Alexander Thomson

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 708 citations indexed

About

Alexander Thomson is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Thomson has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 708 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 6 papers in Information Systems and 2 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Alexander Thomson's work include Distributed systems and fault tolerance (11 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (9 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (6 papers). Alexander Thomson is often cited by papers focused on Distributed systems and fault tolerance (11 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (9 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (6 papers). Alexander Thomson collaborates with scholars based in United States and China. Alexander Thomson's co-authors include Daniel J. Abadi, Kun Ren, Shu-Chun Weng, Jose M. Faleiro, Ethan Cerami, Qianwen Wang, Nils Gehlenborg, Tali Mazor and Hans Bitter and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, ACM Transactions on Database Systems and Computer applications in the biosciences.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Thomson

12 papers receiving 665 citations

Hit Papers

Calvin 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Calvin
    2012 325 citations Alexander Thomson, Shu-Chun Weng et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexander Thomson United States 9 679 416 132 36 15 12 708
Raja R. Sambasivan United States 11 493 0.7× 281 0.7× 57 0.4× 69 1.9× 16 1.1× 25 516
Marcos K. Aguilera India 5 518 0.8× 297 0.7× 89 0.7× 33 0.9× 6 0.4× 6 528
Robert Tappan Morris United States 6 414 0.6× 186 0.4× 170 1.3× 49 1.4× 19 1.3× 7 457
Cristian Diaconu United States 6 545 0.8× 255 0.6× 156 1.2× 41 1.1× 33 2.2× 6 572
Younggyun Koh United States 6 446 0.7× 426 1.0× 86 0.7× 39 1.1× 13 0.9× 10 482
Mike Zwilling United Kingdom 5 534 0.8× 257 0.6× 159 1.2× 79 2.2× 33 2.2× 5 585
Julie Marguerite France 8 484 0.7× 361 0.9× 53 0.4× 113 3.1× 6 0.4× 9 518
Kiran Srinivasan United States 6 396 0.6× 289 0.7× 86 0.7× 67 1.9× 8 0.5× 7 417
Manolis Marazakis Greece 10 275 0.4× 119 0.3× 157 1.2× 50 1.4× 6 0.4× 46 313
Nichamon Naksinehaboon United States 9 325 0.5× 160 0.4× 137 1.0× 26 0.7× 7 0.5× 14 354

Countries citing papers authored by Alexander Thomson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexander Thomson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Thomson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexander Thomson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexander Thomson 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 Alexander Thomson. Alexander Thomson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Mazor, Tali, Qianwen Wang, Alexander Thomson, et al.. (2021). OUP accepted manuscript. Computer applications in the biosciences. 37(Suppl_1). i59–i66. 2 indexed citations
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Ren, Kun, et al.. (2016). Low-Overhead Asynchronous Checkpointing in Main-Memory Database Systems. 1539–1551. 27 indexed citations
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Thomson, Alexander & Daniel J. Abadi. (2015). CalvinFS: consistent WAN replication and scalable metadata management for distributed file systems. File and Storage Technologies. 1–14. 49 indexed citations
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Ren, Kun, Alexander Thomson, & Daniel J. Abadi. (2015). VLL: a lock manager redesign for main memory database systems. The VLDB Journal. 24(5). 681–705. 18 indexed citations
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Ren, Kun, Alexander Thomson, & Daniel J. Abadi. (2014). An evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of deterministic database systems. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 7(10). 821–832. 47 indexed citations
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Faleiro, Jose M., Alexander Thomson, & Daniel J. Abadi. (2014). Lazy evaluation of transactions in database systems. 15–26. 39 indexed citations
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Thomson, Alexander, et al.. (2014). Fast Distributed Transactions and Strongly Consistent Replication for OLTP Database Systems. ACM Transactions on Database Systems. 39(2). 1–39. 20 indexed citations
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Thomson, Alexander & Daniel J. Abadi. (2013). Modularity and Scalability in Calvin.. IEEE Data(base) Engineering Bulletin. 36. 48–55. 8 indexed citations
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Abadi, Daniel J. & Alexander Thomson. (2013). Deterministic transaction execution in distributed database systems. 2 indexed citations
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Ren, Kun, Alexander Thomson, & Daniel J. Abadi. (2012). Lightweight locking for main memory database systems. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 6(2). 145–156. 62 indexed citations
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Thomson, Alexander, et al.. (2012). Calvin. 1–12. 325 indexed citations breakdown →
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Thomson, Alexander & Daniel J. Abadi. (2010). The case for determinism in database systems. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 3(1-2). 70–80. 109 indexed citations

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