Zhen Cai

11 total papers · 1.2k total citations
9 papers, 575 citations indexed

About

Zhen Cai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhen Cai has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 575 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Cancer Research and 1 paper in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Zhen Cai's work include Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (4 papers), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (4 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (3 papers). Zhen Cai is often cited by papers focused on Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (4 papers), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (4 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (3 papers). Zhen Cai collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Taiwan. Zhen Cai's co-authors include Hui‐Kuan Lin, Che-Chia Hsu, Danni Peng, Chuan Xu, Fei Han, Guoxiang Jin, Chien‐Feng Li, Hui-Kuan Lin, Guihua Wang and Shuxing Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Cell Biology and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Zhen Cai

8 papers receiving 572 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. NSUN2 is a glucose sensor suppressing cGAS/STING to maintain tumorigenesis and immunotherapy resistance
    2023 114 citations Tingjin Chen, Zhigang Xu et al. Cell Metabolism profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Zhen Cai 457 147 79 61 55 9 575
Jarrett T. Whelan 481 1.1× 136 0.9× 94 1.2× 71 1.2× 31 0.6× 11 678
Chae Young Han 395 0.9× 223 1.5× 98 1.2× 46 0.8× 39 0.7× 13 585
Seung Baek Lee 416 0.9× 106 0.7× 85 1.1× 72 1.2× 110 2.0× 9 572
Yaliang Lan 359 0.8× 294 2.0× 77 1.0× 57 0.9× 44 0.8× 12 523
Vasudha Sehgal 305 0.7× 171 1.2× 115 1.5× 47 0.8× 85 1.5× 11 500
Nate P. Hoverter 508 1.1× 174 1.2× 92 1.2× 48 0.8× 30 0.5× 7 641
Huairui Yuan 422 0.9× 156 1.1× 92 1.2× 106 1.7× 46 0.8× 14 584
Tobias Ackermann 307 0.7× 165 1.1× 94 1.2× 84 1.4× 42 0.8× 12 578
Anders P. Mutvei 363 0.8× 116 0.8× 106 1.3× 40 0.7× 46 0.8× 13 507
E. Aaron Runkle 347 0.8× 158 1.1× 78 1.0× 54 0.9× 23 0.4× 10 598

Countries citing papers authored by Zhen Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhen Cai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhen Cai

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

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