Ligang Ma

621 total citations
22 papers, 488 citations indexed

About

Ligang Ma is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ligang Ma has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 488 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Water Science and Technology, 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Ligang Ma's work include Water Quality and Pollution Assessment (6 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (4 papers). Ligang Ma is often cited by papers focused on Water Quality and Pollution Assessment (6 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (4 papers). Ligang Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Ligang Ma's co-authors include Qing Gu, Shengtian Yang, Jiadan Li, Jinsong Deng, Kefeng Zheng, Xiaobin Zhang, Li Sheng, Jianli Ding, Chaofan Wu and Ke Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Molecules, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and Geoderma.

In The Last Decade

Ligang Ma

22 papers receiving 480 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ligang Ma China 12 186 179 151 129 56 22 488
Huỳnh Vương Thu Minh Vietnam 15 268 1.4× 175 1.0× 265 1.8× 124 1.0× 52 0.9× 42 643
Qingqing Fang China 12 166 0.9× 124 0.7× 166 1.1× 85 0.7× 64 1.1× 24 398
Babak Farjad Canada 13 198 1.1× 134 0.7× 223 1.5× 65 0.5× 99 1.8× 24 431
Yoichi Fujihara Japan 12 186 1.0× 82 0.5× 198 1.3× 67 0.5× 73 1.3× 41 427
Keli Jia China 13 89 0.5× 103 0.6× 82 0.5× 133 1.0× 57 1.0× 34 395
Trần Văn Tỷ Vietnam 14 310 1.7× 111 0.6× 268 1.8× 77 0.6× 49 0.9× 48 542
Jianxi Huang China 9 119 0.6× 191 1.1× 258 1.7× 158 1.2× 110 2.0× 32 514
Jarbou Bahrawi Saudi Arabia 15 279 1.5× 260 1.5× 331 2.2× 175 1.4× 63 1.1× 48 689
Ottfried Dietrich Germany 18 362 1.9× 151 0.8× 363 2.4× 155 1.2× 85 1.5× 40 705
Xinrui Lin China 10 125 0.7× 99 0.6× 139 0.9× 50 0.4× 73 1.3× 15 373

Countries citing papers authored by Ligang Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ligang Ma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ligang Ma

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ligang Ma. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ligang 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 Ligang Ma. Ligang 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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Zhang, Xiaobin, Ligang Ma, Li Sheng, et al.. (2022). Temporal Stability Analysis for the Evaluation of Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Surface Water Quality. Water Resources Management. 36(4). 1413–1429. 6 indexed citations
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Fei, Zhang, Yun Chen, Jie Yuan, Ligang Ma, & Changjiang Liu. (2021). Growth characteristics of Suaeda salsa under different soil salinity gradients in controlled experiments. International journal of agricultural and biological engineering. 14(5). 142–148. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Shengtian, et al.. (2021). Estimation of Long-Term River Discharge and Its Changes in Ungauged Watersheds in Pamir Plateau. Remote Sensing. 13(20). 4043–4043. 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Hongwei, Yun Chen, Ligang Ma, et al.. (2020). Lake water volume fluctuations in response to climate change in Xinjiang, China from 2002 to 2018. PeerJ. 8. e9683–e9683. 11 indexed citations
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Wang, Hongwei, Yun Chen, Mingjiang Deng, et al.. (2020). Estimation of regional irrigation water requirements and water balance in Xinjiang, China during 1995–2017. PeerJ. 8. e8243–e8243. 29 indexed citations
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Yang, Jinming, et al.. (2019). Temporal-spatial variations and influencing factors of Lakes in inland arid areas from 2000 to 2017: a case study in Xinjiang. Geomatics Natural Hazards and Risk. 10(1). 519–543. 15 indexed citations
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Gu, Qing, Hao Hu, Ligang Ma, et al.. (2019). Characterizing the spatial variations of the relationship between land use and surface water quality using self-organizing map approach. Ecological Indicators. 102. 633–643. 100 indexed citations
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Ma, Ligang, Shengtian Yang, Qing Gu, et al.. (2019). Spatial and temporal mapping of cropland expansion in northwestern China with multisource remotely sensed data. CATENA. 183. 104192–104192. 16 indexed citations
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Lü, Limin, Junyu Luo, Shuai Zhang, et al.. (2018). Efficiency of cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera Hübner) control of different Bt cotton varieties in North China. Journal of Cotton Research. 1(1). 9 indexed citations
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Ma, Ligang, Shengtian Yang, Zibibula Simayi, et al.. (2018). Modeling variations in soil salinity in the oasis of Junggar Basin, China. Land Degradation and Development. 29(3). 551–562. 48 indexed citations
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Ma, Ligang, Jiadan Li, Qing Gu, et al.. (2017). Characterizing and modeling regional-scale variations in soil salinity in the arid oasis of Tarim Basin, China. Geoderma. 305. 1–11. 48 indexed citations
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Wu, Chaofan, et al.. (2016). Object-based classification approach for greenhouse mapping using Landsat-8 imagery. International journal of agricultural and biological engineering. 9(1). 79–88. 62 indexed citations
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Gu, Qing, Yao Zhang, Ligang Ma, et al.. (2016). Assessment of Reservoir Water Quality Using Multivariate Statistical Techniques: A Case Study of Qiandao Lake, China. Sustainability. 8(3). 243–243. 40 indexed citations
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Ma, Ligang, et al.. (2015). Urban landscape classification using Chinese advanced high-resolution satellite imagery and an object-oriented multi-variable model. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering. 16(3). 238–248. 6 indexed citations
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Ma, Ligang, et al.. (2015). Urban Land Use Classification Using LiDAR Geometric, Spatial Autocorrelation and Lacunarity Features Combined with Postclassification Processing Method. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 41(4). 334–345. 4 indexed citations
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Ma, Ligang, et al.. (2015). Discrimination of residential and industrial buildings using LiDAR data and an effective spatial-neighbor algorithm in a typical urban industrial park. European Journal of Remote Sensing. 48(1). 1–15. 7 indexed citations
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Gu, Qing, Jun Li, Jinsong Deng, et al.. (2015). Eco-environmental vulnerability assessment for large drinking water resource: a case study of Qiandao Lake Area, China. Frontiers of Earth Science. 9(3). 578–589. 18 indexed citations
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Gu, Qing, Jinsong Deng, Ke Wang, et al.. (2014). Identification and Assessment of Potential Water Quality Impact Factors for Drinking-Water Reservoirs. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 11(6). 6069–6084. 20 indexed citations

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