Chen Cao

577 total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 429 citations indexed

About

Chen Cao is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Civil and Structural Engineering and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, Chen Cao has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 429 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 16 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 5 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in Chen Cao's work include Rock Mechanics and Modeling (14 papers), Geomechanics and Mining Engineering (8 papers) and Structural Response to Dynamic Loads (5 papers). Chen Cao is often cited by papers focused on Rock Mechanics and Modeling (14 papers), Geomechanics and Mining Engineering (8 papers) and Structural Response to Dynamic Loads (5 papers). Chen Cao collaborates with scholars based in China and Australia. Chen Cao's co-authors include Jun Yang, Manchao He, Shuren Wang, Zelong Li, Dongfeng Li, Wensheng Gao, Yongxin Ge, Hongjun Zhang, Ruotian Chen and Rui Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Chen Cao

24 papers receiving 420 citations

Hit Papers

Achieving High Selectivity in Photocatalytic Oxidation of... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 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. Achieving High Selectivity in Photocatalytic Oxidation of Toluene on Amorphous BiOCl Nanosheets Coupled with TiO2
    2023 166 citations Hao Wang, Chen Cao et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society 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 Cao China 9 207 149 131 125 67 29 429
Yanbing Wang China 6 156 0.8× 104 0.7× 19 0.1× 150 1.2× 18 0.3× 17 323
Kaixin Zhu China 12 39 0.2× 103 0.7× 51 0.4× 128 1.0× 14 0.2× 25 384
Daifeng Wu China 11 24 0.1× 59 0.4× 40 0.3× 297 2.4× 27 0.4× 32 401
Kuiming Liu China 8 55 0.3× 38 0.3× 25 0.2× 25 0.2× 53 0.8× 30 277
Kaidi Jiang China 13 30 0.1× 498 3.3× 42 0.3× 135 1.1× 8 0.1× 28 631
Bo Qin China 9 40 0.2× 7 0.0× 63 0.5× 164 1.3× 23 0.3× 23 333
Brian Chambers United States 11 36 0.2× 119 0.8× 9 0.1× 233 1.9× 8 0.1× 38 349
Qiang Su China 11 29 0.1× 146 1.0× 7 0.1× 121 1.0× 4 0.1× 39 372

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chen Cao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chen Cao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chen Cao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chen Cao 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 Cao. Chen Cao 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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Cao, Chen, et al.. (2025). Effects of a semi-circular valley on dynamic response of shallow tunnel with imperfect interface under Rayleigh wave incidence. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 190. 109204–109204. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Nannan, et al.. (2025). Numerical study of decoupling charge drilling and blasting under high stress conditions. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 14384–14384.
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Cao, Chen, et al.. (2024). Numerical simulation of rock blasting under different in-situ stresses and joint conditions. PLoS ONE. 19(4). e0299258–e0299258. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuren, Chen Cao, & Hongwei Yang. (2024). Advancing Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering. Sustainability. 16(11). 4757–4757.
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Li, Nannan, et al.. (2024). Numerical simulation of blasting behavior of rock mass with cavity under high in-situ stress. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 16046–16046. 8 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zikai, et al.. (2023). Research on the causal mechanism of a rock burst accident in a longwall roadway and its prevention measures. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 22312–22312. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Hao, Chen Cao, Dongfeng Li, et al.. (2023). Achieving High Selectivity in Photocatalytic Oxidation of Toluene on Amorphous BiOCl Nanosheets Coupled with TiO2. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(30). 16852–16861. 166 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cao, Chen, et al.. (2023). Dynamic response of shallow-buried circular composite lining tunnel with imperfect interface under SV waves. Waves in Random and Complex Media. 1–26. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Pengfei, et al.. (2021). Analysis and Monitoring Technology of Upper Seam Mining in Multiunderlayer Goaf. Advances in Civil Engineering. 2021(1). 2 indexed citations
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Li, Pengfei, et al.. (2020). Numerical Analysis of Bolt Support at Roadway Intersection in Yanghui Mine, Vietnam. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 455(1). 12131–12131. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuren, et al.. (2019). Mechanical Performances of Transverse Rib Bar During Pull-Out Test. International Journal of Applied Mechanics. 11(5). 1950048–1950048. 28 indexed citations
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Han, Jun, et al.. (2018). Analytical derivation of rib bearing angle of reinforcing bar subject to axial loading. Magazine of Concrete Research. 71(4). 175–183. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Wenliang, et al.. (2017). A Method for Constructing Target Load Spectra of Customers with Consideration of the Distributions of Road Roughness and Velocity. Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development (English Edition). 11(2). 52–55. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Jie, et al.. (2014). Particle - scale Analysis of Key Technologies on Cut - and - over Tunnel in Slope Engineering. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review. 7(4). 46–52. 3 indexed citations
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Cao, Chen, Jan Nemcik, Naj Aziz, & Ting Ren. (2012). Failure modes of rockbolting. Research Online (University of Wollongong). 3 indexed citations
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Cao, Chen. (2003). Study on Increasing the Response Speed of Measuring Temperature System Constituted of Pt100 Based on MATLAB. 1 indexed citations

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