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

Cancer Cell Membrane–Biomimetic Nanoparticles for Homolog... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2016 2013 2014 2018 2018 250 500 750
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.

  1. Cancer Cell Membrane–Biomimetic Nanoparticles for Homologous-Targeting Dual-Modal Imaging and Photothermal Therapy
    2016 776 citations Yifan Ma et al. ACS Nano profile →
  2. 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 →
  3. 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 →
  4. 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 →
  5. 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 →
  6. An Anti‐Swellable Hydrogel Strain Sensor for Underwater Motion Detection
    2021 315 citations Yifan Ma et al. profile →
  7. Oxygen-boosted immunogenic photodynamic therapy with gold nanocages@manganese dioxide to inhibit tumor growth and metastases
    2018 273 citations Yifan Ma et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yifan Ma China 52 6.6k 3.6k 3.0k 2.0k 1.7k 191 10.5k
Xianzhu Yang China 51 5.7k 0.9× 3.7k 1.0× 3.8k 1.2× 2.5k 1.3× 1.1k 0.7× 156 10.3k
Huayu Tian China 57 5.0k 0.8× 4.1k 1.1× 3.8k 1.3× 2.4k 1.2× 1.0k 0.6× 252 10.9k
Guojun Chen China 59 4.0k 0.6× 3.9k 1.1× 2.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 1.6k 0.9× 198 11.1k
Yang Liu China 57 4.4k 0.7× 3.5k 1.0× 2.8k 0.9× 2.7k 1.4× 1.1k 0.7× 357 12.8k
Jinqiang Wang China 51 5.4k 0.8× 3.6k 1.0× 3.2k 1.0× 1.2k 0.6× 2.2k 1.3× 117 11.2k
Wujin Sun United States 50 5.4k 0.8× 4.1k 1.1× 2.9k 1.0× 1.2k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 108 10.8k
Bin He China 59 4.5k 0.7× 4.3k 1.2× 4.2k 1.4× 2.3k 1.2× 685 0.4× 329 12.5k
Quanyin Hu United States 64 7.6k 1.2× 5.7k 1.6× 4.5k 1.5× 1.7k 0.8× 3.3k 1.9× 123 14.7k
Won Jong Kim South Korea 61 5.1k 0.8× 4.8k 1.3× 3.1k 1.0× 2.5k 1.3× 544 0.3× 219 11.1k
Fabienne Danhier Belgium 33 4.7k 0.7× 3.6k 1.0× 5.9k 1.9× 1.1k 0.6× 692 0.4× 41 10.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yifan Ma

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ma, Yifan, Lingbin Che, Dianwen Song, et al.. (2025). Injectable and In Situ Hydration‐Reinforced Hybrid Bone Cements for Accelerated Bone Regeneration. Advanced Science. 13(7). e12723–e12723. 1 indexed citations
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Tang, W.H. Wilson, Weihong Jiang, Xi Xiao, et al.. (2025). SlideCoder: Layout-aware RAG-enhanced Hierarchical Slide Generation from Design. 9026–9050.
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Liu, Bowen, et al.. (2025). GHz fundamental mode-locking of a highly integrated Er-doped all-fiber ring laser. Optics Express. 33(15). 32361–32361.
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Liu, Wenfeng, Ye Xu, Yifan Ma, et al.. (2025). Alisertib impairs the stemness of hepatocellular carcinoma by inhibiting purine synthesis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(6). 108558–108558. 1 indexed citations
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Ma, Yifan, Luhe Qi, Shanshan Deng, et al.. (2025). Supramolecular Scale Hydrophilicity Regulation Enabling Efficient Dewatering and Assembly of Nanocellulose into Dense and Strong Bulk Materials as Sustainable Plastic Substitutes. Advanced Materials. 37(9). e2415313–e2415313. 17 indexed citations
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Tang, Zhongjie, Miaomiao Niu, Weiwei Xue, et al.. (2025). Allosteric targeted drug delivery for enhanced blood-brain barrier penetration via mimicking transmembrane domain interactions. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3410–3410. 6 indexed citations
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Ma, Yifan, et al.. (2024). Physically rational data augmentation for energy consumption estimation of electric vehicles. Applied Energy. 373. 123871–123871. 5 indexed citations
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Wei, Xinyu, et al.. (2024). In situ microbubble-mediated strategy for highly efficient anti-crude oil-fouling membrane with parallel nanosheet structure. Separation and Purification Technology. 357. 130220–130220. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Peng, et al.. (2024). Novel research model for in vitro immunotherapy: co-culturing tumor organoids with peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Cancer Cell International. 24(1). 438–438. 5 indexed citations
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Yang, Ling, Adam Grippin, Yifan Ma, et al.. (2024). Regulation of cerebral blood flow boosts precise brain targeting of vinpocetine-derived ionizable-lipidoid nanoparticles. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3987–3987. 18 indexed citations
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Wu, Yang, Min Long, Yifan Ma, et al.. (2024). Activating Adsorption Sites of Waste Crayfish Shells via Chemical Decalcification for Efficient Capturing of Nanoplastics. ACS Nano. 18(24). 15779–15789. 27 indexed citations
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Ma, Yifan, Shiyan Dong, Adam Grippin, et al.. (2024). Engineering therapeutical extracellular vesicles for clinical translation. Trends in biotechnology. 43(1). 61–82. 49 indexed citations
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Ma, Yifan, Zhaofei Wang, Lanxin Zhu, et al.. (2024). Semantic redundancy-aware implicit neural compression for multidimensional biomedical image data. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1081–1081. 1 indexed citations
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Ma, Yifan, et al.. (2024). Integrated Virtual Screening and Validation toward Potential HPPD Inhibition Herbicide. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 72(9). 4587–4595. 7 indexed citations
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Chen, Liting, Meng Jiao, Fang Zhao, et al.. (2023). Efficient 3D imaging and pathological analysis of the human lymphoma tumor microenvironment using light-sheet immunofluorescence microscopy. Theranostics. 14(1). 406–419. 2 indexed citations
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Ma, Yifan, Lili Sun, Jingjing Zhang, et al.. (2023). Exosomal mRNAs for Angiogenic–Osteogenic Coupled Bone Repair. Advanced Science. 10(33). e2302622–e2302622. 60 indexed citations
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Gao, Shuang, Yifan Ma, Lixia Zhao, et al.. (2023). Discovery of novel HPPD inhibitors: Virtual screening, molecular design, structure modification and biological evaluation. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 192. 105390–105390. 13 indexed citations
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Ma, Yifan, Wei Han, Qian Li, et al.. (2023). Flat visible spectrum by a genetic algorithm optimized photonic crystal fiber in the GHz comb spacing. Optics Letters. 48(11). 2829–2829. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Lixuan, Shiyan Dong, Yutong Liu, et al.. (2020). Fabrication of Injectable, Porous Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogel Based on an In-Situ Bubble-Forming Hydrogel Entrapment Process. Polymers. 12(5). 1138–1138. 33 indexed citations

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