Kai Cai

74 total papers · 1.6k total citations
40 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Kai Cai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Cai has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 8 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kai Cai's work include Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (10 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (6 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (5 papers). Kai Cai is often cited by papers focused on Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (10 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (6 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (5 papers). Kai Cai collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Kai Cai's co-authors include John L. Markley, Ronnie O. Frederick, Marco Tonelli, Wei‐Yin Sun, Zhi Su, Jin Hae Kim, Man Chen, Guillaume Kugener, Nora Kory and Susan Lindquist and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kai Cai

37 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Mitochondrial metabolism ... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Mitochondrial metabolism promotes adaptation to proteotoxic stress
    2019 423 citations Peter Tsvetkov, Alexandre Detappe et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Kai Cai 582 261 248 226 199 40 1.2k
Christopher J. Carrell 606 1.0× 147 0.6× 256 1.0× 51 0.2× 103 0.5× 29 1.1k
Marie‐Pierre Golinelli‐Cohen 707 1.2× 400 1.5× 160 0.6× 105 0.5× 69 0.3× 48 1.2k
Satoshi Sakamoto 642 1.1× 109 0.4× 90 0.4× 40 0.2× 102 0.5× 77 1.4k
Richard K. Watt 465 0.8× 114 0.4× 53 0.2× 320 1.4× 27 0.1× 46 1.2k
Shuhei Yasuda 295 0.5× 157 0.6× 141 0.6× 101 0.4× 66 0.3× 75 1.2k
Devkumar Mustafi 342 0.6× 25 0.1× 193 0.8× 42 0.2× 133 0.7× 74 1.1k
Tai‐Yen Chen 296 0.5× 209 0.8× 33 0.1× 139 0.6× 62 0.3× 35 975
M.A. Pearson 537 0.9× 68 0.3× 223 0.9× 27 0.1× 328 1.6× 17 1.3k
Yoshihisa Namiki 482 0.8× 38 0.1× 69 0.3× 20 0.1× 244 1.2× 43 1.4k
Haochen Yu 467 0.8× 130 0.5× 19 0.1× 26 0.1× 198 1.0× 54 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Cai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Cai

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

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