Shifa Ma

728 total citations
28 papers, 564 citations indexed

About

Shifa Ma is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Transportation and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Shifa Ma has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 564 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Transportation and 10 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Shifa Ma's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (21 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (11 papers) and Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (10 papers). Shifa Ma is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (21 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (11 papers) and Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (10 papers). Shifa Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, Macao and United States. Shifa Ma's co-authors include Yabo Zhao, Xia Li, Yimin Chen, Xiaoping Liu, Huang Hu, Feng Liu, Yan Yu, Weilin Wang, Qiqi Jia and Weina Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Shifa Ma

28 papers receiving 548 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shifa Ma China 13 356 155 148 133 93 28 564
Zhibang Xu China 15 445 1.3× 202 1.3× 122 0.8× 103 0.8× 104 1.1× 26 614
Yuan Meng China 13 344 1.0× 249 1.6× 105 0.7× 123 0.9× 86 0.9× 35 638
Anjali Mahendra United States 9 304 0.9× 155 1.0× 95 0.6× 80 0.6× 104 1.1× 23 581
Neema Simon Sumari Tanzania 10 407 1.1× 126 0.8× 67 0.5× 79 0.6× 85 0.9× 20 605
Jorge E. Patiño Colombia 13 499 1.4× 159 1.0× 156 1.1× 64 0.5× 133 1.4× 27 828
Jingnan Huang China 5 401 1.1× 136 0.9× 158 1.1× 99 0.7× 131 1.4× 13 569
Quanyi Qiu China 17 383 1.1× 67 0.4× 166 1.1× 87 0.7× 167 1.8× 46 710
Prasanna Divigalpitiya Japan 11 336 0.9× 113 0.7× 68 0.5× 103 0.8× 42 0.5× 35 499
Ronghui Tan China 16 650 1.8× 204 1.3× 174 1.2× 145 1.1× 92 1.0× 29 907
Xueming Li China 12 325 0.9× 134 0.9× 160 1.1× 41 0.3× 204 2.2× 27 601

Countries citing papers authored by Shifa Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shifa Ma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shifa Ma

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

All Works

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Ma, Shifa, et al.. (2025). Re-identifying green infrastructure network towards sustainable urban futures: a dynamic temporal trade-off simulation. Cities. 162. 105994–105994. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Meng, et al.. (2025). Neighboring matters: quantifying internal morphology and external spatial interactions on land surface temperature among urban functional zones. Sustainable Cities and Society. 131. 106689–106689. 1 indexed citations
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Ma, Shifa, et al.. (2023). Assessing spatial equity in urban park accessibility: an improve two-step catchment area method from the perspective of 15-mintue city concept. Sustainable Cities and Society. 98. 104824–104824. 61 indexed citations
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Ma, Shifa, et al.. (2022). Quantify the Potential Spatial Reshaping Utility of Urban Growth Boundary (UGB): Evidence from the Constrained Scenario Simulation Model. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 11(10). 511–511. 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yabo, et al.. (2022). Urbanization Influences CO2 Emissions in the Pearl River Delta: A Perspective of the “Space of Flows”. Land. 11(8). 1373–1373. 4 indexed citations
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Ai, Bin, et al.. (2022). An EasyCA model with few steady variables and clone stamp strategy for simulation of urban growth in metropolitan areas. Ecological Modelling. 468. 109950–109950. 7 indexed citations
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Ma, Shifa, et al.. (2022). Delimiting the urban growth boundary for sustainable development with a pareto front degradation searching strategy based optimization model. Journal of Cleaner Production. 345. 131191–131191. 9 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yabo, et al.. (2021). Spatiotemporal patterns of global carbon intensities and their driving forces. The Science of The Total Environment. 818. 151690–151690. 27 indexed citations
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Li, Haibo, Xiaocong Xu, Xia Li, Shifa Ma, & Honghui Zhang. (2021). Characterizing the urban spatial structure using taxi trip big data and implications for urban planning. Frontiers of Earth Science. 15(1). 70–80. 12 indexed citations
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Wang, Weilin, Limin Jiao, Weina Zhang, et al.. (2020). Delineating urban growth boundaries under multi-objective and constraints. Sustainable Cities and Society. 61. 102279–102279. 70 indexed citations
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Ma, Shifa, et al.. (2019). Integrating logistic regression with ant colony optimization for smart urban growth modelling. Frontiers of Earth Science. 14(1). 77–89. 7 indexed citations
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Chen, Yimin, Xia Li, Xiaoping Liu, Huang Hu, & Shifa Ma. (2018). Simulating urban growth boundaries using a patch-based cellular automaton with economic and ecological constraints. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 33(1). 55–80. 70 indexed citations

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