Xiangcheng Ma

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Xiangcheng Ma is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiangcheng Ma has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 14 papers in Instrumentation and 4 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Xiangcheng Ma's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (36 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (23 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (22 papers). Xiangcheng Ma is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (36 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (23 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (22 papers). Xiangcheng Ma collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. Xiangcheng Ma's co-authors include Philip F. Hopkins, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Dušan Kereš, Eliot Quataert, Andrew Wetzel, Christopher C. Hayward, Robert Feldmann, Norman Murray, Alexander L. Muratov and Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University).

In The Last Decade

Xiangcheng Ma

39 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

The origin and evolution of the galaxy mass–metallicity r... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 50 100 150 200 250
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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. The origin and evolution of the galaxy mass–metallicity relation
    2015 292 citations Xiangcheng Ma, Philip F. Hopkins et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiangcheng Ma United States 31 2.6k 946 348 59 56 39 2.7k
Sijing Shen United States 27 2.5k 1.0× 912 1.0× 535 1.5× 59 1.0× 94 1.7× 51 2.6k
Andrea Lapi Italy 25 2.0k 0.8× 714 0.8× 481 1.4× 77 1.3× 41 0.7× 140 2.0k
Marc Rafelski United States 25 1.7k 0.7× 613 0.6× 319 0.9× 59 1.0× 38 0.7× 91 1.8k
F. Calura Italy 32 2.9k 1.1× 1.1k 1.2× 256 0.7× 101 1.7× 36 0.6× 118 3.0k
Juna A. Kollmeier United States 27 2.5k 1.0× 839 0.9× 535 1.5× 74 1.3× 82 1.5× 63 2.6k
Steven Janowiecki United States 18 2.4k 0.9× 798 0.8× 515 1.5× 61 1.0× 52 0.9× 41 2.5k
Elisabete da Cunha United States 28 2.4k 0.9× 966 1.0× 320 0.9× 59 1.0× 82 1.5× 62 2.5k
Ben Keller Canada 24 1.7k 0.7× 670 0.7× 353 1.0× 54 0.9× 51 0.9× 47 1.8k
S. Gallerani Italy 36 3.1k 1.2× 954 1.0× 489 1.4× 79 1.3× 57 1.0× 94 3.2k
Gwen C. Rudie United States 23 2.2k 0.8× 716 0.8× 510 1.5× 102 1.7× 57 1.0× 67 2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiangcheng Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiangcheng Ma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiangcheng Ma

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xiangcheng Ma. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xiangcheng 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 Xiangcheng Ma. Xiangcheng 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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Sameie, Omid, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Philip F. Hopkins, et al.. (2023). Formation of proto-globular cluster candidates in cosmological simulations of dwarf galaxies at z > 4. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 522(2). 1800–1813. 13 indexed citations
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Ma, Xiangcheng, Eliot Quataert, Andrew Wetzel, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, & Michael Boylan-Kolchin. (2021). The contribution of globular clusters to cosmic reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 504(3). 4062–4071. 10 indexed citations
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Wetzel, Andrew, et al.. (2021). 3D gas-phase elemental abundances across the formation histories of Milky Way-mass galaxies in the FIRE simulations: initial conditions for chemical tagging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(3). 4586–4607. 38 indexed citations
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Stern, Jonathan, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Drummond B. Fielding, et al.. (2021). Virialization of the Inner CGM in the FIRE Simulations and Implications for Galaxy Disks, Star Formation, and Feedback. The Astrophysical Journal. 911(2). 88–88. 93 indexed citations
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Grudić, Michael Y, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, et al.. (2021). A model for the formation of stellar associations and clusters from giant molecular clouds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506(3). 3239–3258. 59 indexed citations
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Bullock, James S., Courtney Klein, Jonathan Stern, et al.. (2021). The bursty origin of the Milky Way thick disc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(1). 889–902. 49 indexed citations
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Ma, Xiangcheng, Michael Y Grudić, Eliot Quataert, et al.. (2020). Self-consistent proto-globular cluster formation in cosmological simulations of high-redshift galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 493(3). 4315–4332. 74 indexed citations
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Zick, Tom, Daniel R. Weisz, B. Ribeiro, et al.. (2020). Towards studying hierarchical assembly in real time: a Milky Way progenitor galaxy at z = 2.36 under the microscope. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 493(4). 5653–5661. 6 indexed citations
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Su, Kung-Yi, Philip F. Hopkins, Christopher C. Hayward, et al.. (2019). The failure of stellar feedback, magnetic fields, conduction, and morphological quenching in maintaining red galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487(3). 4393–4408. 45 indexed citations
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Su, Kung-Yi, Philip F. Hopkins, Christopher C. Hayward, et al.. (2019). Cosmic rays or turbulence can suppress cooling flows (where thermal heating or momentum injection fail). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 491(1). 1190–1212. 42 indexed citations
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Su, Kung-Yi, Philip F. Hopkins, Christopher C. Hayward, et al.. (2018). Discrete Effects in Stellar Feedback: Individual Supernovae, Hypernovae, and IMF Sampling in Dwarf Galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 480(2). 1666–1675. 35 indexed citations
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Su, Kung-Yi, Philip F. Hopkins, Christopher C. Hayward, et al.. (2017). Feedback first: the surprisingly weak effects of magnetic fields, viscosity, conduction and metal diffusion on sub-L* galaxy formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 471(1). 144–166. 129 indexed citations
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Muratov, Alexander L., Dušan Kereš, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, et al.. (2017). Metal flows of the circumgalactic medium, and the metal budget in galactic haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 468(4). 4170–4188. 127 indexed citations
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Kim, Ji-hoon, Xiangcheng Ma, Michael Y Grudić, et al.. (2017). Formation of globular cluster candidates in merging proto-galaxies at high redshift: a view from the FIRE cosmological simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 474(3). 4232–4244. 71 indexed citations
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Ma, Xiangcheng, Philip F. Hopkins, Andrew Wetzel, et al.. (2017). The structure and dynamical evolution of the stellar disc of a simulated Milky Way-mass galaxy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 467(2). 2430–2444. 121 indexed citations
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Guszejnov, Dávid, Philip F. Hopkins, & Xiangcheng Ma. (2017). Comparing models for IMF variation across cosmological time in Milky Way-like galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 472(2). 2107–2116. 18 indexed citations
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Escala, Ivanna, Andrew Wetzel, Evan N. Kirby, et al.. (2017). Modelling chemical abundance distributions for dwarf galaxies in the Local Group: the impact of turbulent metal diffusion. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 474(2). 2194–2211. 117 indexed citations
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Ma, Xiangcheng, Philip F. Hopkins, Daniel Kasen, et al.. (2016). Binary stars can provide the ‘missing photons’ needed for reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 459(4). 3614–3619. 110 indexed citations
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Ma, Xiangcheng, Philip F. Hopkins, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, et al.. (2015). The origin and evolution of the galaxy mass–metallicity relation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 456(2). 2140–2156. 292 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bernabei, R., A. D’Angelo, X. D. Sheng, et al.. (2014). New Results from DAMA/LIBRA: Final Model-Independent Results of Dama/Libra-Phase1 and Perspectives of Phase2. Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University). 58. 41. 3 indexed citations

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