Yinfa Ma

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
157 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Yinfa Ma is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Yinfa Ma has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 39 papers in Molecular Biology and 21 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Yinfa Ma's work include Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (27 papers), Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications (12 papers) and Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (11 papers). Yinfa Ma is often cited by papers focused on Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (27 papers), Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications (12 papers) and Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (11 papers). Yinfa Ma collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Yinfa Ma's co-authors include Yue‐Wern Huang, Honglan Shi, Weisheng Lin, Xiao‐Dong Zhou, Craig D. Adams, Sanjeewa Gamagedara, Casey Burton, Yongqing Jiang, Isaac Stayton and Zahra Afrasiabi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yinfa Ma

149 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

In vitro toxicity of silica nanoparticles in human lung c... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 200 400 600
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. In vitro toxicity of silica nanoparticles in human lung cancer cells
    2006 700 citations Yinfa 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
Yinfa Ma United States 42 1.7k 1.5k 1.2k 705 607 157 5.9k
Li Xu China 44 1.5k 0.9× 1.5k 1.0× 1.4k 1.1× 418 0.6× 505 0.8× 250 6.3k
Guosheng Chen China 46 2.6k 1.5× 1.2k 0.8× 1.8k 1.5× 811 1.2× 337 0.6× 191 6.5k
Ondřej Zítka Czechia 39 898 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 1.9k 1.6× 676 1.0× 274 0.5× 205 6.0k
Jing Liang China 36 2.1k 1.2× 1.1k 0.7× 943 0.8× 471 0.7× 486 0.8× 117 5.0k
Li Xu China 33 824 0.5× 823 0.5× 816 0.7× 534 0.8× 641 1.1× 147 3.6k
M.S. El-Shahawi Saudi Arabia 34 909 0.5× 1000 0.6× 1.1k 0.9× 501 0.7× 370 0.6× 159 3.9k
Bo Chen China 55 1.6k 0.9× 1.5k 1.0× 3.4k 2.9× 476 0.7× 919 1.5× 439 10.3k
Lixia Zhao China 53 3.5k 2.1× 1.3k 0.8× 2.4k 2.0× 654 0.9× 475 0.8× 271 9.8k
Sijia Liu China 41 1.0k 0.6× 1.5k 1.0× 1.9k 1.6× 197 0.3× 499 0.8× 249 6.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Yinfa Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yinfa Ma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yinfa Ma

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yinfa Ma. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yinfa 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 Yinfa Ma. Yinfa Ma is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Ma, Xu, Yinfa Ma, Jinru Lin, et al.. (2025). Stability and transformation behavior of hydrometallurgical hazardous arsenic-calcium residue in sulfidic anoxic environments. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 490. 137762–137762.
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Huang, Junjie, Yinfa Ma, Cheng Huang, et al.. (2025). Integration of SBAS-InSAR and RFE-RF-XGBoost for Landslide Vulnerability Assessment: A Case Study in Zhaotong City, Yongshan County. Sensors. 25(23). 7215–7215. 1 indexed citations
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Lu, Jingjing, et al.. (2025). Better mental health and better academic performance: A longitudinal study of high school freshmen in China. Journal of Affective Disorders. 386. 119424–119424. 2 indexed citations
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Hu, Chelin, Xin Feng, Xiaohong Ma, et al.. (2025). 16S rRNA and metabolomics reveal the key microbes and key metabolites that regulate diarrhea in Holstein male calves. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1521719–1521719. 2 indexed citations
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Burton, Casey & Yinfa Ma. (2017). The role of urinary pteridines as disease biomarkers. Pteridines. 28(1). 1–21. 7 indexed citations
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Donovan, Ariel R., Yinfa Ma, Craig D. Adams, et al.. (2017). Simultaneous removal of ammonia and N-nitrosamine precursors from high ammonia water by zeolite and powdered activated carbon. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 64. 82–91. 51 indexed citations
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Shi, Honglan, Yinfa Ma, John Yang, et al.. (2017). Evaluation of thirteen haloacetic acids and ten trihalomethanes formation by peracetic acid and chlorine drinking water disinfection. Chemosphere. 189. 349–356. 75 indexed citations
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Donovan, Ariel R., Craig D. Adams, Yinfa Ma, et al.. (2016). Detection of zinc oxide and cerium dioxide nanoparticles during drinking water treatment by rapid single particle ICP-MS methods. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 408(19). 5137–5145. 58 indexed citations
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Yang, Qingbo, et al.. (2016). In vitro stimulation of vascular endothelial growth factor by borate-based glass fibers under dynamic flow conditions. Materials Science and Engineering C. 73. 447–455. 35 indexed citations
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Gamagedara, Sanjeewa, Yinfa Ma, Craig D. Adams, et al.. (2015). Simultaneous detection of perchlorate and bromate using rapid high-performance ion exchange chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry and perchlorate removal in drinking water. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 22(11). 8594–8602. 20 indexed citations
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Burton, Casey, Honglan Shi, & Yinfa Ma. (2014). Normalization of urinary pteridines by urine specific gravity for early cancer detection. Clinica Chimica Acta. 435. 42–47. 29 indexed citations
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Burton, Casey, et al.. (2014). High-throughput intracellular pteridinic profiling by liquid chromatography–quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Analytica Chimica Acta. 853. 442–450. 10 indexed citations
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Burton, Casey, Sanjeewa Gamagedara, & Yinfa Ma. (2013). Partial enzymatic elimination and quantification of sarcosine from alanine using liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 405(10). 3153–3158. 11 indexed citations
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Lan, Xinwei, Baokai Cheng, Qingbo Yang, et al.. (2013). Reflection based extraordinary optical transmission fiber optic probe for refractive index sensing. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 193. 95–99. 23 indexed citations
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Shi, Honglan, Yinfa Ma, Jean H. Humphrey, & Neal E. Craft. (1995). Determination of vitamin A in dried human blood spots by high-performance capillary electrophoresis with laser-excited fluorescence detection. Journal of Chromatography B Biomedical Sciences and Applications. 665(1). 89–96. 42 indexed citations
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Ma, Yinfa & Edward S. Yeung. (1990). Determination of Components in Beverages by Thin-Layer Chromatography.. Journal of Chemical Education. 67(5). 1 indexed citations

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