Zi-Jun Cao

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 993 citations indexed

About

Zi-Jun Cao is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Civil and Structural Engineering and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Zi-Jun Cao has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 993 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 17 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 9 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Zi-Jun Cao's work include Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis (18 papers), Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (9 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (7 papers). Zi-Jun Cao is often cited by papers focused on Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis (18 papers), Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (9 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (7 papers). Zi-Jun Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Singapore. Zi-Jun Cao's co-authors include Dianqing Li, Yu Wang, Kok‐Kwang Phoon, Siu‐Kui Au, Shui‐Hua Jiang, Chuangbing Zhou, Jianye Ching, Te Xiao, Wenqi Du and Zhiyong Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Tectonophysics, Geophysical Journal International and Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Zi-Jun Cao

22 papers receiving 983 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Efficient System Reliability Analysis of Slope Stability in Spatially Variable Soils Using Monte Carlo Simulation

2014 312 citations Shui‐Hua Jiang, Dianqing Li et al. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering profile →
Geotechnical uncertainty, modeling, and decision making

2022 111 citations Kok‐Kwang Phoon, Zi-Jun Cao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zi-Jun Cao China	10	823	804	371	156	63	25	993
Sara Khoshnevisan United States	16	803 1.0×	500 0.6×	126 0.3×	76 0.5×	100 1.6×	44	906
Tianzheng Li China	19	588 0.7×	498 0.6×	247 0.7×	68 0.4×	217 3.4×	36	825
John T. Christian United States	15	1.2k 1.4×	964 1.2×	345 0.9×	130 0.8×	94 1.5×	49	1.3k
Chong Tang Singapore	20	990 1.2×	840 1.0×	136 0.4×	52 0.3×	101 1.6×	56	1.2k
Ze Zhou Wang Singapore	14	439 0.5×	365 0.5×	214 0.6×	35 0.2×	65 1.0×	30	583
Robert B. Gilbert United States	18	990 1.2×	445 0.6×	151 0.4×	92 0.6×	57 0.9×	122	1.2k
Peng Zeng China	17	521 0.6×	464 0.6×	431 1.2×	95 0.6×	404 6.4×	56	923
Tim Länsivaara Finland	13	848 1.0×	734 0.9×	478 1.3×	52 0.3×	117 1.9×	37	1.0k
Rita L. Sousa United States	13	396 0.5×	265 0.3×	168 0.5×	55 0.4×	304 4.8×	48	726
Jinzhang Zhang China	13	522 0.6×	429 0.5×	114 0.3×	17 0.1×	99 1.6×	33	681

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zi-Jun Cao

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All Works

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Zhao, Tengyuan, et al.. (2025). Report for the Fifth Machine Learning in Geotechnics Dialogue (5MLIGD) on “Challenges and Experience in Geo-Data Sharing”. 5. 100033–100033.

Cao, Zi-Jun, Xiaodong Wang, Tengfei Wu, & Shuangxi Zhang. (2025). Characterization of the 2D shear wave velocity structure of the majiagou landslide in the three gorges reservoir area of China using seismic surface wave and borehole data. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 84(10).

Li, Bin, et al.. (2024). Simple and efficient geotechnical reliability-based design based on transformed limit state functions by target reliability-oriented sampling. Computers and Geotechnics. 177. 106877–106877.

Wu, Tengfei, Zi-Jun Cao, Mengkui Li, Shuangxi Zhang, & Liping Qin. (2023). Anisotropic Rayleigh wave tomography revealed lithospheric modification and tectonic deformation mechanisms in Hubei Province, central China. Tectonophysics. 870. 230161–230161. 2 indexed citations

Phoon, Kok‐Kwang, Jianye Ching, & Zi-Jun Cao. (2022). Unpacking data-centric geotechnics. Underground Space. 7(6). 967–989. 68 indexed citations

Cao, Zi-Jun, et al.. (2022). BayLUP: A Bayesian framework for conditional random field simulation of the liquefaction-induced settlement considering statistical uncertainty and model error. Gondwana Research. 123. 140–163. 17 indexed citations

Zhou, Qiang, Zi-Jun Cao, Dianqing Li, & Kok‐Kwang Phoon. (2022). Sufficient conditions for equivalence between safety factor-based and reliability-based design requirements. Computers and Geotechnics. 148. 104820–104820. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Xin, Zi-Jun Cao, Dianqing Li, & Yu Wang. (2021). Adaptive Monte Carlo Simulation Method and Its Applications to Reliability Analysis of Series Systems with a Large Number of Components. ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems Part A Civil Engineering. 8(1). 2 indexed citations

Li, Dianqing, et al.. (2021). Geotechnical reliability-based design using generalized subset simulation with a design response vector. Computers and Geotechnics. 139. 104392–104392. 9 indexed citations

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Zhou, Zheng, Dianqing Li, Te Xiao, Zi-Jun Cao, & Wenqi Du. (2021). Response surface guided adaptive slope reliability analysis in spatially varying soils. Computers and Geotechnics. 132. 103966–103966. 48 indexed citations

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Cao, Zi-Jun, et al.. (2020). Uncertainty Quantification of Soil Total Unit Weight Based on Random Field Model and Linear Dynamic System: A Comparative Study. Geo-Congress 2020. 10. 558–568. 1 indexed citations

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Xiao, Te, Limin Zhang, Dianqing Li, & Zi-Jun Cao. (2019). Efficient 3-D Random Field Simulation with Separable Correlation Functions. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 358–363. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Dianqing, Zhiyong Yang, Zi-Jun Cao, & Limin Zhang. (2018). Area failure probability method for slope system failure risk assessment. Computers and Geotechnics. 107. 36–44. 40 indexed citations

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Li, Dianqing, Shui‐Hua Jiang, Xiaohui Qi, & Zi-Jun Cao. (2017). Efficient System Reliability Analysis of Multi-Layered Soil Slopes Using Multiple Stochastic Response Surfaces. 164–172. 4 indexed citations

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Xiao, Te, Dianqing Li, Zi-Jun Cao, Siu‐Kui Au, & Xiaosong Tang. (2017). Auxiliary Random Finite Element Method for Risk Assessment of 3-D Slope. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 103. 120–129. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhiyong, et al.. (2017). Robustness of Subset Simulation to Functional Forms of Limit State Functions in System Reliability Analysis: Revisiting and Improvement. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 67(1). 66–78. 11 indexed citations

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Dong, Zheng, Dianqing Li, Zi-Jun Cao, Xiaosong Tang, & Kok‐Kwang Phoon. (2016). An analytical method for quantifying the correlation among slope failure modes in spatially variable soils. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 76(4). 1343–1352. 9 indexed citations

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Jiang, Shui‐Hua, Dianqing Li, Zi-Jun Cao, Chuangbing Zhou, & Kok‐Kwang Phoon. (2014). Efficient System Reliability Analysis of Slope Stability in Spatially Variable Soils Using Monte Carlo Simulation. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. 141(2). 312 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Yu, Zi-Jun Cao, & Siu‐Kui Au. (2010). Practical reliability analysis of slope stability by advanced Monte Carlo simulations in a spreadsheet. Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 48(1). 162–172. 279 indexed citations

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Jianli, Sui, Ping‐Kun Zhou, Yan Geng, et al.. (2002). Decreased efficiency of γ-ray-induced DNA double-strand break rejoining in malignant transformants of human bronchial epithelial cells generated by alpha-particle exposure. International Journal of Radiation Biology. 78(9). 773–780. 7 indexed citations

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