Sai Ma

8.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
143 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Sai Ma is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sai Ma has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Molecular Biology, 35 papers in Genetics and 23 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Sai Ma's work include Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (18 papers), Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (14 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (13 papers). Sai Ma is often cited by papers focused on Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (18 papers), Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (14 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (13 papers). Sai Ma collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Sai Ma's co-authors include Jason D. Buenrostro, Victor Chow, Chang Lu, Caleb A. Lareau, Aviv Regev, Michael Seid, Vinay K. Kartha, Soeren Mattke, Yan Hu and Andrew Earl and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sai Ma

141 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Chromatin Potential Identified by Shared Single-Cell Profiling of RNA and Chromatin

2020 579 citations Sai Ma, Andrew Earl et al. profile →
Spatial profiling of chromatin accessibility in mouse and human tissues

2022 199 citations Yanxiang Deng, Marek Bartošovič et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sai Ma United States	31	1.9k	557	544	532	368	143	4.0k
Maurizio Ferrari Italy	43	2.9k 1.5×	1.2k 2.2×	434 0.8×	989 1.9×	311 0.8×	290	8.7k
Yan Tong United States	40	1.2k 0.6×	311 0.6×	205 0.4×	206 0.4×	366 1.0×	157	4.0k
Xiaoli Chen China	38	1.5k 0.8×	402 0.7×	304 0.6×	173 0.3×	519 1.4×	211	4.9k
Howard Shapiro United States	32	1.2k 0.6×	177 0.3×	419 0.8×	535 1.0×	168 0.5×	110	5.5k
Jing Wang China	36	1.7k 0.9×	599 1.1×	271 0.5×	118 0.2×	393 1.1×	338	5.5k
Kurt D. Christensen United States	33	739 0.4×	1.7k 3.0×	219 0.4×	267 0.5×	353 1.0×	94	3.3k
Alain Moreau France	34	1.3k 0.7×	564 1.0×	246 0.5×	139 0.3×	167 0.5×	166	4.3k
Filip De Vos Belgium	37	1.2k 0.7×	194 0.3×	317 0.6×	174 0.3×	493 1.3×	281	5.0k
Therése Andersson Sweden	41	2.0k 1.1×	251 0.5×	181 0.3×	303 0.6×	478 1.3×	184	7.2k
Eugene S. Kim United States	40	2.1k 1.1×	383 0.7×	467 0.9×	178 0.3×	785 2.1×	223	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Sai Ma

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sai Ma

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Xin, Yao Zhang, Sai Ma, et al.. (2025). Population Genetics of an Endemic Species Mongoloniscus sinensis (Isopoda: Oniscidea) and Diversification Dynamics Across Northern China. Ecology and Evolution. 15(10). e72318–e72318.

Wang, Yueshuai, Jingcong Hu, Jiguo Geng, et al.. (2024). Heterojunction photocatalyst MnO2-CsSnI3 for highly efficient formaldehyde oxidation at room temperature. Chemical Engineering Journal. 497. 154697–154697. 9 indexed citations

Chen, Yuwen, Sai Ma, Qiang Liu, et al.. (2024). Chemosensory protein 22 in Riptortus pedestris is involved in the recognition of three soybean volatiles. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 204. 106101–106101. 2 indexed citations

Li, Jinbu, Qiang Liu, Sai Ma, et al.. (2024). Binding properties of chemosensory protein 4 in Riptortus pedestris to aggregation pheromones. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 201. 105874–105874. 2 indexed citations

Li, Jianqiao, Qiang Liu, Sai Ma, et al.. (2023). Binding properties of chemosensory protein 12 in Riptortus pedestris to aggregation pheromone (E)-2-hexenyl (Z)-3-hexenoate. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 194. 105513–105513. 9 indexed citations

Naler, Lynette B., et al.. (2022). Cell-type-specific epigenomic variations associated with BRCA1 mutation in pre-cancer human breast tissues. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 4(1). lqac006–lqac006. 2 indexed citations

Kartha, Vinay K., Fabiana M. Duarte, Yan Hu, et al.. (2022). Functional inference of gene regulation using single-cell multi-omics. Cell Genomics. 2(9). 100166–100166. 101 indexed citations

Yuan, Wen, Sai Ma, Juliana Brown, et al.. (2022). Temporally divergent regulatory mechanisms govern neuronal diversification and maturation in the mouse and marmoset neocortex. Nature Neuroscience. 25(8). 1049–1058. 20 indexed citations

Feng, Sumin, Sai Ma, Kejiao Li, et al.. (2022). RIF1-ASF1-mediated high-order chromatin structure safeguards genome integrity. Nature Communications. 13(1). 957–957. 14 indexed citations

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Deng, Yanxiang, Marek Bartošovič, Sai Ma, et al.. (2022). Spatial profiling of chromatin accessibility in mouse and human tissues. Nature. 609(7926). 375–383. 199 indexed citations breakdown →

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Choi, Sekyu, Bing Zhang, Sai Ma, et al.. (2021). Corticosterone inhibits GAS6 to govern hair follicle stem-cell quiescence. Nature. 592(7854). 428–432. 107 indexed citations

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Meißner, Torsten, Fang Wang, Ziming Du, et al.. (2021). ELF3 activated by a superenhancer and an autoregulatory feedback loop is required for high-level HLA-C expression on extravillous trophoblasts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(9). 17 indexed citations

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Avagyan, Serine, M. Weber, Sai Ma, et al.. (2021). Single-cell ATAC-seq reveals GATA2-dependent priming defect in myeloid and a maturation bottleneck in lymphoid lineages. Blood Advances. 5(13). 2673–2686. 18 indexed citations

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Ma, Sai, Megan He, Pankaj Baral, et al.. (2020). 775 Hyperactivation of sympathetic nerves drives melanocyte stem cell depletion. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 140(7). S102–S102. 1 indexed citations

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Sarikhani, Mohsen, Jessica C. Garbern, Sai Ma, et al.. (2020). Sustained Activation of AMPK Enhances Differentiation of Human iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes via Sirtuin Activation. Stem Cell Reports. 15(2). 498–514. 21 indexed citations

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Lee, Jiyoung, et al.. (2019). A diffusion-based microfluidic device for single-cell RNA-seq. Lab on a Chip. 19(7). 1247–1256. 16 indexed citations

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Sun, Chen, Sai Ma, Shuo Geng, et al.. (2017). Immunomagnetic separation of tumor initiating cells by screening two surface markers. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 40632–40632. 24 indexed citations

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Li, Zhiyu, et al.. (2013). Effect of total lumbar disc replacement on the treatment of discogenic low lumbar pain: preliminary outcomes. Chinese Medical Journal. 126(8). 1504–1508. 4 indexed citations

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Ma, Sai. (2003). Cytogenetic and molecular study of a premature male infant with 46,XX derived from ICSI: Case report. Human Reproduction. 18(11). 2298–2301. 9 indexed citations

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Ma, Sai, et al.. (1994). Chromosome investigation in in vitro fertilization failure. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. 11(9). 445–451. 21 indexed citations

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