Yan Cai

97 total papers · 1.7k total citations
59 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Yan Cai is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Cai has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 28 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 15 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yan Cai's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (43 papers), Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (14 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (12 papers). Yan Cai is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (43 papers), Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (14 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (12 papers). Yan Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Yan Cai's co-authors include Lionel C. Kimerling, Jürgen Michel, Rodolfo Camacho‐Aguilera, Jonathan T. Bessette, Neil Patel, M. Romagnoli, Jifeng Liu, Mingbin Yu, Xiaoxin Wang and Wencheng Yue and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Applied Physics Letters and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Yan Cai

57 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

  1. An electrically pumped germanium laser
    2012 585 citations Rodolfo Camacho‐Aguilera, Yan Cai et al. Optics Express profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Yan Cai 1.1k 678 358 299 66 59 1.2k
Paulina S. Kuo 1.1k 0.9× 1.1k 1.7× 93 0.3× 226 0.8× 151 2.3× 65 1.5k
Fabio Pezzoli 773 0.7× 647 1.0× 616 1.7× 387 1.3× 17 0.3× 71 1.3k
S. Stanković 1.2k 1.1× 755 1.1× 162 0.5× 121 0.4× 97 1.5× 60 1.3k
Feifan Wang 660 0.6× 531 0.8× 153 0.4× 337 1.1× 155 2.3× 46 1.0k
Zhan Su 1.4k 1.2× 740 1.1× 207 0.6× 178 0.6× 133 2.0× 66 1.5k
Chen Wei 1.1k 0.9× 976 1.4× 160 0.4× 114 0.4× 22 0.3× 88 1.3k
Tingyi Gu 1.0k 0.9× 830 1.2× 337 0.9× 506 1.7× 201 3.0× 69 1.5k
Muhammad Muneeb 1.3k 1.2× 854 1.3× 199 0.6× 207 0.7× 99 1.5× 42 1.5k
H. Yokoyama 854 0.7× 840 1.2× 148 0.4× 199 0.7× 31 0.5× 45 1.1k
Florian Merget 1.2k 1.0× 626 0.9× 298 0.8× 150 0.5× 99 1.5× 63 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yan Cai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Cai

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

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