Ling Cai

2.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
48 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Ling Cai is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Ling Cai has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 12 papers in Signal Processing and 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Ling Cai's work include Geographic Information Systems Studies (10 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (9 papers) and Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (6 papers). Ling Cai is often cited by papers focused on Geographic Information Systems Studies (10 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (9 papers) and Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (6 papers). Ling Cai collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Austria. Ling Cai's co-authors include Zhi Tang, Yongtao Wang, Tao Sheng, Haibin Ling, Ying Chen, Qijie Zhao, Gengchen Mai, Rui Zhu, Krzysztof Janowicz and Bo Yan and has published in prestigious journals such as FEBS Letters, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism and Pattern Recognition.

In The Last Decade

Ling Cai

47 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

M2Det: A Single-Shot Object Detector Based on Multi-Level Feature Pyramid Network

2019 637 citations Qijie Zhao, Tao Sheng et al. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence profile →
Traffic transformer: Capturing the continuity and periodicity of time series for traffic forecasting

2020 248 citations Ling Cai, Krzysztof Janowicz et al. profile →
A review of location encoding for GeoAI: methods and applications

2022 92 citations Gengchen Mai, Krzysztof Janowicz et al. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ling Cai United States	15	682	276	227	213	162	48	1.6k
Quanshi Zhang China	20	549 0.8×	915 3.3×	246 1.1×	132 0.6×	125 0.8×	58	1.8k
Tong Zhang China	20	421 0.6×	192 0.7×	405 1.8×	335 1.6×	162 1.0×	94	1.4k
Yao‐Yi Chiang United States	22	441 0.6×	251 0.9×	116 0.5×	129 0.6×	245 1.5×	85	1.7k
Adam C. Winstanley Ireland	16	223 0.3×	142 0.5×	229 1.0×	98 0.5×	326 2.0×	68	1.1k
Lei Bai China	23	439 0.6×	370 1.3×	225 1.0×	442 2.1×	143 0.9×	120	1.6k
Jiyeong Lee South Korea	19	220 0.3×	97 0.4×	91 0.4×	652 3.1×	208 1.3×	131	1.7k
Yongjun Xu China	26	357 0.5×	669 2.4×	246 1.1×	394 1.8×	380 2.3×	141	2.5k
Jiawei Zhu China	14	207 0.3×	344 1.2×	267 1.2×	375 1.8×	101 0.6×	42	1.4k
Cyril Ray France	15	137 0.2×	188 0.7×	206 0.9×	188 0.9×	186 1.1×	56	985
Wei Hong China	22	881 1.3×	251 0.9×	34 0.1×	45 0.2×	175 1.1×	122	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ling Cai

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

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Janowicz, Krzysztof, Gengchen Mai, Weiming Huang, et al.. (2025). GeoFM: how will geo-foundation models reshape spatial data science and GeoAI?. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 39(9). 1849–1865. 2 indexed citations

Li, Yan, Rui Pang, Ling Cai, et al.. (2025). Semaglultide targets Spp1+ microglia/macrophage to attenuate neuroinflammation following perioperative stroke. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 22(1). 143–143. 1 indexed citations

Cai, Ling, et al.. (2024). Aging affects the mouse brain in a region-specific manner. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism. 45(2). 373–375. 1 indexed citations

Cai, Ling, Rui Pang, Chen Chen, et al.. (2024). Microglia programmed cell death in neurodegenerative diseases and CNS injury. APOPTOSIS. 30(1-2). 446–465. 7 indexed citations

Cai, Ling, Krzysztof Janowicz, Rui Zhu, et al.. (2022). HyperQuaternionE: A hyperbolic embedding model for qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning. GeoInformatica. 27(2). 159–197. 8 indexed citations

Mai, Gengchen, Chiyu Jiang, Weiwei Sun, et al.. (2022). Towards general-purpose representation learning of polygonal geometries. GeoInformatica. 27(2). 289–340. 27 indexed citations

Zhu, Rui, Krzysztof Janowicz, Gengchen Mai, Ling Cai, & Meilin Shi. (2022). COVID-Forecast-Graph: An Open Knowledge Graph for Consolidating COVID-19 Forecasts and Economic Indicators via Place and Time. 3. 1–12. 4 indexed citations

Janowicz, Krzysztof, Cogan Shimizu, Pascal Hitzler, et al.. (2021). Diverse data! Diverse schemata?. Semantic Web. 1–3. 2 indexed citations

Jackson, Todd, Ling Cai, & Hong Chen. (2020). Asian versus Western appearance media influences and changes in body image concerns of young Chinese women: A 12-month prospective study. Body Image. 33. 214–221. 27 indexed citations

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Cai, Ling, et al.. (2020). Initial development and validation of the Online Appearance-Relevant Peer Conversations Scale. Body Image. 33. 115–128. 4 indexed citations

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Cai, Ling, Jun Xu, Ju Liu, et al.. (2019). Sensing multiple semantics of urban space from crowdsourcing positioning data. Cities. 93. 31–42. 38 indexed citations

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Zhao, Qijie, Tao Sheng, Yongtao Wang, et al.. (2019). M2Det: A Single-Shot Object Detector Based on Multi-Level Feature Pyramid Network. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 33(1). 9259–9266. 637 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Yongtao, et al.. (2018). An End-to-End Quadrilateral Regression Network for Comic Panel Extraction. 887–895. 11 indexed citations

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Shadel, William G., et al.. (2014). Development of the PROMIS(R) Positive Emotional and Sensory Expectancies of Smoking Item Banks. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 16(Suppl 3). S212–S222. 8 indexed citations

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Stucky, Brian D., Maria Orlando Edelen, William G. Shadel, et al.. (2014). Development of the PROMIS(R) Negative Psychosocial Expectancies of Smoking Item Banks. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 16(Suppl 3). S232–S240. 7 indexed citations

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Smith, Richard, Amy Duguay, Jennifer Weiszmann, et al.. (2013). A Novel Approach to Improve the Function of FGF21. BioDrugs. 27(2). 159–166. 19 indexed citations

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Cai, Ling, et al.. (2012). Expression, Purification and Characterization of Recombinant Human Angiogenin inPichia pastoris. Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry. 76(7). 1384–1388. 5 indexed citations

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Porat, Amir, Dwight Winters, Ling Cai, et al.. (2012). A NOVEL ANION-EXCHANGE RESIN SUITABLE FOR BOTH DISCOVERY RESEARCH AND CLINICAL MANUFACTURING PURPOSES. Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology. 42(4). 304–321. 4 indexed citations

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Cai, Ling, et al.. (2010). Multi-object detection and tracking by stereo vision. Pattern Recognition. 43(12). 4028–4041. 29 indexed citations

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Yie, Junming, Randy Hecht, Jennitte Stevens, et al.. (2008). FGF21 N‐ and C‐termini play different roles in receptor interaction and activation. FEBS Letters. 583(1). 19–24. 119 indexed citations

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