Yi Cao

350 papers and 13.1k indexed citations
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About

Yi Cao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomaterials and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Cao has authored 350 papers receiving a total of 13.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Molecular Biology, 95 papers in Biomaterials and 80 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Yi Cao’s work include Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (75 papers), Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (59 papers) and Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (48 papers). Yi Cao is often cited by papers focused on Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (75 papers), Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (59 papers) and Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (48 papers). Yi Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Yi Cao's co-authors include Hongbin Li, Wei Wang, Bin Xue, Meng Qin, Yiran Li, Ying Li, Jian Hua Zhu, Yang Sun, Xiao‐Zeng You and Cheng‐Hui Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Cao

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

Yi Cao

328 papers receiving 12.6k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Yi Cao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Countries citing papers authored by Yi Cao

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Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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