Keda Cai

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Keda Cai is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Keda Cai has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Geophysics, 60 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 13 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Keda Cai's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (97 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (70 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (60 papers). Keda Cai is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (97 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (70 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (60 papers). Keda Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Russia. Keda Cai's co-authors include Min Sun, Chao Yuan, Xiaoping Long, Wenjiao Xiao, Guochun Zhao, Fu‐Yuan Wu, Wenjiao Xiao, Pengfei Li, Xiaoping Xia and Yingde Jiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Keda Cai

98 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Reassessment of continental growth during the accretionary history of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

2013 772 citations Alfred Kröner, В. П. Ковач et al. Gondwana Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Keda Cai China	36	4.9k	3.3k	770	223	201	102	5.0k
Shunbao Gao China	18	4.8k 1.0×	2.3k 0.7×	676 0.9×	213 1.0×	267 1.3×	51	5.0k
Deyou Sun China	28	6.9k 1.4×	3.9k 1.2×	888 1.2×	340 1.5×	205 1.0×	73	7.1k
Jun‐Hong Zhao China	41	5.2k 1.1×	2.0k 0.6×	816 1.1×	282 1.3×	357 1.8×	107	5.4k
Zhenyu He China	35	4.1k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	444 0.6×	307 1.4×	165 0.8×	78	4.2k
Zeming Zhang China	44	5.7k 1.2×	2.3k 0.7×	558 0.7×	223 1.0×	186 0.9×	128	5.9k
Wen‐Chun Ge China	42	6.4k 1.3×	3.9k 1.2×	826 1.1×	539 2.4×	264 1.3×	111	6.6k
Chunjing Wei China	49	6.5k 1.3×	2.1k 0.6×	425 0.6×	180 0.8×	160 0.8×	162	6.6k
Songjian Ao China	34	4.3k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	542 0.7×	245 1.1×	285 1.4×	125	4.4k
Taiping Zhao China	33	3.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.4×	678 0.9×	166 0.7×	270 1.3×	109	3.7k
Fu‐Ping Pei China	36	4.7k 1.0×	2.7k 0.8×	626 0.8×	283 1.3×	217 1.1×	66	4.9k

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Wang, Yamei, et al.. (2024). Meso—Cenozoic Exhumation of the Altai-Sayan Region: Constrained by Available Low-Temperature Thermochronology. Journal of Earth Science. 35(6). 2138–2143. 3 indexed citations

Cai, Keda, et al.. (2024). Paleozoic Episodic Magmatism in Western Tianshan: Insight Into Assembling the Northeastern Pangea. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 25(7). 2 indexed citations

Li, Keqing, et al.. (2024). Subduction-stalled plume tail triggers Tarim large igneous province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 651. 119150–119150. 2 indexed citations

Qiu, Liang, Dan‐Ping Yan, Zi‐Fu Zhao, et al.. (2023). Late-Permian subduction-to-collision transition and closure of Paleo-Asian Ocean in eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from borehole cores in the Songliao Basin, Northeast China. Gondwana Research. 122. 74–92. 6 indexed citations

Yin, Jiyuan, Yannan Wang, K. V. Hodges, et al.. (2023). Episodic Long‐Term Exhumation of the Tianshan Orogenic Belt: New Insights From Multiple Low‐Temperature Thermochronometers. Tectonics. 42(4). 27 indexed citations

Li, Pengfei, et al.. (2023). Structural and Geochronological Constraints on the Collision Between the Chinese Altai and the West Junggar in Central Asia: Implication for Deformation Response and Geodynamic Evolution of Arc‐Arc Collision in 4D. Tectonics. 42(9). 6 indexed citations

Schwartz, Joshua, Xiaowei Li, Keda Cai, et al.. (2023). Revisiting the genesis of the adakite-like granitoids in collisional zones: Water-fluxed melting of intermediate to felsic rocks with dilution by low Sr/Y phases. American Mineralogist. 109(4). 709–728. 3 indexed citations

Cai, Keda, et al.. (2022). Diapir Melting of Subducted Mélange Generating Alkaline Arc Magmatism and Its Implications for Material Recycling at Subduction Zone Settings. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(10). 5 indexed citations

Cai, Keda, Xiaoping Xia, Chun–Kit Lai, et al.. (2022). Apatite as a magma redox indicator and its application in metallogenic research. Lithos. 422-423. 106749–106749. 9 indexed citations

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Liu, Tianlun, Bo Zhang, Keda Cai, et al.. (2021). Structural, Kinematic and Geochronological Study of the Main Tianshan Shear Zone in the Borohoro Ranges, NW China. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 95(5). 1431–1455. 6 indexed citations

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Cai, Keda, et al.. (2020). Evolution of Late Paleozoic Magmatic Arc in the Yili Block, NW China: Implications for Oroclinal Bending in the Western Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Tectonics. 39(12). 20 indexed citations

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Wan, Bo, Xinshui Wang, Xijun Liu, et al.. (2020). Long-lived seamount subduction in ancient orogens: Evidence from the Paleozoic South Tianshan. Geology. 49(5). 531–535. 41 indexed citations

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Cai, Keda, Min Sun, Weihua Xiao, et al.. (2014). Zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic composition of granitiods in Russian Altai Mountain, Central Asian Orogenic Belt. American Journal of Science. 314(2). 580–612. 36 indexed citations

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Cai, Keda, Min Sun, Wenjiao Xiao, et al.. (2014). Petrogenesis of late Paleozoic tholeiitic, Nb-enriched, calc-alkaline and adakitic rocks in southwestern Mongolia: Implications for intra-oceanic arc evolution. Lithos. 202-203. 413–428. 25 indexed citations

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Chen, Ming, et al.. (2014). Detrital zircon record of the early Paleozoic meta-sedimentary rocks in Russian Altai: Implications on their provenance and the tectonic nature of the Altai–Mongolian terrane. Lithos. 233. 209–222. 29 indexed citations

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Kröner, Alfred, В. П. Ковач, Елена Белоусова, et al.. (2013). Reassessment of continental growth during the accretionary history of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Gondwana Research. 25(1). 103–125. 772 indexed citations breakdown →

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Long, Xiaoping, et al.. (2008). Geochemical characteristics and sedimentary environments of Devonian low metamorphic clastic sedimentary rocks in the southern margin of the Chinese Altai,North Xinjiang.. Acta Petrologica Sinica. 24(4). 15 indexed citations

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Cai, Keda, Chao Yuan, Mengyu Sun, et al.. (2007). Geochemical characteristics and ~(40)Ar-~(39)Ar ages of the amphibolites and gabbros in Tarlang area:implications for tectonic evolution of the Chinese Altai.. Acta Petrologica Sinica. 8 indexed citations

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Yuan, Chao, Min Sun, Xiaoping Long, et al.. (2007). Constraining the deposition time and tectonic background of the Habahe Group of the Altai. Acta Petrologica Sinica. 18 indexed citations

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Long, Xiaoping, et al.. (2006). Genesis of Carboniferous volcanic rocks in the eastern Junggar:constraints on the closure of the Junggar Ocean.. Acta Petrologica Sinica. 50 indexed citations

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