Zucong Cai

11.2k citations
115 papers · 9.1k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 50
Topics
Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (76 papers)Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (38 papers)Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (21 papers)
Partner nations
ChinaGermanyJapan

In The Last Decade

Zucong Cai

110 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture19972026200620162007199750010001.5k

Peers

Zucong Cai
Comparison fields: 5 of 125
  • Soil Science 5.4k
  • Ecology 3.1k
  • Environmental Chemistry 2.7k
  • Plant Science 2.1k
  • Global and Planetary Change 1.5k
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Countries citing papers authored by Zucong Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zucong Cai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

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.

All Works

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#WorkIndexed citations
1 3
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7 20
8 49
9 94
10 21
11 7
12 18
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14 112
15 36
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About Zucong Cai

Zucong Cai is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry and Geochemistry and Petrology, having authored 115 papers that have together received 9.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (76 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (38 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (21 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (5.4k citations), Environmental Chemistry (2.7k citations) and Ecology (3.1k citations). Zucong Cai has collaborated with scholars based in China, Germany and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Weixin Ding, Jinbo Zhang, Hua Xu, Haruo Tsuruta, Kazuyuki Yagi, Weixin Ding, Xiaoyuan Yan, Tongbin Zhu, Lei Meng and Christoph Müller. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

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