Cai Li

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Cai Li is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Cai Li has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 20 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Cai Li's work include Gut microbiota and health (7 papers), Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (5 papers) and Optical Coherence Tomography Applications (4 papers). Cai Li is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (7 papers), Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (5 papers) and Optical Coherence Tomography Applications (4 papers). Cai Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Cai Li's co-authors include Markus Missler, Thomas C. Südhof, Harvey T. McMahon, Bazbek Davletov, Thomas C. Südhof, Hongfei Ge, Ke‐Xuan Liu, Weifeng Liu, Guoqing Yang and Lu Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Cai Li

81 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Lactobacillus murinus alleviate intestinal ischemia/reper... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150
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.

  1. Lactobacillus murinus alleviate intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury through promoting the release of interleukin-10 from M2 macrophages via Toll-like receptor 2 signaling
    2022 166 citations Jingjuan Hu, Fan Deng et al. Microbiome profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cai Li China 22 944 428 325 261 247 87 2.2k
Liping Cao China 33 1.4k 1.5× 272 0.6× 218 0.7× 272 1.0× 243 1.0× 126 4.2k
Wencheng Zhang China 29 1.1k 1.2× 182 0.4× 317 1.0× 318 1.2× 89 0.4× 95 2.5k
Zhuo‐Xian Meng China 30 942 1.0× 185 0.4× 189 0.6× 475 1.8× 127 0.5× 90 2.6k
Wei Wu China 30 1.5k 1.6× 138 0.3× 320 1.0× 393 1.5× 114 0.5× 214 4.0k
Jiakun Zhang China 30 1.7k 1.8× 187 0.4× 497 1.5× 444 1.7× 141 0.6× 97 3.8k
Ping Xin China 33 1.4k 1.5× 185 0.4× 159 0.5× 209 0.8× 393 1.6× 119 3.5k
Yan Huang China 34 1.7k 1.8× 237 0.6× 217 0.7× 725 2.8× 145 0.6× 229 3.7k
Yaping Jiang China 28 1.3k 1.3× 126 0.3× 549 1.7× 301 1.2× 143 0.6× 101 2.4k
Dan Wu China 40 2.2k 2.3× 226 0.5× 586 1.8× 344 1.3× 199 0.8× 153 4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Cai Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cai Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Cai Li. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Cai Li. The network helps show where Cai Li may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cai Li

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Cai, et al.. (2025). Rhythmic radial oxygen loss enhances soil phosphorus bioavailability. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4413–4413. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Xi, Mingyu Ma, Juan Wu, et al.. (2024). Efficient treatment of high-concentration pharmaceutical wastewater with high-salinity by chemical synthesis coupling with evaporation: From lab-scale to pilot-scale. Chemical Engineering Journal. 496. 154278–154278. 11 indexed citations
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Li, Cai, Ying Wang, Yuchen Liu, et al.. (2023). Cervical Spondylosis as a Potential Cause of Venous Hypertensive Myelopathy: A Case Report. American Journal of Case Reports. 24. e942149–e942149. 1 indexed citations
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Alfonso‐García, Alba, Stephanie A. Cevallos, Jee‐Yon Lee, et al.. (2022). Assessment of Murine Colon Inflammation Using Intraluminal Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging. Molecules. 27(4). 1317–1317. 4 indexed citations
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Hu, Jingjuan, Fan Deng, Bing-Cheng Zhao, et al.. (2022). Lactobacillus murinus alleviate intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury through promoting the release of interleukin-10 from M2 macrophages via Toll-like receptor 2 signaling. Microbiome. 10(1). 38–38. 166 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bai, Yu, Zhenfang Zhang, Haibin Yang, Cai Li, & Dianlong Yu. (2022). Metasurface acoustic liner of engine based on asymmetric absorber. Acta Physica Sinica. 72(5). 54301–54301. 2 indexed citations
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Hu, Jingjuan, Fan Deng, Xiaohong Chen, et al.. (2022). Use of dexmedetomidine to alleviate intestinal ischemia-reperfusion injury via intestinal microbiota modulation in mice. Annals of Translational Medicine. 10(21). 1161–1161. 8 indexed citations
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Hu, Na, et al.. (2022). Case report: Hepatic tuberculosis mimicking hepatocellular carcinoma in a patient with cirrhosis induced by hepatitis B virus. Frontiers in Medicine. 9. 1005680–1005680. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Cai, et al.. (2021). A Review and Prospects of Inter-orgnizational Symbiosis. Waiguo jingji yu guanli. 43(10). 68–84. 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, Jin, Zhengzheng Yan, Bowei Zhou, et al.. (2020). Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles from Intestinal Tissue in a Mouse Model of Intestinal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury. BioTechniques. 68(5). 257–262. 21 indexed citations
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Alfonso‐García, Alba, Cai Li, Julien Bec, et al.. (2019). Fiber-based platform for synchronous imaging of endogenous and exogenous fluorescence of biological tissue. Optics Letters. 44(13). 3350–3350. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Cai, Alba Alfonso‐García, Julien Bec, et al.. (2019). Simultaneous intraluminal imaging of tissue autofluorescence and eGFP-labeled cells in engineered vascular grafts inside a bioreactor. Methods and Applications in Fluorescence. 7(4). 44003–44003. 2 indexed citations
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Sherlock, Benjamin E., Cai Li, Xiangnan Zhou, et al.. (2019). Multiscale, multispectral fluorescence lifetime imaging using a double-clad fiber. Optics Letters. 44(9). 2302–2302. 4 indexed citations
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He, Xinwei, Min Zhu, Xiaofei Hu, et al.. (2016). Angiopoietin-like protein 4 serum levels and gene polymorphisms are associated with large artery atherosclerotic stroke. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 362. 333–338. 9 indexed citations
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Li, Duning, Yufeng Nie, Xuemei Zhou, & Cai Li. (2011). Numerical Modeling of Resin Film Infusion Process with Compaction and Its Application. Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences. 19(2). 149–166. 2 indexed citations
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Hou, Lei & Cai Li. (2008). Computational study on the non-Newtonian boundary-layer impact problem. Huadong Shifan Daxue xuebao. Ziran kexue ban. 1 indexed citations
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Ge, Hongfei, Ji-Young Cha, Christopher Harp, et al.. (2005). Differential regulation and properties of angiopoietin-like proteins 3 and 4. Journal of Lipid Research. 46(7). 1484–1490. 133 indexed citations
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Li, Cai. (2002). Laboratory Studies on Mixed Silicate Drilling Fluids. Youtian huaxue. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Cai, et al.. (1998). Intercalated cytosine motif and novel adenine clusters in the crystal structure of the Tetrahymena telomere. Nucleic Acids Research. 26(20). 4696–4705. 42 indexed citations

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