Yu Cao

92 papers and 2.0k indexed citations
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About

Yu Cao is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Cao has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Atmospheric Science and 14 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Yu Cao’s work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (23 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (12 papers) and Environmental Changes in China (9 papers). Yu Cao is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (23 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (12 papers) and Environmental Changes in China (9 papers). Yu Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Yu Cao's co-authors include Xiaoqian Fang, Daniel Chen, Guoyu Li, Guangfa Xie, Mingtao Xiang, Jiayu Yang, Jian Lu, Yi Li, Yan Li and Kaige Lei and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The EMBO Journal and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Cao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yu Cao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yu 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 Yu Cao. Yu 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 Yu Cao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Countries citing papers authored by Yu Cao

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This map shows the geographic impact of Yu 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 Yu Cao with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Yu Cao more than expected).

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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