →

2.

Ma, Kan-Wen. (2000). Acupuncture: Its Place in the History of Chinese Medicine. Acupuncture in Medicine. 18(2). 88–99. 34 indexed citations

3.

Ma, Kan-Wen. (2000). Hare-lip surgery in the history of traditional Chinese medicine. Medical History. 44(4). 489–512. 8 indexed citations

4.

Ma, Kan-Wen. (1992). The Roots and Development of Chinese Acupuncture: From Prehistory to Early 20Th Century. Acupuncture in Medicine. 10(1_suppl). 92–99. 25 indexed citations

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