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D-Index
64
Citations
12678
World Ranking
1008
National Ranking
76

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Ecosystem

Her primary areas of investigation include Agriculture, Agronomy, Food chain, Crop and Fertilizer. Her studies in Agriculture integrate themes in fields like Environmental engineering and Nutrient. As part of her studies on Agronomy, she often connects relevant subjects like Nutrient management.

As a member of one scientific family, Lin Ma mostly works in the field of Food chain, focusing on Food processing and, on occasion, Agricultural economics. Her work deals with themes such as Nutrient cycle, Beijing, Greenhouse gas and Cycling, which intersect with Agricultural economics. Her Fertilizer research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Livestock and Land use.

Her most cited work include:

  • Producing more grain with lower environmental costs (667 citations)
  • Integrated soil and plant phosphorus management for crop and environment in China. A review (152 citations)
  • Modeling Nutrient Flows in the Food Chain of China (132 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Lin Ma focuses on Agriculture, Nutrient, Manure, Agronomy and Fertilizer. Her Agriculture research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Environmental engineering, Agricultural economics and Food chain. Her Food chain study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Nutrient cycle, Food processing and Beijing.

Lin Ma has researched Manure in several fields, including Livestock, Crop residue and Animal science. As a part of the same scientific study, she usually deals with the Agronomy, concentrating on Cycling and frequently concerns with Denitrification. Her research integrates issues of Toxicology, Irrigation and Land use in her study of Fertilizer.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Agriculture (43.41%)
  • Nutrient (29.46%)
  • Manure (34.11%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2019-2021)?

  • Nutrient (29.46%)
  • Water resource management (12.40%)
  • Agriculture (43.41%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Lin Ma mainly investigates Nutrient, Water resource management, Agriculture, Manure and Eutrophication. Particularly relevant to Nutrient management is her body of work in Nutrient. She combines subjects such as Food processing, Land use and Fertilizer with her study of Agriculture.

Her Food processing research includes themes of Sustainability and Agricultural science. Her work in Fertilizer tackles topics such as Food chain which are related to areas like Livestock. Her Manure research also works with subjects such as

  • Pollution together with Crop,
  • Animal science together with Nitrous oxide, Methane and Phosphorus supplement.

Between 2019 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • The progress of composting technologies from static heap to intelligent reactor: Benefits and limitations (8 citations)
  • Cost-effective management of coastal eutrophication: A case study for the yangtze river basin (7 citations)
  • Air quality, nitrogen use efficiency and food security in China are improved by cost-effective agricultural nitrogen management (6 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Ecosystem

Her primary scientific interests are in Nutrient, Agriculture, Nutrient management, Organic matter and Manure. Her research in Agriculture intersects with topics in Livestock, Food processing, Food chain and Environmental protection. Her Food processing study combines topics in areas such as Crop yield, Food security and Agricultural science.

The various areas that Lin Ma examines in her Nutrient management study include Eutrophication and Water resource management. Her research on Organic matter also deals with topics like

  • Environmental chemistry, which have a strong connection to Denitrification, Cycling, Nitrification and Palustrine wetland,
  • Soil microbiology that connect with fields like Biogeochemical cycle. In general Manure, her work in Liquid manure is often linked to Productivity linking many areas of study.

Best Publications

  • Producing more grain with lower environmental costs

    Xinping Chen;Zhenling Cui;Mingsheng Fan;Peter Vitousek

  • China's livestock transition: Driving forces, impacts, and consequences

    Zhaohai Bai;Zhaohai Bai;Wenqi Ma;Lin Ma;Gerard L. Velthof

  • Integrated soil and plant phosphorus management for crop and environment in China. A review

    H. Li;G. Huang;Q. Meng;L. Ma

  • Modeling Nutrient Flows in the Food Chain of China

    L. Ma;W. Q. Ma;G. L. Velthof;F. H. Wang

  • A critical review on livestock manure biorefinery technologies: Sustainability, challenges, and future perspectives

    Benyamin Khoshnevisan;Na Duan;Panagiotis Tsapekos;Mukesh Kumar Awasthi

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiencies and losses in the food chain in China at regional scales in 1980 and 2005.

    L. Ma;G.L. Velthof;F.H. Wang;W. Qin

  • China’s future food demand and its implications for trade and environment

    Hao Zhao;Hao Zhao;Jinfeng Chang;Jinfeng Chang;Petr Havlík;Michiel van Dijk;Michiel van Dijk

  • Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium Flows through the Manure Management Chain in China.

