Lixiang Ma

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Lixiang Ma is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Lixiang Ma has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 11 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Lixiang Ma's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (14 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (8 papers) and Acute Myocardial Infarction Research (6 papers). Lixiang Ma is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (14 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (8 papers) and Acute Myocardial Infarction Research (6 papers). Lixiang Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Poland. Lixiang Ma's co-authors include Xiaoqing Zhang, Baoyang Hu, Su-Chun Zhang, Jason P. Weick, Junying Yu, James A. Thomson, Yan Liu, Huisheng Liu, Yan Sun and Lu Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Lixiang Ma

59 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Neural differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells follows developmental principles but with variable potency

2010 772 citations Jason P. Weick, Lixiang Ma et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lixiang Ma China	22	1.7k	694	459	247	234	61	2.3k
Julia Ladewig Germany	20	1.9k 1.2×	772 1.1×	668 1.5×	216 0.9×	111 0.5×	32	2.4k
Tetsuhiro Kikuchi Japan	15	1.7k 1.0×	909 1.3×	343 0.7×	356 1.4×	244 1.0×	27	2.3k
Julius A. Steinbeck United States	13	1.1k 0.6×	726 1.0×	392 0.9×	169 0.7×	203 0.9×	15	1.8k
Tong Zang China	17	1.3k 0.8×	605 0.9×	621 1.4×	140 0.6×	147 0.6×	30	1.9k
Dong‐Youn Hwang South Korea	26	1.4k 0.8×	868 1.3×	241 0.5×	157 0.6×	208 0.9×	58	2.1k
Virginia B. Mattis United States	21	2.1k 1.3×	782 1.1×	265 0.6×	274 1.1×	274 1.2×	31	2.4k
Anselme L. Perrier France	24	2.7k 1.6×	1.4k 2.1×	743 1.6×	357 1.4×	242 1.0×	48	3.4k
Mi‐Yoon Chang South Korea	30	2.9k 1.8×	1.2k 1.7×	607 1.3×	437 1.8×	358 1.5×	55	3.8k
Shauna H. Yuan United States	19	1.5k 0.9×	568 0.8×	331 0.7×	782 3.2×	240 1.0×	34	2.4k
Michael Peitz Germany	25	2.6k 1.5×	889 1.3×	413 0.9×	617 2.5×	267 1.1×	57	3.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lixiang Ma

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ma, Luyuan, Lixiang Ma, Xiao-Ting Li, et al.. (2025). Case Report: TAFRO syndrome misdiagnosed as liver cirrhosis due to persistent abdominal distension. Frontiers in Immunology. 16. 1554198–1554198.

Guo, Pan, et al.. (2025). Acute kidney injury after myocardial infarction: prognostic implications via dual robust methods. Frontiers in Medicine. 12. 1555478–1555478.

Liu, Yang, Xinyu Chen, Yunlong Ma, et al.. (2024). Endogenous mutant Huntingtin alters the corticogenesis via lowering Golgi recruiting ARF1 in cortical organoid. Molecular Psychiatry. 29(10). 3024–3039. 7 indexed citations

Chen, Yingji, Yang Liu, Yilin Wang, et al.. (2023). FBXL4 mutations cause excessive mitophagy via BNIP3/BNIP3L accumulation leading to mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. Cell Death and Differentiation. 30(10). 2351–2363. 26 indexed citations

Li, Yuting, Xiangyu Tan, Lixiang Ma, et al.. (2023). Targeting LGSN restores sensitivity to chemotherapy in gastric cancer stem cells by triggering pyroptosis. Cell Death and Disease. 14(8). 545–545. 11 indexed citations

Tan, Xiangyu, Yuting Li, Huahui Li, et al.. (2023). WNT2–SOX4 positive feedback loop promotes chemoresistance and tumorigenesis by inducing stem-cell like properties in gastric cancer. Oncogene. 42(41). 3062–3074. 23 indexed citations

Chen, Xinyu, Hexige Saiyin, Yang Liu, et al.. (2022). Human striatal organoids derived from pluripotent stem cells recapitulate striatal development and compartments. PLoS Biology. 20(11). e3001868–e3001868. 18 indexed citations

Li, Xuan, et al.. (2022). Ketamine impairs growth cone and synaptogenesis in human GABAergic projection neurons via GSK-3β and HDAC6 signaling. Molecular Psychiatry. 29(6). 1647–1659. 11 indexed citations

Chen, Xinyu, Yang Liu, Lin Huang, et al.. (2022). IDO-1 inhibitor INCB24360 elicits distant metastasis of basal extruded cancer cells in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica. 44(6). 1277–1289. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Guowei, et al.. (2021). Research on Comfort Measuring Device and Evaluation Algorithm of Clothing. 2030–2035. 1 indexed citations

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Tang, Xiuying, et al.. (2021). Application of tirofiban in patients with acute myocardial infarction complicated with diabetes and undergoing emergency interventional therapy. Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences. 38(1). 172–178. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Chen, Meng Yu, Yi‐Min Sun, et al.. (2020). HuR stabilizes HTT mRNA via interacting with its exon 11 in a mutant HTT-dependent manner. RNA Biology. 17(4). 500–516. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Songtao, Lili Chen, Xiaobing Wang, et al.. (2018). Transplantation of Retinal Progenitor Cells from Optic Cup-Like Structures Differentiated from Human Embryonic Stem Cells In Vitro and In Vivo Generation of Retinal Ganglion-Like Cells. Stem Cells and Development. 28(4). 258–267. 17 indexed citations

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Fang, Yuan, Lixiang Ma, Yao Lin, et al.. (2018). Modeling Down Syndrome with Patient iPSCs Reveals Cellular and Migration Deficits of GABAergic Neurons. Stem Cell Reports. 10(4). 1251–1266. 82 indexed citations

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Ma, Lixiang & Hexige Saiyin. (2017). LSL-KrasG12D; LSL-Trp53R172H/+; Ink4flox/+; Ptf1/p48-Cre mice are an applicable model for locally invasive and metastatic pancreatic cancer. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0176844–e0176844. 13 indexed citations

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Hu, Yao, Qi Li, Lixiang Ma, et al.. (2016). Directed differentiation of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons from human pluripotent stem cells. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 266. 42–49. 49 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shuzhen, Lixiang Ma, Hong‐Fu Li, et al.. (2015). Modeling Neurological Disease by Rapid Conversion of Human Urine Cells into Functional Neurons. Stem Cells International. 2016(1). 19 indexed citations

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Liu, Yan, Jason P. Weick, Huisheng Liu, et al.. (2013). Medial ganglionic eminence–like cells derived from human embryonic stem cells correct learning and memory deficits. Nature Biotechnology. 31(5). 440–447. 215 indexed citations

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Ma, Lixiang, et al.. (2010). Effects of elevated temperature and [CO2] under different nitrogen regimes on biomass and its allocation in Quercus mongolica seedlings.. 34(3). 279–288. 1 indexed citations

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Law, Simon, Manson Fok, Alfred K. Lam, et al.. (1994). Squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus with mucin-secreting component Mucoepidermoid carcinoma. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 107(1). 62–67. 11 indexed citations

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