Yuping Cai

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Yuping Cai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuping Cai has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Cancer Research and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Yuping Cai's work include Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (22 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (11 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers). Yuping Cai is often cited by papers focused on Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (22 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (11 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers). Yuping Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Yuping Cai's co-authors include C. Peter Wölk, Zheng‐Jiang Zhu, Todd A. Black, Yandong Yin, Jean Michel Panoff, Zhiwei Zhou, Alexander N. Glazer, Yuan Guo, Ruohong Wang and Xiaotao Shen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Immunity.

In The Last Decade

Yuping Cai

57 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Metabolite annotation from knowns to unknowns through knowledge-guided multi-layer metabolic networking

2022 164 citations Zhiwei Zhou, Mingdu Luo et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Yuping Cai

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George G. Harrigan United States

Dirk Steinhauser Germany

Shan He China

Jiří Adamec United States

Tânia Melo Portugal

Alejandro Villar‐Briones Japan

Sandra Castillo Finland

Henning Redestig Germany

Patrice Waridel Switzerland

Gert Wohlgemuth United States

George G. Harrigan United States

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94 ×0.4

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Countries citing papers authored by Yuping Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yuping Cai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuping Cai

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

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Chen, Hongbo, Huijing Zhang, Jianping Liu, et al.. (2025). RIPK1 senses S-adenosylmethionine scarcity to drive cell death and inflammation. Cell Metabolism. 37(8). 1732–1749.e9. 3 indexed citations

Teng, Teng, Fang Huang, Ming Xu, et al.. (2025). Microbiota alterations leading to amino acid deficiency contribute to depression in children and adolescents. Microbiome. 13(1). 128–128. 3 indexed citations

Gao, Yang, Mingdu Luo, Hongmiao Wang, et al.. (2025). Charting unknown metabolic reactions by mass spectrometry-resolved stable-isotope tracing metabolomics. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5059–5059. 4 indexed citations

Cai, Yuping, et al.. (2024). Fast and broad-coverage lipidomics enabled by ion mobility-mass spectrometry. The Analyst. 149(20). 5063–5072. 3 indexed citations

Yin, Bangmin, Yuping Cai, Teng Teng, et al.. (2024). Identifying plasma metabolic characteristics of major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia in adolescents. Translational Psychiatry. 14(1). 163–163. 12 indexed citations

Lv, Jiali, Chang Pan, Yuping Cai, et al.. (2024). Plasma metabolomics reveals the shared and distinct metabolic disturbances associated with cardiovascular events in coronary artery disease. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5729–5729. 25 indexed citations

Sun, Yawen, Wenjuan Liu, Tao Zhang, et al.. (2024). Purine salvage–associated metabolites as biomarkers for early diagnosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a diagnostic model–based study. Cell Death Discovery. 10(1). 139–139. 5 indexed citations

Kim, Jin‐Hwan, Xueyan Peng, Yuping Cai, et al.. (2023). Toll-like Receptor-9 Activation Promotes Persistent Inflammation in the Lung During Influenza Infection. A5608–A5608. 1 indexed citations

Peng, Hairong, Qinming Zhou, Yanqing Yin, et al.. (2023). Intestinal epithelial dopamine receptor signaling drives sex-specific disease exacerbation in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis. Immunity. 56(12). 2773–2789.e8. 11 indexed citations

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Huang, Ziyu, et al.. (2023). A study on computer vision for facial emotion recognition. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 8425–8425. 54 indexed citations

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Wang, Ruohong, Yandong Yin, Jingshu Li, et al.. (2022). Global stable-isotope tracing metabolomics reveals system-wide metabolic alternations in aging Drosophila. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3518–3518. 40 indexed citations

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Charkoftaki, Georgia, Jaya Prakash Golla, Álvaro J. Santos‐Neto, et al.. (2021). Identification of Dose-Dependent DNA Damage and Repair Responses From Subchronic Exposure to 1,4-Dioxane in Mice Using a Systems Analysis Approach. Toxicological Sciences. 183(2). 338–351. 12 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaochen, Wing Lam, Zaoli Jiang, et al.. (2021). YIV-906 potentiated anti-PD1 action against hepatocellular carcinoma by enhancing adaptive and innate immunity in the tumor microenvironment. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 13482–13482. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Tongzhou, Yandong Yin, Zhiwei Zhou, et al.. (2021). Ion mobility-based sterolomics reveals spatially and temporally distinctive sterol lipids in the mouse brain. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4343–4343. 45 indexed citations

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Cai, Yuping, Nicholas J. W. Rattray, Qian Zhang, et al.. (2020). Tumor Tissue-Specific Biomarkers of Colorectal Cancer by Anatomic Location and Stage. Metabolites. 10(6). 257–257. 16 indexed citations

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Cai, Yuping & Zheng‐Jiang Zhu. (2018). A High-Throughput Targeted Metabolomics Workflow for the Detection of 200 Polar Metabolites in Central Carbon Metabolism. Methods in molecular biology. 1859. 263–274. 17 indexed citations

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Cai, Yuping, Nan Liu, & Zheng‐Jiang Zhu. (2018). Stable-isotope Labeled Metabolic Analysis in Drosophila melanogaster: from Experimental Setup to Data Analysis. BIO-PROTOCOL. 8(18). e3015–e3015. 2 indexed citations

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Cai, Yuping, John T. Murphy, Gary J. Wedemayer, & Alexander N. Glazer. (2001). Recombinant Phycobiliproteins. Analytical Biochemistry. 290(2). 186–204. 59 indexed citations

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Black, Todd A., Yuping Cai, & C. Peter Wölk. (1993). Spatial expression and autoregulation of hetR, a gene involved in the control of heterocyst development in Anabaena. Molecular Microbiology. 9(1). 77–84. 323 indexed citations

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Maldener, Iris, Wolfgang Lockau, Yuping Cai, & C. Peter Wölk. (1991). Calcium-dependent protease of the cyanobacterium Anabaena: molecular cloning and expression of the gene in Escherichia coli, sequencing and site-directed mutagenesis. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 225(1). 113–120. 54 indexed citations

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