    Zhaohai Bai;Lin Ma;Shuqin Jin;Wenqi Ma

  • Air quality, nitrogen use efficiency and food security in China are improved by cost-effective agricultural nitrogen management

    Yixin Guo;Youfan Chen;Timothy D. Searchinger;Mi Zhou

  • An Analysis of China’s Fertilizer Policies: Impacts on the Industry, Food Security, and the Environment

    Yuxuan Li;Weifeng Zhang;Lin Ma;Gaoqiang Huang

  • Agricultural ammonia emissions inventory and spatial distribution in the North China Plain

    Y. Zhang;A.J. Dore;L. Ma;L. Ma;X.J. Liu

  • Alarming nutrient pollution of Chinese rivers as a result of agricultural transitions

    Maryna Strokal;Lin Ma;Zhaohai Bai;Shengji Luan

  • Phosphorus in China's Intensive Vegetable Production Systems: Overfertilization, Soil Enrichment, and Environmental Implications.

    Zhengjuan Yan;Pengpeng Liu;Yuhong Li;Lin Ma

  • Hotspots for Nitrogen and Phosphorus Losses from Food Production in China: A County-Scale Analysis.

    Mengru Wang;Lin Ma;Maryna Strokal;Wenqi Ma

  • Environmental assessment of management options for nutrient flows in the food chain in China.

    Lin Ma;Lin Ma;Fanghao Wang;Weifeng Zhang;Wenqi Ma

  • Microbial nitrogen removal pathways in integrated vertical-flow constructed wetland systems.

    Yun Hu;Feng He;Lin Ma;Yi Zhang

  • The MARINA model (Model to Assess River Inputs of Nutrients to seAs): Model description and results for China.

    Maryna Strokal;Carolien Kroeze;Mengru Wang;Mengru Wang;Zhaohai Bai

  • Changes in pig production in China and their effects on nitrogen and phosphorus use and losses.

    Z. H. Bai;L. Ma;W. Qin;Q. Chen

  • Combined applications of organic and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers for improving crop yield and reducing reactive nitrogen losses from China's vegetable systems: A meta-analysis.

    Bin Liu;Xiaozhong Wang;Lin Ma;Dave Chadwick

  • Nitrogen footprint in China: food, energy, and nonfood goods.

    Baojing Gu;Allison M. Leach;Lin Ma;Lin Ma;James N. Galloway

  • An analysis of China's grain production: looking back and looking forward

    Yuxuan Li;Weifeng Zhang;Lin Ma;Lin Ma;Liang Wu

  • Nitrogen footprints: Regional realities and options to reduce nitrogen loss to the environment

    Hideaki Shibata;James N. Galloway;Allison M. Leach;Lia R. Cattaneo

  • Accumulation and leaching of nitrate in soils in wheat-maize production in China

    Jie Lu;Zhaohai Bai;Gerard L. Velthof;Zhiguo Wu

  • The phosphorus footprint of China's food chain: implications for food security, natural resource management, and environmental quality.

    F. Wang;J. T. Sims;L. Ma;W. Ma

  • Outlook of China's agriculture transforming from smallholder operation to sustainable production

    Qingsong Zhang;Yiyan Chu;Yanfang Xue;Hao Ying

  • Impacts of urban expansion on nitrogen and phosphorus flows in the food system of Beijing from 1978 to 2008

    Lin Ma;Lin Ma;Lin Ma;Jinhua Guo;Gerard L. Velthof;Yanming Li

  • Nitrogen flow and use efficiency in production and utilization of wheat, rice and maize in China

    Wenqi Ma;Jianhui Li;Lin Ma;Fanghao Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhaohai Bai
Zhaohai Bai Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fusuo Zhang
Fusuo Zhang China Agricultural University
Carolien Kroeze
Carolien Kroeze Wageningen University & Research
Oene Oenema
Oene Oenema Wageningen University & Research
Gerard L. Velthof
Gerard L. Velthof Wageningen University & Research
Maryna Strokal
Maryna Strokal Wageningen University & Research
David R. Chadwick
David R. Chadwick Bangor University
Jiafa Luo
Jiafa Luo AgResearch
Wilfried Winiwarter
Wilfried Winiwarter International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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