Yu Cai

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Yu Cai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Cai has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Epidemiology and 11 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Yu Cai's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (10 papers), Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies (6 papers) and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (6 papers). Yu Cai is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (10 papers), Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies (6 papers) and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (6 papers). Yu Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Yu Cai's co-authors include Shilpa Buch, Lu Yang, Junying Yuan, Palsamy Periyasamy, Ming‐Lei Guo, Jyothi Arikkath, Hongguang Xia, Junli Liu, Tao Zhang and Ying Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Yu Cai

72 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Beclin1 Controls the Levels of p53 by Regulating the Deubiquitination Activity of USP10 and USP13

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Cai China	21	967	750	299	266	226	80	2.3k
Fang Sun China	21	931 1.0×	425 0.6×	233 0.8×	132 0.5×	254 1.1×	63	2.7k
Wenlu Li China	30	1.6k 1.6×	373 0.5×	327 1.1×	287 1.1×	340 1.5×	102	3.1k
Yi Zhou China	32	1.5k 1.6×	374 0.5×	321 1.1×	404 1.5×	90 0.4×	115	3.3k
Teresio Avitabile Italy	36	860 0.9×	381 0.5×	287 1.0×	105 0.4×	105 0.5×	195	4.6k
Thomas Schaffner Switzerland	28	1.1k 1.1×	1.0k 1.4×	443 1.5×	340 1.3×	56 0.2×	65	3.2k
Hong‐Lin Su Taiwan	25	956 1.0×	224 0.3×	179 0.6×	206 0.8×	107 0.5×	58	2.0k
Seong‐Beom Lee South Korea	25	960 1.0×	388 0.5×	385 1.3×	181 0.7×	58 0.3×	65	2.1k
Jie Luo China	25	1.0k 1.1×	259 0.3×	338 1.1×	70 0.3×	255 1.1×	111	2.4k
M. Cristina Kenney United States	46	2.3k 2.4×	283 0.4×	385 1.3×	394 1.5×	217 1.0×	219	7.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Cai

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

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Ye, Qing, Jie Zhang, Xin Wang, et al.. (2025). Recent advances in nanomedicine strategies for nervous system injuries biomolecular regeneration. Materials & Design. 261. 115333–115333.

Hu, Ke, et al.. (2025). Spatial patterns and socio-environmental determinants of gonorrhea incidence in China. Frontiers in Public Health. 13. 1698923–1698923.

Wang, Lijun, Zhihuang Zheng, Yu Cai, et al.. (2025). Kidney Damage in a Post–Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Patient With Dense Deposit Disease and Thrombotic Microangiopathy–Like Changes. Kidney International Reports. 10(9). 3284–3287.

Yang, Min, et al.. (2024). Case report: Autoimmune encephalomyelitis following cytomegalovirus infection after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Frontiers in Medicine. 11.

Cai, Yu, et al.. (2024). Fasudil alleviates alcohol-induced cognitive deficits and hippocampal morphology injury partly by altering the assembly of the actin cytoskeleton and microtubules. Behavioural Brain Research. 471. 115068–115068. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Ying, Xiaowei Xu, Yu Cai, et al.. (2024). Low-dose anti-thymocyte globulin plus low-dose posttransplant cyclophosphamide-based regimen for prevention of graft-versus-host disease in haploidentical peripheral blood stem cell transplantation for pediatric patients with hematologic malignancies. Annals of Hematology. 103(9). 3765–3774. 1 indexed citations

Cai, Yu, et al.. (2023). Efficacy of concentrated growth factor (CGF) in the surgical treatment of oral diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Oral Health. 23(1). 712–712. 18 indexed citations

Zhang, Yong, et al.. (2022). Survival of nonsurgically splinted mandibular anterior teeth during supportive maintenance care in periodontitis patients. Journal of Dental Sciences. 18(1). 229–236. 4 indexed citations

Cai, Yu, Lu Han, Desheng Zhu, et al.. (2021). A Stable Cell Line Expressing Clustered AChR: A Novel Cell-Based Assay for Anti-AChR Antibody Detection in Myasthenia Gravis. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 666046–666046. 9 indexed citations

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Chen, Qishan, Jianing Zhang, Lijuan Huang, et al.. (2021). Role of VEGFR2 in Mediating Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Under Glucose Deprivation and Determining Cell Death, Oxidative Stress, and Inflammatory Factor Expression. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9. 631413–631413. 5 indexed citations

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Seong, Eunju, Li Yuan, Yu Cai, et al.. (2020). δ-Catenin engages the autophagy pathway to sculpt the developing dendritic arbor. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(32). 10988–11001. 7 indexed citations

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Xie, Chong, Wei Zhang, Yu Cai, et al.. (2020). Experimental mouse model of NMOSD produced by facilitated brain delivery of NMO-IgG by microbubble-enhanced low-frequency ultrasound in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis mice. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. 46. 102473–102473. 5 indexed citations

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Yang, Hong, Lu Han, Jie Ding, et al.. (2019). Lower serum interleukin‐22 and interleukin‐35 levels are associated with disease status in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. 26(2). 251–259. 5 indexed citations

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McNamara, Hayley A., Yu Cai, Yovina Sontani, et al.. (2017). Up-regulation of LFA-1 allows liver-resident memory T cells to patrol and remain in the hepatic sinusoids. Science Immunology. 2(9). 128 indexed citations

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Yang, Lu, Xufeng Chen, Samantha M. Simet, et al.. (2016). Reactive Oxygen Species/Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1α/Platelet-Derived Growth Factor-BB Autocrine Loop Contributes to Cocaine-Mediated Alveolar Epithelial Barrier Damage. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 55(5). 736–748. 18 indexed citations

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Cai, Yu, Lu Yang, Shannon Callen, & Shilpa Buch. (2016). Multiple Faceted Roles of Cocaine in Potentiation of HAND. Current HIV Research. 14(5). 412–416. 23 indexed citations

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Lyu, Jihui, Xiang Li, Wenjie Li, et al.. (2015). The effectiveness evaluation of multiple discipline intervention for delirium diagnosis and treatment in elderly inpatients. Zhonghua laonian yixue zazhi. 34(12). 1306–1309.

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Cai, Yu, Tomoko Kurita‐Ochiai, Tomomi Hashizume, & Masafumi Yamamoto. (2012). Green tea epigallocatechin-3-gallate attenuates Porphyromonas gingivalis-induced atherosclerosis. FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology. n/a–n/a. 3 indexed citations

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Ma, Xiuquan, Yu Cai, Hongguang Xia, et al.. (2011). Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain Complex III Is Required for Antimycin A to Inhibit Autophagy. Chemistry & Biology. 18(11). 1474–1481. 70 indexed citations

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Jin, Ying, Xin An, Yu Cai, et al.. (2011). Zoledronic acid combined with chemotherapy bring survival benefits to patients with bone metastases from nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. 137(10). 1545–1551. 13 indexed citations

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