Yiwei Cai

572 total citations · 2 hit papers
19 papers, 417 citations indexed

About

Yiwei Cai is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Ecology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Yiwei Cai has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 417 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 6 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Yiwei Cai's work include Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (12 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (8 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers). Yiwei Cai is often cited by papers focused on Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (12 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (8 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers). Yiwei Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yiwei Cai's co-authors include Hezhong Yuan, Enfeng Liu, Qiang Li, Mengxing Guo, Mengxia Wang, Haixiang Wang, Hongbin Yin, Zhen Yang, Wei Wei and Qingfei Zeng and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Yiwei Cai

17 papers receiving 405 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.

Optimization, validation and analyses of a hybrid PV-battery-diesel power system using enhanced electromagnetic field optimization algorithm and ε-constraint

2024 89 citations Mengxia Wang, Yiwei Cai et al. Energy Reports profile →
Simulation and comprehensive study of a new trigeneration process combined with a gas turbine cycle, involving transcritical and supercritical CO2 power cycles and Goswami cycle

2024 84 citations Chaoyang Zhu, Mengxia Wang et al. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yiwei Cai China	10	144	104	81	67	64	19	417
Camelia Rotaru United States	5	77 0.5×	153 1.5×	73 0.9×	26 0.4×	82 1.3×	11	539
Bo Shao China	16	44 0.3×	292 2.8×	182 2.2×	15 0.2×	114 1.8×	32	624
Yazhou Zhao China	15	77 0.5×	53 0.5×	37 0.5×	145 2.2×	21 0.3×	30	617
Weizhong Zhao China	15	195 1.4×	40 0.4×	17 0.2×	16 0.2×	14 0.2×	34	582
John Kennedy Mwangi Taiwan	17	19 0.1×	86 0.8×	30 0.4×	48 0.7×	15 0.2×	24	849
Juan Antonio López Ramírez Spain	15	25 0.2×	121 1.2×	63 0.8×	104 1.6×	21 0.3×	31	581
Chuan-Shui Wang China	9	287 2.0×	68 0.7×	55 0.7×	14 0.2×	19 0.3×	9	620
Kostas Fytas Canada	10	100 0.7×	21 0.2×	40 0.5×	14 0.2×	58 0.9×	23	374
Austin Anderson United States	5	73 0.5×	27 0.3×	54 0.7×	187 2.8×	6 0.1×	6	428
C. Resch Austria	7	19 0.1×	128 1.2×	26 0.3×	23 0.3×	40 0.6×	7	345

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19 of 19 papers shown

Yuan, Hezhong, Tong Guan, Yiwei Cai, et al.. (2025). Regime difference trigger the regulation of mineralization progress of organic phosphorus in lake sediments. Water Research. 284. 124002–124002.

Wang, Mengxia, et al.. (2025). Application of Metaheuristic Algorithms with Supervised Machine Learning for Accurate Power Consumption Prediction. Cognitive Computation. 17(1).

Yuan, Hezhong, Tong Guan, Enfeng Liu, et al.. (2024). Regime difference between macrophyte and Cyanophyta dominance regulate microbial carbon sequestration mode in lake sediments. Water Research. 267. 122481–122481. 4 indexed citations

Zhu, Chaoyang, Mengxia Wang, Jinxin Deng, et al.. (2024). Simulation and comprehensive study of a new trigeneration process combined with a gas turbine cycle, involving transcritical and supercritical CO2 power cycles and Goswami cycle. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. 149(12). 6361–6384. 84 indexed citations breakdown →

Yuan, Hezhong, Tong Guan, Yiwei Cai, et al.. (2024). Biotic regulation of phoD-encoding gene bacteria on organic phosphorus mineralization in lacustrine sediments with distinct trophic levels. Water Research. 260. 121980–121980. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Mengxia, et al.. (2024). Optimization, validation and analyses of a hybrid PV-battery-diesel power system using enhanced electromagnetic field optimization algorithm and ε-constraint. Energy Reports. 11. 5335–5349. 89 indexed citations breakdown →

Yuan, Hezhong, Bin Li, Yiwei Cai, Enfeng Liu, & Qingfei Zeng. (2024). Biotic and Abiotic Regulations of Carbon Fixation into Lacustrine Sediments with Different Nutrient Levels. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(13). 5844–5855. 3 indexed citations

Yuan, Hezhong, Panyu Chen, Enfeng Liu, et al.. (2023). Terrestrial sources regulate the endogenous phosphorus load in Taihu Lake, China after exogenous controls: Evidence from a representative lake watershed. Journal of Environmental Management. 340. 118016–118016. 8 indexed citations

Yuan, Hezhong, Yiwei Cai, Haixiang Wang, Enfeng Liu, & Qingfei Zeng. (2023). Impact of seasonal change on dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) triggering the retention of nitrogen in lake. Journal of Environmental Management. 341. 118050–118050. 15 indexed citations

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Yuan, Hezhong, Haixiang Wang, Yiwei Cai, et al.. (2023). Iron bound phosphorus predominates the contribution of phosphorus to lake system from terrigenous source: The evidence from the small watershed scale. Water Research. 245. 120661–120661. 7 indexed citations

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Yuan, Hezhong, Yiwei Cai, Haixiang Wang, et al.. (2023). How phoD-harboring functional microbial populations trigger the release risk of phosphorus in water sediment system of Shijiuhu Lake, China after experiencing the transseasonal shift. Water Research. 240. 120107–120107. 17 indexed citations

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Cai, Yiwei, et al.. (2023). Seasonal variation regulate the endogenous phosphorus release in sediments of Shijiuhu Lake via water-level fluctuation. Environmental Research. 238(Pt 2). 117247–117247. 14 indexed citations

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Yuan, Hezhong, Juan Wu, Haixiang Wang, et al.. (2022). How do inundation provoke the release of phosphorus in soil-originated sediment due to nitrogen reduction after reclaiming lake from polder. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 118. 147–157. 4 indexed citations

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Yuan, Hezhong, Haixiang Wang, Yanwen Zhou, et al.. (2022). Tracing the sources of phosphorus in lake at watershed scale using phosphate oxygen isotope (δ18OP). Chemosphere. 305. 135382–135382. 9 indexed citations

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Yuan, Hezhong, Qingfei Zeng, Yanwen Zhou, et al.. (2022). Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) potentially facilitates the accumulation of phosphorus in lake water from sediment. Chemosphere. 303(Pt 1). 134664–134664. 17 indexed citations

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Yuan, Hezhong, Haixiang Wang, Yanwen Zhou, et al.. (2021). Water-level fluctuations regulate the availability and diffusion kinetics process of phosphorus at lake water–sediment interface. Water Research. 200. 117258–117258. 63 indexed citations

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Yuan, Hezhong, Yiwei Cai, Zhen Yang, et al.. (2021). Phosphorus removal from sediments by Potamogeton crispus: New high-resolution in-situ evidence for rhizosphere assimilation and oxidization-induced retention. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 109. 181–192. 18 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yanwen, Haixiang Wang, Yinlong Zhang, et al.. (2021). Availability and diffusion kinetic process of phosphorus in the water–sediment interface assessed by the high-resolution DGT technique. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 21(10). 3274–3288. 8 indexed citations

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Yuan, Hezhong, Hongbin Yin, Zhen Yang, et al.. (2020). Diffusion kinetic process of heavy metals in lacustrine sediment assessed under different redox conditions by DGT and DIFS model. The Science of The Total Environment. 741. 140418–140418. 50 indexed citations

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