Ben Buchanan

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 488 citations indexed

About

Ben Buchanan is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Information Systems and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Buchanan has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 488 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 4 papers in Information Systems and 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Ben Buchanan's work include Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (10 papers), Information and Cyber Security (4 papers) and Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (3 papers). Ben Buchanan is often cited by papers focused on Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (10 papers), Information and Cyber Security (4 papers) and Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (3 papers). Ben Buchanan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Finland and United Kingdom. Ben Buchanan's co-authors include Thomas Rid, Scott Shackelford, Steven E. Miller, Emily O. Goldman, Stephen Blank, Anne E. Boustead, David E. Sanger, N. J. Lambert, Peter D. Feaver and Bradley Jay Strawser and has published in prestigious journals such as World Patent Information, Survival and Journal of Strategic Studies.

In The Last Decade

Ben Buchanan

18 papers receiving 439 citations

Hit Papers

Attributing Cyber Attacks 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 50 100 150 200 250

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ben Buchanan United States 9 370 289 100 44 44 19 488
Max Smeets Switzerland 11 294 0.8× 229 0.8× 59 0.6× 26 0.6× 15 0.3× 27 374
Aaron Brantly United States 9 196 0.5× 134 0.5× 68 0.7× 12 0.3× 6 0.1× 39 282
Lillian Ablon United States 9 68 0.2× 332 1.1× 113 1.1× 87 2.0× 78 1.8× 19 455
Zev Winkelman United States 6 32 0.1× 129 0.4× 67 0.7× 63 1.4× 30 0.7× 20 281
Stephen McCombie Australia 11 33 0.1× 180 0.6× 75 0.8× 42 1.0× 68 1.5× 22 261
Daniel Woods Austria 10 42 0.1× 219 0.8× 90 0.9× 65 1.5× 28 0.6× 35 325
Lilian Mitrou Greece 11 35 0.1× 173 0.6× 121 1.2× 47 1.1× 83 1.9× 33 336
Ian Walden United Kingdom 10 53 0.1× 198 0.7× 119 1.2× 36 0.8× 23 0.5× 40 325
Hadi Asghari Netherlands 10 39 0.1× 115 0.4× 87 0.9× 109 2.5× 56 1.3× 35 291
Clare Sullivan United States 6 43 0.1× 187 0.6× 84 0.8× 46 1.0× 18 0.4× 24 283

Countries citing papers authored by Ben Buchanan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Buchanan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Buchanan

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
1.
Buchanan, Ben, et al.. (2022). The New Fire. The MIT Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations
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Buchanan, Ben. (2020). The Hacker and the State. Harvard University Press eBooks. 39 indexed citations
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Buchanan, Ben. (2020). The Hacker and the State. Harvard University Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Buchanan, Ben. (2020). The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 12 indexed citations
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Buchanan, Ben, et al.. (2020). Preparing the Cyber Battlefield: Assessing a Novel Escalation Risk in a Sino-American Crisis (Fall 2020). Texas Digital Library (University of Texas). 4 indexed citations
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Rid, Thomas & Ben Buchanan. (2018). Hacking Democracy. ˜The œSAIS review of international affairs. 38(1). 3–16. 9 indexed citations
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Warner, Michael, Ben Buchanan, David E. Sanger, et al.. (2017). Understanding Cyber Conflict: Fourteen Analogies. Georgetown University Press eBooks. 19 indexed citations
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Buchanan, Ben. (2017). Mitigating the Cybersecurity Dilemma. Oxford University Press eBooks.
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Buchanan, Ben. (2017). The Cybersecurity Dilemma. Oxford University Press eBooks. 41 indexed citations
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Shackelford, Scott, et al.. (2017). From Russia with Love: Understanding the Russian Cyber Threat to U.S. Critical Infrastructure and What to Do about It. Nebraska law review. 96(2). 320. 7 indexed citations
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Buchanan, Ben. (2017). The Security Dilemma. Oxford University Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Shackelford, Scott, et al.. (2017). Making Democracy Harder to Hack. University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. 629–629. 9 indexed citations
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Buchanan, Ben. (2016). The Life Cycles of Cyber Threats. Survival. 58(1). 39–58. 9 indexed citations
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Buchanan, Ben. (2016). Cryptography and Sovereignty. Survival. 58(5). 95–122. 5 indexed citations
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Buchanan, Ben. (2016). The cybersecurity dilemma: hacking, trust and fear between nations. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 43 indexed citations
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Shackelford, Scott, et al.. (2016). Making Democracy Harder to Hack: Should Elections Be Classified as ‘Critical Infrastructure?’. Digital Library Of The Commons Repository (Indiana University). 2 indexed citations
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Rid, Thomas & Ben Buchanan. (2014). Attributing Cyber Attacks. Journal of Strategic Studies. 38(1-2). 4–37. 258 indexed citations breakdown →
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Buchanan, Ben, et al.. (2010). A toolkit for the systematic analysis of patent data to assess a potentially disruptive technology. 6 indexed citations
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Buchanan, Ben. (2008). Unlocking the value of patent data: Patent Informatics services at the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO). World Patent Information. 30(4). 335–337. 7 indexed citations

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