Youfang Cao

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Youfang Cao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Youfang Cao has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Plant Science and 10 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Youfang Cao's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (15 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (8 papers) and Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (6 papers). Youfang Cao is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (15 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (8 papers) and Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (6 papers). Youfang Cao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Youfang Cao's co-authors include Kexuan Tang, Liping Zhao, Weiying Hua, Xiaojun Zhang, Yuejian Mao, Guoping Zhao, Chenhong Zhang, Yan Chen, Ruijun Han and Xiaoyan Pang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Youfang Cao

52 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Interactions between gut microbiota, host genetics and diet relevant to development of metabolic syndromes in mice

2009 818 citations Chenhong Zhang, Menghui Zhang et al. The ISME Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Youfang Cao United States	17	1.2k	394	320	247	246	55	1.9k
Yoshimitsu Maede Japan	26	762 0.6×	538 1.4×	416 1.3×	48 0.2×	347 1.4×	134	2.4k
Muḥammad Mukhtār United States	25	730 0.6×	76 0.2×	590 1.8×	590 2.4×	263 1.1×	125	2.4k
Tom Barrett United Kingdom	15	757 0.6×	295 0.7×	102 0.3×	88 0.4×	288 1.2×	23	2.1k
Yuanyi Peng China	25	1.0k 0.8×	289 0.7×	153 0.5×	35 0.1×	256 1.0×	74	2.4k
Young Min Lee South Korea	21	347 0.3×	159 0.4×	342 1.1×	148 0.6×	344 1.4×	91	1.8k
Sandra Coccuzzo Sampaio Brazil	23	1.1k 0.9×	443 1.1×	37 0.1×	90 0.4×	167 0.7×	78	2.1k
Ruitang Deng United States	29	506 0.4×	65 0.2×	179 0.6×	113 0.5×	325 1.3×	46	2.3k
Robert V. House United States	29	560 0.5×	186 0.5×	66 0.2×	130 0.5×	144 0.6×	90	2.4k
Abdoulaye Dabo Mali	27	350 0.3×	281 0.7×	85 0.3×	40 0.2×	206 0.8×	80	2.0k
Jörg Hofmann Germany	28	1.7k 1.4×	313 0.8×	1.1k 3.5×	21 0.1×	171 0.7×	60	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Youfang Cao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Youfang Cao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Youfang Cao

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chawla, Akshita, Ruthie Birger, Brian M. Maas, et al.. (2025). Comparison of Molnupiravir Exposure‐Response Relationships for Virology Response and Mechanism of Action Biomarkers With Clinical Outcomes in Treatment of COVID‐19. Clinical and Translational Science. 18(4). e70184–e70184.

Liu, Shuyan, Lili Fu, Xiaomeng Xia, et al.. (2025). The fusion of machine olfactory data and UV–Vis-NIR-MIR spectra enabled accurate prediction of key soil nutrients. Geoderma. 453. 117161–117161.

Charil, Arnaud, Youfang Cao, Brian A. Willis, et al.. (2024). Lecanemab Slows Tau PET Accumulation. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(S6). 3 indexed citations

Majid, Oneeb, Youfang Cao, Brian A. Willis, et al.. (2024). Population pharmacokinetics and exposure–response analyses of safety (ARIA‐E and isolated ARIA‐H) of lecanemab in subjects with early Alzheimer's disease. CPT Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology. 13(12). 2111–2123. 6 indexed citations

Chawla, Akshita, Ruthie Birger, Hong Wan, et al.. (2023). Factors Influencing COVID‐19 Risk: Insights From Molnupiravir Exposure‐Response Modeling of Clinical Outcomes. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 113(6). 1337–1345. 6 indexed citations

Matthews, Randolph P., Youfang Cao, Munjal Patel, et al.. (2022). Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Islatravir in Individuals with Severe Renal Insufficiency. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 66(12). e0093122–e0093122. 7 indexed citations

Cao, Youfang, et al.. (2021). Exact Probability Landscapes of Stochastic Phenotype Switching in Feed-Forward Loops: Phase Diagrams of Multimodality. Frontiers in Genetics. 12. 645640–645640. 6 indexed citations

Cleary, Rachel A., Douglas D. Richman, Michael G. Hudgens, et al.. (2020). HIV persistence in tissue macrophages of humanized myeloid-only mice during antiretroviral therapy. UNC Libraries.

Cao, Youfang, Emily K. Cartwright, Guido Silvestri, & Alan S. Perelson. (2018). CD8+ lymphocyte control of SIV infection during antiretroviral therapy. PLoS Pathogens. 14(10). e1007350–e1007350. 24 indexed citations

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Razooky, Brandon S., Youfang Cao, Maike M. K. Hansen, et al.. (2017). Nonlatching positive feedback enables robust bimodality by decoupling expression noise from the mean. PLoS Biology. 15(10). e2000841–e2000841. 20 indexed citations

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Gürsoy, Gamze, et al.. (2016). Mechanisms of stochastic focusing and defocusing in biological reaction networks: Insight from accurate Chemical Master Equation (ACME) solutions. PubMed. 78. 1480–1483. 1 indexed citations

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Naveed, Hammad, et al.. (2015). Mechanical Model of Geometric Cell and Topological Algorithm for Cell Dynamics from Single-Cell to Formation of Monolayered Tissues with Pattern. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0126484–e0126484. 11 indexed citations

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Chen, Tianqi, et al.. (2012). Understand the noise of CI expression in phage λ lysogen. Chinese Control Conference. 7432–7436. 1 indexed citations

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Cao, Youfang, Chengzhen Liang, Hammad Naveed, et al.. (2012). Modeling spatial population dynamics of stem cell lineage in tissue growth. PubMed. 144. 5502–5505. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chenhong, Menghui Zhang, Shengyue Wang, et al.. (2009). Interactions between gut microbiota, host genetics and diet relevant to development of metabolic syndromes in mice. The ISME Journal. 4(2). 232–241. 818 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zuo, Kaijing, Jie Qin, Jingya Zhao, et al.. (2007). Over-expression GbERF2 transcription factor in tobacco enhances brown spots disease resistance by activating expression of downstream genes. Gene. 391(1-2). 80–90. 67 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lida, Shunwu Yu, Youfang Cao, et al.. (2006). Distributional gradient of amino acid repeats in plant proteins. Genome. 49(8). 900–905. 13 indexed citations

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Cao, Youfang, Lianjie Wang, Chunhai Kou, et al.. (2005). Information theory-based algorithm for in silico prediction of PCR products with whole genomic sequences as templates. BMC Bioinformatics. 6(1). 190–190. 23 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lida, Dejun Yuan, Shunwu Yu, et al.. (2004). Preference of simple sequence repeats in coding and non-coding regions of Arabidopsis thaliana. Bioinformatics. 20(7). 1081–1086. 103 indexed citations

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Li, Zhugang, Lingxia Zhao, Shunwu Yu, et al.. (2004). Cloning and expression analysis of a water stress-induced gene from Brassica oleracea. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 42(10). 789–794. 10 indexed citations

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