Kai Cao

639 total citations
29 papers, 373 citations indexed

About

Kai Cao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Cao has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 373 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 4 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kai Cao's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (3 papers) and Identification and Quantification in Food (2 papers). Kai Cao is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (3 papers) and Identification and Quantification in Food (2 papers). Kai Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Czechia. Kai Cao's co-authors include Yiguang Hong, Lin Wan, Xiangqi Bai, Zhan Shu, Xianlin Zeng, Cuizhang Fu, Yiyang Wang, Chunyan Liu, Yi Hou and Yijie Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Bioinformatics and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Kai Cao

25 papers receiving 366 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai Cao China	10	229	57	41	27	27	29	373
José Reyes United States	11	226 1.0×	50 0.9×	40 1.0×	24 0.9×	17 0.6×	23	411
Jovan Tanevski Slovenia	7	297 1.3×	49 0.9×	67 1.6×	8 0.3×	52 1.9×	19	456
Ingeborg M.M. van Leeuwen United Kingdom	15	343 1.5×	11 0.2×	74 1.8×	13 0.5×	48 1.8×	20	711
Tianyi Zhu China	11	59 0.3×	56 1.0×	29 0.7×	22 0.8×	72 2.7×	25	364
Kyukwang Kim South Korea	11	149 0.7×	15 0.3×	75 1.8×	9 0.3×	55 2.0×	33	409
Guangming Tan China	7	279 1.2×	13 0.2×	14 0.3×	13 0.5×	7 0.3×	37	431
Xiaosen Jiang China	11	203 0.9×	7 0.1×	22 0.5×	6 0.2×	8 0.3×	28	393
Erin M. Tranfield Portugal	13	316 1.4×	12 0.2×	60 1.5×	9 0.3×	25 0.9×	24	640
Tony Griffiths United Kingdom	10	52 0.2×	22 0.4×	18 0.4×	8 0.3×	38 1.4×	21	298
Jiayuan Zhong China	12	235 1.0×	19 0.3×	58 1.4×	35 1.3×	28 1.0×	35	358

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Cao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Cao

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhou, Xiaoting, Tang Li, Xiaoru Liu, et al.. (2025). Transcriptomic analysis reveals the role of the molybdate transporter2 in mediating nitrate stress tolerance in tomato seedlings. BMC Plant Biology. 25(1). 1394–1394.

Zhou, Xiaoting, et al.. (2025). Silicon and iron co-application modulates cadmium accumulation and cell wall composition in tomato seedlings. BMC Plant Biology. 25(1). 1001–1001. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Jie, et al.. (2025). Provenance of Silurian sandstones in the South Kunlun terrane, West Kunlun (NW China) and the timing of the closure of the early Paleozoic Kudi-Qimanyute Ocean. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 281. 106527–106527.

Zhou, Xiaoting, Wenjie Wang, Xiaoru Liu, et al.. (2025). Mitigation mechanism of silicon and iron co-application to cadmium toxicity in tomato seedlings by integrated transcriptomic and physiological correlation analysis. Frontiers in Plant Science. 16. 1555618–1555618.

Cao, Kai, et al.. (2024). Graspot: a graph attention network for spatial transcriptomics data integration with optimal transport. Bioinformatics. 40(Supplement_2). ii137–ii145. 2 indexed citations

Cao, Kai, Bo Li, Rui Kang, & Xiaoqing Yu. (2024). Research on the Method of Monitoring Deformation of Transmission Towers due to Flood Impact Based on UAV Lidar Point Clouds. 216–220.

Wu, Bo, et al.. (2023). l₀-Norm Variable Adaptive Selection for Geographically Weighted Regression Model. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 113(5). 1190–1206. 4 indexed citations

Shi, Yunfeng, et al.. (2023). Novel Circular RNA CircUBAP2 Drives Tumor Progression by Regulatingthe miR-143/TFAP2B Axis in Prostate Cancer. Protein and Peptide Letters. 31(1). 61–73. 2 indexed citations

Ding, Yuan, Jia Hu, Yingbao Yang, et al.. (2022). Monitoring the Distribution and Variations of City Size Based on Night-Time Light Remote Sensing: A Case Study in the Yangtze River Delta of China. Remote Sensing. 14(14). 3403–3403. 7 indexed citations

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Cao, Kai, et al.. (2022). A unified computational framework for single-cell data integration with optimal transport. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7419–7419. 45 indexed citations

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Tang, Xiao, Huangjian Wu, Lei Kong, et al.. (2022). The Impact of the Numbers of Monitoring Stations on the National and Regional Air Quality Assessment in China During 2013–18. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 39(10). 1709–1720. 16 indexed citations

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Lyu, Heng, Xianzhang Dong, Yunmei Li, et al.. (2022). A semianalytical algorithm for estimating particulate composition in inland waters based on Sentinel-3 OLCI images. Journal of Hydrology. 608. 127617–127617. 10 indexed citations

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Cao, Kai, Yiguang Hong, & Lin Wan. (2021). Manifold alignment for heterogeneous single-cell multi-omics data integration using Pamona. Bioinformatics. 38(1). 211–219. 55 indexed citations

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Cao, Kai, et al.. (2021). RPLP1 is highly expressed in hepatocellular carcinoma tissues and promotes proliferation, invasion and migration of human hepatocellular carcinoma Hep3b cells. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine. 22(1). 752–752. 12 indexed citations

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Cao, Kai, Xiangqi Bai, Yiguang Hong, & Lin Wan. (2020). Unsupervised topological alignment for single-cell multi-omics integration. Bioinformatics. 36(Supplement_1). i48–i56. 78 indexed citations

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Cao, Kai, Xianlin Zeng, & Yiguang Hong. (2017). Continuous-time distributed algorithms for solving linear algebraic equation. 8068–8073. 12 indexed citations

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Xu, Qian, et al.. (2015). Effects of paeonol on the expression of NF-κB pathways in human umbilical veins endothelial cells induced by homocysteine. Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology. 10(3). 604–604. 1 indexed citations

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Cao, Kai, et al.. (2009). Use of microRNAs in early detection and screening for colorectal cancer. World Chinese Journal of Digestology. 17(35). 3615–3615. 2 indexed citations

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Shu, Zhan, et al.. (2007). Biphasic expression of RhoGDI2 in the progression of breast cancer and its negative relation with lymph node metastasis. Oncology Reports. 17(6). 1383–9. 33 indexed citations

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Sun, Chong, et al.. (2002). [Expression, purification and function of rice nonspecific lipid transfer protein].. PubMed. 34(1). 83–7. 5 indexed citations

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