Liqing Cao

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 912 citations indexed

About

Liqing Cao is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Liqing Cao has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 912 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in General Health Professions, 2 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 2 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Liqing Cao's work include COVID-19 impact on air quality (2 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (2 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (2 papers). Liqing Cao is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 impact on air quality (2 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (2 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (2 papers). Liqing Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United Kingdom. Liqing Cao's co-authors include Jingui Xie, Yongjian Zhu, Fengming Huang, Yugang Yu, Anfan Chen, Yun Wang, Maozhang He, Yixuan Xiao, Na Zhang and Wei‐Hua Jia and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Frontiers in Immunology and Psychological Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Liqing Cao

7 papers receiving 901 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.

Association between short-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 infection: Evidence from China

2020 820 citations Yongjian Zhu, Jingui Xie et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liqing Cao China	5	590	488	319	217	128	9	912
Liane Yuri Kondo Nakada Brazil	9	518 0.9×	412 0.8×	160 0.5×	163 0.8×	173 1.4×	13	810
Yueling Ma China	10	400 0.7×	258 0.5×	463 1.5×	300 1.4×	101 0.8×	19	921
Ya-Dong Zhao China	11	333 0.6×	341 0.7×	439 1.4×	283 1.3×	49 0.4×	13	986
Marina N. Tautan Romania	10	479 0.8×	455 0.9×	216 0.7×	121 0.6×	157 1.2×	34	779
Yaron Ogen Israel	11	427 0.7×	366 0.8×	192 0.6×	141 0.6×	281 2.2×	15	894
Xiaotao He China	9	605 1.0×	372 0.8×	808 2.5×	512 2.4×	67 0.5×	11	1.3k
Yongjian Zhu China	9	941 1.6×	625 1.3×	798 2.5×	535 2.5×	144 1.1×	15	1.6k
Wei Tu United States	13	249 0.4×	154 0.3×	298 0.9×	231 1.1×	72 0.6×	31	791
Shihua Fu China	6	598 1.0×	286 0.6×	808 2.5×	507 2.3×	55 0.4×	6	1.2k
Rodrigo Custódio Urban Brazil	8	534 0.9×	390 0.8×	138 0.4×	167 0.8×	171 1.3×	23	807

Countries citing papers authored by Liqing Cao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Liqing Cao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liqing Cao

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

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Zhao, Qingxin, Caihong Xue, Liqing Cao, et al.. (2025). Long-term durability of sustainable all-solid waste-based foamed geopolymers: Hydrophobic modification for chemical resistance and heavy metal solidification. Journal of Building Engineering. 111. 113582–113582.

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Xie, Jingui, et al.. (2023). The Impact of Bundled Payment on Hospital Operations. Service Science. 15(2). 129–155. 4 indexed citations

3.

Ma, Rui, et al.. (2022). Characterization and Analysis of Moisture absorption in Embedded System in Packaging. 2022 IEEE 72nd Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC). 2292–2297.

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He, Maozhang, Yixuan Huang, Yun Wang, et al.. (2022). Metabolomics-based investigation of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination (Sinovac) reveals an immune-dependent metabolite biomarker. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 954801–954801. 12 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yongjian, Liqing Cao, Jingui Xie, et al.. (2021). Using social media data to assess the impact of COVID-19 on mental health in China. Psychological Medicine. 53(2). 1–8. 14 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yongjian, Jingui Xie, Fengming Huang, & Liqing Cao. (2020). Association between short-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 infection: Evidence from China. The Science of The Total Environment. 727. 138704–138704. 820 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xie, Jingui, et al.. (2020). Association between extreme heat and hospital admissions for cataract patients in Hefei, China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 27(36). 45381–45389. 2 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yongjian, Jingui Xie, Fengming Huang, & Liqing Cao. (2020). The mediating effect of air quality on the association between human mobility and COVID-19 infection in China. Environmental Research. 189. 109911–109911. 57 indexed citations

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Yang, Jiping, et al.. (2012). MR and Targeted Molecular MRI of Vulnerable Plaques. Interventional Neurology. 1(3-4). 124–131. 3 indexed citations

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