Yang Cao

637 papers and 16.7k indexed citations
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About

Yang Cao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Cao has authored 637 papers receiving a total of 16.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 215 papers in Molecular Biology, 149 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 146 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Yang Cao’s work include Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (110 papers), Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques (47 papers) and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research (35 papers). Yang Cao is often cited by papers focused on Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (110 papers), Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques (47 papers) and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research (35 papers). Yang Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yang Cao's co-authors include Yu Song, Yukun Zhang, Xiaobo Feng, Xinghuo Wu, Shuai Li, Gaocai Li, Rongjin Luo, Steven P. Treon, Zachary R. Hunter and Lian Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Advanced Materials and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Cao

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

Fields of papers citing papers by Yang Cao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Countries citing papers authored by Yang Cao

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This map shows the geographic impact of Yang 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 Yang Cao with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Yang Cao more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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