Zhifa Cao

567 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 380 citations indexed

About

Zhifa Cao is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhifa Cao has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 380 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Cell Biology, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Zhifa Cao's work include Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (7 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (2 papers). Zhifa Cao is often cited by papers focused on Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (7 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (2 papers). Zhifa Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, South Korea and United States. Zhifa Cao's co-authors include Zhaocai Zhou, Liwei An, Shi Jiao, Wenjia Wang, Hui Zhang, Junyi Ju, Pingping Nie, Moubin Lin, Shimin Zhao and Fan Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zhifa Cao

11 papers receiving 379 citations

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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.

The alanyl-tRNA synthetase AARS1 moonlights as a lactyltransferase to promote YAP signaling in gastric cancer

2024 148 citations Junyi Ju, Hui Zhang et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhifa Cao China	7	191	103	89	76	70	11	380
Mara Mazzoni Italy	10	196 1.0×	58 0.6×	117 1.3×	62 0.8×	59 0.8×	14	330
Lingqiang Min China	10	227 1.2×	116 1.1×	112 1.3×	63 0.8×	61 0.9×	16	354
Guinv Hu China	12	237 1.2×	151 1.5×	104 1.2×	38 0.5×	48 0.7×	24	383
Naita M. Wirsik Germany	9	143 0.7×	86 0.8×	220 2.5×	91 1.2×	59 0.8×	22	443
Weiyu Ge China	9	324 1.7×	181 1.8×	173 1.9×	79 1.0×	64 0.9×	20	502
Xinping Yang United States	11	263 1.4×	125 1.2×	142 1.6×	65 0.9×	37 0.5×	15	425
Eva Y‐HP Lee United States	5	283 1.5×	121 1.2×	128 1.4×	58 0.8×	50 0.7×	6	409
Marco Zanotto Italy	9	221 1.2×	118 1.1×	254 2.9×	134 1.8×	85 1.2×	13	489
Meng Xie China	11	282 1.5×	205 2.0×	127 1.4×	100 1.3×	95 1.4×	21	459
Juan Ramón Delgado Spain	12	219 1.1×	103 1.0×	151 1.7×	54 0.7×	73 1.0×	24	416

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhifa Cao

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

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Wei, Jinsong, Zhifa Cao, Qing Li, et al.. (2025). Nuclear ubiquitination permits Hippo–YAP signal for liver development and tumorigenesis. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(10). 1565–1576. 1 indexed citations

2.

Chen, Fan, Yi Han, Hui Zhang, et al.. (2025). Oxidative stress and Kras mutation in Mist1+ cells act in a double-hit manner to drive gastric tumorigenesis. Cell Reports. 44(7). 116014–116014. 1 indexed citations

3.

Tang, Yang, Ge‐Min Fang, Hui Zhang, et al.. (2024). A cofactor-induced repressive type of transcription factor condensation can be induced by synthetic peptides to suppress tumorigenesis. The EMBO Journal. 43(22). 5586–5612. 3 indexed citations

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Ju, Junyi, Hui Zhang, Moubin Lin, et al.. (2024). The alanyl-tRNA synthetase AARS1 moonlights as a lactyltransferase to promote YAP signaling in gastric cancer. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 134(10). 148 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cao, Zhifa, Yu Hou, Hui Zhang, et al.. (2024). Reactivating Hippo by drug compounds to suppress gastric cancer and enhance chemotherapy sensitivity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(6). 107311–107311. 6 indexed citations

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Jiao, Shi, Chuanchuan Li, Fenghua Guo, et al.. (2023). SUN1/2 controls macrophage polarization via modulating nuclear size and stiffness. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6416–6416. 19 indexed citations

7.

Cao, Zhifa, Liwei An, Yi Han, Shi Jiao, & Zhaocai Zhou. (2023). The Hippo signaling pathway in gastric cancer. Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica. 55(6). 893–903. 15 indexed citations

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Meng, Yan, Fei Ye, Pingping Nie, et al.. (2023). Immunosuppressive CD10+ALPL+ neutrophils promote resistance to anti-PD-1 therapy in HCC by mediating irreversible exhaustion of T cells. Journal of Hepatology. 79(6). 1435–1449. 73 indexed citations

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An, Liwei, Pingping Nie, Min Chen, et al.. (2020). MST4 kinase suppresses gastric tumorigenesis by limiting YAP activation via a non-canonical pathway. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 217(6). 48 indexed citations

10.

Cao, Zhifa, et al.. (2018). Anaplastic lymphoma kinase fusions: Roles in cancer and therapeutic perspectives (Review). Oncology Letters. 17(2). 2020–2030. 38 indexed citations

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Chen, Weicai, Ye Kuang, Haibo Qiu, et al.. (2017). Dual Targeting of Insulin Receptor and KIT in Imatinib-Resistant Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors. Cancer Research. 77(18). 5107–5117. 28 indexed citations

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