Kai Tao

8.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
113 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Kai Tao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Tao has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Cell Biology and 15 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Kai Tao's work include Dermatologic Treatments and Research (12 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (11 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (9 papers). Kai Tao is often cited by papers focused on Dermatologic Treatments and Research (12 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (11 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (9 papers). Kai Tao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Kai Tao's co-authors include Charlotte Kuperwasser, Piyush B. Gupta, Guozhi Jiang, Eric S. Lander, Tamer T. Önder, Robert A. Weinberg, Christine M. Fillmore, Sagi Shapira, G G Sahagian and Min Fang and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Kai Tao

104 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

Identification of Selective Inhibitors of Cancer Stem Cells by High-Throughput Screening

2009 1.9k citations Piyush B. Gupta, Tamer T. Önder et al. Cell profile →
Stochastic State Transitions Give Rise to Phenotypic Equilibrium in Populations of Cancer Cells

2011 1.1k citations Piyush B. Gupta, Guozhi Jiang et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai Tao China	33	3.4k	2.3k	1.4k	708	589	113	6.4k
Prahlad T. Ram United States	39	6.0k 1.8×	2.0k 0.9×	1.9k 1.4×	516 0.7×	547 0.9×	67	8.5k
Jukka Westermarck Finland	45	5.5k 1.6×	2.4k 1.1×	2.3k 1.7×	921 1.3×	599 1.0×	116	8.8k
Feng Li China	46	5.1k 1.5×	1.8k 0.8×	1.9k 1.4×	632 0.9×	660 1.1×	233	7.5k
Young Kee Shin South Korea	49	4.3k 1.3×	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	374 0.5×	907 1.5×	200	8.0k
Arjun Bhutkar United States	32	3.6k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	601 0.8×	507 0.9×	55	5.6k
Qiang Yu Singapore	55	6.0k 1.8×	1.9k 0.8×	1.9k 1.4×	651 0.9×	567 1.0×	139	8.4k
Marco Falasca Australia	51	5.4k 1.6×	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	1.6k 2.2×	400 0.7×	183	8.7k
Onno Kranenburg Netherlands	52	5.4k 1.6×	3.0k 1.3×	1.5k 1.1×	1.5k 2.1×	612 1.0×	188	9.8k
Mitchell Stark Australia	27	5.1k 1.5×	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	800 1.1×	495 0.8×	65	7.5k
Hirohito Yamaguchi United States	42	4.9k 1.4×	2.7k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.5×	952 1.6×	102	7.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Tao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Tao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Tao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kai Tao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kai Tao 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 Tao. Kai Tao 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

Guo, Bingyu, Qian Zhang, Hongyi Wang, Peng Chang, & Kai Tao. (2025). Retraction of: KCNQ1OT1 promotes melanoma growth and metastasis. Aging. 17(2). 609–609.

Tao, Kai, Michelle M. Gomes, Melissa H. Wong, et al.. (2025). Engineering NIR Probes to Enhance Affinity and Clinical Workflow Compatibility for Prostate Cancer Imaging. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. e20355–e20355.

Shen, Li, Yuxin He, Jifeng Liu, et al.. (2024). An umbrella review of socioeconomic status and cancer. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9993–9993. 26 indexed citations

Liu, Di-Ao, Kai Tao, Bin Wu, et al.. (2023). A phosphoinositide switch mediates exocyst recruitment to multivesicular endosomes for exosome secretion. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6883–6883. 43 indexed citations

Rames, Matthew J., Fehmi Çivitçi, Malwina Szczepaniak, et al.. (2023). Multiplexed and Millimeter-Scale Fluorescence Nanoscopy of Cells and Tissue Sections via Prism-Illumination and Microfluidics-Enhanced DNA-PAINT. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(9). 817–830. 8 indexed citations

Guo, Kang, Jianing Luo, Dayun Feng, et al.. (2021). Single-Cell RNA Sequencing With Combined Use of Bulk RNA Sequencing to Reveal Cell Heterogeneity and Molecular Changes at Acute Stage of Ischemic Stroke in Mouse Cortex Penumbra Area. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9. 624711–624711. 55 indexed citations

Guo, Bingyu, et al.. (2020). Effect of THBS1 on the Biological Function of Hypertrophic Scar Fibroblasts. BioMed Research International. 2020(1). 8605407–8605407. 19 indexed citations

Xu, Zhishan, Bingyu Guo, Peng Chang, et al.. (2019). The Differential Expression of miRNAs and a Preliminary Study on the Mechanism of miR-194-3p in Keloids. BioMed Research International. 2019. 1–10. 19 indexed citations

Wang, Yang, et al.. (2019). Clinical efficacy of Q-modulated laser combined with compound repair of oligosaccharides in the treatment of melisma. 35(12). 1185–1190. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Weiming, Baolin Guo, Kai Tao, et al.. (2019). Inhibition of SIRT1 in hippocampal CA1 ameliorates PTSD-like behaviors in mice by protections of neuronal plasticity and serotonin homeostasis via NHLH2/MAO-A pathway. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 518(2). 344–350. 20 indexed citations

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Guo, Shipeng, et al.. (2019). Novel Breast-Specific Long Non-coding RNA LINC00993 Acts as a Tumor Suppressor in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Frontiers in Oncology. 9. 1325–1325. 30 indexed citations

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Song, Yingli, et al.. (2018). Naringin suppresses the growth and motility of hypertrophic scar fibroblasts by inhibiting the kinase activity of Akt. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 105. 1291–1298. 20 indexed citations

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Shi, Jie, Bingyu Guo, Yu Zhang, et al.. (2017). Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Cocultured with Chondrocytes Promote the Proliferation of Chondrocytes. Stem Cells International. 2017. 1–17. 32 indexed citations

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Tao, Kai, Jinghai Chen, & Lingyun Wang. (2017). Effects of berberine on the expressions of NRF2 and HO-1 in endothelial cells of diabetic rat. Biomedical Research-tokyo. 28(9). 3860–3864. 3 indexed citations

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Nie, Tiejian, Shaosong Yang, Hongwei Ma, et al.. (2016). Regulation of ER stress-induced autophagy by GSK3β-TIP60-ULK1 pathway. Cell Death and Disease. 7(12). e2563–e2563. 68 indexed citations

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Sheng, Yuting, Yonglin Wang, Yonglin Wang, et al.. (2014). The heat shock transcription factor P s HSF 1 of P hytophthora sojae is required for oxidative stress tolerance and detoxifying the plant oxidative burst. Environmental Microbiology. 17(4). 1351–1364. 30 indexed citations

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Li, Aining, Meng Zhang, Yonglin Wang, et al.. (2014). PsMPK1, an SLT2-type mitogen-activated protein kinase, is required for hyphal growth, zoosporogenesis, cell wall integrity, and pathogenicity in Phytophthora sojae. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 65. 14–24. 29 indexed citations

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Ye, Wenwu, Xiaoli Wang, Kai Tao, et al.. (2011). Digital Gene Expression Profiling of the Phytophthora sojae Transcriptome. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 24(12). 1530–1539. 95 indexed citations

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Gupta, Piyush B., Tamer T. Önder, Guozhi Jiang, et al.. (2009). Identification of Selective Inhibitors of Cancer Stem Cells by High-Throughput Screening. Cell. 138(4). 645–659. 1939 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tao, Kai, et al.. (2003). Treatment of interstitial peumopathy by fei tong oral liquid in the malignant tumor patients after radio- and/or chemotherapy.. PubMed. 23(1). 17–20. 1 indexed citations

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