Zijun Ma

550 total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 347 citations indexed

About

Zijun Ma is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zijun Ma has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 347 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 10 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zijun Ma's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (10 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (9 papers). Zijun Ma is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (10 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (9 papers). Zijun Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, Netherlands and United States. Zijun Ma's co-authors include Zhibin Ren, Yüjie Guo, Chengcong Wang, Shengyang Hong, Guodong Wang, Yulin Dong, Peng Zhang, Peng Zhang, Xinyu Wang and Wenjie Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Zijun Ma

14 papers receiving 338 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.

Assessing urban population exposure risk to extreme heat: Patterns, trends, and implications for climate resilience in China (2000–2020)

2024 54 citations Chengcong Wang, Zhibin Ren et al. Sustainable Cities and Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zijun Ma China	10	203	200	196	36	30	15	347
Alessandro Sebastiani Italy	8	225 1.1×	202 1.0×	212 1.1×	26 0.7×	28 0.9×	15	365
Qianyuan Huang China	9	171 0.8×	146 0.7×	174 0.9×	32 0.9×	30 1.0×	13	287
Richard N. Belcher Singapore	10	258 1.3×	218 1.1×	275 1.4×	44 1.2×	29 1.0×	13	462
Sabrina Erlwein Germany	8	122 0.6×	140 0.7×	139 0.7×	21 0.6×	21 0.7×	9	270
Susannah Gill United Kingdom	6	178 0.9×	172 0.9×	279 1.4×	25 0.7×	22 0.7×	6	394
Monika Kopecká Slovakia	10	118 0.6×	160 0.8×	211 1.1×	44 1.2×	17 0.6×	25	337
Chengcong Wang China	13	323 1.6×	326 1.6×	299 1.5×	59 1.6×	54 1.8×	21	522
Sándor Jombach Hungary	7	126 0.6×	128 0.6×	195 1.0×	24 0.7×	25 0.8×	24	333
Yunfang Jiang China	13	180 0.9×	206 1.0×	182 0.9×	42 1.2×	42 1.4×	19	347
Muhammad Sadiq Khan China	10	146 0.7×	208 1.0×	231 1.2×	82 2.3×	20 0.7×	18	361

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zijun Ma

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zijun Ma

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

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15 of 15 papers shown

Wang, Guodong, Yann Hautier, Beth A. Middleton, et al.. (2025). Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Ecosystem Temporal Stability in Herbaceous Wetlands in China. Global Change Biology. 31(1). e70056–e70056. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Xinyu, Zhibin Ren, Chengcong Wang, et al.. (2025). Changes in spatio-temporal patterns of urban habitat quality and their associations with bird species diversity under China's rapid urban expansion. Landscape Ecology. 40(7).

Ma, Zijun, Chang Zhai, Zhibin Ren, et al.. (2024). Spatial pattern of urban forest diversity and its potential drivers in a snow climate city, Northeast China. Urban forestry & urban greening. 94. 128260–128260. 4 indexed citations

Ren, Zhibin, Chengcong Wang, Yüjie Guo, et al.. (2024). The cooling capacity of urban vegetation and its driving force under extreme hot weather: A comparative study between dry-hot and humid-hot cities. Building and Environment. 263. 111901–111901. 22 indexed citations

Wang, Guodong, Zijun Ma, Meiling Zhao, et al.. (2024). Multi-scenario simulation of land use dynamics and ecological risk: a case study of the liaohe estuary national wetland reserve using PLUS-Markov and PSR models. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 12. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Chengcong, Zhibin Ren, Yüjie Guo, et al.. (2024). Assessing urban population exposure risk to extreme heat: Patterns, trends, and implications for climate resilience in China (2000–2020). Sustainable Cities and Society. 103. 105260–105260. 54 indexed citations breakdown →

Hong, Shengyang, et al.. (2024). Urban 2D and 3D morphology and the pattern of ozone pollution: a 68-city study in China. Landscape Ecology. 39(2). 3 indexed citations

Ren, Zhibin, Yüjie Guo, Chengcong Wang, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal changes in urban forest carbon sequestration capacity and its potential drivers in an urban agglomeration: Implications for urban CO2 emission mitigation under China’s rapid urbanization. Ecological Indicators. 159. 111601–111601. 32 indexed citations

Wang, Chengcong, Zhibin Ren, Xinyue Chang, et al.. (2023). Understanding the cooling capacity and its potential drivers in urban forests at the single tree and cluster scales. Sustainable Cities and Society. 93. 104531–104531. 60 indexed citations

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Guo, Yüjie, Zhibin Ren, Chengcong Wang, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal patterns of urban forest carbon sequestration capacity: Implications for urban CO2 emission mitigation during China's rapid urbanization. The Science of The Total Environment. 912. 168781–168781. 45 indexed citations

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Wang, Chengcong, Zhibin Ren, Yunxia Du, et al.. (2023). Urban vegetation cooling capacity was enhanced under rapid urbanization in China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 425. 138906–138906. 27 indexed citations

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Zhang, Peng, Yulin Dong, Yüjie Guo, et al.. (2023). Urban forest soil is becoming alkaline under rapid urbanization: A case study of Changchun, northeast China. CATENA. 224. 106993–106993. 16 indexed citations

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Zhang, Peng, Yulin Dong, Zhibin Ren, et al.. (2023). Rapid urbanization and meteorological changes are reshaping the urban vegetation pattern in urban core area: A national 315-city study in China. The Science of The Total Environment. 904. 167269–167269. 38 indexed citations

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Wang, Guodong, et al.. (2023). The cooling effects of urban waterbodies and their driving forces in China. Ecological Indicators. 156. 111200–111200. 23 indexed citations

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Ma, Zijun, Peng Zhang, Guodong Wang, et al.. (2022). Understanding the drivers of woody plant diversity in urban parks in a snow climate city of China. Journal of Forestry Research. 34(4). 1021–1032. 18 indexed citations

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