Zheng Cao

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 783 citations indexed

About

Zheng Cao is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Zheng Cao has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 783 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 12 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Zheng Cao's work include Optical Network Technologies (13 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (12 papers) and Interconnection Networks and Systems (10 papers). Zheng Cao is often cited by papers focused on Optical Network Technologies (13 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (12 papers) and Interconnection Networks and Systems (10 papers). Zheng Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Zheng Cao's co-authors include Roberto Proietti, S. J. Ben Yoo, Fei Feng, Rui Miao, Yan Zhuang, F. P. Kelly, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Yuliang Li, Mohammad Alizadeh and Ming Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Sensors, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and Journal of Lightwave Technology.

In The Last Decade

Zheng Cao

54 papers receiving 768 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.

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    2019 356 citations Fei Feng, Zheng Cao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zheng Cao China 11 466 261 251 151 90 61 783
George Apostolopoulos Greece 11 713 1.5× 73 0.3× 403 1.6× 119 0.8× 70 0.8× 35 883
Malcolm Ware United States 9 446 1.0× 380 1.5× 216 0.9× 131 0.9× 61 0.7× 14 766
Mahmoud Salmasizadeh Iran 11 193 0.4× 178 0.7× 187 0.7× 251 1.7× 105 1.2× 71 473
Taeweon Suh South Korea 13 222 0.5× 142 0.5× 99 0.4× 97 0.6× 43 0.5× 56 433
Ryousei Takano Japan 12 283 0.6× 145 0.6× 96 0.4× 59 0.4× 71 0.8× 64 406
Zeqi Lai China 16 561 1.2× 121 0.5× 187 0.7× 50 0.3× 178 2.0× 58 814
Aaron Harlap United States 5 325 0.7× 219 0.8× 162 0.6× 464 3.1× 328 3.6× 6 796
Emmanuel Amaro United States 8 242 0.5× 119 0.5× 299 1.2× 180 1.2× 211 2.3× 15 674
Sai Qian Zhang United States 14 274 0.6× 64 0.2× 209 0.8× 185 1.2× 135 1.5× 42 545
Ali A. El‐Moursy United Arab Emirates 13 330 0.7× 178 0.7× 116 0.5× 95 0.6× 41 0.5× 66 505

Countries citing papers authored by Zheng Cao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zheng Cao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zheng Cao

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cheng, Yifan, et al.. (2025). Causality between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Telomere Length. Brain and Behavior. 15(2). e70362–e70362.
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Wang, Yanbin, Haitao Xu, Zhan Qin, et al.. (2024). PMANet: Malicious URL detection via post-trained language model guided multi-level feature attention network. Information Fusion. 113. 102638–102638. 11 indexed citations
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Huang, Wei, et al.. (2024). Genetically identified mediators associated with increased risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 174. 172–180. 4 indexed citations
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Wu, Wentao, et al.. (2024). Iterative Pulse–Echo Tomography for Ultrasonic Image Correction. Sensors. 24(6). 1895–1895.
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Dong, Jianbo, Xiaoli Liu, Wei Chen, et al.. (2024). Kspeed: Beating I/O Bottlenecks of Data Provisioning for RDMA Training Clusters. 1–12. 1 indexed citations
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Qian, Peng, Zheng Cao, Lun Zhang, et al.. (2024). MuFuzz: Sequence-Aware Mutation and Seed Mask Guidance for Blockchain Smart Contract Fuzzing. 1972–1985. 4 indexed citations
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Hui, Binyuan, Min Yang, Bowen Li, et al.. (2022). STAR: SQL Guided Pre-Training for Context-dependent Text-to-SQL Parsing. 1235–1247. 9 indexed citations
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Dai, Yinpei, Bowen Li, Yuchuan Wu, et al.. (2022). CGoDial: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Chinese Goal-oriented Dialog Evaluation. 4097–4111. 3 indexed citations
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Zeng, Jun, et al.. (2022). The Relationship between Intimate Partner Violence and Online Help-Seeking: A Moderated Mediation Model of Emotion Dysregulation and Perceived Anonymity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(14). 8330–8330. 2 indexed citations
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Dong, Jianbo, Shaochuang Wang, Fei Feng, et al.. (2021). ACCL: Architecting Highly Scalable Distributed Training Systems With Highly Efficient Collective Communication Library. IEEE Micro. 41(5). 85–92. 14 indexed citations
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Gao, Wanling, Fei Tang, Jianfeng Zhan, et al.. (2021). AIBench Scenario: Scenario-Distilling AI Benchmarking. 142–158. 3 indexed citations
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Pan, Heng, Zhenyu Li, Jianbo Dong, et al.. (2020). Dissecting the Communication Latency in Distributed Deep Sparse Learning. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 528–534. 8 indexed citations
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Cao, Zheng, et al.. (2015). Experimental Demonstration of Flexible Bandwidth Optical Data Center Core Network With All-to-All Interconnectivity. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 33(8). 1578–1585. 25 indexed citations
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Ding, Renjie, Zheng Cao, & Miao Fan. (2010). The research of optimal control system of SVC for reactive compensation of single-phase load. Chinese Control Conference. 1843–1847. 2 indexed citations
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Cao, Zheng & Lei Li. (2010). The improvement of the forecasting model of short-term traffic flow based on wavelet and ARMA. 1–4. 2 indexed citations
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Cao, Zheng, et al.. (2009). HPPNetSim: a parallel simulation of large-scale interconnection networks. Spring Simulation Multiconference. 32. 3 indexed citations
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Cao, Zheng, et al.. (2009). Design of Barrier Network of Dawning 5000 High Performance Computer. Chinese Journal of Computers. 31(10). 1727–1736. 1 indexed citations
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Cao, Zheng & Ming Zhu. (2009). An efficient video copy detection method based on video signature. 24. 855–859. 2 indexed citations

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