Zhijun Ma

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
115 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Zhijun Ma is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhijun Ma has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Ecology, 25 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Zhijun Ma's work include Avian ecology and behavior (70 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (41 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (31 papers). Zhijun Ma is often cited by papers focused on Avian ecology and behavior (70 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (41 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (31 papers). Zhijun Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Netherlands. Zhijun Ma's co-authors include Bo Li, Jiakuan Chen, David S. Melville, Bin Zhao, Xiaojing Gan, Theunis Piersma, Chi‐Yeung Choi, Zhengwang Zhang, Ying Chen and Hongyan Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Zhijun Ma

111 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

Rethinking China's new great wall

2014 439 citations Zhijun Ma, David S. Melville et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhijun Ma China	36	3.7k	1.4k	887	570	533	115	4.7k
Nicholas Murray Australia	35	3.7k 1.0×	1.9k 1.4×	646 0.7×	668 1.2×	559 1.0×	96	5.1k
Trisha B. Atwood United States	27	2.6k 0.7×	879 0.6×	553 0.6×	386 0.7×	191 0.4×	51	3.5k
Caitlin M. Crain United States	20	2.8k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	741 0.8×	573 1.0×	179 0.3×	23	4.2k
Carolyn J. Lundquist New Zealand	31	2.3k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	457 0.5×	556 1.0×	310 0.6×	132	3.6k
Nick C. Davidson Australia	30	4.3k 1.1×	3.1k 2.2×	1.0k 1.2×	806 1.4×	301 0.6×	53	6.6k
Naomi Kingston United Kingdom	24	1.4k 0.4×	1.6k 1.1×	558 0.6×	521 0.9×	506 0.9×	39	3.1k
John N. Griffin United Kingdom	33	2.2k 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	1.6k 1.8×	242 0.4×	342 0.6×	80	4.4k
Andrew H. Altieri United States	30	2.8k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	960 1.1×	216 0.4×	186 0.3×	82	4.3k
María Laura Carranza Italy	38	1.5k 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.7×	278 0.5×	785 1.5×	145	3.8k
Jutta Beher Australia	13	1.7k 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	549 0.6×	433 0.8×	497 0.9×	18	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhijun Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhijun Ma

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhijun Ma

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhijun Ma. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhijun 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 Zhijun Ma. Zhijun 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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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Qianyu, et al.. (2025). Bird diversity in historical paintings of the Song dynasty (960–1279). Ecology. 106(3). e70070–e70070.

Fan, Haiyan, et al.. (2025). Machine Well Screening Method Based on POI Data and DBSCAN Clustering Algorithm. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 22. 1–5. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Jiajia, et al.. (2025). Targeted conservation actions are required to save species from extinction. Biological Conservation. 310. 111340–111340. 1 indexed citations

Hu, Juntao, et al.. (2024). Most bird species remain poorly studied but threated status promotes research effort. Avian Research. 15. 100215–100215. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Ningning & Zhijun Ma. (2024). Ecological restoration of coastal wetlands in China: Current status and suggestions. Biological Conservation. 291. 110513–110513. 39 indexed citations

Wang, Xiaodan, et al.. (2024). Macro-scale relationship between body mass and timing of bird migration. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4111–4111. 8 indexed citations

Hu, Juntao, et al.. (2023). Increases in intraspecific body size variation are common among North American mammals and birds between 1880 and 2020. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(3). 347–354. 11 indexed citations

Chen, Jianshe, Chunming Li, Jiayuan Zhao, et al.. (2023). Top-down control of macrofauna: Are waterbirds passengers or drivers in wetlands?. Biological Conservation. 279. 109903–109903. 6 indexed citations

Peng, He‐Bo, Zhijun Ma, Eldar Rakhimberdiev, et al.. (2023). Arriving late and lean at a stopover site is selected against in a declining migratory bird population. Journal of Animal Ecology. 92(10). 2109–2118. 5 indexed citations

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Mu, Tong, et al.. (2023). Importance of habitat heterogeneity in tidal flats to the conservation of migratory shorebirds. Conservation Biology. 38(1). e14153–e14153. 12 indexed citations

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Hu, Cheng, Joshua Soderholm, Jason W. Chapman, et al.. (2022). Prospects for monitoring bird migration along the East Asian‐Australasian Flyway using weather radar. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 9(2). 169–181. 15 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shoudong, Zhijun Ma, Chi‐Yeung Choi, et al.. (2019). Morphological and digestive adjustments buffer performance: How staging shorebirds cope with severe food declines. Ecology and Evolution. 9(7). 3868–3878. 31 indexed citations

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Chan, Ying‐Chi, T. Lee Tibbitts, Tamar Lok, et al.. (2019). Filling knowledge gaps in a threatened shorebird flyway through satellite tracking. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56(10). 2305–2315. 60 indexed citations

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Ma, Zhijun, et al.. (2019). Individual diet differences in a molluscivore shorebird are associated with the size of body instruments for internal processing rather than for feeding. Journal of Avian Biology. 50(10). 4 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yihui, Ge Yin, Lillemor Asplund, et al.. (2017). Human exposure to PCDDs and their precursors from heron and tern eggs in the Yangtze River Delta indicate PCP origin. Environmental Pollution. 225. 184–192. 9 indexed citations

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Ma, Zhijun. (2011). Checklist and Change of Birds in Shanghai. Fudan xuebao. Ziran Kexue ban. 5 indexed citations

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Wu, Wenyong, et al.. (2010). Effect of reclaimed water irrigation on yield and quality of fruity vegetables.. Nongye gongcheng xuebao. 26(1). 36–40. 18 indexed citations

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Li, Xinhai, et al.. (2004). RITUALIZED AGGRESSION AND UNSTABLE DOMINANCE IN BROODS OF CRESTED IBIS (NIPPONIA NIPPON). The Wilson Bulletin. 116(2). 172–176. 5 indexed citations

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Ma, Zhijun, et al.. (2001). Using Resource Selection Functions to study nest site selection of Crested Ibis. Biodiversity Science. 9(4). 352–358. 17 indexed citations

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Ma, Zhijun, Wen‐Jun Li, Zijian Wang, & Hongxiao Tang. (1998). Habitat change and protection of the red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis) in Yancheng Biosphere Reserve, China. AMBIO. 27(6). 461–464. 15 indexed citations

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