Kurt Thomas
Impact in
- Information Systems top 0.2%
- Spam and Phishing Detection
- Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
- Information and Cyber Security
- User Authentication and Security Systems
- Web Application Security Vulnerabilities
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- Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Papers in
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- Spam and Phishing Detection 20
- Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies 12
- User Authentication and Security Systems 3
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- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection 6
- Co-authors
- Chris Grier (11 shared papers)Vern Paxson (11 shared papers)Dawn Xiaodong Song (2 shared papers)Elie Bursztein (24 shared papers)H. Michael Zhang (1 shared paper)David M. Nicol (2 shared papers)Damon McCoy (8 shared papers)Justin H. Ma (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (1 paper)IEEE Security & Privacy (1 paper)Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (1 paper)Lecture notes in computer science (2 papers)Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesUnited KingdomBangladesh
In The Last Decade
Kurt Thomas
45 papers receiving 3.9k citations
Kurt Thomas's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 72
- Information Systems 2.3k
- Computer Networks and Communications 848
- Signal Processing 283
- Artificial Intelligence 763
- Sociology and Political Science 700
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 51 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 | 848 |
| 2 | @spam Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 453 |
| 3 | Design and Evaluation of a Real-Time URL Spam Filtering Service Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 371 |
| 4 | Suspended accounts in retrospect Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 359 |
| 5 | Trafficking fraudulent accounts: the role of the underground market in Twitter spam and abuse | 2013 | 180 |
| 6 | 2012 | 162 | |
| 7 | 2017 | 145 | |
| 8 | 2019 | 134 | |
| 9 | 2021 | 110 | |
| 10 | 2010 | 108 | |
| 11 | 2010 | 89 | |
| 12 | 2015 | 84 | |
| 13 | 2015 | 82 | |
| 14 | Framing dependencies introduced by underground commoditization | 2015 | 78 |
| 15 | 2014 | 64 | |
| 16 | 2019 | 64 | |
| 17 | 2016 | 62 | |
| 18 | 2024 | 58 | |
| 19 | 2022 | 52 | |
| 20 | Adapting social spam infrastructure for political censorship | 2012 | 51 |
About Kurt Thomas
Kurt Thomas is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Signal Processing and Safety Research, having authored 51 papers that have together received 4.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Spam and Phishing Detection (20 papers), Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (12 papers), Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (8 papers), Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (6 papers), Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment (5 papers), User Authentication and Security Systems (3 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 papers) and Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Information Systems (2.3k citations), Computer Networks and Communications (848 citations), Signal Processing (283 citations), Artificial Intelligence (763 citations) and Sociology and Political Science (700 citations). Kurt Thomas has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Bangladesh. Frequent co-authors include Chris Grier, Vern Paxson, Dawn Xiaodong Song, Elie Bursztein, H. Michael Zhang, David M. Nicol, Damon McCoy, Justin H. Ma, Luca Invernizzi and Zakir Durumeric. Their work appears in journals such as ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, IEEE Security & Privacy, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Lecture notes in computer science and Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
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