Yi Cai

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 887 citations indexed

About

Yi Cai is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Cai has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 887 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 11 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 1 paper in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yi Cai's work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (22 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (17 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (11 papers). Yi Cai is often cited by papers focused on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (22 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (17 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (11 papers). Yi Cai collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States. Yi Cai's co-authors include Michael A. Schmidt, Tong Li, Raymond R. Volkas, Nicole F. Bell, Tao Han, Richard Ruíz, Juan Herrero-García, Avelino Vicente, Rebecca K. Leane and Hai-Bo Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters B and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Yi Cai

23 papers receiving 868 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.

  1. From the Trees to the Forest: A Review of Radiative Neutrino Mass Models
    2017 206 citations Yi Cai, Juan Herrero-García et al. Frontiers in Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yi Cai Australia 16 864 330 17 15 11 24 887
Andreas Weiler Germany 16 1.1k 1.2× 341 1.0× 23 1.4× 20 1.3× 11 1.0× 28 1.1k
Michele Frigerio France 21 1.2k 1.4× 250 0.8× 13 0.8× 13 0.9× 10 0.9× 40 1.2k
Michael A. Schmidt Australia 22 1.2k 1.4× 287 0.9× 26 1.5× 17 1.1× 33 3.0× 60 1.2k
Jörn Kersten Germany 17 1.2k 1.3× 335 1.0× 19 1.1× 24 1.6× 19 1.7× 29 1.2k
Eduardo Peinado Mexico 22 1.3k 1.5× 197 0.6× 18 1.1× 17 1.1× 6 0.5× 63 1.3k
J. López-Pavón Spain 18 1.1k 1.3× 141 0.4× 13 0.8× 6 0.4× 11 1.0× 32 1.1k
David Forero Spain 12 1.4k 1.6× 182 0.6× 22 1.3× 19 1.3× 13 1.2× 27 1.4k
Basabendu Barman India 18 523 0.6× 515 1.6× 26 1.5× 20 1.3× 12 1.1× 36 613
Ivan Martínez-Soler United States 14 995 1.2× 166 0.5× 21 1.2× 11 0.7× 4 0.4× 31 1.0k
Hajime Ishimori Japan 14 1.2k 1.4× 97 0.3× 12 0.7× 13 0.9× 6 0.5× 21 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yi Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yi Cai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Cai

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cai, Yi, Tao Han, Tong Li, & Richard Ruíz. (2018). Lepton Number Violation: Seesaw Models and Their Collider Tests. Frontiers in Physics. 6. 180 indexed citations
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Cai, Yi, Michael A. Schmidt, & G. Valencia. (2018). Lepton-flavour-violating gluonic operators: constraints from the LHC and low energy experiments. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2018(5). 10 indexed citations
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Cai, Yi, Juan Herrero-García, Michael A. Schmidt, Avelino Vicente, & Raymond R. Volkas. (2017). From the Trees to the Forest: A Review of Radiative Neutrino Mass Models. Frontiers in Physics. 5. 206 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cai, Yi, J. Clarke, Raymond R. Volkas, & Tsutomu T. Yanagida. (2016). TeV-scale pseudo-Dirac seesaw mechanisms in anE6inspired model. Physical review. D. 94(3). 5 indexed citations
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Cai, Yi & Michael A. Schmidt. (2016). Revisiting the RνMDM models. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016(5). 10 indexed citations
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Bell, Nicole F., Yi Cai, & Rebecca K. Leane. (2016). Mono-Wdark matter signals at the LHC: simplified model analysis. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2016(1). 51–51. 28 indexed citations
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Bell, Nicole F., Yi Cai, & Rebecca K. Leane. (2016). Dark forces in the sky: signals fromZ′ and the dark Higgs. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2016(8). 1–1. 28 indexed citations
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Cai, Yi & Andrew Spray. (2016). Fermionic semi-annihilating dark matter. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016(1). 20 indexed citations
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Spray, Andrew & Yi Cai. (2016). Semi-Annihilating Wino-Like Dark Matter. 125–125.
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Cai, Yi & Wei Chao. (2015). The Higgs seesaw induced neutrino masses and dark matter. Physics Letters B. 749. 458–463. 5 indexed citations
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Bell, Nicole F., Yi Cai, James B. Dent, Rebecca K. Leane, & T. Weiler. (2015). Dark matter at the LHC: Effective field theories and gauge invariance. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 92(5). 36 indexed citations
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Cai, Yi, J. Clarke, Michael A. Schmidt, & Raymond R. Volkas. (2015). Testing radiative neutrino mass models at the LHC. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015(2). 27 indexed citations
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Bell, Nicole F., Yi Cai, & Aníbal D. Medina. (2014). Co-annihilating dark matter: Effective operator analysis and collider phenomenology. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 89(11). 26 indexed citations
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Bell, Nicole F., Yi Cai, Rebecca K. Leane, & Aníbal D. Medina. (2014). Leptophilic dark matter withZ′interactions. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 90(3). 42 indexed citations
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Angel, Paul W., Yi Cai, Nicholas L. Rodd, Michael A. Schmidt, & Raymond R. Volkas. (2013). Testable two-loop radiative neutrino mass model based on an LLQd c Qd c effective operator. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2013(10). 33 indexed citations
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An, Haipeng, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Yi Cai, & Rabindra N. Mohapatra. (2012). Sneutrino Dark Matter in Gauged Inverse Seesaw Models for Neutrinos. Physical Review Letters. 108(8). 81806–81806. 48 indexed citations
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Cai, Yi, et al.. (2011). Low mass dark matter and invisible Higgs width in darkon models. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 83(8). 33 indexed citations
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Zhou, Zhengyuan, Yi Cai, Hua‐Cai Fang, et al.. (2010). Assembly of two low-dimensional coordination polymers from Ag(I) and Cd(II) and 2,3-bis(2-pyridyl)pyrazine. Inorganica Chimica Acta. 363(5). 877–883. 7 indexed citations
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Cai, Yi, et al.. (2010). Biological activity of recombinant Spodoptera exigua multicapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus against Spodoptera exigua larvae. Biological Control. 55(3). 178–185. 6 indexed citations
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Cai, Yi & Hai-Bo Yu. (2006). SO(10)grand unification model withS4flavor symmetry. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 74(11). 56 indexed citations

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