Sha Cao

2.1k total citations
71 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Sha Cao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sha Cao has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Cancer Research and 14 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Sha Cao's work include Gene expression and cancer classification (11 papers), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (8 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (8 papers). Sha Cao is often cited by papers focused on Gene expression and cancer classification (11 papers), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (8 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (8 papers). Sha Cao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Sha Cao's co-authors include Chi Zhang, Ying Xu, Xiaoyu Lu, Qin Ma, Changlin Wan, Wennan Chang, George E. Sandusky, Yong Zang, Huiyan Sun and Zhi Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Sha Cao

67 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sha Cao United States 18 664 314 193 131 113 71 1.2k
Jue Hou United States 15 395 0.6× 235 0.7× 175 0.9× 63 0.5× 72 0.6× 48 963
Natalie I. Vokes United States 12 714 1.1× 501 1.6× 228 1.2× 203 1.5× 98 0.9× 46 1.1k
David Wu United States 11 1.1k 1.6× 510 1.6× 193 1.0× 169 1.3× 68 0.6× 21 1.6k
Réka Tóth Hungary 24 753 1.1× 295 0.9× 283 1.5× 165 1.3× 173 1.5× 53 1.4k
Tai‐Kuang Chao Taiwan 23 788 1.2× 270 0.9× 194 1.0× 143 1.1× 111 1.0× 59 1.5k
Claudia De Vitis Italy 20 636 1.0× 508 1.6× 341 1.8× 207 1.6× 73 0.6× 42 1.2k
Jiekai Yu China 21 789 1.2× 240 0.8× 255 1.3× 163 1.2× 86 0.8× 73 1.5k
Jiawei Zhang China 24 1.0k 1.5× 488 1.6× 175 0.9× 129 1.0× 154 1.4× 98 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Sha Cao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sha Cao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sha Cao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sha Cao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sha 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 Sha Cao. Sha 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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Wang, Jia, Kate R. Fortney, Liqiao Chen, et al.. (2025). A high-resolution view of the immune and stromal cell response to Haemophilus ducreyi infection in human volunteers. mBio. 16(3). e0388524–e0388524.
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Cao, Sha, et al.. (2024). Establishing Healthy Breath Baselines With Tin Oxide Sensors: Fundamental Building Blocks for Noninvasive Health Monitoring. Military Medicine. 189(Supplement_3). 221–229. 1 indexed citations
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Halverson, Colin, Sha Cao, Susan M. Perkins, & Clair A. Francomano. (2023). Comorbidity, misdiagnoses, and the diagnostic odyssey in patients with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 100812–100812. 21 indexed citations
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Cao, Sha, Wennan Chang, Changlin Wan, et al.. (2023). Pipeline for characterizing alternative mechanisms (PCAM) based on bi-clustering to study colorectal cancer heterogeneity. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 21. 2160–2171. 1 indexed citations
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Wan, Changlin, et al.. (2023). Generalized Matrix Local Low Rank Representation by Random Projection and Submatrix Propagation. PubMed. 2023. 390–401. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zixuan, Jia Wang, Wennan Chang, et al.. (2023). FLUXestimator: a webserver for predicting metabolic flux and variations using transcriptomics data. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(W1). W180–W190. 5 indexed citations
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Liang, Tiebing, Joseph Ipe, Sha Cao, et al.. (2023). Clinically important alterations in pharmacogene expression in histologically severe nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1474–1474. 23 indexed citations
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Lu, Wencheng, John Wang, George E. Sandusky, et al.. (2023). HSF1 Inhibits Antitumor Immune Activity in Breast Cancer by Suppressing CCL5 to Block CD8+ T-cell Recruitment. Cancer Research. 84(2). 276–290. 27 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaoyu, Wennan Chang, Changlin Wan, et al.. (2022). PLUS: Predicting cancer metastasis potential based on positive and unlabeled learning. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(3). e1009956–e1009956. 9 indexed citations
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Rupert, Joseph E., Ashok Narasimhan, Yanlin Jiang, et al.. (2021). Tumor-derived IL-6 and trans-signaling among tumor, fat, and muscle mediate pancreatic cancer cachexia. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(6). 127 indexed citations
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Chang, Wennan, Xiaoyu Lu, Changlin Wan, et al.. (2021). A graph neural network model to estimate cell-wise metabolic flux using single-cell RNA-seq data. Genome Research. 31(10). 1867–1884. 121 indexed citations
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Spence, John C. H., Dongbing Lai, Jill L. Reiter, et al.. (2020). Epigenetic changes on rat chromosome 4 contribute to disparate alcohol drinking behavior in alcohol-preferring and -nonpreferring rats. Alcohol. 89. 103–112. 2 indexed citations
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Marino, Natascia, Rana German, Xi Rao, et al.. (2020). Upregulation of lipid metabolism genes in the breast prior to cancer diagnosis. npj Breast Cancer. 6(1). 50–50. 56 indexed citations
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Yu, Xiangchun, et al.. (2020). Co-expression based cancer staging and application. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 10624–10624. 9 indexed citations
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Wan, Changlin, Wennan Chang, Yu Zhang, et al.. (2019). LTMG: a novel statistical modeling of transcriptional expression states in single-cell RNA-Seq data. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(18). e111–e111. 34 indexed citations
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Policastro, Robert A., Shruthi Sriramkumar, Ning Ding, et al.. (2019). Lysine-Specific Demethylase 1 Mediates AKT Activity and Promotes Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in PIK3CA -Mutant Colorectal Cancer. Molecular Cancer Research. 18(2). 264–277. 36 indexed citations
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Sun, Huiyan, Liang Chen, Sha Cao, Yanchun Liang, & Ying Xu. (2019). Warburg Effects in Cancer and Normal Proliferating Cells: Two Tales of the Same Name. Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics. 17(3). 273–286. 44 indexed citations
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Cao, Sha, Xiwen Zhu, Chi Zhang, et al.. (2017). Competition between DNA Methylation, Nucleotide Synthesis, and Antioxidation in Cancer versus Normal Tissues. Cancer Research. 77(15). 4185–4195. 12 indexed citations

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