Yifan Ma

13.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
191 papers, 10.5k citations indexed

About

Yifan Ma is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yifan Ma has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 10.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 62 papers in Molecular Biology and 34 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Yifan Ma's work include Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (34 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (31 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (26 papers). Yifan Ma is often cited by papers focused on Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (34 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (31 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (26 papers). Yifan Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Yifan Ma's co-authors include Lintao Cai, Mingbin Zheng, Pengfei Zhao, Lanlan Liu, Ping Gong, Zonghai Sheng, Hong Pan, Pengfei Zhang, Yuan Yuan and Zhenyu Luo and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Yifan Ma

177 papers receiving 10.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Cancer Cell Membrane–Biomimetic Nanoparticles for Homologous-Targeting Dual-Modal Imaging and Photothermal Therapy

2016 776 citations Yifan Ma et al. ACS Nano profile →
Single-Step Assembly of DOX/ICG Loaded Lipid–Polymer Nanoparticles for Highly Effective Chemo-photothermal Combination Therapy

2013 721 citations Yifan Ma et al. ACS Nano profile →
Smart Human Serum Albumin-Indocyanine Green Nanoparticles Generated by Programmed Assembly for Dual-Modal Imaging-Guided Cancer Synergistic Phototherapy

2014 655 citations Yifan Ma et al. ACS Nano profile →
Cell-Membrane Immunotherapy Based on Natural Killer Cell Membrane Coated Nanoparticles for the Effective Inhibition of Primary and Abscopal Tumor Growth

2018 353 citations Yifan Ma et al. ACS Nano profile →
Bioinspired Hybrid Protein Oxygen Nanocarrier Amplified Photodynamic Therapy for Eliciting Anti-tumor Immunity and Abscopal Effect

2018 326 citations Yifan Ma et al. ACS Nano profile →
An Anti‐Swellable Hydrogel Strain Sensor for Underwater Motion Detection

2021 315 citations Yifan Ma et al. profile →
Oxygen-boosted immunogenic photodynamic therapy with gold nanocages@manganese dioxide to inhibit tumor growth and metastases

2018 273 citations Yifan Ma et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yifan Ma

