Can Cai

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Can Cai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Can Cai has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Epidemiology and 8 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Can Cai's work include Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (11 papers), Diet, Metabolism, and Disease (5 papers) and Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (5 papers). Can Cai is often cited by papers focused on Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (11 papers), Diet, Metabolism, and Disease (5 papers) and Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (5 papers). Can Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Can Cai's co-authors include Junfeng Lu, Kai Jiang, 张凌, Chunxiang Xu, Hengwei Lin, Yu Chen, Jianping Gong, Peizhi Li, Kunlun He and Patrice Viens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Can Cai

39 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Triple‐Mode Emission of Carbon Dots: Applications for Adv... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Triple‐Mode Emission of Carbon Dots: Applications for Advanced Anti‐Counterfeiting
    2016 725 citations Can Cai et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Can Cai China 19 997 722 341 302 293 41 2.5k
Yan Lou China 27 1.5k 1.5× 374 0.5× 434 1.3× 505 1.7× 160 0.5× 121 3.5k
Xiaowen Liang China 30 906 0.9× 599 0.8× 411 1.2× 269 0.9× 177 0.6× 107 3.4k
Min Ji China 29 1.5k 1.5× 299 0.4× 403 1.2× 296 1.0× 205 0.7× 138 3.0k
Petras Juzenas Norway 34 963 1.0× 1.1k 1.5× 215 0.6× 177 0.6× 314 1.1× 93 3.6k
Xuefeng Wang China 30 1.1k 1.1× 494 0.7× 284 0.8× 442 1.5× 103 0.4× 170 3.2k
Jongmin Park South Korea 34 2.2k 2.2× 515 0.7× 335 1.0× 563 1.9× 98 0.3× 138 3.9k
Yun He China 36 1.5k 1.5× 347 0.5× 220 0.6× 463 1.5× 141 0.5× 185 4.2k
Junqi Li China 28 886 0.9× 409 0.6× 223 0.7× 225 0.7× 62 0.2× 74 2.6k
Bo Wen United States 29 1.9k 2.0× 421 0.6× 944 2.8× 215 0.7× 215 0.7× 130 3.7k
Pengyu Yang China 30 1.5k 1.5× 158 0.2× 257 0.8× 232 0.8× 123 0.4× 85 3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Can Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Can Cai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Can Cai. 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 Can Cai. The network helps show where Can Cai may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Can Cai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Can Cai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Can Cai 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 Can Cai. Can Cai 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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Liu, Jing, et al.. (2025). RBM24-mediated biogenesis of circ23679 protects cardiomyocytes against apoptosis via sponging miR-15b-5p. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 310(Pt 1). 143242–143242. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Can, Yueting Wang, Qianqian Shao, et al.. (2025). Structures of a T1-like siphophage reveal capsid stabilization mechanisms and high structural similarities with a myophage. Structure. 33(4). 663–676.e2.
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Santoro, Armando, Daniel Shao-Weng Tan, Jon Zugazagoitia, et al.. (2024). Spartalizumab in combination with platinum-doublet chemotherapy with or without canakinumab in patients with PD-L1-unselected, metastatic NSCLC. BMC Cancer. 24(1). 1307–1307. 2 indexed citations
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Wu, Hongyu, Shengwei Li, Xiong Ding, et al.. (2024). Comparative analysis of NAFLD-related health videos on TikTok: a cross-language study in the USA and China. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 3375–3375. 8 indexed citations
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Wu, Hongyu, Siyuan Zheng, Tao Zhong, et al.. (2023). Association between gut microbiota and NAFLD/NASH: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 13. 1294826–1294826. 12 indexed citations
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Chen, Yao, et al.. (2023). Effect of OPRM1/COMT Gene Polymorphisms on Sufentanil Labor Analgesia: A Cohort Study Based on Propensity Score Matching. Pharmacogenomics. 24(12). 675–684. 3 indexed citations
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Cai, Can, Ji Liu, Jing Wei, et al.. (2020). Black carp NAP1 positively regulates MDA5-mediated antiviral signaling during the innate immune activation. Developmental & Comparative Immunology. 107. 103659–103659. 11 indexed citations
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Cai, Can, Huijuan Zhu, Li Lin, et al.. (2019). LncRNA ENST00000602558.1 regulates ABCG1 expression and cholesterol efflux from vascular smooth muscle cells through a p65-dependent pathway. Atherosclerosis. 285. 31–39. 31 indexed citations
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Cai, Can, et al.. (2018). LXRɑ participates in the mTOR/S6K1/SREBP-1c signaling pathway during sodium palmitate-induced lipogenesis in HepG2 cells. Nutrition & Metabolism. 15(1). 31–31. 21 indexed citations
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Li, Lin, Laiyuan Wang, Hongfan Li, et al.. (2018). Characterization of LncRNA expression profile and identification of novel LncRNA biomarkers to diagnose coronary artery disease. Atherosclerosis. 275. 359–367. 99 indexed citations
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Lau, Yvonne, Wen Gu, Tiffany Lin, et al.. (2017). Assessment of drug–drug interaction potential between ceritinib and proton pump inhibitors in healthy subjects and in patients with ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer. Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology. 79(6). 1119–1128. 15 indexed citations
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Dong, Li, et al.. (2015). Diet, lifestyle and cognitive function in old Chinese adults. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. 63. 36–42. 62 indexed citations
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Cai, Can, et al.. (2013). Knockdown of hepatic aquaglyceroporin-9 alleviates high fat diet-induced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in rats. International Immunopharmacology. 15(3). 550–556. 23 indexed citations
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Lin, Honghuang, Lianyi Han, Can Cai, Zhang Ji, & Yu Chen. (2005). Prediction of transporter family from protein sequence by support vector machine approach. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 62(1). 218–231. 51 indexed citations
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Han, Lianyi, Can Cai, Zhi‐Liang Ji, & Yu Chen. (2004). Prediction of functional class of novel viral proteins by a statistical learning method irrespective of sequence similarity. Virology. 331(1). 136–143. 17 indexed citations
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Cai, Can, et al.. (2003). Protein function classification via support vector machine approach. Mathematical Biosciences. 185(2). 111–122. 102 indexed citations
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Cai, Can. (2003). SVM-Prot: web-based support vector machine software for functional classification of a protein from its primary sequence. Nucleic Acids Research. 31(13). 3692–3697. 446 indexed citations

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