Zhu Cao

2.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
62 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Zhu Cao is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhu Cao has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 22 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 21 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhu Cao's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (22 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (21 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (18 papers). Zhu Cao is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (22 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (21 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (18 papers). Zhu Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Zhu Cao's co-authors include Xiongfeng Ma, Xiao Yuan, Gerard de Melo, Linlin Wang, Hongyi Zhou, Zhiyuan Liu, Zhen Zhang, Bing Qi, Chen Zhu and Zhihao Ma and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Zhu Cao

59 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Relation Classification via Multi-Level Attention CNNs 2015 2026 2018 2022 2016 2015 100 200 300
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.

  1. Relation Classification via Multi-Level Attention CNNs
    2016 338 citations Linlin Wang, Zhu Cao et al. profile →
  2. Intrinsic randomness as a measure of quantum coherence
    2015 304 citations Zhu 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
Zhu Cao China 19 1.4k 903 212 174 171 62 1.9k
Yuri Alexeev United States 24 678 0.5× 526 0.6× 115 0.5× 286 1.6× 49 0.3× 88 1.7k
Yuan Cao China 20 905 0.7× 923 1.0× 78 0.4× 43 0.2× 32 0.2× 80 1.5k
Shen Wang China 21 909 0.7× 85 0.1× 95 0.4× 211 1.2× 681 4.0× 87 1.7k
Richard E. Overill United Kingdom 16 321 0.2× 425 0.5× 115 0.5× 42 0.2× 88 0.5× 87 1.3k
Yongmin Li China 24 1.4k 1.0× 1.4k 1.6× 29 0.1× 42 0.2× 29 0.2× 99 2.0k
Mazhar Ali Canada 19 1.1k 0.8× 1.1k 1.2× 28 0.1× 54 0.3× 39 0.2× 77 2.2k
Ting Gao China 24 1.5k 1.1× 1.4k 1.6× 23 0.1× 36 0.2× 42 0.2× 108 1.8k
Alejandro Perdomo‐Ortiz United States 19 1.4k 1.0× 702 0.8× 11 0.1× 147 0.8× 26 0.2× 36 1.8k
Hyojoon Kim United States 19 303 0.2× 315 0.3× 19 0.1× 121 0.7× 67 0.4× 63 2.0k
Jiahao Chen China 16 110 0.1× 263 0.3× 115 0.5× 204 1.2× 40 0.2× 52 932

Countries citing papers authored by Zhu Cao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhu Cao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhu Cao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhu Cao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhu 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 Zhu Cao. Zhu 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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Chen, Fushan, Zhu Cao, & Chen Zhu. (2025). Asymmetric Functionalization Harnessing Radical‐Mediated Functional‐Group Migration. Angewandte Chemie. 137(11). 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Jie, et al.. (2025). Cis -difluoromethyl hetarylative dearomatization by a radical docking-migration cascade. Chemical Science. 17(1). 318–324.
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Chen, Fushan, Zhu Cao, & Chen Zhu. (2025). Asymmetric Functionalization Harnessing Radical‐Mediated Functional‐Group Migration. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(11). e202424667–e202424667. 17 indexed citations
4.
Cao, Zhu & Chen Zhu. (2024). Intramolecular alkene and functional group translocation. Nature Chemistry. 16(10). 1576–1577. 5 indexed citations
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Cao, Zhu, et al.. (2024). Photoinduced Asymmetric Alkene Aminohetarylation with Chiral Sulfoximine Reagents. Angewandte Chemie. 136(47). 3 indexed citations
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Cao, Zhu, et al.. (2024). Asymmetric mode-pairing quantum key distribution. Physical review. A. 109(1). 7 indexed citations
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Cao, Zhu, et al.. (2024). Photoinduced Asymmetric Alkene Aminohetarylation with Chiral Sulfoximine Reagents. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(47). e202408177–e202408177. 17 indexed citations
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Cao, Zhu, et al.. (2024). Free Alcohol‐Mediated Radical Alkynylation and Allylation of Unactivated C(sp3)−H Bonds. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(7). e202403841–e202403841.
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Chen, Fushan, Zhu Cao, & Chen Zhu. (2024). Intramolecularly remote functional group migration reactions involving free radicals. Chemical Communications. 60(100). 14912–14923. 16 indexed citations
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Cao, Zhu, et al.. (2024). Pseudolabel guided pixels contrast for domain adaptive semantic segmentation. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 31615–31615. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Linlin, et al.. (2023). Disentangled CVAEs with Contrastive Learning for Explainable Recommendation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(11). 13691–13699. 3 indexed citations
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Wu, Xinxin, et al.. (2023). Access to pyrrolines and fused diaziridines by selective radical addition to homoallylic diazirines. Chemical Science. 15(5). 1879–1884. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Liang, Yafei Li, Yafei Li, et al.. (2022). Cover Feature: Two β‐Diketiminate Zinc Complexes with 1‐D Chain and Dinuclear Topologies: Synthesis, Structures, and Catalytic Behavior (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 20/2022). European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2022(20). 1 indexed citations
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Cao, Zhu, Xinxin Wang, Xinxin Wu, & Chen Zhu. (2022). Iodobenzene-catalyzed photochemical heteroarylation of alcohols by rupture of inert C–H and C–C bonds. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 100031–100031. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Xinxin, et al.. (2022). Metal‐Free Photoinduced Deformylative Minisci‐Type Reaction. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 364(6). 1200–1204. 20 indexed citations
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Cao, Zhu, Meishan Ji, Xinxin Wang, et al.. (2022). Metal-free photo-induced heteroarylations of C–H and C–C bonds of alcohols by flow chemistry. Green Chemistry. 24(11). 4498–4503. 16 indexed citations
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Cao, Zhu, Huihui Zhang, Xinxin Wu, Yahong Li, & Chen Zhu. (2021). Radical heteroarylation of unactivated remote C(sp3)–H bonds via intramolecular heteroaryl migration. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 8(22). 6395–6399. 15 indexed citations
18.
Wang, Linlin, Zhu Cao, Gerard de Melo, & Zhiyuan Liu. (2016). Relation Classification via Multi-Level Attention CNNs. 1298–1307. 338 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Ming, et al.. (2006). Effect of By-products on Cell Growth and Biosynthesis of 1,3-Propanediol by Klebsiella pneumoniae. University of Huddersfield Repository (University of Huddersfield). 4 indexed citations
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Du, Chenyu, et al.. (2005). Regulation of Vitamin C and Vitamin E on the Biosynthesis of 1,3-Propanediol by Klebsiella pneumoniae. University of Huddersfield Repository (University of Huddersfield). 6 indexed citations

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