Zucong Cai

284 total papers · 17.8k total citations
245 papers, 13.6k citations indexed

About

Zucong Cai is a scholar working on Soil Science, Plant Science and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zucong Cai has authored 245 papers receiving a total of 13.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 149 papers in Soil Science, 107 papers in Plant Science and 100 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zucong Cai's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (143 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (95 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (50 papers). Zucong Cai is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (143 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (95 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (50 papers). Zucong Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Ireland. Zucong Cai's co-authors include Jinbo Zhang, Mark A. Sutton, James N. Galloway, J. R. Freney, Sybil P. Seitzinger, Mateete Bekunda, Luiz Antônio Martinelli, Jan Willem Erisman, Alan R. Townsend and Christoph Müller and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Zucong Cai

239 papers receiving 13.4k citations

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Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Zucong Cai 6.9k 4.7k 4.0k 3.9k 1.5k 245 13.6k
William R. Horwáth 8.1k 1.2× 3.8k 0.8× 3.7k 0.9× 3.1k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 265 14.3k
Christoph Müller 9.2k 1.3× 4.3k 0.9× 4.3k 1.1× 4.6k 1.2× 2.4k 1.6× 315 14.1k
J. R. Freney 5.7k 0.8× 3.5k 0.7× 2.9k 0.7× 4.5k 1.2× 1.1k 0.7× 156 12.8k
Roland Bol 8.3k 1.2× 3.1k 0.6× 4.9k 1.2× 4.1k 1.0× 1.5k 1.0× 409 15.5k
Sophie Zechmeister‐Boltenstern 8.8k 1.3× 3.1k 0.6× 6.1k 1.5× 3.4k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 156 14.0k
Еvgenia Blagodatskaya 9.3k 1.4× 4.1k 0.9× 5.2k 1.3× 2.4k 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 178 13.1k
P. Nannipieri 9.9k 1.4× 5.6k 1.2× 5.7k 1.4× 2.8k 0.7× 3.4k 2.2× 190 18.3k
Pascal Boeckx 5.7k 0.8× 2.9k 0.6× 4.5k 1.1× 3.0k 0.8× 2.2k 1.4× 427 16.4k
Jinshui Wu 8.6k 1.2× 3.7k 0.8× 4.8k 1.2× 3.3k 0.8× 2.3k 1.5× 428 14.9k
Elizabeth M. Baggs 6.5k 0.9× 2.5k 0.5× 3.6k 0.9× 3.6k 0.9× 1.8k 1.2× 110 10.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Zucong Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zucong Cai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zucong Cai

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

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