Dongming Cai

5.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
56 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Dongming Cai is a scholar working on Physiology, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Dongming Cai has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Physiology, 19 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Dongming Cai's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (21 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (7 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (7 papers). Dongming Cai is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (21 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (7 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (7 papers). Dongming Cai collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Switzerland. Dongming Cai's co-authors include Marie T. Filbin, Jin Qiu, Barbara S. Bregman, Marietta McAtee, Jiqing Cao, María Elena de Bellard, Song Tang, Haining Dai, Paul N. Hoffman and Huaxi Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Dongming Cai

52 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Spinal Axon Regeneration Induced by Elevation of Cyclic AMP

2002 529 citations Jin Qiu, Dongming Cai et al. Neuron profile →
Updates on mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease

2024 66 citations Mariana Lemos Duarte, Minghui Wang et al. Molecular Neurodegeneration profile →
Large language models for disease diagnosis: a scoping review

2025 19 citations Dongming Cai et al. PubMed profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dongming Cai United States	31	1.9k	1.5k	1.1k	1.1k	490	56	4.0k
Jeffrey L. Elliott United States	29	1.8k 1.0×	2.4k 1.6×	696 0.6×	715 0.7×	251 0.5×	46	5.4k
Jean‐Claude Louis United States	24	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	656 0.6×	228 0.5×	38	4.0k
Dagmar Galter Sweden	39	1.7k 0.9×	2.8k 1.9×	1.1k 1.0×	267 0.3×	384 0.8×	76	5.6k
Mark H. G. Verheijen Netherlands	25	930 0.5×	2.4k 1.7×	541 0.5×	380 0.4×	439 0.9×	52	3.9k
Shan Ping Yu United States	27	884 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	787 0.7×	320 0.3×	152 0.3×	39	2.8k
Eiichiro Nagata Japan	30	1.2k 0.6×	2.1k 1.4×	588 0.5×	246 0.2×	670 1.4×	117	4.0k
Paul L. Greer United States	16	1.3k 0.7×	2.8k 1.9×	1.0k 0.9×	350 0.3×	576 1.2×	26	5.2k
Carine Ali France	40	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	476 0.4×	393 0.4×	347 0.7×	79	4.9k
John J. LaFrancois United States	24	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	2.6k 2.3×	311 0.3×	325 0.7×	36	4.5k
Takekazu Kubo Japan	26	869 0.5×	798 0.5×	559 0.5×	397 0.4×	224 0.5×	54	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dongming Cai

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20 of 20 papers shown

Feng, Wuwei, et al.. (2025). Updates on vascular dementia. Stroke and Vascular Neurology. 10(5). 542–550. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Haifu, et al.. (2025). Constructing Bimetallic ZrCo-MOF Acidic Materials for the Selective Epoxidation of Limonene. Catalysis Letters. 155(4).

Wang, Xiaofeng, Duk Kyung Kim, Ziyuan Yang, et al.. (2025). Research on Infrared Small Target Detection Algorithm Based on Foreground Moving Target and Deep Learning for Space Detection. Space Science & Technology. 5.

Reyes, Joel F., et al.. (2024). Senescent glia—bridging neuronal mitochondrial dysfunction and lipid accumulation in aging. PubMed. 3(6). loae031–loae031. 1 indexed citations

Toro, Carlos A., Jens Hansen, Mustafa M. Siddiq, et al.. (2023). Synaptojanin 1 Modulates Functional Recovery After Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury in Male Apolipoprotein E Epsilon 4 Mice. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 464–477.

Wang, Minghui, Erming Wang, Courtney Micallef, et al.. (2023). Multi-omic atlas of the parahippocampal gyrus in Alzheimer’s disease. Scientific Data. 10(1). 602–602. 5 indexed citations

Flier, Wiesje M. van der, Andreas U. Monsch, Marwan N. Sabbagh, et al.. (2023). Blood‐based biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease: Future directions for implementation. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 15(4). e12508–e12508. 10 indexed citations

Zhou, Xianxiao, Jiqing Cao, Kurt Farrell, et al.. (2023). Molecular differences in brain regional vulnerability to aging between males and females. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 15. 1153251–1153251. 5 indexed citations

Guo, Lei, Jiqing Cao, Jianwei Hou, et al.. (2023). Sex specific molecular networks and key drivers of Alzheimer’s disease. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 18(1). 39–39. 26 indexed citations

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Neugroschl, Judith, Amy Aloysi, Carolyn W. Zhu, et al.. (2021). The 32-Item Multilingual Naming Test: Cultural and Linguistic Biases in Monolingual Chinese-Speaking Older Adults. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 28(5). 511–519. 4 indexed citations

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Toro, Carlos A., Jens Hansen, Mustafa M. Siddiq, et al.. (2021). The Human ApoE4 Variant Reduces Functional Recovery and Neuronal Sprouting After Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury in Male Mice. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 15. 626192–626192. 7 indexed citations

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Cao, Jiqing, Min Huang, Lei Guo, et al.. (2020). MicroRNA-195 rescues ApoE4-induced cognitive deficits and lysosomal defects in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis. Molecular Psychiatry. 26(9). 4687–4701. 56 indexed citations

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Cao, Jiqing, et al.. (2019). Endo-lysosomal pathway and ubiquitin-proteasome system dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis. Neuroscience Letters. 703. 68–78. 57 indexed citations

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Toro, Carlos A., Larry Zhang, Jiqing Cao, & Dongming Cai. (2019). Sex differences in Alzheimer’s disease: Understanding the molecular impact. Brain Research. 1719. 194–207. 71 indexed citations

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Cheng, Katherine A., Jian Zhuge, Dongming Cai, et al.. (2015). Heterogeneity of TERT promoter mutations status in squamous cell carcinomas of different anatomical sites. Annals of Diagnostic Pathology. 19(3). 146–148. 35 indexed citations

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Zhuge, Jian, Caroline Ojaimi, Fei Ye, et al.. (2015). Recurrent TERT promoter mutations in urothelial carcinoma and potential clinical applications. Annals of Diagnostic Pathology. 21. 7–11. 38 indexed citations

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Zhu, Li, Minghao Zhong, Jiaying Zhao, et al.. (2013). Reduction of Synaptojanin 1 Accelerates Aβ Clearance and Attenuates Cognitive Deterioration in an Alzheimer Mouse Model. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(44). 32050–32063. 55 indexed citations

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Zhu, Li, Meng Su, Louise Lucast, et al.. (2012). Dynamin 1 Regulates Amyloid Generation through Modulation of BACE-1. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e45033–e45033. 20 indexed citations

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Greenfield, Jeffrey P., Lawrence W. Leung, Dongming Cai, et al.. (2002). Estrogen Lowers Alzheimer β-Amyloid Generation by Stimulating trans-Golgi Network Vesicle Biogenesis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(14). 12128–12136. 113 indexed citations

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Qiu, Jin, Dongming Cai, Haining Dai, et al.. (2002). Spinal Axon Regeneration Induced by Elevation of Cyclic AMP. Neuron. 34(6). 895–903. 529 indexed citations breakdown →

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