Siyuan Ma

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Siyuan Ma is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Siyuan Ma has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Siyuan Ma's work include Gut microbiota and health (7 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (4 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (3 papers). Siyuan Ma is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (7 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (4 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (3 papers). Siyuan Ma collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Siyuan Ma's co-authors include Curtis Huttenhower, Himel Mallick, Eric A. Franzosa, Long H. Nguyen, Timothy L. Tickle, Emma Schwager, Boyu Ren, Jeremy E. Wilkinson, Kelsey N. Thompson and Levi Waldron and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Siyuan Ma

26 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Multivariable association discovery in population-scale meta-omics studies

2021 1.3k citations Himel Mallick, Ali Rahnavard et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Siyuan Ma United States	13	1.3k	378	331	243	207	29	2.1k
Bo‐Young Hong United States	22	1.2k 1.0×	286 0.8×	371 1.1×	334 1.4×	304 1.5×	29	2.8k
Tsute Chen United States	32	1.4k 1.1×	658 1.7×	539 1.6×	255 1.0×	390 1.9×	91	3.7k
Juan Jovel Canada	21	1.1k 0.8×	189 0.5×	172 0.5×	284 1.2×	206 1.0×	42	2.0k
Gabriel da Rocha Fernandes Brazil	24	1.0k 0.8×	194 0.5×	480 1.5×	299 1.2×	263 1.3×	81	2.0k
Emily Davenport United States	19	2.1k 1.6×	212 0.6×	557 1.7×	452 1.9×	184 0.9×	39	3.0k
Shyamal Peddada United States	15	1.0k 0.8×	141 0.4×	253 0.8×	196 0.8×	188 0.9×	41	2.1k
Evgeni Levin Netherlands	21	1.4k 1.1×	176 0.5×	624 1.9×	317 1.3×	302 1.5×	59	2.3k
Ayshwarya Subramanian United States	12	1.8k 1.4×	165 0.4×	419 1.3×	230 0.9×	238 1.1×	16	2.8k
Damian R. Plichta United States	21	1.4k 1.1×	112 0.3×	329 1.0×	316 1.3×	208 1.0×	31	2.2k
Gregory Humphrey United States	18	1.3k 1.0×	177 0.5×	383 1.2×	285 1.2×	128 0.6×	25	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Siyuan Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Siyuan Ma

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Siyuan Ma

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Siyuan Ma. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Siyuan 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 Siyuan Ma. Siyuan 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, Qiangqiang, et al.. (2025). Diversity and drivers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the rhizosphere soil of wine grape in the eastern foot of Helan Mountain in Ningxia of China. Frontiers in Microbiology. 16. 1700411–1700411.

Yao, Jun, Siyuan Ma, Jian Liu, et al.. (2025). Populus euphratica PeMAX2 counteracts PeGRP2 to stabilize target mRNAs relating to salt tolerance. Plant Science. 360. 112736–112736.

Yan, Binghao, et al.. (2025). Recent advances in deep learning and language models for studying the microbiome. Frontiers in Genetics. 15. 1494474–1494474. 7 indexed citations

Li, Jing, Rui Zhao, Jian Liu, et al.. (2024). Populus euphratica GRP2 Interacts with Target mRNAs to Negatively Regulate Salt Tolerance by Interfering with Photosynthesis, Na+, and ROS Homeostasis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(4). 2046–2046. 7 indexed citations

Heiser, Cody N., Eliot T. McKinley, Joseph T. Roland, et al.. (2024). GammaGateR: semi-automated marker gating for single-cell multiplexed imaging. Bioinformatics. 40(6). 1 indexed citations

Xie, Jia, et al.. (2023). Occurrenceand characteristics of microplastics in benthic species from mangrove wetlands of Hainan, South China. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 11 indexed citations

Wang, Haihua, et al.. (2023). Season shapes the functional diversity of microbial carbon metabolism in mangrove soils of Hainan Island, China. CATENA. 235. 107710–107710. 7 indexed citations

Chen, Zhihong, et al.. (2022). Effects of anxiety on risky driving behavior. Journal of Environmental Science Computer Science and Engineering & Technology. 11(3). 1 indexed citations

Ma, Siyuan, et al.. (2022). Driver behavior and feature recognition under anger. Journal of Environmental Science Computer Science and Engineering & Technology. 11(3). 1 indexed citations

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Ma, Siyuan & Hongzhe Li. (2022). Statistical and Computational Methods for Microbial Strain Analysis. Methods in molecular biology. 2629. 231–245. 1 indexed citations

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Ma, Siyuan, Dmitry Shungin, Himel Mallick, et al.. (2022). Population structure discovery in meta-analyzed microbial communities and inflammatory bowel disease using MMUPHin. Genome biology. 23(1). 208–208. 77 indexed citations

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Mallick, Himel, Ali Rahnavard, Lauren J. McIver, et al.. (2021). Multivariable association discovery in population-scale meta-omics studies. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(11). e1009442–e1009442. 1302 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ma, Siyuan, Boyu Ren, Himel Mallick, et al.. (2021). A statistical model for describing and simulating microbial community profiles. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(9). e1008913–e1008913. 40 indexed citations

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Jiang, Chunxia, Xiaoping Diao, Haihua Wang, & Siyuan Ma. (2021). Diverse and abundant antibiotic resistance genes in mangrove area and their relationship with bacterial communities - A study in Hainan Island, China. Environmental Pollution. 276. 116704–116704. 39 indexed citations

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Wang, Haihua, et al.. (2020). Both environmental and spatial variables affect bacterial functional diversity in mangrove sediments at an island scale. The Science of The Total Environment. 753. 142054–142054. 21 indexed citations

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Ma, Siyuan & Johannes Urpelainen. (2018). Distributed Power Generation in National Rural Electrification Plans: An International and Comparative Evaluation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 23 indexed citations

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Ma, Siyuan, Shuji Ogino, Princy Parsana, et al.. (2018). Continuity of transcriptomes among colorectal cancer subtypes based on meta-analysis. Genome biology. 19(1). 142–142. 18 indexed citations

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Mallick, Himel, Siyuan Ma, Eric A. Franzosa, et al.. (2017). Experimental design and quantitative analysis of microbial community multiomics. Genome biology. 18(1). 228–228. 125 indexed citations

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Mantel, Pierre‐Yves, Daisy Hjelmqvist, Michael Walch, et al.. (2016). Infected erythrocyte-derived extracellular vesicles alter vascular function via regulatory Ago2-miRNA complexes in malaria. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12727–12727. 169 indexed citations

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Pellé, Karell G., Kathrin Buchholz, Vagheesh M. Narasimhan, et al.. (2015). Transcriptional profiling defines dynamics of parasite tissue sequestration during malaria infection. Genome Medicine. 7(1). 19–19. 63 indexed citations

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