Kurt Thomas
Impact in
- Signal Processing top 0.5%
- Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
- Information Systems top 0.2%
- Spam and Phishing Detection
- Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
- User Authentication and Security Systems
Papers in
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- Spam and Phishing Detection 26
- Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies 8
- User Authentication and Security Systems 6
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- Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting 15
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection 7
- Co-authors
- Vern Paxson (11 shared papers)Chris Grier (10 shared papers)Dawn Song (2 shared papers)Elie Bursztein (24 shared papers)Michael Zhang (1 shared paper)Damon McCoy (9 shared papers)Justin Ma (1 shared paper)Luca Invernizzi (6 shared papers)
- Journals
- ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (1 paper)IEEE Security & Privacy (1 paper)Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (1 paper)eScholarship (California Digital Library) (1 paper)ACI Journal Proceedings (1 paper)
- Partner nations
- United StatesUnited KingdomSwitzerland
In The Last Decade
Kurt Thomas
46 papers receiving 3.2k citations
Kurt Thomas's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 88
- Signal Processing 1.3k
- Information Systems 2.2k
- Computer Networks and Communications 1.7k
- Artificial Intelligence 1.5k
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 218
Countries citing papers authored by Kurt Thomas
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Fields of papers citing papers by Kurt Thomas
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Kurt Thomas, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 50 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
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| 1 | Understanding the mirai botnet Hit paper breakdown → | 2017 | 747 |
| 2 | @spam Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 394 |
| 3 | Design and Evaluation of a Real-Time URL Spam Filtering Service Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 316 |
| 4 | Suspended accounts in retrospect Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 306 |
| 5 | Trafficking fraudulent accounts: the role of the underground market in Twitter spam and abuse | 2013 | 159 |
| 6 | 2012 | 141 | |
| 7 | 2019 | 117 | |
| 8 | 2017 | 107 | |
| 9 | 2021 | 89 | |
| 10 | 2010 | 74 | |
| 11 | 2015 | 69 | |
| 12 | Framing dependencies introduced by underground commoditization | 2015 | 63 |
| 13 | 2015 | 63 | |
| 14 | 2014 | 57 | |
| 15 | 2019 | 56 | |
| 16 | Adapting social spam infrastructure for political censorship | 2012 | 51 |
| 17 | 2016 | 46 | |
| 18 | 2022 | 42 | |
| 19 | 2016 | 39 | |
| 20 | Trends and lessons from three years fighting malicious extensions | 2015 | 37 |
About Kurt Thomas
Kurt Thomas is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, Computer Networks and Communications and Sociology and Political Science, having authored 50 papers that have together received 3.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Spam and Phishing Detection (26 papers), Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (15 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (13 papers), Network Security and Intrusion Detection (12 papers), Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (8 papers), Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (7 papers), User Authentication and Security Systems (6 papers) and Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Signal Processing (1.3k citations), Information Systems (2.2k citations), Computer Networks and Communications (1.7k citations), Artificial Intelligence (1.5k citations) and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (218 citations). Kurt Thomas has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Vern Paxson, Chris Grier, Dawn Song, Elie Bursztein, Michael Zhang, Damon McCoy, Justin Ma, Luca Invernizzi, Zakir Durumeric and Michael Bailey. Their work appears in journals such as ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, IEEE Security & Privacy, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, eScholarship (California Digital Library) and ACI Journal Proceedings.
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