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Zucong Cai

Zucong Cai publishes mostly in Plant Science, Soil Science and Environmental Chemistry, on topics such as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity.

World rank
#24,191
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in China
#427
of 187,979
Works
38
Citations
1.2k
Citations per work
32.3

What does Zucong Cai research?

Plant Science: 31.9%Soil Science: 27.7%Environmental Chemistry: 10.6%Ecology: 10.6%other fields: 19.2%32%top field
Plant Science31.9%Soil Science27.7%Environmental Chemistry10.6%Ecology10.6%other fields19.2%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Plant Science32% of their works
  2. 2Soil Science28% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Chemistry11% of their works
  4. 4Ecology11% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change4% of their works
  6. 6Agronomy and Crop Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Zucong Cai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ecosystem Functioning, Nitrogen Cycle, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Nutrient Cycling, Hyporheic Zone, Water Quality, Plant Immunity and Rhizosphere Interactions.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Ecosystem Functioning162 topics
  2. Nitrogen Cycle131 topic
  3. Soil Carbon Sequestration131 topic
  4. Nutrient Cycling82 topics
  5. Hyporheic Zone51 topic
  6. Water Quality51 topic
  7. Plant Immunity41 topic
  8. Rhizosphere Interactions41 topic
  9. Fungal Diversity31 topic
  10. Marine Microbes31 topic
  11. Microbial Biogeography31 topic
  12. Mycorrhizal Fungi31 topic
  13. Grafting21 topic
  14. Legumes21 topic
  15. Nitrogen21 topic
  16. Phosphorus21 topic
  17. Soilborne Pathogens21 topic
  18. Symbiosis21 topic

Where does Zucong Cai work?

Zucong Cai's main affiliation in the publication record is Nanjing Normal University, China.

How many publications and citations does Zucong Cai have?

Science Explorer counts 38 works and 1,226 citations for Zucong Cai, ranking #24,191 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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