Linhao Ma

496 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 342 citations indexed

About

Linhao Ma is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Linhao Ma has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 342 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 3 papers in Instrumentation and 1 paper in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Linhao Ma's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (5 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (4 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (4 papers). Linhao Ma is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (5 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (4 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (4 papers). Linhao Ma collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Denmark. Linhao Ma's co-authors include Jim Fuller, Philip F. Hopkins, Luke Zoltan Kelley, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar, Xiangcheng Ma, C. Johnston, S. E. de Mink, Earl P. Bellinger and Yang Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Plant Disease.

In The Last Decade

Linhao Ma

9 papers receiving 293 citations

Hit Papers

Most Black Holes Are Born Very Slowly Rotating 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200
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. Most Black Holes Are Born Very Slowly Rotating
    2019 200 citations Jim Fuller, Linhao Ma The Astrophysical Journal Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Linhao Ma United States 7 307 50 29 12 11 9 342
X. Y. Gao China 9 190 0.6× 125 2.5× 6 0.2× 12 1.0× 6 0.5× 21 208
Jianwei Lyu United States 12 348 1.1× 83 1.7× 94 3.2× 5 0.4× 7 0.6× 27 383
Christian Boily France 6 303 1.0× 25 0.5× 69 2.4× 11 0.9× 6 0.5× 11 317
Yu-Yang Songsheng China 11 267 0.9× 67 1.3× 24 0.8× 2 0.2× 25 2.3× 25 280
Alexey Bobrick Israel 9 222 0.7× 30 0.6× 40 1.4× 15 1.3× 4 0.4× 23 236
A. Maeder Switzerland 6 435 1.4× 38 0.8× 135 4.7× 8 0.7× 8 0.7× 10 450
Alain Mazure France 6 208 0.7× 50 1.0× 96 3.3× 3 0.3× 11 1.0× 11 228
Sameer Sameer United States 8 126 0.4× 37 0.7× 24 0.8× 3 0.3× 5 0.5× 19 137
I. Khamitov Russia 7 166 0.5× 25 0.5× 28 1.0× 18 1.5× 9 0.8× 45 172
V. P. Hentunen Finland 5 164 0.5× 33 0.7× 25 0.9× 4 0.3× 8 0.7× 9 169

Countries citing papers authored by Linhao Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Linhao Ma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Linhao 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 Linhao Ma. The network helps show where Linhao Ma may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Linhao Ma

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

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Ma, Linhao, C. Johnston, Earl P. Bellinger, & S. E. de Mink. (2024). Variability of Blue Supergiants in the LMC with TESS. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(2). 196–196. 6 indexed citations
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Ma, Linhao & Jim Fuller. (2024). Tidal Spin-up of Subdwarf B Stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(1). 1–1. 1 indexed citations
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Ma, Linhao & Jim Fuller. (2023). Tidal Spin-up of Black Hole Progenitor Stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 952(1). 53–53. 22 indexed citations
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Ma, Linhao, Philip F. Hopkins, Luke Zoltan Kelley, & Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère. (2023). A new discrete dynamical friction estimator based on N-body simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519(4). 5543–5553. 17 indexed citations
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Ma, Linhao & Jim Fuller. (2021). Orbital Decay of Short-period Exoplanets via Tidal Resonance Locking. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Ma, Linhao, Philip F. Hopkins, Xiangcheng Ma, et al.. (2021). Seeds don’t sink: even massive black hole ‘seeds’ cannot migrate to galaxy centres efficiently. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 508(2). 1973–1985. 46 indexed citations
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Ma, Linhao & Jim Fuller. (2019). Angular momentum transport in massive stars and natal neutron star rotation rates. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(3). 4338–4355. 37 indexed citations
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Yu, Yang, Linhao Ma, Zhiqiang Huang, et al.. (2019). Population Structure and Aggressiveness of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum From Rapeseed (Brassica napus) in Chongqing City. Plant Disease. 104(4). 1201–1206. 12 indexed citations
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Fuller, Jim & Linhao Ma. (2019). Most Black Holes Are Born Very Slowly Rotating. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 881(1). L1–L1. 200 indexed citations breakdown →

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