Standout Papers

A Taxonomy of Obfuscating... 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 2002 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A Taxonomy of Obfuscating Transformations
    1997 516 citations Christian Collberg, Clark Thomborson et al. ResearchSPAce (Bath Spa University) profile →
  2. Watermarking, tamper-proofing, and obfuscation - tools for software protection
    2002 438 citations Christian Collberg, Clark Thomborson IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering profile →

Immediate Impact

61 hit
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Citing Papers

A survey on large language model (LLM) security and privacy: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
2024 Hit
Enhancing Cyber-Resiliency of DER-Based Smart Grid: A Survey
2024 Hit
2 intermediate papers

Works of Clark Thomborson being referenced

A functional taxonomy for software watermarking
2002
Manufacturing cheap, resilient, and stealthy opaque constructs
1998

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Clark Thomborson 1.5k 1.2k 1.1k 442 411 55 2.1k
Christian Collberg 2.2k 1.5× 1.7k 1.4× 1.8k 1.6× 621 1.4× 654 1.6× 60 3.1k
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt 887 0.6× 1.2k 1.0× 755 0.7× 497 1.1× 398 1.0× 33 2.0k
David Lie 1.2k 0.8× 1.2k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 825 1.9× 543 1.3× 65 2.2k
Yan Shoshitaishvili 1.6k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 595 1.3× 1.1k 2.7× 61 2.5k
Yulei Sui 1.0k 0.7× 1.0k 0.9× 1.3k 1.2× 577 1.3× 1.0k 2.5× 120 2.3k
Aurélien Francillon 1.2k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 577 0.5× 632 1.4× 346 0.8× 55 1.8k
Dávid Molnár 686 0.4× 863 0.7× 1.2k 1.1× 571 1.3× 786 1.9× 56 2.4k
John Viega 511 0.3× 706 0.6× 818 0.7× 373 0.8× 273 0.7× 37 1.5k
Yan Chen 1.3k 0.8× 740 0.6× 934 0.9× 1.5k 3.4× 401 1.0× 86 2.4k
Zhenkai Liang 1.8k 1.2× 1.7k 1.4× 1.2k 1.1× 1.1k 2.6× 542 1.3× 86 2.7k

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