Weibo Cai

43.4k total citations · 15 hit papers
452 papers, 33.7k citations indexed

About

Weibo Cai is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Weibo Cai has authored 452 papers receiving a total of 33.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 170 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 148 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 125 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Weibo Cai's work include Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (130 papers), Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications (107 papers) and Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (84 papers). Weibo Cai is often cited by papers focused on Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (130 papers), Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications (107 papers) and Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (84 papers). Weibo Cai collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and India. Weibo Cai's co-authors include Xiaohong Chen, Hao Hong, Todd E. Barnhart, Dalong Ni, Emily B. Ehlerding, Shreya Goel, Dawei Jiang, Feng Chen, Zachary T. Rosenkrans and Christopher G. England and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Weibo Cai

441 papers receiving 33.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Nanozyme: new horizons for responsive biomedical applications

2019 1.5k citations Dawei Jiang, Dalong Ni et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
In vivo biodistribution and highly efficient tumour targeting of carbon nanotubes in mice

2006 1.1k citations Weibo Cai et al. profile →
Circulation and long-term fate of functionalized, biocompatible single-walled carbon nanotubes in mice probed by Raman spectroscopy

2008 905 citations Weibo Cai, Lina He et al. profile →
Peptide-Labeled Near-Infrared Quantum Dots for Imaging Tumor Vasculature in Living Subjects

2006 737 citations Weibo Cai, Kai Chen et al. profile →
Applications of gold nanoparticles in cancer nanotechnology

2008 630 citations Weibo Cai PubMed profile →
Biomedical Applications of Zinc Oxide Nanomaterials

2013 526 citations Hao Hong, Weibo Cai et al. profile →
Iron Oxide Decorated MoS₂ Nanosheets with Double PEGylation for Chelator-Free Radiolabeling and Multimodal Imaging Guided Photothermal Therapy

2015 452 citations Sixiang Shi, Shreya Goel et al. ACS Nano profile →
Engineering of inorganic nanoparticles as magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents

2017 403 citations Dalong Ni, Wenbo Bu et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
NanoLuc: A Small Luciferase Is Brightening Up the Field of Bioluminescence

2016 392 citations Christopher G. England, Emily B. Ehlerding et al. profile →
Theranostic Liposomes with Hypoxia-Activated Prodrug to Effectively Destruct Hypoxic Tumors Post-Photodynamic Therapy

2016 365 citations Weibo Cai et al. ACS Nano profile →
Non-invasive multimodal functional imaging of the intestine with frozen micellar naphthalocyanines

2014 364 citations Yumiao Zhang, Hao Hong et al. profile →
DNA origami nanostructures can exhibit preferential renal uptake and alleviate acute kidney injury

2018 359 citations Dawei Jiang, Christopher G. England et al. profile →
ImmunoPET: Concept, Design, and Applications

2020 334 citations Weibo Cai et al. profile →
Effective Wound Healing Enabled by Discrete Alternative Electric Fields from Wearable Nanogenerators

2018 312 citations Dalong Ni, Weibo Cai et al. ACS Nano profile →
Wafer-scale heterostructured piezoelectric bio-organic thin films

2021 268 citations Dalong Ni, Weibo Cai et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weibo Cai

