Wanglin Ma

7.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
156 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Wanglin Ma is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Economics and Econometrics and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Wanglin Ma has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 53 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 36 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Wanglin Ma's work include Agricultural Innovations and Practices (73 papers), Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (29 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (20 papers). Wanglin Ma is often cited by papers focused on Agricultural Innovations and Practices (73 papers), Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (29 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (20 papers). Wanglin Ma collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, China and United States. Wanglin Ma's co-authors include Awudu Abdulai, Hongyun Zheng, Alan Renwick, Xiaoshi Zhou, Zhongkun Zhu, Peng Nie, Puneet Vatsa, Chenxin Leng, Jianjun Tang and Dil Bahadur Rahut and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Energy Policy and Journal of Dairy Science.

In The Last Decade

Wanglin Ma

150 papers receiving 5.7k 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.

Does cooperative membership improve household welfare? Evidence from apple farmers in China

2016 333 citations Wanglin Ma et al. profile →
The adoption and impact of E-commerce in rural China: Application of an endogenous switching regression model

2021 187 citations Wanglin Ma et al. profile →
Narrowing urban–rural income gap in China: The role of the targeted poverty alleviation program

2022 93 citations Jianjun Tang, Wanglin Ma et al. Economic Analysis and Policy profile →
Climate-smart agriculture: adoption, impacts, and implications for sustainable development

2024 44 citations Wanglin Ma, Dil Bahadur Rahut Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Wanglin Ma	2.7k	2.0k	1.0k	789	742	156	5.8k
Bart Minten	2.4k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	882 1.1×	854 1.2×	180	6.5k
Awudu Abdulai	3.8k 1.4×	2.7k 1.3×	2.1k 2.0×	542 0.7×	565 0.8×	145	7.1k
Ashok K. Mishra	4.1k 1.5×	2.6k 1.3×	2.1k 2.0×	610 0.8×	426 0.6×	292	7.5k
Marc F. Bellemare	1.6k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	990 1.0×	635 0.8×	578 0.8×	79	4.9k
Marcel Fafchamps	2.3k 0.9×	5.0k 2.5×	3.0k 2.9×	2.8k 3.5×	724 1.0×	199	10.2k
Ruth Meinzen‐Dick	2.6k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 1.5×	1.6k 2.0×	516 0.7×	177	7.8k
Élisabeth Sadoulet	3.5k 1.3×	3.6k 1.8×	3.0k 2.9×	2.2k 2.7×	532 0.7×	175	9.4k
Andrew Dorward	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	608 0.8×	422 0.6×	190	4.2k
Arega D. Alene	2.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	188 0.2×	235 0.3×	110	4.1k
Jenny C. Aker	1.2k 0.4×	1.8k 0.9×	333 0.3×	588 0.7×	370 0.5×	61	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Wanglin Ma

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ma, Wanglin, et al.. (2025). The role of agricultural cooperatives in improving mechanization levels: Differences between outsourcing machinery services and household‐owned machines. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics.

Shen, Bowen, Wanglin Ma, & Junpeng Li. (2025). Role of gender in determining energy poverty, clean energy access, and energy expenditure: Insights from rural China. Energy Economics. 144. 108369–108369. 6 indexed citations

Ma, Wanglin, Andy McKay, Dil Bahadur Rahut, Aya Suzuki, & Tetsushi Sonobe. (2025). Inequality and Development in Rural Asia. Review of Development Economics. 29(3). 1297–1303.

Zheng, Hongyun, Wanglin Ma, & Quan He. (2024). Climate-smart agricultural practices for enhanced farm productivity, income, resilience, and greenhouse gas mitigation: a comprehensive review. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 29(4). 31 indexed citations

Ma, Wanglin & Dil Bahadur Rahut. (2024). Climate-smart agriculture: adoption, impacts, and implications for sustainable development. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 29(5). 44 indexed citations breakdown →

Li, Junpeng, Puneet Vatsa, & Wanglin Ma. (2023). Small Acts With Big Impacts: Does Garbage Classification Improve Subjective Well-Being in Rural China?. Applied Research in Quality of Life. 18(3). 1337–1363. 23 indexed citations

Vatsa, Puneet, Wanglin Ma, & Hongyun Zheng. (2023). Mobile payment adoption in China: Do demographic and socioeconomic factors matter?. Managerial and Decision Economics. 45(3). 1428–1434. 2 indexed citations

Ma, Wanglin, et al.. (2023). Household income and tourism expenditure: an unconditional quantile regression approach. Applied Economics. 56(50). 6144–6157. 4 indexed citations

Li, Junpeng, et al.. (2023). Mechanization in land preparation and irrigation water productivity: insights from rice production. International Journal of Water Resources Development. 40(3). 379–400. 9 indexed citations

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Zheng, Hongyun, et al.. (2023). Farmers’ perceptions, adoption and impacts of integrated water management technology under changing climate. International Journal of Water Resources Development. 40(3). 425–447. 3 indexed citations

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Ma, Wanglin, Marco A. Marini, & Dil Bahadur Rahut. (2023). Farmers’ organizations and sustainable development: An introduction. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics. 94(3). 683–700. 26 indexed citations

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Ma, Wanglin, Puneet Vatsa, Enoch Owusu‐Sekyere, Xiaoshi Zhou, & Victor Owusu. (2022). Does income diversity really stimulate household consumption expenditure diversity? Evidence from mean-based and unconditional quantile regressions. Applied Economics. 55(55). 6567–6581. 5 indexed citations

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Khan, Nasir Abbas, Wanglin Ma, Victor Owusu, & Ashfaq Ahmad Shah. (2022). Does ICT-based farm advisory improve farmers' adaptation to climate change? Evidence from Pakistan. Climate and Development. 15(8). 639–654. 10 indexed citations

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Tang, Jianjun, et al.. (2022). Narrowing urban–rural income gap in China: The role of the targeted poverty alleviation program. Economic Analysis and Policy. 75. 74–90. 93 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vatsa, Puneet, Wanglin Ma, & Hongyun Zheng. (2022). Does mobile payment adoption affect the level and inequality of food expenditure?. The Social Science Journal. 63(1). 256–268. 5 indexed citations

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Ma, Wanglin, Puneet Vatsa, Xiaoshi Zhou, & Hongyun Zheng. (2021). Happiness and farm productivity: insights from maize farmers in China. International Journal of Social Economics. 49(1). 97–106. 17 indexed citations

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Zheng, Hongyun & Wanglin Ma. (2021). Impact of ICT adoption on cosmetic expenditure of Chinese residents: an exploration accounting for urban-rural differentials. Applied Economics Letters. 29(14). 1286–1291. 18 indexed citations

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Zheng, Hongyun, Wanglin Ma, & Xiaoshi Zhou. (2021). Renting-in cropland, machinery use intensity, and land productivity in rural China. Applied Economics. 53(47). 5503–5517. 37 indexed citations

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Ma, Wanglin, et al.. (2021). Economic Downturns and Leisure in China. Applied Economics. 54(7). 807–820. 5 indexed citations

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Ma, Wanglin, et al.. (2021). Does agricultural mechanization reduce vulnerable employment? Evidence from cross-country panel data. Economics bulletin. 41(2). 294–303. 5 indexed citations

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