Chen Cai

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
76 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Chen Cai is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chen Cai has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 19 papers in Environmental Engineering and 16 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Chen Cai's work include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (21 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (14 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (13 papers). Chen Cai is often cited by papers focused on Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (21 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (14 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (13 papers). Chen Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Chen Cai's co-authors include Zhiguo Yuan, Shihu Hu, Guo-Jun Xie, Gene W. Tyson, Jianhua Guo, Andy O Leu, Ping Zheng, Liping Lou, Baolan Hu and Tao Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Chen Cai

68 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

A methanotrophic archaeon couples anaerobic oxidation of ... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2020 100 200 300
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. A methanotrophic archaeon couples anaerobic oxidation of methane to Fe(III) reduction
    2018 301 citations Chen Cai, Guo-Jun Xie et al. profile →
  2. Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to manganese reduction by members of the Methanoperedenaceae
    2020 236 citations Chen Cai, Zhiguo Yuan 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
Chen Cai China 25 1.2k 916 730 644 390 76 2.7k
Ying Shi China 24 1.2k 1.0× 782 0.9× 609 0.8× 487 0.8× 336 0.9× 64 2.8k
Chengqing Yin China 30 886 0.8× 1.5k 1.7× 1.0k 1.4× 519 0.8× 170 0.4× 74 3.2k
Harry R. Harhangi Netherlands 28 752 0.6× 1.6k 1.8× 1.2k 1.7× 607 0.9× 1.4k 3.7× 43 3.7k
Frédèric Thalasso Mexico 32 850 0.7× 935 1.0× 501 0.7× 325 0.5× 249 0.6× 118 2.9k
Tomoyuki Hori Japan 35 669 0.6× 1.2k 1.3× 855 1.2× 601 0.9× 685 1.8× 160 3.8k
Stefano Fazi Italy 33 859 0.7× 729 0.8× 1.1k 1.5× 704 1.1× 449 1.2× 100 3.3k
А. Н. Ножевникова Russia 31 782 0.7× 707 0.8× 732 1.0× 416 0.6× 486 1.2× 90 2.7k
Huijuan Li China 30 709 0.6× 692 0.8× 190 0.3× 462 0.7× 135 0.3× 96 3.1k
Xueyan Liu China 39 558 0.5× 222 0.2× 772 1.1× 249 0.4× 318 0.8× 181 4.8k
Jie Pan China 28 620 0.5× 881 1.0× 1.5k 2.0× 103 0.2× 1.2k 3.0× 132 3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Chen Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chen Cai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chen Cai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chen Cai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chen 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 Chen Cai. Chen 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, Jianbo, et al.. (2025). Harnessing high-level hydrogen sulfide stress for enhanced biogas utilization: Adaptive resilience of a mixed-culture system. Chemical Engineering Journal. 506. 160300–160300. 2 indexed citations
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Cai, Chen, Zheng Wang, Jianjun Gao, et al.. (2024). Empowering Large Language Model for Continual Video Question Answering with Collaborative Prompting. 3921–3932.
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Cai, Chen, Elisha J. Dettman, Wei Zhou, et al.. (2024). Prevalence of homologous recombination biomarkers in multiple tumor types: an observational study. Future Oncology. 20(31). 2357–2370.
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Zhou, Qingqing, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Fluroxypyr Drift on Soybean Phytotoxicity and the Safety Drift Thresholds. Agriculture. 14(12). 2203–2203. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Jianbo, et al.. (2024). Membrane photobioreactor for biogas capture and conversion – Enhanced microbial interaction in biofilm. Bioresource Technology. 418. 131999–131999. 3 indexed citations
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Cai, Chen, et al.. (2023). Iron and nitrogen regulate carbon transformation in a methanotroph-microalgae system. The Science of The Total Environment. 904. 166287–166287. 6 indexed citations
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Hu, Yanmin, Tingting Chao, Yapeng Li, et al.. (2023). Cooperative Ni(Co)‐Ru‐P Sites Activate Dehydrogenation for Hydrazine Oxidation Assisting Self‐powered H2 Production. Angewandte Chemie. 135(35). 14 indexed citations
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Qingqing, Zhou, Songchao Zhang, Xinyu Xue, Chen Cai, & Baokun Wang. (2023). Performance Evaluation of UAVs in Wheat Disease Control. Agronomy. 13(8). 2131–2131. 2 indexed citations
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Zheng, Yue, Xueqin Zhang, Jun Xia, et al.. (2023). Formate as an Alternative Electron Donor for the Anaerobic Methanotrophic Archaeon Candidatus ‘Methanoperedens nitroreducens’. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 10(6). 506–512. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xueqin, Shiqing Li, Yue Zheng, et al.. (2023). Humic substances as electron acceptor for anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) and electron shuttle in Mn (IV)-dependent AOM. The Science of The Total Environment. 912. 169576–169576. 16 indexed citations
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Liu, Jiping, et al.. (2022). Personalized city region of interests recommendation method based on city block and check-in data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations
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Gao, Feng, Yunpeng Yu, Yüe Zhao, et al.. (2022). How to Make Personal Protective Equipment Spontaneously and Continuously Antimicrobial (Incorporating Oxidase-like Catalysts). ACS Nano. 16(5). 7755–7771. 49 indexed citations
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Cai, Chen, Kim–Hui Yap, & Suchen Wang. (2022). Attribute Conditioned Fashion Image Captioning. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). 1921–1925. 7 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhixian, Zehang Jiang, Yingsheng Gao, et al.. (2019). TP53 Mutations Promote Immunogenic Activity in Breast Cancer. Journal of Oncology. 2019. 1–19. 61 indexed citations
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Yang, Bin, et al.. (2018). Processing analysis of Sentinel-2A data and application to arid valleys extraction. Guotu ziyuan yaogan. 30(3). 128–135. 3 indexed citations
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Xie, Guo-Jun, Tao Liu, Chen Cai, Shihu Hu, & Zhiguo Yuan. (2017). Achieving high-level nitrogen removal in mainstream by coupling anammox with denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation in a membrane biofilm reactor. Water Research. 131. 196–204. 158 indexed citations
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Qi, Xiaoqiong, D. M. Carberry, Chen Cai, et al.. (2017). Optical sorting and cultivation of denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation archaea. Biomedical Optics Express. 8(2). 934–934. 19 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jiqiang, Ping Zheng, Meng Zhang, et al.. (2013). Coupling process and mechanism of methanol oxidation and nitrate reduction in an anodic denitrification microbial fuel cell(AD-MFC). Huagong xuebao. 64(9). 3404–3411. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Chen & Ralf Bundschuh. (2012). Systematic investigation of insertional and deletional RNA-DNA differences in the human transcriptome. BMC Genomics. 13(1). 616–616. 18 indexed citations

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