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Injectable and In Situ Hydration‐Reinforced Hybrid Bone Cements for Accelerated Bone Regeneration 2025 ·Advanced Science ·(unknown), Yifan Ma, (unknown), Lingbin Che, Dianwen Song, Zihan Wu, Changsheng Liu, Yuan Yuan	1
2	SlideCoder: Layout-aware RAG-enhanced Hierarchical Slide Generation from Design 2025 ·W.H. Wilson Tang, (unknown), Weihong Jiang, Xi Xiao, (unknown), Xiaoyan Tang, Qing Li, Yifan Ma, Jun‐Liang Liu, Shenglan Tang, Michael R. Lyu	0
3	GHz fundamental mode-locking of a highly integrated Er-doped all-fiber ring laser 2025 ·Optics Express ·(unknown), Bowen Liu, Yifan Ma, (unknown), Zhigang Zhang, Sze Yun Set, Shinji Yamashita	0
4	Alisertib impairs the stemness of hepatocellular carcinoma by inhibiting purine synthesis 2025 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·(unknown), (unknown), Wenfeng Liu, Ye Xu, Yifan Ma, (unknown), Xizhong Shen, Xiaojing Du, Wei Xiang	1
5	Supramolecular Scale Hydrophilicity Regulation Enabling Efficient Dewatering and Assembly of Nanocellulose into Dense and Strong Bulk Materials as Sustainable Plastic Substitutes 2025 ·Advanced Materials ·(unknown), Yifan Ma, (unknown), (unknown), Luhe Qi, (unknown), Shanshan Deng, Wengen Ouyang, (unknown), Xueqing Qiu, Chaoji Chen	17
6	Allosteric targeted drug delivery for enhanced blood-brain barrier penetration via mimicking transmembrane domain interactions 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Zhongjie Tang, Miaomiao Niu, (unknown), Weiwei Xue, Xinyu Wang, Xinlong Liu, Yang Yu, Seong Dong Jeong, Yifan Ma, (unknown), Betty Y.S. Kim, Wen Jiang, Zhaogang Yang, Chong Li	6
7	Physically rational data augmentation for energy consumption estimation of electric vehicles 2024 ·Applied Energy ·Yifan Ma, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Hui Zhang, Yucheng Jin, Xinmei Yuan	5
8	In situ microbubble-mediated strategy for highly efficient anti-crude oil-fouling membrane with parallel nanosheet structure 2024 ·Separation and Purification Technology ·Xinyu Wei, Shiyu Song, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yifan Ma, (unknown), (unknown)	4
9	Novel research model for in vitro immunotherapy: co-culturing tumor organoids with peripheral blood mononuclear cells 2024 ·Cancer Cell International ·Peng Li, (unknown), Yifan Ma, Yongbin Zhang, Changhong Shi	5
10	Mid-Term Load Forecasting for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Based on LASSO-BPNN 2024 ·Yifan Ma, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	0
11	Regulation of cerebral blood flow boosts precise brain targeting of vinpocetine-derived ionizable-lipidoid nanoparticles 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Ling Yang, (unknown), Adam Grippin, Yifan Ma, Shuang Wu, (unknown), Xiaoyou Wang, Zhongjie Tang, (unknown), Weidong Pan, Shiyan Dong, Betty Y.S. Kim, Wen Jiang, Zhaogang Yang, Chong Li	18
12	Activating Adsorption Sites of Waste Crayfish Shells via Chemical Decalcification for Efficient Capturing of Nanoplastics 2024 ·ACS Nano ·(unknown), Yang Wu, Min Long, Yifan Ma, (unknown), Shiyi Cao, Shixiong Chen, Yumin Du, Chaoji Chen, Hongbing Deng	27
13	Engineering therapeutical extracellular vesicles for clinical translation 2024 ·Trends in biotechnology ·Yifan Ma, Shiyan Dong, Adam Grippin, Lesheng Teng, Andrew S. Lee, Betty Y.S. Kim, Wen Jiang	49
14	Semantic redundancy-aware implicit neural compression for multidimensional biomedical image data 2024 ·Communications Biology ·Yifan Ma, (unknown), (unknown), Zhaofei Wang, (unknown), Lanxin Zhu, Jie Wang, Shimeng Gao, Jianchao Liu, Xinyue Yuan, Zhaoqiang Wang, (unknown), Peng Fei	1
15	Integrated Virtual Screening and Validation toward Potential HPPD Inhibition Herbicide 2024 ·Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry ·(unknown), (unknown), Yifan Ma, (unknown), Fei Ye, Ying Fu	7
16	Efficient 3D imaging and pathological analysis of the human lymphoma tumor microenvironment using light-sheet immunofluorescence microscopy 2023 ·Theranostics ·Liting Chen, Meng Jiao, (unknown), Fang Zhao, Yifan Ma, (unknown), Xingyu Chen, Jin Jin, Shimeng Gao, Jianchao Liu, (unknown), Aichun Liu, Zhenya Hong, Tang Jiang, Dong Kuang, (unknown), Yicheng Zhang, Peng Fei	2
17	Exosomal mRNAs for Angiogenic–Osteogenic Coupled Bone Repair 2023 ·Advanced Science ·Yifan Ma, Lili Sun, Jingjing Zhang, Chi‐Ling Chiang, Junjie Pan, Xinyu Wang, Kwang Joo Kwak, Hong Li, Renliang Zhao, (unknown), Chi Zhang, (unknown), Yutong Liu, (unknown), Derek J. Hansford, Eduardo Reátegui, Changsheng Liu, Andrew S. Lee, Yuan Yuan, L. James Lee	60
18	Discovery of novel HPPD inhibitors: Virtual screening, molecular design, structure modification and biological evaluation 2023 ·Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology ·(unknown), Shuang Gao, Yifan Ma, Lixia Zhao, Meng Wang, Fei Ye, Ying Fu	13
19	Flat visible spectrum by a genetic algorithm optimized photonic crystal fiber in the GHz comb spacing 2023 ·Optics Letters ·(unknown), Yifan Ma, (unknown), Wei Han, Qian Li, Zhangyuan Chen, (unknown), Sze Yun Set, Shinji Yamashita, Zhigang Zhang	4
20	Fabrication of Injectable, Porous Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogel Based on an In-Situ Bubble-Forming Hydrogel Entrapment Process 2020 ·Polymers ·Lixuan Wang, Shiyan Dong, Yutong Liu, Yifan Ma, Jingjing Zhang, Zhaogang Yang, Wen Jiang, Yuan Yuan	33

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