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Harnessing the power of nanoagents in acute kidney injury: A versatile platform for imaging and treatment 2025 ·PubMed ·Peng Liu, Yu Zhao, Ying Peng, Jessica C. Hsu, Ming Zhou, Wenhu Zhou, (unknown), Weibo Cai	2
2	Advances in immunoPET/SPECT imaging: The role of Fab and F(ab′)2 fragments in theranostics 2025 ·Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B ·Wenpeng Huang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jessica C. Hsu, Weibo Cai, Lei Kang	1
3	Nanoscale Radiotheranostics for Cancer Treatment: From Bench to Bedside 2024 ·Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology ·Xiaodan Jiao, Hao Hong, Weibo Cai	7
4	Advancing Global Nuclear Medicine: The Role and Future Contributions of China 2024 ·Journal of Nuclear Medicine ·Haojun Chen, Kuangyu Shi, Weibo Cai, (unknown), Jing Wang	0
5	Vector enabled CRISPR gene editing – A revolutionary strategy for targeting the diversity of brain pathologies 2023 ·Coordination Chemistry Reviews ·Helen Forgham, (unknown), Jiayuan Zhu, Ibrahim Javed, Weibo Cai, Ruirui Qiao, Thomas P. Davis	6
6	The Emerging Landscape for Combating Resistance Associated with Energy‐Based Therapies via Nanomedicine 2023 ·Advanced Materials ·Qitao Hu, Huali Zuo, Jessica C. Hsu, (unknown), Tian Zhou, (unknown), Weibo Cai, Zhe Tang, Weiyu Chen	7
7	Nanomaterial-based contrast agents 2023 ·Nature Reviews Methods Primers ·Jessica C. Hsu, Zhongmin Tang, Olga E. Eremina, Alexandros Marios Sofias, Twan Lammers, Jonathan F. Lovell, Cristina Zavaleta, Weibo Cai, David P. Cormode	74
8	Cancer Brachytherapy at the Nanoscale: An Emerging Paradigm 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Sanchita Ghosh, (unknown), Jessica C. Hsu, Sudipta Chakraborty, Rubel Chakravarty, Weibo Cai	16
9	Beamer: Stage-Aware Coflow Scheduling to Accelerate Hyper-Parameter Tuning in Deep Learning Clusters 2021 ·IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management ·(unknown), Weibo Cai, (unknown), Gang Sun, Shouxi Luo, Hongfang Yu, Mohsen Guizani	8
10	TSEngine: Enable Efficient Communication Overlay in Distributed Machine Learning in WANs 2021 ·IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management ·(unknown), Weibo Cai, Zonghang Li, Hongfang Yu, Ling Liu, Long Luo, Gang Sun	9
11	Labeling of Erythrocytes by Porphyrin‐Phospholipid 2020 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Dawei Jiang, Boyang Sun, (unknown), Jonathan W. Engle, (unknown), Xuedan He, Sriram Neelamegham, Weibo Cai, Jonathan F. Lovell	3
12	Big Potential from Small Agents: Nanoparticles for Imaging-Based Companion Diagnostics 2018 ·ACS Nano ·Emily B. Ehlerding, Piotr Grodzinski, Weibo Cai, Christina Liu	123
13	Surfactant-Stripped Pheophytin Micelles for Multimodal Tumor Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy 2018 ·ACS Applied Bio Materials ·Dana Moukheiber, Upendra Chitgupi, Kevin A. Carter, Dandan Luo, Boyang Sun, Shreya Goel, Carolina A. Ferreira, Jonathan W. Engle, Depeng Wang, Jumin Geng, Yumiao Zhang, Jun Xia, Weibo Cai, Jonathan F. Lovell	18
14	Surfactant-stripped naphthalocyanines for multimodal tumor theranostics with upconversion guidance cream 2017 ·Nanoscale ·Yumiao Zhang, Hao Hong, Boyang Sun, (unknown), Yiru Qin, Wei Wei, Depeng Wang, Mansik Jeon, Jumin Geng, Robert J. Nickles, Guanying Chen, Paras N. Prasad, Chulhong Kim, Jun Xia, Weibo Cai, Jonathan F. Lovell	42
15	Engineering of inorganic nanoparticles as magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents breakdown → 2017 ·Chemical Society Reviews ·Dalong Ni, Wenbo Bu, Emily B. Ehlerding, Weibo Cai, Jianlin Shi	403
16	Dual Targeting of Tissue Factor and CD105 for Preclinical PET Imaging of Pancreatic Cancer 2016 ·Clinical Cancer Research ·Haiming Luo, Christopher G. England, Sixiang Shi, Stephen A. Graves, Reinier Hernandez, Bai Liu, Charles P. Theuer, Hing C. Wong, Robert J. Nickles, Weibo Cai	30
17	Comparison of the Superagonist Complex, ALT-803, to IL15 as Cancer Immunotherapeutics in Animal Models 2015 ·Cancer Immunology Research ·Peter R. Rhode, Jack O. Egan, Wenxin Xu, Hao Hong, Gabriela M. Webb, Xiaoyue Chen, Bai Liu, Xiaoyun Zhu, Jinghai Wen, Lijing You, Lin Kong, Ana C. Edwards, Kaiping Han, Sixiang Shi, Sarah Alter, Jonah B. Sacha, Emily K. Jeng, Weibo Cai, Hing C. Wong	170
18	Noninvasive De novo Imaging of Human Embryonic Stem Cell–Derived Teratoma Formation 2009 ·Cancer Research ·Feng Cao, Zibo Li, Andrew Lee, Zhaofei Liu, Kai Chen, Hui Wang, Weibo Cai, Xiaoyuan Chen, Joseph C. Wu	47
19	Integrin-targeted imaging and therapy with RGD4C-TNF fusion protein 2008 ·Molecular Cancer Therapeutics ·Hui Wang, Kai Chen, Weibo Cai, Zibo Li, Lina He, Amir Kashefi, Xiaohong Chen	45
20	Integrin αvβ3-Targeted Radioimmunotherapy of Glioblastoma Multiforme 2008 ·Clinical Cancer Research ·Anand Veeravagu, Zhaofei Liu, Gang Niu, Kai Chen, Bing Jia, Weibo Cai, (unknown), Andrew R. Hsu, Andrew J. Connolly, Victor Tse, Fan Wang, Xiaohong Chen	63

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