Weiwei Cai

11.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
74 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Weiwei Cai is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Pollution and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Weiwei Cai has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Environmental Engineering, 28 papers in Pollution and 20 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Weiwei Cai's work include Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (35 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (24 papers) and Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (20 papers). Weiwei Cai is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (35 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (24 papers) and Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (20 papers). Weiwei Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Weiwei Cai's co-authors include Rodney S. Ruoff, Meryl D. Stoller, Adam Pirkle, Katie A. Cychosz, K. J. Ganesh, Matthias Thommes, Eric A. Stach, Shanthi Murali, Yanwu Zhu and Paulo J. Ferreira and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Weiwei Cai

71 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

Carbon-Based Supercapacitors Produced by Activation of Graphene

2011 5.5k citations Weiwei Cai et al. profile →
Synthesis and Solid-State NMR Structural Characterization of ¹³ C-Labeled Graphite Oxide

2008 1.0k citations Weiwei Cai et al. profile →
Biodiversity and species competition regulate the resilience of microbial biofilm community

2017 381 citations Kai Feng, Zhaojing Zhang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weiwei Cai China	33	4.8k	4.6k	3.4k	2.3k	1.4k	74	10.1k
Feng Zhao China	59	2.2k 0.5×	5.8k 1.3×	1.7k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	649 0.5×	346	11.9k
Yuanyuan Li China	61	4.6k 1.0×	5.1k 1.1×	5.2k 1.5×	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	261	13.7k
Xiaoyuan Zhang China	54	1.9k 0.4×	3.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.4×	2.7k 1.2×	354 0.3×	255	9.7k
Scott W. Donne Australia	48	2.1k 0.4×	3.3k 0.7×	2.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	1.0k 0.7×	201	8.7k
Haiying Wang China	58	1.9k 0.4×	3.5k 0.8×	3.2k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	709 0.5×	385	11.9k
Tingting Yan China	76	2.6k 0.5×	7.5k 1.6×	6.3k 1.9×	6.0k 2.5×	1.8k 1.3×	345	16.8k
Xiaoyu Shi China	41	2.6k 0.5×	3.3k 0.7×	2.7k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	660 0.5×	156	7.0k
Jie Zhang China	53	606 0.1×	5.6k 1.2×	3.9k 1.2×	1.0k 0.4×	2.2k 1.6×	252	10.6k
Chang Zhang China	51	1.0k 0.2×	1.6k 0.4×	1.9k 0.6×	2.1k 0.9×	449 0.3×	190	8.9k
Fengbao Zhang China	54	2.3k 0.5×	4.9k 1.1×	4.5k 1.3×	1.7k 0.7×	805 0.6×	285	11.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weiwei Cai

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cai, Weiwei, Ren Li, Li Zhang, Yutong Liu, & Wenjiao Yang. (2025). Simulation of water resources in ungauged region- case study in Nam Ou River Basin, Laos. Ecological Indicators. 171. 113173–113173.

Liu, Shuli, Aijuan Zhou, Weiwei Cai, et al.. (2024). Sulfate-reducing bacteria decreases fractional pressure of H2 to accelerate short-chain fatty acids production from waste activated sludge fermentation assisted with zero-valent iron activated sulfite pretreatment. The Science of The Total Environment. 931. 172898–172898. 3 indexed citations

Zhou, Shunfa, et al.. (2024). Self-supported ultrathin NiMn-LDH nanosheets for highly active and robust urea oxidation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 484. 149706–149706. 32 indexed citations

Zhang, Heqing, Weiwei Cai, Jianbo Guo, et al.. (2024). Vulnerable Methanogenic Community in Microbial Electrolysis Cells Alters Electron Allocation in Response to Community Coalescence. ACS ES&T Engineering. 4(6). 1378–1390. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Qian, Xiaohui Hu, Xujing Zhang, et al.. (2024). CaSTH2 disables CaWRKY40 from activating pepper thermotolerance and immunity against Ralstonia solanacearum via physical interaction. Horticulture Research. 11(5). uhae066–uhae066. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Bo, Zhaojing Zhang, Kai Feng, et al.. (2024). Inoculum source determines the stress resistance of electroactive functional taxa in biofilms: A metagenomic perspective. The Science of The Total Environment. 945. 174018–174018. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Jingjing, et al.. (2023). Digested extracellular DNA shortens the anodic startup of microbial electrolysis cell. The Science of The Total Environment. 875. 162642–162642. 3 indexed citations

Zheng, Guoli, Shunfa Zhou, Xuan Zhou, et al.. (2023). Synthesis of graphene anchored with atomically isolated cobalt from a promising graphite-like supramolecule. Chemical Communications. 59(56). 8735–8738.

Li, Jianling, Yue Li, Yunfan Wan, et al.. (2023). Annual greenhouse gas emissions from a rice paddy with different water-nitrogen management strategies in Central China. Soil and Tillage Research. 235. 105906–105906. 17 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, Thangavel Sangeetha, Wei‐Mon Yan, et al.. (2022). Tracking the diversity and interaction of methanogens in the energy recovery process of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant. Environmental Research. 211. 113010–113010. 7 indexed citations

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Yao, Hong, et al.. (2021). Pilot-scale demonstration of one-stage partial nitritation/anammox process to treat wastewater from a coal to ethylene glycol (CtEG) plant. Environmental Research. 208. 112540–112540. 21 indexed citations

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Wang, Hui, Wenzong Liu, Muhammad Rizwan Haider, et al.. (2021). Waste activated sludge lysate treatment: Resource recovery and refractory organics degradation. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 416. 126206–126206. 24 indexed citations

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Wang, Bin, Ran Li, Yunfan Wan, et al.. (2020). Air warming and CO2 enrichment cause more ammonia volatilization from rice paddies: An OTC field study. The Science of The Total Environment. 752. 142071–142071. 35 indexed citations

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Wang, Bin, Jianling Li, Yunfan Wan, et al.. (2019). Variable effects of 2°C air warming on yield formation under elevated [CO2] in a Chinese double rice cropping system. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 278. 107662–107662. 24 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhaojing, Ye Deng, Kai Feng, et al.. (2019). Deterministic Assembly and Diversity Gradient Altered the Biofilm Community Performances of Bioreactors. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(3). 1315–1324. 154 indexed citations

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Wang, Bo, Wenzong Liu, Weiwei Cai, et al.. (2019). Reinjection oilfield wastewater treatment using bioelectrochemical system and consequent corrosive community evolution on pipe material. Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 129(2). 199–205. 15 indexed citations

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Yao, Hong, et al.. (2019). Mitigation of antibiotic resistance in a pilot-scale system treating wastewater from high-speed railway trains. Chemosphere. 245. 125484–125484. 17 indexed citations

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Guo, Zechong, Wenzong Liu, Chunxue Yang, et al.. (2017). Computational and experimental analysis of organic degradation positively regulated by bioelectrochemistry in an anaerobic bioreactor system. Water Research. 125. 170–179. 72 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yi, Jing Wang, Qiang Zhu, et al.. (2015). The neurobiological drive for overeating implicated in Prader–Willi syndrome. Brain Research. 1620. 72–80. 40 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lingkun, Weiwei Cai, Wuya Chen, et al.. (2015). Synthesis of AzPhchitosan-bifenthrin-PVC to protect cables against termites. Carbohydrate Polymers. 139. 50–60. 11 indexed citations

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