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D-Index
86
Citations
33255
World Ranking
13955
National Ranking
7082

Hui Cai publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hui Cai sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 312 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Hui Cai D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hui Cai sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 86 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hui Cai is affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the United States, contributing extensively to research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cancer Research, Epidemiology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research covers a range of topics, with a focus on gut microbiota and health, nutritional studies and diet, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, genetic associations and epidemiology, cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, and cancer risks and factors.

Hui Cai has coauthored numerous papers with frequent collaborators such as Xiao-Ou Shu, Wei Zheng, Qiuyin Cai, Danxia Yu, and Yu-Tang Gao.

They have published regularly in several scientific journals, with notable frequent publication venues including:

  • Cancer Research
  • International Journal of Cancer
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among their recent papers are:

  • A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height, 2022, Nature
  • Association of Sleep Duration With All- and Major-Cause Mortality Among Adults in Japan, China, Singapore, and Korea, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • Long-term diet quality is associated with gut microbiome diversity and composition among urban Chinese adults, 2020, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Polygenic risk modeling for prediction of epithelial ovarian cancer risk, 2022, European Journal of Human Genetics
  • Association of Marital Status With Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in Asia, 2022, JAMA Network Open

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Per Hall;Anna Gonzalez-Neira;Maya Ghoussaini

  • Type I and II Endometrial Cancers: Have They Different Risk Factors?

    Veronica Wendy Setiawan;Hannah P. Yang;Malcolm C. Pike;Malcolm C. Pike;Susan E. McCann;Susan E. McCann

  • Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley;Sara Lindstrom;Sander Canisius

  • Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

    Stig E. Bojesen;Stig E. Bojesen;Karen A. Pooley;Sharon E. Johnatty;Jonathan Beesley

  • Soy food intake and breast cancer survival.

    Xiao Ou Shu;Ying Zheng;Hui Cai;Kai Gu

  • Excitonic Linewidth Approaching the Homogeneous Limit in MoS 2 -Based van der Waals Heterostructures

    F. Cadiz;E. Courtade;C. Robert;G. Wang

  • Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negative-specific breast cancer risk loci

    Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Fergus J. Couch;Sara Lindstrom;Kyriaki Michailidou

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez;Bin Zhou;Marisa K. Sophiea;James Bentham

  • Trans-ancestry genome-wide association study identifies 12 genetic loci influencing blood pressure and implicates a role for DNA methylation

    Norihiro Kato;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Fumihiko Takeuchi;Niek Verweij

  • Excitonic linewidth approaching the homogeneous limit in MoS2 based van der Waals heterostructures : accessing spin-valley dynamics

    F. Cadiz;E. Courtade;C. Robert;G. Wang

  • Adolescent and adult soy food intake and breast cancer risk: results from the Shanghai Women's Health Study

    Sang-Ah Lee;Xiao-Ou Shu;Honglan Li;Gong Yang

  • Sleep duration and risk of all-cause mortality: A flexible, non-linear, meta-regression of 40 prospective cohort studies

    Tong-Zu Liu;Chang Xu;Matteo Rota;Hui Cai

  • Functional variants at the 11q13 risk locus for breast cancer regulate cyclin D1 expression through long-range enhancers

    Juliet D. French;Maya Ghoussaini;Stacey L. Edwards;Kerstin B. Meyer

  • Cruciferous vegetable consumption is associated with a reduced risk of total and cardiovascular disease mortality

    Xianglan Zhang;Xiao-Ou Shu;Yong-Bing Xiang;Gong Yang

  • Purine-rich foods, protein intake, and the prevalence of hyperuricemia: The Shanghai Men’s Health Study

    Raquel Villegas;Yong-Bang Xiang;Tom Elasy;Wang-Hong Xu

  • Dietary calcium and magnesium intakes and the risk of type 2 diabetes: the Shanghai Women's Health Study

    Raquel Villegas;Yu-Tang Gao;Qi Dai;Gong Yang

  • Association between type 2 diabetes and risk of cancer mortality: a pooled analysis of over 771,000 individuals in the Asia Cohort Consortium.

    Yu Chen;Fen Wu;Eiko Saito;Yingsong Lin

  • Validity and reproducibility of the food-frequency questionnaire used in the Shanghai men's health study.

    Raquel Villegas;Gong Yang;DaKe Liu;Yong-Bing Xiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiao-Ou Shu
Xiao-Ou Shu Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Wei Zheng
Wei Zheng Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Yong-Bing Xiang
Yong-Bing Xiang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Qiuyin Cai
Qiuyin Cai Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Gong Yang
Gong Yang Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Yu-Tang Gao
Yu-Tang Gao Fudan University
Jirong Long
Jirong Long Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Sefaattin Tongay
Sefaattin Tongay Arizona State University
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Daehee Kang
Daehee Kang Seoul National University

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