Yiling Cai

796 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 618 citations indexed

About

Yiling Cai is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yiling Cai has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 618 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Yiling Cai's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (3 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (2 papers). Yiling Cai is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (3 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (2 papers). Yiling Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, Austria and France. Yiling Cai's co-authors include Fengsong Pei, Xia Li, Youyue Wen, Xiaoping Liu, Changjiang Wu, Klaus Hubacek, Le Yu, Shuanjin Wang, Kuishuang Feng and Jianguo Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Yiling Cai

12 papers receiving 609 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. Global urban expansion offsets climate-driven increases in terrestrial net primary productivity
    2019 293 citations Xiaoping Liu, Fengsong Pei et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yiling Cai China 7 384 173 116 89 83 14 618
Yuehui Li China 15 378 1.0× 299 1.7× 55 0.5× 72 0.8× 30 0.4× 69 816
Miaomiao Zhao China 13 330 0.9× 145 0.8× 164 1.4× 91 1.0× 3 0.0× 37 706
Shimei Li China 12 110 0.3× 42 0.2× 111 1.0× 48 0.5× 9 0.1× 43 453
KS Lee South Korea 17 200 0.5× 469 2.7× 19 0.2× 13 0.1× 7 0.1× 53 1.1k
Guangxia Zhang China 10 401 1.0× 85 0.5× 63 0.5× 389 4.4× 2 0.0× 17 778
Miki Arai Japan 15 256 0.7× 9 0.1× 26 0.2× 24 0.3× 27 0.3× 16 528
Helin Zhang China 17 225 0.6× 268 1.5× 120 1.0× 4 0.0× 6 0.1× 64 815
Can Chen China 9 88 0.2× 54 0.3× 12 0.1× 45 0.5× 5 0.1× 17 333
Sara Wu Canada 6 289 0.8× 92 0.5× 30 0.3× 15 0.2× 4 0.0× 9 495

Countries citing papers authored by Yiling Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yiling Cai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yiling Cai

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

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Wang, Huan, Yuchao Yan, Delong Li, et al.. (2025). Terrestrial ecosystems are in transition. Frontiers in Remote Sensing. 6.
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Wu, Changjiang, Xiaoping Liu, Fengsong Pei, et al.. (2025). Non-negligible large impact of potential forestation on livestock production in China. Geography and sustainability. 6(4). 100270–100270. 2 indexed citations
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Xia, Kun, You Zhou, Wei Wang, & Yiling Cai. (2025). Streptococcus anginosus: the potential role in the progression of gastric cancer. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. 151(4). 143–143. 2 indexed citations
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Xia, Kun, et al.. (2025). Role of SMYD2 in gastrointestinal cancer progression (Review). Oncology Letters. 29(6). 1–12.
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Cai, Yiling, Xiaoping Liu, Li Zeng, et al.. (2023). Human activities significantly impact China’s net primary production variation from 2001 to 2020. Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment. 48(2). 251–274. 5 indexed citations
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Zeng, Li, Xiaoping Liu, Wenhao Li, et al.. (2022). Global simulation of fine resolution land use/cover change and estimation of aboveground biomass carbon under the shared socioeconomic pathways. Journal of Environmental Management. 312. 114943–114943. 26 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoping, Xun Liang, Yuchao Yan, et al.. (2021). Tensor‐CA: A high‐performance cellular automata model for land use simulation based on vectorization and GPU. Transactions in GIS. 26(2). 755–778. 8 indexed citations
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Xu, Xiaolin, et al.. (2020). Diagnostic value of ultrasound elastography for differentiation of benign and malignant axillary lymph nodes: a meta-analysis. Clinical Radiology. 75(6). 481.e9–481.e16. 9 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoping, Fengsong Pei, Youyue Wen, et al.. (2019). Global urban expansion offsets climate-driven increases in terrestrial net primary productivity. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5558–5558. 293 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhu, Dingjun, et al.. (2019). CEP55 promotes epithelial–mesenchymal transition in renal cell carcinoma through PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway. Clinical & Translational Oncology. 21(7). 939–949. 49 indexed citations
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Wen, Youyue, Xiaoping Liu, Qinchuan Xin, et al.. (2019). Cumulative Effects of Climatic Factors on Terrestrial Vegetation Growth. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 124(4). 789–806. 126 indexed citations
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Zeng, Zhenling, et al.. (2010). Effects of the biological clock gene Bmal1 on tumour growth and anti-cancer drug activity. The Journal of Biochemistry. 148(3). 319–326. 91 indexed citations

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