Guofeng Cao

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Guofeng Cao is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Transportation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Guofeng Cao has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Environmental Engineering, 16 papers in Transportation and 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Guofeng Cao's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (15 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (9 papers) and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (8 papers). Guofeng Cao is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (15 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (9 papers) and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (8 papers). Guofeng Cao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Guofeng Cao's co-authors include Naizhuo Zhao, Shaowen Wang, Anand Padmanabhan, E. Samson, Kevin Mulligan, Ying Liu, Kalev Leetaru, Eric Shook, Jennifer Vanos and Xiang Li and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Guofeng Cao

56 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Mapping the global Twitter heartbeat: The geography of Twitter

2013 270 citations Shaowen Wang, Guofeng Cao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Guofeng Cao United States	22	549	536	340	323	278	57	1.8k
Zheye Wang United States	21	299 0.5×	587 1.1×	302 0.9×	372 1.2×	399 1.4×	37	1.6k
Anthony Stefanidis United States	29	738 1.3×	529 1.0×	295 0.9×	595 1.8×	53 0.2×	97	2.9k
Arie Croitoru United States	24	583 1.1×	414 0.8×	102 0.3×	504 1.6×	52 0.2×	57	2.2k
Ming‐Hsiang Tsou United States	23	503 0.9×	237 0.4×	85 0.3×	451 1.4×	80 0.3×	86	1.8k
Hongchao Fan China	26	526 1.0×	353 0.7×	696 2.0×	131 0.4×	107 0.4×	122	2.3k
Changxiu Cheng China	25	121 0.2×	821 1.5×	382 1.1×	173 0.5×	307 1.1×	116	2.0k
Diansheng Guo United States	30	1.1k 2.0×	455 0.8×	121 0.4×	271 0.8×	37 0.1×	73	3.1k
Stefan Leyk United States	27	424 0.8×	1.1k 2.0×	385 1.1×	298 0.9×	175 0.6×	107	2.7k
Yeran Sun United Kingdom	22	645 1.2×	301 0.6×	125 0.4×	148 0.5×	212 0.8×	59	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Guofeng Cao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Guofeng Cao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guofeng Cao

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cao, Guofeng, et al.. (2025). Generative adversarial models for extreme geospatial downscaling. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 139. 104541–104541.

Ye, Su, Zhe Zhu, & Guofeng Cao. (2023). Object-based continuous monitoring of land disturbances from dense Landsat time series. Remote Sensing of Environment. 287. 113462–113462. 22 indexed citations

Huang, Lingcao, M. J. Willis, Trevor C. Lantz, et al.. (2023). Identifying active retrogressive thaw slumps from ArcticDEM. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 205. 301–316. 20 indexed citations

Cao, Guofeng, et al.. (2021). A Novel Design of a Contractible, Tubular Continuum Manipulator. 335–339. 2 indexed citations

Han, Su Yeon, Ming‐Hsiang Tsou, Elijah Knaap, Sergio J. Rey, & Guofeng Cao. (2019). How Do Cities Flow in an Emergency? Tracing Human Mobility Patterns during a Natural Disaster with Big Data and Geospatial Data Science. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 51–51. 45 indexed citations

Liu, Ying, Naizhuo Zhao, Jennifer Vanos, & Guofeng Cao. (2019). Revisiting the estimations of PM2.5-attributable mortality with advancements in PM2.5 mapping and mortality statistics. The Science of The Total Environment. 666. 499–507. 15 indexed citations

Guo, Mengmeng, et al.. (2019). Statistical regression analysis of functional and shape data. Journal of Applied Statistics. 47(1). 28–44. 2 indexed citations

Gao, Yizhao, Shaowen Wang, Anand Padmanabhan, Junjun Yin, & Guofeng Cao. (2018). Mapping spatiotemporal patterns of events using social media: a case study of influenza trends. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 32(3). 425–449. 36 indexed citations

Zhao, Naizhuo, Wei Zhang, Ying Liu, et al.. (2018). Improving Nighttime Light Imagery With Location-Based Social Media Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 57(4). 2161–2172. 23 indexed citations

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Liu, Ying, Guofeng Cao, Naizhuo Zhao, Kevin Mulligan, & Xinyue Ye. (2018). Improve ground-level PM2.5 concentration mapping using a random forests-based geostatistical approach. Environmental Pollution. 235. 272–282. 97 indexed citations

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Zhao, Naizhuo, Guofeng Cao, Wei Zhang, & E. Samson. (2018). Tweets or nighttime lights: Comparison for preeminence in estimating socioeconomic factors. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 146. 1–10. 31 indexed citations

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Zhao, Naizhuo, Ying Liu, Jennifer Vanos, & Guofeng Cao. (2018). Day-of-week and seasonal patterns of PM2.5 concentrations over the United States: Time-series analyses using the Prophet procedure. Atmospheric Environment. 192. 116–127. 68 indexed citations

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Zhao, Naizhuo, Guofeng Cao, Jennifer Vanos, & Daniel J. Vecellio. (2017). The effects of synoptic weather on influenza infection incidences: a retrospective study utilizing digital disease surveillance. International Journal of Biometeorology. 62(1). 69–84. 17 indexed citations

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Vanos, Jennifer, et al.. (2017). Short communication: emerging technologies for biometeorology. International Journal of Biometeorology. 61(S1). 81–88. 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Shaowen, et al.. (2014). A scalable approach to extracting mobility patterns from social media data. 1–6. 2 indexed citations

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Yoo, Eun‐Hye, Bruce Hoagland, Guofeng Cao, & Todd Fagin. (2013). Spatial Distribution of Trees and Landscapes of the Past: A Mixed Spatially Correlated Multinomial Logit Model Approach for the Analysis of the Public Land Survey Data. Geographical Analysis. 45(4). 419–440. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Shaowen, et al.. (2013). Spatiotemporal transformation of social media geostreams. 12–21. 18 indexed citations

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Cao, Guofeng, et al.. (2012). Response to ‘Comments on “Combining spatial transition probabilities for stochastic simulation of categorical fields” with communications on some issues related to Markov chain geostatistics’. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 26(10). 1741–1750. 3 indexed citations

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Cao, Guofeng, et al.. (2011). VGIS-AntiJitter: an effective framework for solving jitter problems in virtual geographic information systems. International Journal of Digital Earth. 6(1). 28–50. 1 indexed citations

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Cao, Guofeng, Phaedon Kyriakidis, & Michael F. Goodchild. (2011). A multinomial logistic mixed model for the prediction of categorical spatial data. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 25(12). 2071–2086. 16 indexed citations

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