Hongbo Cao

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Hongbo Cao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Hongbo Cao has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Biochemistry and 8 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Hongbo Cao's work include Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress (11 papers), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (11 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (9 papers). Hongbo Cao is often cited by papers focused on Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress (11 papers), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (11 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (9 papers). Hongbo Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Egypt. Hongbo Cao's co-authors include Li Li, Hui Yuan, Tianhu Sun, Yaakov Tadmor, Mohammad Yazdani, Xiuxin Deng, Qiang Xu, Juan Xu, Jiancheng Zhang and Junli Ye and has published in prestigious journals such as The Plant Cell, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Hongbo Cao

23 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Carotenoid Metabolism in Plants: The Role of Plastids 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300 400
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. Carotenoid Metabolism in Plants: The Role of Plastids
    2017 487 citations Tianhu Sun, Hui Yuan et al. Molecular Plant profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hongbo Cao China 13 850 541 511 75 59 27 1.1k
Nay Chi Khin Australia 2 608 0.7× 463 0.9× 373 0.7× 95 1.3× 77 1.3× 3 927
Masaki Yahata Japan 17 615 0.7× 319 0.6× 563 1.1× 36 0.5× 51 0.9× 53 875
M. Águila Ruiz‐Sola Spain 12 870 1.0× 523 1.0× 456 0.9× 103 1.4× 56 0.9× 15 1.1k
Mark R. Truesdale United Kingdom 9 786 0.9× 637 1.2× 491 1.0× 62 0.8× 36 0.6× 11 1.1k
Emmanuel Geoffriau France 13 519 0.6× 334 0.6× 533 1.0× 21 0.3× 50 0.8× 46 948
Yellamaraju Sreelakshmi India 20 667 0.8× 274 0.5× 665 1.3× 29 0.4× 36 0.6× 48 1.1k
Jie-Xia Liu China 21 945 1.1× 194 0.4× 1.0k 2.0× 21 0.3× 35 0.6× 48 1.5k
Mingku Zhu China 24 1.3k 1.5× 224 0.4× 1.6k 3.1× 20 0.3× 46 0.8× 54 2.0k
Anne‐Laure Fanciullino France 16 461 0.5× 418 0.8× 557 1.1× 11 0.1× 33 0.6× 31 975
Jon Falk Germany 17 773 0.9× 397 0.7× 601 1.2× 95 1.3× 41 0.7× 18 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Hongbo Cao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hongbo Cao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Hongbo Cao. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Hongbo Cao. The network helps show where Hongbo Cao may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongbo Cao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hongbo Cao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hongbo 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 Hongbo Cao. Hongbo 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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Sun, Yongqi, et al.. (2025). DMIA: A Disentangled-Based Method for Graph Convolutional Network Against Membership Inference Attack. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 22(6). 7956–7970.
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Rao, Sombir, Hongbo Cao, Xuesong Zhou, et al.. (2024). Nudix hydrolase 23 post-translationally regulates carotenoid biosynthesis in plants. The Plant Cell. 36(5). 1868–1891. 16 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaofei, et al.. (2024). Metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses of peach leaves and fruits in response to pruning. BMC Genomics. 25(1). 666–666. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Pengfei, Rou Li, Xueyi Liu, et al.. (2023). Establishment of genetic transformation system of peach callus. Scientia Horticulturae. 323. 112501–112501. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Pengfei, Siyuan Lu, Li Li, et al.. (2023). BCH1 expression pattern contributes to the fruit carotenoid diversity between peach and apricot. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 197. 107647–107647. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Pengfei, Siyuan Lu, Xueying Zhang, et al.. (2020). Double NCED isozymes control ABA biosynthesis for ripening and senescent regulation in peach fruits. Plant Science. 304. 110739–110739. 50 indexed citations
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Han, Yan, Ping Qü, Bingxiang Liu, et al.. (2020). Diversity of carotenoid composition, sequestering structures and gene transcription in mature fruits of four Prunus species. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 151. 113–123. 22 indexed citations
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Zheng, Xiongjie, Kaijie Zhu, Quan Sun, et al.. (2019). Natural Variation in CCD4 Promoter Underpins Species-Specific Evolution of Red Coloration in Citrus Peel. Molecular Plant. 12(9). 1294–1307. 129 indexed citations
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Huang, Yan, et al.. (2019). A Novel Privacy Protection Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks Based on Elliptic Curve Bilinear Mapping. Ingénierie des systèmes d information. 24(4). 397–402. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Yinchang, et al.. (2019). Yield-Maturity Relationships of Summer Maize from 2003 to 2017 in the Huanghuaihai Plain of China. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 11417–11417. 6 indexed citations
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Sun, Tianhu, Hui Yuan, Hongbo Cao, et al.. (2017). Carotenoid Metabolism in Plants: The Role of Plastids. Molecular Plant. 11(1). 58–74. 487 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhai, Jingbo, Hongbo Cao, Mingjun Ren, et al.. (2016). Reporting of core items in hierarchical Bayesian analysis for aggregating N-of-1 trials to estimate population treatment effects is suboptimal. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 76. 99–107. 8 indexed citations
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Cao, Hongbo, Jiangbo Wang, Yan Han, et al.. (2015). Carotenoid accumulation affects redox status, starch metabolism, and flavonoid/anthocyanin accumulation in citrus. BMC Plant Biology. 15(1). 58 indexed citations
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Cao, Hongbo, Jiancheng Zhang, Jidi Xu, et al.. (2012). Comprehending crystalline β-carotene accumulation by comparing engineered cell models and the natural carotenoid-rich system of citrus. Journal of Experimental Botany. 63(12). 4403–4417. 103 indexed citations
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Xu, Juan, Nengguo Tao, Hongbo Cao, Qing Liu, & Xiuxin Deng. (2011). Presence of Two Variants of Lycopene β-Cyclase Gene in Genomes of Citrus and its Relatives. Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment. 25(3). 2452–2457. 3 indexed citations
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Zeng, Yunliu, Zhiyong Pan, Yuduan Ding, et al.. (2011). A proteomic analysis of the chromoplasts isolated from sweet orange fruits [Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck]. Journal of Experimental Botany. 62(15). 5297–5309. 55 indexed citations
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Cao, Hongbo, Manosh Kumar Biswas, Yan Lü, et al.. (2010). Doubled haploid callus lines of Valencia sweet orange recovered from anther culture. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC). 104(3). 415–423. 26 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jiancheng, Nengguo Tao, Qiang Xu, et al.. (2009). Functional characterization of Citrus PSY gene in Hongkong kumquat (Fortunella hindsii Swingle). Plant Cell Reports. 28(11). 1737–1746. 45 indexed citations

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