Lei Cao

165 total papers · 7.0k total citations
117 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Lei Cao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Cao has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 33 papers in Physiology and 19 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Lei Cao's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (28 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (12 papers) and Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (11 papers). Lei Cao is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (28 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (12 papers) and Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (11 papers). Lei Cao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Lei Cao's co-authors include Matthew J. During, David S. Zuzga, Xiangyang Jiao, Xianglan Liu, Chuansong Wang, Yuhong Liu, Wei Huang, Dahna M. Fong, Deborah Young and Jun Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Lei Cao

112 papers receiving 5.0k 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 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.

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor is involved in learning and neuroprotection

2003 713 citations Matthew J. During, Lei Cao et al. Nature Medicine profile →
VEGF links hippocampal activity with neurogenesis, learning and memory

2004 674 citations Lei Cao, Xiangyang Jiao et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Gut mucosal microbiome across stages of colorectal carcinogenesis

2015 506 citations Geicho Nakatsu, Xiangchun Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
Mucosal microbiome dysbiosis in gastric carcinogenesis

2017 483 citations Olabisi Oluwabukola Coker, Zhenwei Dai et al. Gut profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author						Papers	Cites
Lei Cao	2.1k	1.2k	839	807	589	117	5.1k
Lei Wang	1.8k 0.9×	946 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	831 1.0×	525 0.9×	175	6.8k
Masakiyo Sasahara	2.1k 1.0×	593 0.5×	646 0.8×	642 0.8×	588 1.0×	146	5.2k
Hiroshi Hasegawa	2.7k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	774 0.9×	925 1.1×	433 0.7×	188	6.3k
Tetsumori Yamashima	2.6k 1.3×	866 0.7×	1.4k 1.7×	946 1.2×	505 0.9×	206	7.1k
Jing Yang	2.4k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	911 1.1×	469 0.6×	421 0.7×	103	5.8k
Narendra N. Tandon	3.0k 1.5×	2.0k 1.6×	762 0.9×	866 1.1×	295 0.5×	98	7.2k
Marco Fiore	1.3k 0.6×	877 0.7×	1.5k 1.8×	374 0.5×	394 0.7×	256	6.2k
Calum Sutherland	5.1k 2.5×	1.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	984 1.2×	400 0.7×	111	8.1k
Yoichi Kondo	2.2k 1.1×	714 0.6×	906 1.1×	351 0.4×	250 0.4×	171	4.7k
Chul Hoon Kim	2.2k 1.1×	485 0.4×	1.1k 1.4×	322 0.4×	349 0.6×	137	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Lei Cao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lei Cao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Cao

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

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