Xu Cao

97 total papers · 4.0k total citations
69 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Xu Cao is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xu Cao has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Plant Science, 38 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Xu Cao's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (22 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (14 papers) and Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (10 papers). Xu Cao is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (22 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (14 papers) and Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (10 papers). Xu Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Xu Cao's co-authors include Zachary B. Lippman, Joyce Van Eck, Xiawan Zhai, Yuan Yu, Xinping Yang, Tingdong Li, Xiaomin Si, Huawei Zhang, Wenxia Dong and Caixia Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Xu Cao

64 papers receiving 2.8k 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Domestication of wild tomato is accelerated by genome editing

2018 440 citations Tingdong Li, Xinping Yang et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
Engineering source-sink relations by prime editing confers heat-stress resilience in tomato and rice

2024 40 citations Shujia Li, Yu-Pan Zou et al. Cell profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author						Papers	Cites
Xu Cao	2.1k	1.6k	288	152	119	69	2.8k
Yang Liu	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	158 0.5×	57 0.4×	169 1.4×	109	3.2k
Sean May	3.3k 1.6×	2.7k 1.6×	189 0.7×	70 0.5×	104 0.9×	86	4.6k
Jun‐Jun Liu	1.9k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	244 0.8×	46 0.3×	130 1.1×	134	3.1k
Kousuke Hanada	2.3k 1.1×	2.3k 1.4×	276 1.0×	69 0.5×	64 0.5×	56	3.5k
Zhi Wang	3.7k 1.8×	3.0k 1.8×	344 1.2×	86 0.6×	88 0.7×	122	5.0k
Lin Li	2.4k 1.2×	1.7k 1.0×	125 0.4×	44 0.3×	65 0.5×	82	3.1k
Yan Sun	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	371 1.3×	145 1.0×	177 1.5×	133	2.6k
Wenli Zhang	3.4k 1.6×	2.5k 1.6×	599 2.1×	153 1.0×	121 1.0×	131	4.6k
Zhigang Li	2.6k 1.3×	2.3k 1.4×	432 1.5×	41 0.3×	168 1.4×	113	4.0k
Yoko Ikeda	2.2k 1.1×	2.4k 1.5×	375 1.3×	41 0.3×	55 0.5×	104	3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Xu Cao

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This map shows the geographic impact of Xu Cao's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Xu Cao with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Xu Cao more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Xu Cao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xu Cao

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

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