Jian Cao

441 papers and 17.5k indexed citations
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About

Jian Cao is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jian Cao has authored 441 papers receiving a total of 17.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 247 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 172 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 89 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Jian Cao’s work include Metal Forming Simulation Techniques (128 papers), Metallurgy and Material Forming (95 papers) and Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (57 papers). Jian Cao is often cited by papers focused on Metal Forming Simulation Techniques (128 papers), Metallurgy and Material Forming (95 papers) and Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (57 papers). Jian Cao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Jian Cao's co-authors include Kornel F. Ehmann, Zhaohui Yang, Weiping Xiong, Meiying Jia, Xiongqi Peng, Yanru Zhang, Rajiv Malhotra, Chengyun Zhou, Wing Kam Liu and Rui Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jian Cao

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

Fields of papers citing papers by Jian Cao

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

Countries citing papers authored by Jian Cao

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This map shows the geographic impact of Jian Cao's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Jian Cao with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Jian Cao more than expected).

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