Yujun Ma

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Yujun Ma is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yujun Ma has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Atmospheric Science and 9 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Yujun Ma's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (16 papers), Climate variability and models (8 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (8 papers). Yujun Ma is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (16 papers), Climate variability and models (8 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (8 papers). Yujun Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Yujun Ma's co-authors include Xiaoyan Li, Xiuchen Wu, Pei Wang, Yongmei Huang, Cicheng Zhang, Fangzhong Shi, Hongyan Liu, Xia Hu, Xianrong Li and Jingsheng Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Journal of Climate and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Yujun Ma

40 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Differentiating drought legacy effects on vegetation growth over the temperate Northern Hemisphere

2017 313 citations Xiuchen Wu, Hongyan Liu et al. Global Change Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yujun Ma China	20	789	499	292	269	156	43	1.3k
Hailiang Xu China	24	801 1.0×	351 0.7×	506 1.7×	366 1.4×	191 1.2×	65	1.4k
Jean‐François Exbrayat United Kingdom	21	820 1.0×	350 0.7×	298 1.0×	348 1.3×	181 1.2×	40	1.3k
Julia K. Green United States	13	1.3k 1.7×	533 1.1×	261 0.9×	412 1.5×	145 0.9×	24	1.7k
Zhi‐Yun Jiang China	19	676 0.9×	312 0.6×	261 0.9×	368 1.4×	261 1.7×	49	1.3k
Diego Riveros‐Iregui United States	21	638 0.8×	330 0.7×	421 1.4×	286 1.1×	363 2.3×	55	1.3k
Shengchun Xiao China	16	680 0.9×	476 1.0×	414 1.4×	186 0.7×	148 0.9×	47	1.1k
Lijuan Wen China	24	794 1.0×	921 1.8×	269 0.9×	242 0.9×	203 1.3×	63	1.6k
Haiyang Xi China	19	493 0.6×	269 0.5×	333 1.1×	222 0.8×	169 1.1×	71	1.1k
Andrew L. Lowry Australia	6	1.1k 1.3×	711 1.4×	277 0.9×	166 0.6×	105 0.7×	9	1.4k
Naiqing Pan United States	21	1.1k 1.3×	361 0.7×	286 1.0×	579 2.2×	171 1.1×	39	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yujun Ma

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jia, Wei, Yujun Ma, Peijun Shi, et al.. (2025). Surface oxygen concentration differs between dry and ice-snow melting bare lands on the Tibetan Plateau. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 21148–21148.

Liu, Yaoming, Wei Hu, Yanjie Xie, et al.. (2024). Single-cell transcriptomics enable the characterization of local extension in retinoblastoma. Communications Biology. 7(1). 11–11. 9 indexed citations

Shi, Fangzhong, Xiaoyan Li, Shaojie Zhao, et al.. (2024). Evaporation and sublimation measurement and modeling of an alpine saline lake influenced by freeze–thaw on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(1). 163–178. 4 indexed citations

Li, Xiaoyan, et al.. (2023). Subsurface structure regulates water storage in the alpine critical zone on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Journal of Hydrology. 627. 130357–130357. 7 indexed citations

Xie, Ting & Yujun Ma. (2023). Simulation of Soil Temperature under Plateau Zokor’s (Eospalax baileyi) Disturbance in the Qinghai Lake Watershed, Northeast Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Animals. 13(17). 2703–2703. 2 indexed citations

Wei, Junqi, Xiaoyan Li, Lei Liu, et al.. (2022). Radiation, soil water content, and temperature effects on carbon cycling in an alpine swamp meadow of the northeastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. Biogeosciences. 19(3). 861–875. 16 indexed citations

Li, Xiaoyan, Fangzhong Shi, Yujun Ma, Shaojie Zhao, & Junqi Wei. (2021). Significant winter CO₂ uptake by saline lakes on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau. Global Change Biology. 28(6). 2041–2052. 55 indexed citations

Ma, Yujun, Fangzhong Shi, Xia Hu, & Xiaoyan Li. (2021). Climatic Constraints to Monthly Vegetation Dynamics in Desert Areas Over the Silk Road Economic Belt. Remote Sensing. 13(5). 995–995. 10 indexed citations

Wei, Junqi, Xiaoyan Li, Lei Liu, et al.. (2021). Effects of soil water content on carbon sink strength in an alpine swamp meadow of the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. 1 indexed citations

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Hu, Xia, Fangzhong Shi, Xiaoyan Li, et al.. (2021). Intensified Drought Enhances Coupling Between Vegetation Growth and Pregrowing Season Precipitation in the Drylands of the Silk Road Economic Belt. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(3). 9 indexed citations

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Ma, Yujun, Fangzhong Shi, Xia Hu, & Xiaoyan Li. (2020). Threshold Vegetation Greenness under Water Balance in Different Desert Areas over the Silk Road Economic Belt. Remote Sensing. 12(15). 2452–2452. 12 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiuchen, Xiaoyan Li, Yunhao Chen, et al.. (2019). Atmospheric Water Demand Dominates Daily Variations in Water Use Efficiency in Alpine Meadows, Northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 124(7). 2174–2185. 51 indexed citations

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Ma, Yujun, et al.. (2019). Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Plateau Pika (Ochotona curzoniae) in the Qinghai Lake Basin, China. Animals. 9(10). 843–843. 21 indexed citations

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Wang, Pei, Xiaoyan Li, Zhongwang Wei, et al.. (2019). Dynamical effects of plastic mulch on evapotranspiration partitioning in a mulched agriculture ecosystem: Measurement with numerical modeling. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 268. 98–108. 29 indexed citations

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Ma, Yujun, Xiaoyan Li, Yongmei Huang, et al.. (2018). Measurements and Modeling of the Water Budget in Semiarid High‐Altitude Qinghai Lake Basin, Northeast Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(19). 25 indexed citations

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Shi, Fangzhong, Xiuchen Wu, Xiaoyan Li, et al.. (2018). Weakening Relationship Between Vegetation Growth Over the Tibetan Plateau and Large‐Scale Climate Variability. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 123(4). 1247–1259. 15 indexed citations

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Ma, Yujun, Xiaoyan Li, Li Guo, & Henry Lin. (2017). Hydropedology: Interactions between pedologic and hydrologic processes across spatiotemporal scales. Earth-Science Reviews. 171. 181–195. 47 indexed citations

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Pei, Tingting, Xiuchen Wu, Xiaoyan Li, et al.. (2016). Seasonal divergence in the sensitivity of evapotranspiration to climate and vegetation growth in the Yellow River Basin, China. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 122(1). 103–118. 46 indexed citations

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Ma, Yujun, Xiaoyan Li, Maxwell C. Wilson, et al.. (2016). Water loss by evaporation from China’s South-North Water Transfer Project. Ecological Engineering. 95. 206–215. 37 indexed citations

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Ma, Yujun, et al.. (2015). Effect of the disturbance of plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) on soil water and soil temperature characteristics at Alpine Meadows in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2839. 1 indexed citations

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