Lingfei Cao

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
121 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Lingfei Cao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Lingfei Cao has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Materials Chemistry, 83 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 81 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Lingfei Cao's work include Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (81 papers), Microstructure and mechanical properties (80 papers) and Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties (66 papers). Lingfei Cao is often cited by papers focused on Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (81 papers), Microstructure and mechanical properties (80 papers) and Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties (66 papers). Lingfei Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Japan. Lingfei Cao's co-authors include Guohua Wu, Xiaodong Wu, Yan Zou, Songbai Tang, Hui Song, Gang Liu, Jinyu Zhang, Yichang Wang, Malcolm J. Couper and Qianqian Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Acta Materialia and Nanoscale.

In The Last Decade

Lingfei Cao

119 papers receiving 3.7k citations

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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.

Investigation on microstructure and mechanical properties of Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloys with various Zn/Mg ratios

2021 244 citations Yan Zou, Guohua Wu et al. Journal of Material Science and Technology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lingfei Cao China	33	3.0k	2.8k	2.6k	695	208	121	3.8k
Xianghai An China	47	5.6k 1.9×	2.3k 0.8×	3.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.6×	253 1.2×	111	6.4k
M. Yu. Murashkin Russia	39	5.0k 1.7×	3.0k 1.1×	4.9k 1.9×	1.2k 1.7×	405 1.9×	139	5.9k
Shenbao Jin China	36	3.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.5×	2.1k 0.8×	534 0.8×	300 1.4×	110	3.6k
Maryam Ghazisaeidi United States	28	2.9k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	435 0.6×	525 2.5×	62	3.4k
Suihe Jiang China	28	4.4k 1.5×	2.2k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	706 1.0×	100 0.5×	92	5.1k
Sigmund J. Andersen Norway	37	4.8k 1.6×	5.3k 1.9×	4.2k 1.6×	499 0.7×	476 2.3×	86	5.9k
Nguyen Q. Chinh Hungary	30	2.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.4×	2.6k 1.0×	1.2k 1.7×	198 1.0×	135	3.4k
Shengping Wen China	28	1.9k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	686 1.0×	87 0.4×	143	2.4k
Nathalie Bozzolo France	34	2.9k 1.0×	891 0.3×	2.6k 1.0×	1.7k 2.4×	256 1.2×	114	3.9k
Chad W. Sinclair Canada	30	2.2k 0.8×	790 0.3×	1.8k 0.7×	662 1.0×	498 2.4×	93	2.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cao, Lingfei, et al.. (2025). Effect of natural ageing on the early-stage ageing response of an Al-Mg-Si-Cu alloy. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 257. 98–114.

Tang, Songbai, Guohua Wu, Lingfei Cao, et al.. (2025). Anomalous precipitation behavior in T-phase strengthened Al-Mg-Zn(-Cu) alloys: Effects of aging temperatures and Cu contents. Materials Science and Engineering A. 933. 148287–148287. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Lanping, et al.. (2025). Hardness reversion and precipitation behaviors during early stage of artificial aging in a Zn-containing Al-Cu-Li alloy. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1047. 184956–184956. 1 indexed citations

Tang, Songbai, Lingfei Cao, Guohua Wu, et al.. (2025). Tailoring two-step ageing and Cu content for rapid ageing response and high strength in T-phase reinforced Al-Mg-Zn alloys. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1029. 180792–180792. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Xiaomin, et al.. (2025). Optimization of flow stress model and 3D-processing map for spray-formed aluminum alloy 7055 based on GA-BP artificial neural network. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1021. 179743–179743. 6 indexed citations

Wu, Guohua, et al.. (2024). Revealing the mechanisms of exfoliation corrosion and stress corrosion cracking for an Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy after continuous retrogression and re-ageing treatment. Corrosion Science. 240. 112474–112474. 17 indexed citations

Bai, Min, Xiaodong Wu, Songbai Tang, et al.. (2024). Study on hot deformation behavior and recrystallization mechanism of an Al-6.3Zn-2.5Mg-2.6Cu-0.11Zr alloy based on machine learning. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1000. 175086–175086. 20 indexed citations

Zou, Yan, et al.. (2024). Revealing the coarsening behavior of precipitates and its effect on the thermal stability in Tʹ and ηʹ dual-phase strengthened Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloys. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 220. 54–66. 18 indexed citations

Tang, Songbai, Xiaodong Wu, Lingfei Cao, et al.. (2024). The significant ageing hardening in an Al-Mg alloy triggered by minor additions of Cu and Si. Materials Science and Engineering A. 923. 147718–147718.

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Ding, Lipeng, et al.. (2023). The influence of Cu content and Mg/Si ratio on the strength and formability in Al-Mg-Si-Cu alloys. Materials Characterization. 205. 113355–113355. 17 indexed citations

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Wang, Yichang, et al.. (2023). Multi-alloying effect of Ti, Mn, Cr, Zr, Er on the cast Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloys. Materials Characterization. 201. 112984–112984. 29 indexed citations

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Lin, Xiaomin, et al.. (2023). The effects of heat treatment on the extrusion-induced inhomogeneity of spray-formed aluminum alloy 7055. Journal of Materials Research and Technology. 25. 2075–2087. 9 indexed citations

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Ding, Lipeng, Chenglin Wang, Yaoyao Weng, et al.. (2023). Influence of the combined additions Mn, Cr or Ni on the formation of dispersoids and mechanical properties of Al–Mg–Si–Cu alloys. Materials Science and Engineering A. 892. 145962–145962. 17 indexed citations

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Zhu, Qianqian, Yahui Liu, Kexing Song, et al.. (2023). Analysis of slip transfer behavior of tantalum during quasi in-situ compression. Journal of Materials Research and Technology. 23. 1075–1083. 3 indexed citations

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Cao, Lingfei, et al.. (2023). Effect of continuous retrogression and re-ageing treatment on mechanical properties, corrosion behavior and microstructure of an Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 970. 172592–172592. 26 indexed citations

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Lin, Xiaomin, Xiaodong Wu, Lingfei Cao, Songbai Tang, & Min Bai. (2023). Effect of hot deformation on the microstructure of spray-formed 7055 aluminum alloy extruded plate. Journal of Central South University. 30(12). 3950–3963. 3 indexed citations

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Zhu, Qianqian, et al.. (2022). Study on the Grain Rotation of High-Purity Tantalum during Compression Deformation. Crystals. 12(5). 676–676. 3 indexed citations

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Wu, Zhan, Shijia Feng, Bin Liao, et al.. (2018). The evolution of shear bands in Ta-2.5W alloy during cold rolling. Materials Science and Engineering A. 726. 259–273. 20 indexed citations

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Liu, Yahui, Shifeng Liu, Haiyang Fan, et al.. (2018). Crystallographic analysis of nucleation for random orientations in high-purity tantalum. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 33(12). 1755–1763. 7 indexed citations

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Cao, Lingfei, et al.. (2008). Dispersion of submicron Ni particles into liquid gallium. Magnetohydrodynamics. 44(2). 97–104. 8 indexed citations

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