专著：
胶州湾大型底栖生物鉴定图谱，2015，科学出版社5
论文：
CAI Wenqian, LI Xinzheng. 2011. Eranno carrerai sp. nov., a new polychaete worm (Lumbrineridae) from coastal waters of China. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 29(1): 217-231.
CAI Wenqian, LI Xinzheng. 2011. A new species and new recorded species of Lumbrineridae Schmarda, 1861 (Annelida: Polychaeta) from China. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 29(2): 356-365.
CAI Wenqian, LI Xinzheng. 2011. Three new recorded species of Lumbrineridae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from coastal areas of China. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 29(6): 1297-1301.
Cai Wenqian, Meng Wei, Zhu Yanzhong, Zhou Juan, Liu Lusan. 2013. Assessing benthic quality in stressed Liaodong Bay (China) with AMBI and M-AMBI. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 31(3): 12-22.
Cai Wenqian, Ángel Borja, Liu Lusan, Meng Wei, Iñigo Muxika, J. Germán Rodríguez. 2014. Assessing benthic health under multiple human pressures in Bohai Bay (China), using density and biomass in calculating AMBI and M-AMBI. Marine Ecology, 35: 180-192.
Wenqian CAI, Wei MENG, Lusan LIU, Kuixuan LIN. 2014. Evaluation of the ecological quality with benthic indices in the coastal system: the case of Bohai Bay (China). Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 8(5): 737-746.
Cai Wenqian, Borja Angel, Lin Kuixuan, Zhu Yanzhong, Zhou Juan, Liu Lusan. 2015. Assessing the benthic quality status of the Bohai Bay (China) with proposed modifications of M-AMBI. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 34(10): 111–121.
蔡文倩，朱延忠，林岿璇，夏 阳，刘录三. 底栖生物完整性指数的构建及生物基准的确定. 中国环境科学, 2016,36(9)：2791-2799
蔡文倩，林岿璇，朱延忠，周 娟，夏 阳，刘录三. 基于大型底栖动物摄食群上的生态质量评价. 中国环境科学，2016,36(9)：2865-2873
蔡文倩，刘 静，周 娟，夏 阳，刘录三. 基于生物量的大型底栖动物功能摄食群结构及生态质量评价. 生物多样性，2016, 24 (9): 1045–1055.
蔡文倩 ，周娟，林岿璇，王瑜，夏阳，刘录三. 基于底栖生物指数的辽东湾生态质量状况评价，海洋科学，2016，40(10)：105-112.