Alain Roy

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 703 citations indexed

About

Alain Roy is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Management and Hardware and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Roy has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 703 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 3 papers in Information Systems and Management and 1 paper in Hardware and Architecture. Recurrent topics in Alain Roy's work include Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (5 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (3 papers) and Scientific Computing and Data Management (3 papers). Alain Roy is often cited by papers focused on Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (5 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (3 papers) and Scientific Computing and Data Management (3 papers). Alain Roy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Alain Roy's co-authors include Ian Foster, Linda Winkler, Volker Sander, Miron Livny, K. Blackburn, Doug Olson, R. Pordes, John McGee, Frank Würthwein and Rob Gardner and has published in prestigious journals such as Computer Networks, Computer Communications and Journal of Grid Computing.

In The Last Decade

Alain Roy

6 papers receiving 663 citations

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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.

The open science grid

2007 447 citations R. Pordes, Don Petravick et al. Journal of Physics Conference Series profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alain Roy United States	6	411	206	157	90	62	6	703
Bill Kramer United States	4	455 1.1×	134 0.7×	123 0.8×	220 2.4×	64 1.0×	5	791
Frank Würthwein United States	7	376 0.9×	124 0.6×	210 1.3×	92 1.0×	120 1.9×	50	837
I. Sfiligoi United States	12	455 1.1×	137 0.7×	218 1.4×	139 1.5×	135 2.2×	79	716
Rob Gardner United States	6	679 1.7×	557 2.7×	124 0.8×	147 1.6×	62 1.0×	6	977
T. Wenaus United States	11	515 1.3×	129 0.6×	313 2.0×	74 0.8×	157 2.5×	64	836
Mike Wilde United States	12	676 1.6×	370 1.8×	376 2.4×	156 1.7×	63 1.0×	19	1.0k
John McGee United States	4	209 0.5×	92 0.4×	142 0.9×	35 0.4×	62 1.0×	5	530
Paul Avery United States	5	206 0.5×	83 0.4×	130 0.8×	40 0.4×	100 1.6×	8	528
K. Blackburn United States	9	439 1.1×	211 1.0×	285 1.8×	95 1.1×	79 1.3×	10	930
Alan Blatecky United States	5	190 0.5×	84 0.4×	125 0.8×	29 0.3×	63 1.0×	10	479

Countries citing papers authored by Alain Roy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alain Roy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alain Roy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alain Roy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alain Roy 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 signify the number of papers an author published with Alain Roy. Alain Roy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Luan, Zhongzhi, et al.. (2012). ERMS: An Elastic Replication Management System for HDFS. 32–40. 59 indexed citations

2.

Avery, P., K. Blackburn, Brian Bockelman, et al.. (2010). A Science Driven Production Cyberinfrastructure—the Open Science Grid. Journal of Grid Computing. 9(2). 201–218. 35 indexed citations

3.

Pordes, R., Don Petravick, Bill Kramer, et al.. (2007). The open science grid. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 78. 12057–12057. 447 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Klous, S., et al.. (2005). Transparent access to Grid resources for user software. Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. 18(7). 787–801. 9 indexed citations

5.

Foster, Ian, Markus Fidler, Alain Roy, Volker Sander, & Linda Winkler. (2004). End-to-end quality of service for high-end applications. Computer Communications. 27(14). 1375–1388. 135 indexed citations

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Sander, Volker, Ian Foster, Alain Roy, & Linda Winkler. (2000). A differentiated services implementation for high-performance TCP flows. Computer Networks. 34(6). 915–929. 18 indexed citations

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