Wensheng Cai

9.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
343 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Wensheng Cai is a scholar working on Analytical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wensheng Cai has authored 343 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Analytical Chemistry, 118 papers in Molecular Biology and 83 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Wensheng Cai's work include Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses (126 papers), Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research (82 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (51 papers). Wensheng Cai is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses (126 papers), Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research (82 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (51 papers). Wensheng Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, France and United States. Wensheng Cai's co-authors include Xueguang Shao, Christophe Chipot, Haohao Fu, Yankun Li, Xiaoyu Cui, Longjiu Cheng, Haochuan Chen, Peng Liu, François Dehez and Zhongxiao Pan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Wensheng Cai

337 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

A variable selection method based on uninformative variable elimination for multivariate calibration of near-infrared spectra

2007 476 citations Wensheng Cai, Xueguang Shao et al. profile →
Deep learning in spectral analysis: Modeling and imaging

2024 58 citations Wensheng Cai, Xueguang Shao et al. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wensheng Cai China	45	2.8k	2.0k	1.6k	1.5k	1.5k	343	7.8k
Xueguang Shao China	50	3.9k 1.4×	2.1k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	1.9k 1.3×	2.0k 1.4×	414	9.5k
Anna de Juan Spain	42	4.9k 1.7×	1.6k 0.8×	2.1k 1.3×	1.7k 1.1×	885 0.6×	149	8.2k
Bernhard Lendl Austria	47	2.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	2.1k 1.3×	3.1k 2.1×	1.0k 0.7×	385	9.8k
Søren Balling Engelsen Denmark	61	6.2k 2.2×	4.1k 2.1×	2.2k 1.4×	2.7k 1.8×	470 0.3×	299	15.1k
Alejandro C. Olivieri Argentina	53	6.1k 2.2×	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	303	10.3k
Roman M. Balabin Switzerland	36	1.9k 0.7×	634 0.3×	765 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	431 0.3×	62	4.3k
David M. Haaland United States	31	3.5k 1.2×	682 0.3×	1.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	604 0.4×	94	5.8k
Cyril Ruckebusch France	29	1.5k 0.5×	662 0.3×	822 0.5×	656 0.4×	631 0.4×	139	3.4k
Joel M. Harris United States	51	914 0.3×	1.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	2.6k 1.7×	1.6k 1.1×	300	9.2k
Joaquim Jaumot Spain	35	2.0k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	761 0.5×	929 0.6×	504 0.3×	75	5.3k

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Wang, Haipeng, et al.. (2025). Head-to-Tail Cyclization Enhances Ice-Growth Inhibition by Linear Threonine Oligomers. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 65(5). 2572–2591. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Yamei, Liping Ren, Ning Wang, et al.. (2025). Sialylation Shields Glycoproteins from Oxidative Stress: Mechanistic Insights into Sialic Acid Oxidation and Structural Stability. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(7). 5828–5838. 2 indexed citations

Zhou, Huaxin, Haohao Fu, Xueguang Shao, & Wensheng Cai. (2025). Identification of novel inhibitors for epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase using absolute binding free-energy simulations. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 304(Pt 2). 140989–140989. 2 indexed citations

Xie, Yuan, Han‐Xiong Li, Wensheng Cai, & Xueguang Shao. (2025). Enhanced bi-branch deep learning network for in vivo hyperspectral imaging recognition of organs and tissues. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 345. 126815–126815.

Cai, Wensheng, et al.. (2024). Deep learning in spectral analysis: Modeling and imaging. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 172. 117612–117612. 58 indexed citations breakdown →

Cai, Wensheng, et al.. (2024). Water as a probe for the temperature-induced self-assembly transition of an amphiphilic copolymer. Chinese Chemical Letters. 36(4). 110095–110095.

Cai, Wensheng, et al.. (2024). AttenGpKa: A Universal Predictor of Solvation Acidity Using Graph Neural Network and Molecular Topology. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 64(14). 5480–5491. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Jin, et al.. (2023). Enhancing Transferability of Near-Infrared Spectral Models for Soluble Solids Content Prediction across Different Fruits. Applied Sciences. 13(9). 5417–5417. 10 indexed citations

Han, Li, Yan Sun, Wensheng Cai, & Xueguang Shao. (2023). Seeking the structure of water from the combination of bending and stretching vibrations in near infrared spectra. Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy. 31(4). 204–210. 3 indexed citations

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Han, Li, Haipeng Wang, Wensheng Cai, & Xueguang Shao. (2023). Mechanism of Binding of Polyproline to Ice via Interfacial Water: An Experimental and Theoretical Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(18). 4127–4133. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Haochuan, Shashank Pant, Wensheng Cai, et al.. (2022). A Companion Guide to the String Method with Swarms of Trajectories: Characterization, Performance, and Pitfalls. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 18(3). 1406–1422. 17 indexed citations

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Wang, Shiying, et al.. (2021). Insight into the stability of protein in confined environment through analyzing the structure of water by temperature-dependent near-infrared spectroscopy. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 267(Pt 2). 120581–120581. 14 indexed citations

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Zarkadas, Eleftherios, Hong Zhang, Wensheng Cai, et al.. (2020). The Binding of Palonosetron and Other Antiemetic Drugs to the Serotonin 5-HT3 Receptor. Structure. 28(10). 1131–1140.e4. 16 indexed citations

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Cui, Xiaoyu, et al.. (2018). Understanding the function of water during the gelation of globular proteins by temperature-dependent near infrared spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20(30). 20132–20140. 48 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jin, Wensheng Cai, & Xueguang Shao. (2017). New Algorithms for Calibration Transfer in Near Infrared Spectroscopy. Huaxue jinzhan. 29(8). 902. 15 indexed citations

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Shao, Xueguang, et al.. (2016). 溶媒はどのようにピラーアレーン/イミダゾリウム[2]ロタキサンの往復揺動を調節するのか?自由エネルギー計算からの洞察. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 120(11). 6287–6293. 5 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yue, et al.. (2015). Aquaphotomics of Near Infrared Spectroscopy. Huaxue jinzhan. 27. 242. 8 indexed citations

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Bian, Xihui, Wensheng Cai, Xueguang Shao, Da Chen, & Edward R. Grant. (2010). Detecting influential observations by cluster analysis and Monte Carlo cross-validation. The Analyst. 135(11). 2841–2841. 21 indexed citations

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Cai, Wensheng, et al.. (2010). Quantitative Determination of the Components in Corn and Tobacco Samples by Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Multiblock Partial Least Squares. Analytical Letters. 43(12). 1910–1921. 17 indexed citations

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Cai, Wensheng, Yu Fang, Xueguang Shao, & Zhongxiao Pan. (2000). Resolution of Overlapping Chromatographic Peaks Using a Genetic Algorithm. Analytical Letters. 33(2). 373–390. 8 indexed citations

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