Wei Cai

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
148 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Wei Cai is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Cai has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 62 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 25 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Wei Cai's work include Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis (44 papers), Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods (44 papers) and Numerical methods in engineering (19 papers). Wei Cai is often cited by papers focused on Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis (44 papers), Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods (44 papers) and Numerical methods in engineering (19 papers). Wei Cai collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Norway. Wei Cai's co-authors include Tiao Lu, Pingwen Zhang, Shaozhong Deng, George Em Karniadakis, Jianzhong Wang, Dian Zhou, Xuan Zeng, Zhi-Qin John Xu Zhi-Qin John Xu, Ziqi Liu and Min Hyung Cho and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Wei Cai

142 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

  1. What is the fractional Laplacian? A comparative review with new results
    2019 255 citations Wei Cai et al. Journal of Computational Physics profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Wei Cai 1.1k 847 496 418 391 148 2.5k
Bradley K. Alpert 667 0.6× 639 0.8× 322 0.6× 147 0.4× 104 0.3× 48 1.9k
A. P. Prudnikov 826 0.8× 885 1.0× 169 0.3× 234 0.6× 433 1.1× 27 3.9k
Shan Zhao 702 0.7× 416 0.5× 942 1.9× 361 0.9× 144 0.4× 101 2.2k
Yu. A. Brychkov 683 0.6× 696 0.8× 123 0.2× 140 0.3× 377 1.0× 59 3.3k
O. I. Marichev 1.5k 1.4× 716 0.8× 112 0.2× 146 0.3× 368 0.9× 17 3.9k
J. A. C. Weideman 389 0.4× 481 0.6× 616 1.2× 180 0.4× 570 1.5× 49 2.7k
Gang Bao 1.3k 1.2× 1.5k 1.8× 549 1.1× 1.3k 3.0× 276 0.7× 169 3.9k
Miguel Moscoso 349 0.3× 448 0.5× 311 0.6× 507 1.2× 161 0.4× 72 1.7k
J.M. Donato 597 0.6× 734 0.9× 1.0k 2.1× 301 0.7× 150 0.4× 18 3.2k
Henk van der Vorst 670 0.6× 925 1.1× 1.0k 2.0× 283 0.7× 252 0.6× 11 3.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Cai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Cai

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

All Works

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Zhang, Wenzhong, et al.. (2025). On spectral bias reduction of multi-scale neural networks for regression problems. Neural Networks. 185. 107179–107179.
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You, Z. Y., Zhenli Xu, & Wei Cai. (2025). MscaleFNO: Multi-scale Fourier neural operator learning for oscillatory functions and wave scattering problems. Journal of Computational Physics. 547. 114530–114530.
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Cai, Wei, et al.. (2023). A path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) method based on Feynman-Kac formula for electrical impedance tomography. Journal of Computational Physics. 476. 111862–111862. 2 indexed citations
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Cai, Wei, et al.. (2019). A Phase Shift Deep Neural Network for High Frequency Wave Equations in Inhomogeneous Media. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Yang, Weihua, Huiqiu Lin, Wei Cai, & Xiaofeng Guo. (2015). On cyclic edge connectivity of regular graphs with two orbits.. Ars Combinatoria. 119. 135–141. 1 indexed citations
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Song, Wei, Yu‐Chun Lin, Andrij Baumketner, et al.. (2013). Effect of the Reaction Field on Molecular Forces and Torques Revealed by an Image-Charge Solvation Model. Communications in Computational Physics. 13(1). 129–149. 1 indexed citations
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Baker-Neblett, Katherine L., Andrij Baumketner, Yu‐Chun Lin, et al.. (2012). ICSM: An order method for calculating electrostatic interactions added to TINKER. Computer Physics Communications. 184(1). 19–26. 3 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhenli & Wei Cai. (2011). Fast Analytical Methods for Macroscopic Electrostatic Models in Biomolecular Simulations. SIAM Review. 53(4). 683–720. 19 indexed citations
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Xiang, Ming, Shaozhong Deng, & Wei Cai. (2009). A Sixth-order Image Approximation to the Ionic Solvent Induced Reaction Field. Journal of Scientific Computing. 41(3). 411–435. 3 indexed citations
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Lu, Tiao & Wei Cai. (2008). A Fourier spectral-discontinuous Galerkin method for time-dependent 3-D Schrödinger–Poisson equations with discontinuous potentials. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 220(1-2). 588–614. 16 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhenli, Shaozhong Deng, & Wei Cai. (2008). Image charge approximations of reaction fields in solvents with arbitrary ionic strength. Journal of Computational Physics. 228(6). 2092–2099. 12 indexed citations
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Zhu, Hengliang, et al.. (2007). A sparse grid based spectral stochastic collocation method for variations-aware capacitance extraction of interconnects under nanometer process technology. Design, Automation, and Test in Europe. 1514–1519. 31 indexed citations
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Deng, Shaozhong & Wei Cai. (2007). Extending the fast multipole method for charges inside a dielectric sphere in an ionic solvent: High-order image approximations for reaction fields. Journal of Computational Physics. 227(2). 1246–1266. 26 indexed citations
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Deng, Shaozhong, Wei Cai, & Donald J. Jacobs. (2007). A comparable study of image approximations to the reaction field. Computer Physics Communications. 177(9). 689–699. 10 indexed citations
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Yu, Tianqi & Wei Cai. (2006). FIFA — Fast Interpolation and Filtering Algorithm for Calculating Dyadic Green’s Function in the Electromagnetic Scattering of Multi-Layered Structures. 3 indexed citations
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Deng, Shaozhong & Wei Cai. (2005). Discontinuous spectral element method modeling of optical coupling by whispering gallery modes between microcylinders. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 22(5). 952–952. 7 indexed citations
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Cai, Wei, Min Xu, & R. R. Alfano. (2005). Analytical form of the particle distribution based on the cumulant solution of the elastic Boltzmann transport equation. Physical Review E. 71(4). 41202–41202. 10 indexed citations
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Tadi, M., Michael V. Klibanov, & Wei Cai. (2002). An inversion method for parabolic equations based on quasireversibility. Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 43(8-9). 927–941. 19 indexed citations
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Zhou, Dian, et al.. (1995). A fast wavelet collocation method for high-speed VLSI circuit simulation. International Conference on Computer Aided Design. 115–122. 9 indexed citations
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Cai, Wei & Chi‐Wang Shu. (1991). Uniform high order spectral methods for one and two dimensional Euler equations. 1 indexed citations

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