Lijia Ma

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Lijia Ma is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lijia Ma has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 30 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 22 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Lijia Ma's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (37 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (23 papers) and Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (16 papers). Lijia Ma is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (37 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (23 papers) and Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (16 papers). Lijia Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Mexico. Lijia Ma's co-authors include Maoguo Gong, Qing Cai, Licheng Jiao, Xiaowei Chen, Bo Shen, Qiuzhen Lin, Jianqiang Li, Qingfu Zhang, Carlos A. Coello Coello and Dayong Tian and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Scientific Reports and International Journal of Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Lijia Ma

74 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Complex Network Clustering by Multiobjective Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization Based on Decomposition

2013 302 citations Maoguo Gong, Lijia Ma et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lijia Ma China	25	1.2k	815	511	419	336	81	2.5k
Kamal Berahmand Australia	33	927 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	419 0.8×	135 0.3×	340 1.0×	54	2.5k
Hui Gao China	19	435 0.4×	310 0.4×	411 0.8×	106 0.3×	238 0.7×	70	1.5k
Nagarajan Natarajan United States	19	236 0.2×	683 0.8×	298 0.6×	182 0.4×	306 0.9×	63	1.6k
Jianbin Huang China	24	637 0.5×	611 0.7×	185 0.4×	148 0.4×	322 1.0×	96	1.7k
Parham Moradi Iran	28	423 0.3×	1.9k 2.4×	397 0.8×	322 0.8×	389 1.2×	108	3.2k
Shaojie Qiao China	26	279 0.2×	793 1.0×	173 0.3×	134 0.3×	289 0.9×	142	2.2k
Yuan Fang China	28	357 0.3×	1.3k 1.6×	316 0.6×	92 0.2×	205 0.6×	144	2.5k
Clara Pizzuti Italy	27	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.6×	395 0.8×	236 0.6×	488 1.5×	99	2.6k
Ruoming Jin United States	33	609 0.5×	1.4k 1.7×	263 0.5×	372 0.9×	1.0k 3.0×	140	3.1k
Xiao Huang Hong Kong	23	423 0.3×	1.4k 1.8×	219 0.4×	57 0.1×	238 0.7×	94	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lijia Ma

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Songbai, Zeyi Wang, Lijia Ma, Jianyong Chen, & Xun Zhou. (2025). Learning improvement representations to accelerate evolutionary large-scale multiobjective optimization. Information Sciences. 705. 121973–121973. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Qiuzhen, et al.. (2025). TOM: Joint Trajectory, Offloading and Migration Optimization in Stateful Service-Oriented UAV-Enabled VEC System. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 18(6). 4261–4275.

Gao, Peng, et al.. (2025). Phage Host Prediction Using Deep Neural Network With Multi-Source Protein Language Models and Squeeze-and-Excitation Attention Mechanism. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 30(2). 1759–1771.

Liu, Songbai, et al.. (2024). A Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for Expensive Dynamic Multimodal Optimzation. 1–8.

Ma, Lijia, Peng Gao, Wenxiang Zhou, et al.. (2024). Multi-view attention graph convolutional networks for the host prediction of phages. Knowledge-Based Systems. 308. 112755–112755. 2 indexed citations

Zhu, Qingling, et al.. (2023). A survey of dynamic pickup and delivery problems. Neurocomputing. 554. 126631–126631. 12 indexed citations

Ma, Lijia, Yuan Bai, Zhanwei Du, et al.. (2023). Identifying Phage Sequences From Metagenomic Data Using Deep Neural Network With Word Embedding and Attention Mechanism. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 20(6). 3772–3785. 2 indexed citations

Lin, Qiuzhen, et al.. (2023). Multiobjective Multitasking Optimization With Decomposition-Based Transfer Selection. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 54(5). 3146–3159. 8 indexed citations

Ma, Lijia, Jianqiang Li, Qiuzhen Lin, et al.. (2021). Enhancing Robustness and Resilience of Multiplex Networks Against Node-Community Cascading Failures. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems. 52(6). 3808–3821. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Jianqiang, Tao Sun, Xiaopeng Huang, et al.. (2021). A Memetic Path Planning Algorithm for Unmanned Air/Ground Vehicle Cooperative Detection Systems. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 19(4). 2724–2737. 59 indexed citations

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Lin, Qiuzhen, et al.. (2021). An Ensemble Surrogate-Based Framework for Expensive Multiobjective Evolutionary Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 26(4). 631–645. 45 indexed citations

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Wang, Jia, Qiuzhen Lin, Lijia Ma, et al.. (2020). A survey of decomposition approaches in multiobjective evolutionary algorithms. Neurocomputing. 408. 308–330. 37 indexed citations

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Ma, Lijia, Shiqiang Wang, Qiuzhen Lin, et al.. (2020). Multi-Neighborhood Learning for Global Alignment in Biological Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 18(6). 2598–2611. 7 indexed citations

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Ma, Lijia, et al.. (2020). SNEGAN: Signed Network Embedding by Using Generative Adversarial Nets. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. 6(1). 136–149. 12 indexed citations

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Ma, Lijia, Xiaopeng Huang, Jianqiang Li, et al.. (2019). Privacy-Preserving Global Structural Balance Computation in Signed Networks. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. 7(1). 164–177. 5 indexed citations

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Ma, Lijia, Jianqiang Li, Qiuzhen Lin, et al.. (2019). Cost-Aware Robust Control of Signed Networks by Using a Memetic Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 50(10). 4430–4443. 19 indexed citations

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Wang, Haiyan, Qiuzhen Lin, Jianyong Chen, et al.. (2019). On Stability of Multi‐Valued Nonlinear Feedback Shift Registers. Complexity. 2019(1). 3 indexed citations

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Ma, Lijia, Wee Peng Tay, & Gaoxi Xiao. (2018). Iterative expectation maximization for reliable social sensing with information flows. Information Sciences. 501. 621–634. 7 indexed citations

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Lin, Qiuzhen, Xiaozhou Wang, Lijia Ma, et al.. (2018). Multiobjective Personalized Recommendation Algorithm Using Extreme Point Guided Evolutionary Computation. Complexity. 2018(1). 23 indexed citations

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Ma, Lijia, Jianqiang Li, Qiuzhen Lin, et al.. (2018). Reliable Link Inference for Network Data With Community Structures. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 49(9). 3347–3361. 24 indexed citations

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