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 threshold for papers in the
same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average
within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research
topics.
Is Blockchain a Silver Bullet for Supply Chain Management? Technical Challenges and Research Opportunities
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This map shows the geographic impact of Akhil Kumar's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Akhil Kumar with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Akhil Kumar more than expected).
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Akhil Kumar. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Akhil Kumar. The network helps show where Akhil Kumar may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of Akhil Kumar
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Akhil Kumar.
A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Akhil Kumar based on the total number of
citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges
represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together.
Node borders
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the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.
Depaire, Benoît, Henrik Leopold, Stefan Schulte, et al.. (2019). BPMT 2019, BPM 2019 Dissertation Award, Doctoral Consortium, and Demonstration Track : proceedings of the Dissertation Award, Doctoral Consortium, and Demonstration Track at BPM 2019, co-located with 17th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2019) : Vienna, Austria, September 1-6, 2019.1 indexed citations
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Depaire, Benoît, Johannes De Smedt, Marlon Dumas, et al.. (2019). Proceedings of the Dissertation Award, Doctoral Consortium, and Demonstration Track at BPM 2019 co-located with 17th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2019, Vienna, Austria, September 1-6, 2019. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS).4 indexed citations
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Meersman, Robert, Tharam S. Dillon, Pilar Herrero, et al.. (2011). On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2011 - Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2011 - Proceedings Part II. Springer eBooks.1 indexed citations
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Shan, Zhe, Akhil Kumar, & Paul Grefen. (2010). Towards Integrated Service Adaptation.. 385–392.1 indexed citations
Sarnikar, Surendra, et al.. (2004). Organizational Knowledge Distribution: An Experimental Evaluation. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 276.6 indexed citations
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Kumar, Akhil. (2003). Leveraging Information Sharing to Increase Supply Chain Configurability. International Conference on Information Systems. 523–537.27 indexed citations
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Christophides, Vassilis, Richard Hull, Akhil Kumar, & Jérǒme Simèon. (2001). A dynamic warehouse for XML Data of the Web.. IEEE Data(base) Engineering Bulletin. 24. 40–45.89 indexed citations
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Kumar, Akhil, Waleed A. Muhanna, & Raymond A. Patterson. (1997). Mean-Variance Analysis of the Performance of Spatial Clustering Methods. SSRN Electronic Journal.
Kumar, Akhil. (1990). A NEW APPROACH FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND RULE PROCESSING IN A KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEM. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 43.2 indexed citations
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Kumar, Akhil & Michael Stonebraker. (1987). Performance Evaluation of an Operating System Transaction Manager. Very Large Data Bases. 473–481.5 indexed citations
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Stonebraker, Michael & Akhil Kumar. (1986). Operating System Support for Data Management.. IEEE Data(base) Engineering Bulletin. 9. 43–50.4 indexed citations
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