Chenyang Cai

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
311 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Chenyang Cai is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Chenyang Cai has authored 311 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 285 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 168 papers in Paleontology and 78 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Chenyang Cai's work include Fossil Insects in Amber (258 papers), Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution (202 papers) and Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography (139 papers). Chenyang Cai is often cited by papers focused on Fossil Insects in Amber (258 papers), Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution (202 papers) and Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography (139 papers). Chenyang Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Chenyang Cai's co-authors include Diying Huang, Michael S. Engel, Erik Tihelka, Zi‐Wei Yin, Alfred F. Newton, Yanda Li, André Nel, Margaret K. Thayer, Yanzhe Fu and Davide Pisani and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Chenyang Cai

288 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles
    2022 180 citations Chenyang Cai, Erik Tihelka et al. Royal Society Open Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chenyang Cai China 25 2.6k 1.2k 953 246 230 311 2.9k
Chungkun Shih China 28 3.0k 1.2× 633 0.5× 1.2k 1.3× 177 0.7× 90 0.4× 271 3.2k
Lars Vilhelmsen Denmark 25 2.2k 0.9× 412 0.4× 1.0k 1.1× 155 0.6× 453 2.0× 91 2.7k
Jakub Prokop Czechia 23 1.7k 0.7× 437 0.4× 633 0.7× 214 0.9× 100 0.4× 126 1.9k
Jes Rust Germany 22 1.2k 0.5× 464 0.4× 551 0.6× 199 0.8× 102 0.4× 64 1.6k
Richard A. B. Leschen New Zealand 27 2.1k 0.8× 896 0.8× 772 0.8× 862 3.5× 706 3.1× 206 2.8k
Andrew E. Z. Short United States 19 1.2k 0.5× 640 0.6× 495 0.5× 462 1.9× 287 1.2× 101 1.5k
Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint United States 25 1.4k 0.6× 556 0.5× 1.0k 1.1× 407 1.7× 362 1.6× 81 2.1k
Alfred F. Newton United States 27 3.5k 1.4× 1.8k 1.5× 1.1k 1.2× 888 3.6× 803 3.5× 118 3.9k
Martin Fikáček Czechia 16 1.1k 0.4× 599 0.5× 403 0.4× 288 1.2× 231 1.0× 131 1.2k
Yves Bousquet Canada 21 2.1k 0.8× 929 0.8× 629 0.7× 889 3.6× 810 3.5× 96 2.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chenyang Cai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chenyang Cai

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

All Works

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Fu, Yanzhe, et al.. (2024). Group mating in Cretaceous water striders. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2020). 20232546–20232546. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Chenyang, Erik Tihelka, Lesley Ballantyne, et al.. (2024). A light in the dark: a mid-Cretaceous bioluminescent firefly with specialized antennal sensory organs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2030). 20241671–20241671. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Sheng, Zhilin Zhang, Chenyang Cai, et al.. (2024). Crystalline-dependent surface reconstruction at low applied potential region for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 671. 441–448. 3 indexed citations
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Cai, Chenyang. (2024). Ant backbone phylogeny resolved by modelling compositional heterogeneity among sites in genomic data. Communications Biology. 7(1). 106–106. 10 indexed citations
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Li, Yanda, Erik Tihelka, Shûhei Yamamoto, et al.. (2023). Mesozoic Notocupes revealed as the sister group of Cupedidae (Coleoptera: Archostemata). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 3 indexed citations
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Cai, Chenyang, Erik Tihelka, Mattia Giacomelli, et al.. (2022). Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles. Royal Society Open Science. 9(3). 211771–211771. 180 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fu, Yanzhe, Chenyang Cai, Pingping Chen, & Diying Huang. (2022). The earliest known brood care in insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1978). 20220447–20220447. 1 indexed citations
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Yu, Daoyuan, Yinhuan Ding, Erik Tihelka, et al.. (2022). Phylogenomics of Elongate-Bodied Springtails Reveals Independent Transitions from Aboveground to Belowground Habitats in Deep Time. Systematic Biology. 71(5). 1023–1031. 16 indexed citations
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Li, Yanda, Alfred F. Newton, Xiaoyan Li, Diying Huang, & Chenyang Cai. (2022). Earliest fossil record of Phloeocharinae in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Cretaceous Research. 142. 105371–105371. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Chenyang, et al.. (2021). A new orthophlebiid scorpionfly (Insecta, Orthophlebiidae) from the Late Jurassic Linglongta biota of northern China. Historical Biology. 33(12). 3585–3589. 3 indexed citations
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Azar, Dany, et al.. (2021). A new cormopsocid from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Psocodea: Trogiomorpha: Cormopsocidae). Palaeoentomology. 4(2). 7 indexed citations
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Li, Yanda, Diying Huang, & Chenyang Cai. (2021). An aberrant colydiine-like tenebrionoid beetle from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Zopheridae). Palaeoentomology. 4(6). 3 indexed citations
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Tihelka, Erik, Aaron D. Smith, Diying Huang, & Chenyang Cai. (2020). First member of the New World genus Diceroderes from early Miocene Mexican amber (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tenebrioninae: Toxicini). Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 104. 102828–102828. 2 indexed citations

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