Yifang Ma

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Yifang Ma is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yifang Ma has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 9 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Yifang Ma's work include scientometrics and bibliometrics research (9 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (7 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (6 papers). Yifang Ma is often cited by papers focused on scientometrics and bibliometrics research (9 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (7 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (6 papers). Yifang Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Denmark. Yifang Ma's co-authors include Hong Yang, Brian Uzzi, Lin Yang, Zhenyu Wang, Diego F. M. Oliveira, Teresa K. Woodruff, Xin Jiang, Quantong Guo, Meng Li and Feixiong Cheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Yifang Ma

37 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

  1. Artificial intelligence applications in the development of autonomous vehicles: a survey
    2020 386 citations Yifang Ma, Hong Yang et al. profile →

Peers

Yifang Ma
Talal Rahwan United Kingdom
Dimitrios Katsaros Greece
Michael Szell United States
Jianjun Yang China
Fred Morstatter United States
Bhaskar Dutta India
Z. Shen China
Xu-Hua Yang China
Sheng Tang China
Mimi Zhang China
Talal Rahwan United Kingdom
Yifang Ma
Citations per year, relative to Yifang Ma Yifang Ma (= 1×) peers Talal Rahwan

Countries citing papers authored by Yifang Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yifang Ma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yifang Ma

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yifang Ma. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yifang 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 Yifang Ma. Yifang 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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Jiang, Fan, et al.. (2025). The road to ACM fellowship: Examining collaboration patterns and disparities. Journal of Data and Information Science. 10(4). 411–420.
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Ma, Yifang, et al.. (2025). SciConNav: Knowledge navigation through contextual learning of extensive scientific research trajectories. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 76(10). 1308–1339.
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Chen, Pei, et al.. (2025). Executives’ postgraduate education and corporate ambidextrous innovation: evidence from China’s listed companies. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 12(1).
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Zhang, Bin, Yifang Ma, Ming‐Hua Zheng, et al.. (2025). Conjugated Lithocholic Acid Activates Hepatic TGR5 to Promote Lipotoxicity and MASLD‐MASH Transition by Disrupting Carnitine Biosynthesis. Advanced Science. 12(20). e2410602–e2410602. 6 indexed citations
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Ma, Yifang, et al.. (2025). Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(5). 902–916. 4 indexed citations
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Lv, Shuangshuang, Yifang Ma, Jian Zhang, et al.. (2025). UF-5000 urinary erythrocyte parameters versus urinary aberrant erythrocytes and acanthocytes for diagnosing IgA glomerular hematuria. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 1157–1157.
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Zhang, Jihong, Jie Lu, Xinyang Qi, et al.. (2025). Clinical characteristics of varicella-zoster virus central nervous system infection in 108 unimmunocompromised patients. Frontiers in Neurology. 16. 1554954–1554954. 1 indexed citations
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Ma, Yifang, et al.. (2024). Talent hat, cross-border mobility, and career development in China. Quantitative Science Studies. 5(3). 516–532. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuan, et al.. (2024). Do Large Language Models Rank Fairly? An Empirical Study on the Fairness of LLMs as Rankers. 5712–5724. 2 indexed citations
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Ma, Yifang, et al.. (2024). Neural embeddings of scientific mobility reveal the stratification of institutions in China. Information Processing & Management. 61(3). 103702–103702. 2 indexed citations
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Ma, Yifang, et al.. (2023). Earlier recognition of scientific excellence enhances future achievements and promotes persistence. Journal of Informetrics. 17(2). 101408–101408. 8 indexed citations
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Rao, Hai, et al.. (2022). How many authors does it take to publish a high profile or classic paper?. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 33(12). 3 indexed citations
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Ma, Yifang, et al.. (2021). Scientific prizes and the extraordinary growth of scientific topics. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5619–5619. 26 indexed citations
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Ma, Yifang, Satyam Mukherjee, & Brian Uzzi. (2020). Mentorship and protégé success in STEM fields. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(25). 14077–14083. 67 indexed citations
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Oliveira, Diego F. M., Yifang Ma, Teresa K. Woodruff, & Brian Uzzi. (2019). Comparison of National Institutes of Health Grant Amounts to First-Time Male and Female Principal Investigators. JAMA. 321(9). 898–898. 137 indexed citations
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Yang, Hong, et al.. (2018). A Deep Learning Approach to Predict Severity Levels of Work Zone Crashes. Transportation Research Board 97th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Hong, Kaan Özbay, Kun Xie, & Yifang Ma. (2016). Development of an Automated Approach for Quantifying Spatiotemporal Impact of Traffic Incidents. Transportation Research Board 95th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 3 indexed citations

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