Kai Gu

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
144 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Kai Gu is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Gu has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 25 papers in Materials Chemistry and 24 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kai Gu's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (18 papers), Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (16 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (13 papers). Kai Gu is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (18 papers), Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (16 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (13 papers). Kai Gu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Kai Gu's co-authors include Fei Jin, Abir Al‐Tabbaa, Bin Shi, Chao‐Sheng Tang, Huiyu Liu, Bin Shi, Bolong Xu, Yun Sun, Hailong Yang and Fengrong Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Kai Gu

131 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

A Nanozyme with Photo‐Enhanced Dual Enzyme‐Like Activitie... 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 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. A Nanozyme with Photo‐Enhanced Dual Enzyme‐Like Activities for Deep Pancreatic Cancer Therapy
    2019 414 citations Kai Gu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kai Gu China 33 1.7k 1.4k 808 506 438 144 4.2k
Liming Hu China 41 1.3k 0.8× 476 0.3× 696 0.9× 242 0.5× 272 0.6× 244 6.1k
Yi Xu China 40 1.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 649 0.8× 411 0.8× 244 0.6× 136 3.9k
Xin Kang China 34 2.3k 1.3× 709 0.5× 226 0.3× 451 0.9× 91 0.2× 189 3.9k
Takashi Tsuchida Japan 29 1.3k 0.8× 473 0.3× 503 0.6× 222 0.4× 325 0.7× 195 3.3k
Motoyuki Suzuki Japan 41 644 0.4× 929 0.7× 1.1k 1.4× 280 0.6× 491 1.1× 408 6.0k
Ning Li China 32 971 0.6× 569 0.4× 792 1.0× 327 0.6× 146 0.3× 311 4.7k
Peiming Wang China 40 2.5k 1.5× 1.2k 0.9× 710 0.9× 860 1.7× 236 0.5× 201 5.1k
François Bertrand Canada 42 551 0.3× 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.4× 268 0.5× 63 0.1× 169 5.8k
Yuqing Zhang China 38 3.1k 1.8× 502 0.4× 490 0.6× 260 0.5× 87 0.2× 231 4.8k
Fei Wu China 36 658 0.4× 1.7k 1.2× 586 0.7× 67 0.1× 173 0.4× 229 5.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Gu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Gu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kai Gu. 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 Kai Gu. The network helps show where Kai Gu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Gu

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

All Works

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Tao, Gaoliang, et al.. (2024). Rainfall Infiltration Test and Numerical Simulation Analysis of a Large Unsaturated Soil Slope. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 29(4). 3 indexed citations
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Lin, Xiaoyan, et al.. (2024). Rheological and radioactive decontamination properties of ethyl cellulose sols in green solvents at a temperature below 0 °C. RSC Advances. 14(6). 3659–3666. 4 indexed citations
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Gu, Kai, Xiang Wang, Zhengtao Shen, et al.. (2024). The role of soil structure on the cracking and cadmium leaching behavior of biochar-amended fine-grained soils. Chemosphere. 362. 142596–142596. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Sining, Yang Jin, Yan Yan, et al.. (2023). Realizing p‐type performance in low‐thermal‐conductivity BiSbSe 3 via lead doping. Rare Metals. 42(11). 3601–3606. 15 indexed citations
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Hu, Huicong, Chao‐Sheng Tang, Zhengtao Shen, et al.. (2023). Enhancing lead immobilization by biochar: Creation of “surface barrier” via bio-treatment. Chemosphere. 327. 138477–138477. 17 indexed citations
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Gu, Kai, et al.. (2023). Biochar implications for the engineering properties of soils: A review. The Science of The Total Environment. 888. 164185–164185. 67 indexed citations
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Lv, Chao, Zhengtao Shen, Qing Cheng, et al.. (2022). Effects of biochar and polypropylene fibre on mechanical behaviour of cement‐solidified sludge. Soil Use and Management. 38(4). 1667–1678. 11 indexed citations
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Shi, Bin, Dan Zhang, Hong‐Hu Zhu, et al.. (2021). DFOS Applications to Geo-Engineering Monitoring. Photonic Sensors. 11(2). 158–186. 53 indexed citations
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Liu, Suping, et al.. (2021). Evaluating fiber-optic cable–soil mechanical coupling using elastoplastic pullout interaction modeling. Geomechanics and Engineering. 26(6). 529. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianmei, Yurui Xu, Ya Gao, et al.. (2020). A mitochondria-specific fluorescent probe for rapidly assessing cell viability. Talanta. 221. 121653–121653. 10 indexed citations
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Wang, Hongsheng, et al.. (2018). RESEARCH PROGRESSES IN REMEDIATION OF HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATED SOILS WITH BIOCHAR. 工程地质学报. 26(4). 1064–1077. 5 indexed citations
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Shi, Kaihang, et al.. (2018). High-density equation of state for a two-dimensional Lennard-Jones solid. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 148(17). 174505–174505. 10 indexed citations
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Gu, Kai, Qi Li, Hongzhi Lin, et al.. (2017). Gamma secretase inhibitors: a patent review (2013 - 2015). Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents. 27(7). 851–866. 16 indexed citations
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Jin, Fei, et al.. (2015). Effect of Different Reactive MgOs on the Hydration of MgO-activated Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag Paste. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. 27(7). 12 indexed citations
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Jin, Fei, Kai Gu, & Abir Al‐Tabbaa. (2014). STRENGTH AND DRYING SHRINKAGE OF ALKALI-ACTIVATED SLAG PASTES CONTAINING REACTIVE MGO. Cambridge University Engineering Department Publications Database. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Xuejun, Xue Zhu, Kai Gu, et al.. (2014). Detection of antibodies against customized epitope: use of a coating antigen employing VEGF as fusion partner. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 98(15). 6659–6666. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Bing, Kai Gu, Xiaoru Sun, et al.. (2010). Simultaneous detection of attomolar pathogen DNAs by Bio-MassCode mass spectrometry. Chemical Communications. 46(43). 8288–8288. 14 indexed citations

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