Zhen Ma

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Zhen Ma is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Food Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhen Ma has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 50 papers in Food Science and 17 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Zhen Ma's work include Food composition and properties (45 papers), Polysaccharides Composition and Applications (29 papers) and Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (26 papers). Zhen Ma is often cited by papers focused on Food composition and properties (45 papers), Polysaccharides Composition and Applications (29 papers) and Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (26 papers). Zhen Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Zhen Ma's co-authors include Joyce I. Boye, Xinzhong Hu, David Giedroc, Xiaoping Li, F.E. Jacobsen, Liu Liu, Benjamin K. Simpson, Xiuxiu Yin, John D. Helmann and Dingting Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Zhen Ma

78 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Coordination Chemistry of Bacterial Metal Transport and Sensing

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhen Ma China	37	2.8k	2.0k	963	776	342	80	4.4k
Uday S. Annapure India	44	1.6k 0.6×	2.5k 1.2×	1.4k 1.5×	1.1k 1.4×	640 1.9×	186	6.7k
Aiping Liu China	39	764 0.3×	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	1.0k 1.3×	487 1.4×	164	4.4k
Bin Zhang China	44	2.7k 1.0×	2.8k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.8×	605 1.8×	216	6.0k
Long Chen China	41	2.2k 0.8×	2.5k 1.2×	1.5k 1.6×	830 1.1×	774 2.3×	178	5.2k
Şenay Şimşek United States	40	2.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	2.4k 2.5×	445 0.6×	335 1.0×	235	5.2k
Chao Li China	43	1.8k 0.6×	2.4k 1.2×	2.2k 2.2×	1.5k 1.9×	517 1.5×	143	6.0k
M. Luz Sanz Spain	43	1.8k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	1.5k 1.9×	87 0.3×	163	5.7k
Junling Shi China	40	632 0.2×	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	2.0k 2.6×	210 0.6×	163	5.2k
Ana Gomes Portugal	47	2.5k 0.9×	4.3k 2.1×	755 0.8×	2.9k 3.8×	390 1.1×	237	7.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhen Ma

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ma, Zhen, et al.. (2024). Mulching Improves the Soil Hydrothermal Environment, Soil Aggregate Content, and Potato Yield in Dry Farmland. Agronomy. 14(11). 2470–2470. 4 indexed citations

Ma, Zhen, et al.. (2024). In-situ construction of novel Sb₂(S,Se)₃/CdSe S-scheme heterojunction with enhanced photoelectrochemical performance. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 58(1). 15501–15501. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Jinxiu, Xinzhong Hu, & Zhen Ma. (2024). Debranched Lentil Starch–Sodium Alginate-Based Encapsulated Particles of Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG: Morphology, Structural Characterization, In Vitro Release Behavior, and Storage Stability. Foods. 13(24). 4047–4047.

Zhao, Mengliu, et al.. (2024). Evolution of multi-scale structure and microbiota metabolism of lentil resistant starch during the dynamic fermentation in vitro. Food Chemistry. 461. 140914–140914. 9 indexed citations

Xu, He, et al.. (2024). Design and analysis of terrestrial laser scanner based on a 3-SPR parallel mechanism for improved anti-occlusion scanning. Measurement Science and Technology. 36(1). 16032–16032. 1 indexed citations

Li, Xiaoping, et al.. (2023). Effect of Calcium Hydroxide on Physicochemical and In Vitro Digestibility Properties of Tartary Buckwheat Starch-Rutin Complex Prepared by Pre-Gelatinization and Co-Gelatinization Methods. Foods. 12(5). 951–951. 5 indexed citations

Hu, Xinzhong, et al.. (2023). Multi-Scale Structural Insights into Enzymatically Hydrolyzed Lentil Starch Concentrates Prepared by In Vitro Method Using Different Types of Enzymes. Foods. 12(11). 2150–2150. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Zhen, et al.. (2021). Structural rearrangement of native and processed pea starches following simulated digestion in vitro and fermentation characteristics of their resistant starch residues using human fecal inoculum. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 172. 490–502. 31 indexed citations

Ma, Zhen, et al.. (2020). Controlling dough rheology and structural characteristics of chickpea-wheat composite flour-based noodles with different levels of Artemisia sphaerocephala Krasch. gum addition. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 150. 605–616. 49 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoping, et al.. (2020). Multiscale structural changes and retrogradation effects of addition of sodium alginate to fermented and native wheat starch. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 163. 2286–2294. 36 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoping, et al.. (2019). Effect of natural fermentation on the structure and physicochemical properties of wheat starch. Carbohydrate Polymers. 218. 163–169. 133 indexed citations

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Yang, Ke, Hui Dang, Liu Liu, et al.. (2019). Effect of syringic acid incorporation on the physical, mechanical, structural and antibacterial properties of chitosan film for quail eggs preservation. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 141. 876–884. 95 indexed citations

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Ma, Zhen, et al.. (2018). Long- and short-range structural characteristics of pea starch modified by autoclaving, α-amylolysis, and pullulanase debranching. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 120(Pt A). 650–656. 94 indexed citations

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Ma, Zhen, Xiuxiu Yin, Xinzhong Hu, et al.. (2018). Structural characterization of resistant starch isolated from Laird lentils (Lens culinaris) seeds subjected to different processing treatments. Food Chemistry. 263. 163–170. 102 indexed citations

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Li, Junjun, Xinzhong Hu, Xiaoping Li, & Zhen Ma. (2016). Effects of acetylation on the emulsifying properties of Artemisia sphaerocephala Krasch. polysaccharide. Carbohydrate Polymers. 144. 531–540. 81 indexed citations

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Vinuesa, Pablo, Xianyang Fang, Zhen Ma, et al.. (2014). Cu(I)-mediated Allosteric Switching in a Copper-sensing Operon Repressor (CsoR). Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(27). 19204–19217. 52 indexed citations

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Campanello, Gregory C., Zhen Ma, Nicholas E. Grossoehme, et al.. (2013). Allosteric Inhibition of a Zinc-Sensing Transcriptional Repressor: Insights into the Arsenic Repressor (ArsR) Family. Journal of Molecular Biology. 425(7). 1143–1157. 34 indexed citations

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Grossoehme, Nicholas E., Thomas E. Kehl‐Fie, Zhen Ma, et al.. (2011). Control of Copper Resistance and Inorganic Sulfur Metabolism by Paralogous Regulators in Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(15). 13522–13531. 84 indexed citations

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Ma, Zhen, Darin M. Cowart, Robert A. Scott, & David Giedroc. (2009). Molecular Insights into the Metal Selectivity of the Copper(I)-Sensing Repressor CsoR from Bacillus subtilis. Biochemistry. 48(15). 3325–3334. 88 indexed citations

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Liu, Tong, Arati Ramesh, Zhen Ma, et al.. (2006). CsoR is a novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis copper-sensing transcriptional regulator. Nature Chemical Biology. 3(1). 60–68. 270 indexed citations

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