Zhihua Cai

769 total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 600 citations indexed

About

Zhihua Cai is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhihua Cai has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 600 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 6 papers in Surgery and 6 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Zhihua Cai's work include Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics (13 papers), Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries (6 papers) and Disaster Response and Management (4 papers). Zhihua Cai is often cited by papers focused on Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics (13 papers), Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries (6 papers) and Disaster Response and Management (4 papers). Zhihua Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Zhihua Cai's co-authors include Lijun Chang, Xingyuan Huang, Jiawen Xu, Taiwei Chen, Yan Zhang, Qiancheng Zhao, Guibing Li, Ruotong Zhang, Yijing Huang and Ciaran Simms and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Journal of Materials Processing Technology and Accident Analysis & Prevention.

In The Last Decade

Zhihua Cai

28 papers receiving 589 citations

Hit Papers

Study on craniocerebral dynamics response and helmet prot... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 25 50 75 100
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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.

  1. Study on craniocerebral dynamics response and helmet protective performance under the blast waves
    2022 114 citations Xingyuan Huang, Lijun Chang 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
Zhihua Cai China 12 158 123 123 120 116 30 600
Lijun Chang China 9 179 1.1× 109 0.9× 113 0.9× 142 1.2× 109 0.9× 22 503
Fuhao Mo China 18 205 1.3× 160 1.3× 167 1.4× 58 0.5× 246 2.1× 67 954
Arash Afshar United States 13 131 0.8× 132 1.1× 130 1.1× 86 0.7× 67 0.6× 34 562
Adi Azriff Basri Malaysia 17 245 1.6× 59 0.5× 172 1.4× 150 1.3× 156 1.3× 66 916
Sami E. Alkhatib Qatar 10 343 2.2× 133 1.1× 80 0.7× 82 0.7× 83 0.7× 15 452
Anindya Deb India 15 318 2.0× 304 2.5× 347 2.8× 111 0.9× 53 0.5× 101 874
Andrea Avanzini Italy 17 355 2.2× 38 0.3× 215 1.7× 212 1.8× 117 1.0× 48 723
Luca Andena Italy 17 187 1.2× 149 1.2× 295 2.4× 61 0.5× 137 1.2× 50 729
A. Olmedo Spain 13 217 1.4× 197 1.6× 349 2.8× 27 0.2× 56 0.5× 20 594
Qasim Hussain Shah Malaysia 11 109 0.7× 102 0.8× 104 0.8× 45 0.4× 45 0.4× 40 318

Countries citing papers authored by Zhihua Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhihua Cai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhihua Cai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhihua Cai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhihua 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 Zhihua Cai. Zhihua Cai 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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Zhang, Yan, et al.. (2024). Research on ballistic properties of UHMWPE hybrid laminates impregnated with shear thickening fluid. Materials Letters. 372. 137055–137055. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yan, et al.. (2024). Study on the enhancement mechanism of ballistic properties of shear thickening fluid impregnated aramid fabric composite plates. Polymer Composites. 45(7). 6344–6358. 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Taiwei, Lijun Chang, Jiawen Xu, Tianhao Wang, & Zhihua Cai. (2024). Study on ballistic impact performance of bionic fish scale protective armor. Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures. 32(10). 2275–2283. 2 indexed citations
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Huang, Xingyuan, et al.. (2024). Study on cumulative effects of biological craniocerebral trauma under repeated blast. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters. 14(3). 100514–100514.
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Xu, Jiawen, et al.. (2023). Study of the bending properties of variable stiffness chain mail fabrics. Composite Structures. 322. 117369–117369. 89 indexed citations
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Huang, Xingyuan, et al.. (2023). The arrangement patterns optimization of 3D honeycomb and 3D re-entrant honeycomb structures for energy absorption. Materials Today Communications. 35. 105996–105996. 45 indexed citations
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Xu, Jiawen, Yan Zhang, Yijing Huang, et al.. (2023). Dynamic response of chain mail fabrics with variable stiffness. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 264. 108840–108840. 57 indexed citations
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Huang, Xingyuan, et al.. (2022). Experimental Study on Intracranial Pressure and Biomechanical Response in Rats Under the Blast Wave. Journal of Neurotrauma. 41(5-6). 671–684. 5 indexed citations
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Huang, Xingyuan, Qiujie Zheng, Lijun Chang, & Zhihua Cai. (2022). Study on protective performance and gradient optimization of helmet foam liner under bullet impact. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 16061–16061. 7 indexed citations
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Chang, Lijun, et al.. (2022). Experimental and numerical analysis of biomechanical effects in cervical spine positioning rotation manipulation. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering. 38(12). e3651–e3651. 7 indexed citations
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Huang, Xingyuan, et al.. (2021). Craniocerebral Dynamic Response and Cumulative Effect of Damage Under Repetitive Blast. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 49(10). 2932–2943. 10 indexed citations
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Zhao, Qiancheng, et al.. (2020). The dynamic failure mechanism of a lithium-ion battery at different impact velocity. Engineering Failure Analysis. 116. 104747–104747. 44 indexed citations
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Cai, Zhihua, et al.. (2020). Study on Behind Helmet Blunt Trauma Caused by High-Speed Bullet. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics. 2020. 1–12. 16 indexed citations
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Wang, Tianhao, Yongfei Zhao, Zhihua Cai, et al.. (2019). Effect of osteoporosis on internal fixation after spinal osteotomy: A finite element analysis. Clinical Biomechanics. 69. 178–183. 21 indexed citations
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Liu, Deshun, et al.. (2018). Numerical Analysis of Occupant Head Injuries in Impacts with Dump Truck Panel. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics. 2018. 1–9. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Guibing, Fang Wang, Dietmar Otte, Zhihua Cai, & Ciaran Simms. (2018). Have pedestrian subsystem tests improved passenger car front shape?. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 115. 143–150. 36 indexed citations
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Wang, Tianhao, Zhihua Cai, Yongfei Zhao, et al.. (2018). The Influence of Cross-Links on Long-Segment Instrumentation Following Spinal Osteotomy: A Finite Element Analysis. World Neurosurgery. 123. e294–e302. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jianming, et al.. (2015). An isogeometric BEM using PB-spline for 3-D linear elasticity problem. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements. 56. 154–161. 11 indexed citations
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Cai, Zhihua, et al.. (2014). Development of a human biomechanical model and its application in vehicle safety. Scientia Sinica Technologica. 44(8). 870–882. 2 indexed citations
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Cai, Zhihua, et al.. (2014). Development and validation of a human biomechanical model for rib fracture and thorax injuries in blunt impact. Computer Methods in Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering. 18(9). 974–980. 11 indexed citations

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