Ran Cao

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
71 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Ran Cao is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ran Cao has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 32 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 15 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ran Cao's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (37 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (32 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (15 papers). Ran Cao is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (37 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (32 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (15 papers). Ran Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Iran. Ran Cao's co-authors include Congju Li, Zuqing Yuan, Zhong Lin Wang, Jiaona Wang, Shuyu Zhao, Xinyu Du, Yingying Yin, Nianwu Li, Wei Yang and Omar K. Farha and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ran Cao

66 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Screen-Printed Washable Electronic Textiles as Self-Powered Touch/Gesture Tribo-Sensors for Intelligent Human–Machine Interaction

2018 406 citations Ran Cao, Xianjie Pu et al. ACS Nano profile →
Exudate Absorbing and Antimicrobial Hydrogel Integrated with Multifunctional Curcumin-Loaded Magnesium Polyphenol Network for Facilitating Burn Wound Healing

2023 154 citations Ran Cao et al. ACS Nano profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ran Cao China	34	2.1k	1.3k	856	683	589	71	3.5k
Minghui He China	38	2.5k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	635 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	225 0.4×	131	4.5k
Jiaona Wang China	31	1.8k 0.8×	975 0.7×	1.3k 1.6×	644 0.9×	387 0.7×	77	3.5k
Xinlei Shi China	24	1.6k 0.8×	663 0.5×	1.2k 1.4×	1.0k 1.5×	341 0.6×	65	3.4k
Xudong Jia China	32	1.4k 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	846 1.0×	1.8k 2.6×	138 0.2×	101	4.1k
Yuejun Liu China	33	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	590 0.7×	809 1.2×	170 0.3×	212	3.6k
Yapeng Shi China	20	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	677 0.8×	442 0.6×	564 1.0×	42	2.7k
Qian Wang China	46	3.2k 1.5×	1.6k 1.2×	2.6k 3.0×	1.6k 2.3×	428 0.7×	178	6.6k
Yongsheng Yang China	26	1.5k 0.7×	939 0.7×	471 0.6×	370 0.5×	323 0.5×	82	3.0k
Dehai Yu China	35	2.1k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	746 0.9×	1.2k 1.8×	176 0.3×	137	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Ran Cao

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Ran Cao's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Ran Cao with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Ran Cao more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Ran Cao

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ran Cao

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Mazare, Anca, Wolfgang H. Goldmann, Benedict Osuagwu, et al.. (2025). Silver-Loaded Titania-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks as a Platform for Silver Ion Release for Antibacterial Applications. Nano Letters. 25(33). 12547–12553.

Wen, Jing, et al.. (2025). Adjusting morphologies of wound dressing by transferring skin textures through electrospinning technology. Colloids and Interface Science Communications. 66. 100835–100835. 1 indexed citations

Bagherzadeh, Roohollah, Ran Cao, Fatemeh Zabihi, et al.. (2025). Macro- and micro-wrinkled conductors and multi-scale wrinkled nanofibers for omnidirectional stretchable wearable triboelectric nanogenerators. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 439. 137813–137813.

Hu, Guang & Ran Cao. (2025). A Study on the Digital Transformation of Higher Education in Egypt. Journal of Contemporary Educational Research. 9(2). 101–105. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Meiyu, et al.. (2025). Assembly deviation modelling for a swing roller movable teeth reducer considering machining precision based on Jacobi-Torsor model. Precision Engineering. 97. 504–526.

Chen, Guoyin, Ran Cao, Hongmei Dai, et al.. (2024). A Skin-Inspired Self-Adaptive System for Temperature Control During Dynamic Wound Healing. Nano-Micro Letters. 16(1). 152–152. 19 indexed citations

Zhang, Han, Xuechen Wu, Shengyuan A. Yang, et al.. (2024). Advancing rehabilitation: Knittable fiber-shaped sensors for monitoring rotator cuff injury recovery. Chemical Engineering Journal. 487. 150470–150470. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Ting, Min Zhang, Huili Ma, et al.. (2023). Highly selective ratiometric fluorescent sensing of fleroxacin via functionalized Zr metal–organic frameworks. Microchemical Journal. 193. 108989–108989. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Yifei, Zhizhao Xu, Ran Cao, et al.. (2023). Self‐Powered Embedded‐Sensory Adjustment for Flow Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(29). 16 indexed citations

10.

Cao, Ran, Fatemeh Zabihi, Roohollah Bagherzadeh, et al.. (2023). Hierarchically spring nanofibrous and wrinkled-structured electrode for highly comfortable wearable triboelectric nanogenerators. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(46). 25441–25454. 8 indexed citations

11.

Zhang, Han, et al.. (2023). In-situ grown a zeolitic imidazolate framework for boosting sensitivity of breathable wearable electronics. Chemical Engineering Journal. 473. 145235–145235. 17 indexed citations

12.

Wang, Yao, Ran Cao, Chen Wang, et al.. (2023). In Situ Embedding Hydrogen‐Bonded Organic Frameworks Nanocrystals in Electrospinning Nanofibers for Ultrastable Broad‐Spectrum Antibacterial Activity. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(20). 55 indexed citations

13.

Yu, Miaomiao, Ran Cao, Zhiyuan Ma, & Meifang Zhu. (2023). Development of “smart” drug delivery systems for chemo/PDT synergistic treatment. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 11(7). 1416–1433. 35 indexed citations

14.

Chen, Guoyin, Kai Hou, Nuo Yu, et al.. (2022). Temperature-adaptive hydrogel optical waveguide with soft tissue-affinity for thermal regulated interventional photomedicine. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7789–7789. 50 indexed citations

15.

Cheung, Yuk Ha, Kaikai Ma, Hans C. van Leeuwen, et al.. (2021). Immobilized Regenerable Active Chlorine within a Zirconium-Based MOF Textile Composite to Eliminate Biological and Chemical Threats. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(40). 16777–16785. 74 indexed citations

16.

Chen, Yongwei, Xuan Zhang, Mohammad Rasel Mian, et al.. (2020). Structural Diversity of Zirconium Metal–Organic Frameworks and Effect on Adsorption of Toxic Chemicals. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(51). 21428–21438. 133 indexed citations

17.

Sun, Qijun, Yanqiang Lei, Xinhua Zhao, et al.. (2020). Scalable fabrication of hierarchically structured graphite/polydimethylsiloxane composite films for large-area triboelectric nanogenerators and self-powered tactile sensing. Nano Energy. 80. 105521–105521. 80 indexed citations

18.

Chen, Zhijie, Xingjie Wang, Ran Cao, et al.. (2020). Water-Based Synthesis of a Stable Iron-Based Metal–Organic Framework for Capturing Toxic Gases. ACS Materials Letters. 2(9). 1129–1134. 53 indexed citations

19.

Zhang, Xiuling, Xinyu Du, Yingying Yin, et al.. (2018). Lithium-Ion Batteries: Charged by Triboelectric Nanogenerators with Pulsed Output Based on the Enhanced Cycling Stability. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(10). 8676–8684. 18 indexed citations

20.

Cao, Ran, Xianjie Pu, Xinyu Du, et al.. (2018). Screen-Printed Washable Electronic Textiles as Self-Powered Touch/Gesture Tribo-Sensors for Intelligent Human–Machine Interaction. ACS Nano. 12(6). 5190–5196. 406 indexed citations breakdown →

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact