Nan Ma

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 926 citations indexed

About

Nan Ma is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nan Ma has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 926 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Building and Construction, 7 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 7 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nan Ma's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (9 papers), Noise Effects and Management (6 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (6 papers). Nan Ma is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (9 papers), Noise Effects and Management (6 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (6 papers). Nan Ma collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Nan Ma's co-authors include Jian Hu, William W. Braham, Mingyao Li, Edward B. Lee, Xiangjie Li, Russell T. Shinohara, Kyle Coleman, David J. Irwin, Amelia Schroeder and Dorit Aviv and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Nature Methods.

In The Last Decade

Nan Ma

20 papers receiving 915 citations

Hit Papers

SpaGCN: Integrating gene expression, spatial location and... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 100 200 300 400
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. SpaGCN: Integrating gene expression, spatial location and histology to identify spatial domains and spatially variable genes by graph convolutional network
    2021 450 citations Jian Hu, Xiangjie Li et al. Nature Methods profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nan Ma United States 11 477 202 135 92 87 23 926
Siddharth Arora United Kingdom 17 146 0.3× 74 0.4× 35 0.3× 5 0.1× 18 0.2× 53 1.3k
Ze Fan China 15 205 0.4× 138 0.7× 16 0.1× 10 0.1× 2 0.0× 28 673
André Nobre Singapore 20 140 0.3× 122 0.6× 135 1.0× 37 0.4× 37 1.1k
Hefei Zhang China 20 210 0.4× 26 0.1× 13 0.1× 14 0.2× 5 0.1× 56 1.1k
Baoquan Zhao China 18 245 0.5× 4 0.0× 43 0.3× 29 0.3× 10 0.1× 72 877
Jiahui Yang China 12 214 0.4× 6 0.0× 13 0.1× 38 0.4× 44 0.5× 54 494
Bo Xing United States 11 87 0.2× 60 0.3× 31 0.2× 60 0.7× 18 698
Yoni Donner United States 8 47 0.1× 114 0.6× 57 0.4× 41 0.4× 4 0.0× 10 325
Anders Ekholm Sweden 17 259 0.5× 277 1.4× 6 0.0× 6 0.1× 25 0.3× 59 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Nan Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nan Ma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nan Ma

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gou, Zhonghua, et al.. (2025). Assessment of thermal comfort and thermal resilience in dwellings during heat waves: A case study of a near-zero energy house. Journal of Building Engineering. 109. 113052–113052. 3 indexed citations
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Nguyen, M., et al.. (2025). Localizing urban building energy modeling (UBEM) through inclusive microclimate and socioeconomic data. Applied Energy. 383. 125342–125342. 5 indexed citations
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Deng, Hao, et al.. (2025). AI-driven resilience analysis of distribution networks under extreme events. Electrical Engineering. 107(9). 12183–12206.
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Ang, Yu Qian, et al.. (2024). On interpretable and explainable machine learning for urban building energy modeling. 683–686. 2 indexed citations
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Zhou, Jin, et al.. (2024). A spatial analysis of ozone and PM2.5 distribution for assessing design factors of healthy buildings. Journal of Building Engineering. 89. 109357–109357. 2 indexed citations
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Ma, Nan, et al.. (2022). Impacts of building envelope design on indoor ozone exposures and health risks in urban environments. Indoor and Built Environment. 31(10). 2499–2514. 5 indexed citations
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Hu, Jian, Xiangjie Li, Kyle Coleman, et al.. (2021). SpaGCN: Integrating gene expression, spatial location and histology to identify spatial domains and spatially variable genes by graph convolutional network. Nature Methods. 18(11). 1342–1351. 450 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Jing, et al.. (2021). Effect of family caregiver nursing education on patients with rheumatoid arthritis and its impact factors: A randomized controlled trial. World Journal of Clinical Cases. 9(28). 8413–8424. 2 indexed citations
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Chau, Hing-Wah, et al.. (2018). Design Lessons from Three Australian Dementia Support Facilities. Buildings. 8(5). 67–67. 15 indexed citations
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Noguchi, Masa, et al.. (2018). The Usability Study of a Proposed Environmental Experience Design Framework for Active Ageing. Buildings. 8(12). 167–167. 11 indexed citations
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Ma, Nan, Hing-Wah Chau, Jin Zhou, & Masa Noguchi. (2017). Structuring the Environmental Experience Design Research Framework through Selected Aged Care Facility Data Analyses in Victoria. Sustainability. 9(12). 2172–2172. 13 indexed citations
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Abdulla, Aza, Hugh Gallagher, Osasuyi Iyasere, et al.. (2017). Proceedings From the Symposium on Kidney Disease in Older People: Royal Society of Medicine, London, January 19, 2017. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 3692815002–3692815002. 7 indexed citations
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Chen, Chunhua, et al.. (2014). Salvinorin A decreases mortality and improves neurological outcome in a neonatal mouse hypoxia model.. PubMed. 1(2). 9–13. 10 indexed citations
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Guo, Liang, Run Chen, Nan Ma, et al.. (2013). Phosphorylation of eIF2α Suppresses Cisplatin-Induced A549 Cell Apoptosis via p38 Inhibition. Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals. 28(4). 268–273. 7 indexed citations
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Ehrlichman, Richard S., Samantha White, Noam D. Rudnick, et al.. (2009). Neuregulin 1 transgenic mice display reduced mismatch negativity, contextual fear conditioning and social interactions. Brain Research. 1294. 116–127. 91 indexed citations
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Halene, Tobias, et al.. (2009). Chronic ketamine impairs fear conditioning and produces long-lasting reductions in auditory evoked potentials. Neurobiology of Disease. 35(2). 311–317. 35 indexed citations

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