Douglas Thain

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
153 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Douglas Thain is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Management and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas Thain has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 74 papers in Information Systems and Management and 61 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Douglas Thain's work include Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (106 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (77 papers) and Scientific Computing and Data Management (74 papers). Douglas Thain is often cited by papers focused on Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (106 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (77 papers) and Scientific Computing and Data Management (74 papers). Douglas Thain collaborates with scholars based in United States, Philippines and Netherlands. Douglas Thain's co-authors include Miron Livny, Todd Tannenbaum, Christopher Moretti, Kyle Wheeler, Richard C. Murphy, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, John Bent, Patrick Donnelly and Patrick J. Flynn and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and ACM Computing Surveys.

In The Last Decade

Douglas Thain

144 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Distributed computing in practice: the Condor experience 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 250 500 750 1000

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Douglas Thain United States 25 2.5k 1.4k 1.1k 694 277 153 3.2k
Todd Tannenbaum United States 12 2.3k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 837 0.8× 870 1.3× 160 0.6× 29 2.7k
Péter Kacsuk Hungary 25 1.5k 0.6× 769 0.6× 856 0.8× 402 0.6× 153 0.6× 172 2.0k
Michela Taufer United States 22 896 0.4× 672 0.5× 425 0.4× 306 0.4× 198 0.7× 176 1.8k
Dennis Gannon United States 35 4.2k 1.7× 2.5k 1.8× 2.7k 2.6× 1.5k 2.1× 652 2.4× 148 5.5k
Rob V. van Nieuwpoort Netherlands 20 1.6k 0.7× 715 0.5× 351 0.3× 819 1.2× 248 0.9× 75 2.1k
Karan Vahi United States 23 3.5k 1.4× 2.7k 1.9× 2.5k 2.3× 375 0.5× 278 1.0× 61 4.1k
Fran Berman United States 16 1.4k 0.6× 714 0.5× 439 0.4× 635 0.9× 158 0.6× 22 1.7k
Henri E. Bal Netherlands 33 3.6k 1.4× 1.0k 0.8× 269 0.3× 2.3k 3.3× 789 2.8× 246 4.4k
Daniel A. Reed United States 35 2.9k 1.2× 869 0.6× 352 0.3× 1.7k 2.4× 304 1.1× 161 3.6k
İlkay Altıntaş United States 23 1.7k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 1.9k 1.8× 76 0.1× 296 1.1× 124 2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Douglas Thain

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Fields of papers citing papers by Douglas Thain

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Douglas Thain

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

All Works

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Jha, Shantenu, Chandra Krintz, André Merzky, et al.. (2025). xGFabric: Coupling Sensor Networks and HPC Facilities with Private 5G Wireless Networks for Real-Time Digital Agriculture. ArXiv.org. 2317–2327.
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Thain, Douglas, et al.. (2024). Adaptive Task-Oriented Resource Allocation for Large Dynamic Workflows on Opportunistic Resources. 300–311. 1 indexed citations
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Clifford, Ben, et al.. (2023). Maximizing Data Utility for HPC Python Workflow Execution. 637–640. 2 indexed citations
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Thomas, C. R., et al.. (2023). TaskVine: Managing In-Cluster Storage for High-Throughput Data Intensive Workflows. 1978–1988. 4 indexed citations
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Bryant, Lincoln, Benedikt Riedel, Jose Caballero Bejar, et al.. (2018). VC3. 1–8. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Daniel, et al.. (2017). Towards Scalable and Dynamic Social Sensing Using A Distributed Computing Framework. 966–976. 49 indexed citations
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Wolf, Matthias, Anna Woodard, K. Hurtado Anampa, et al.. (2017). Opportunistic Computing with Lobster: Lessons Learned from Scaling up to 25k Non-Dedicated Cores. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 898. 52036–52036. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Haipeng, Raúl Santelices, & Douglas Thain. (2016). D ia P ro. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 25(2). 1–50. 17 indexed citations
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Thrasher, Andrew, et al.. (2014). Scaling up genome annotation using MAKER and work queue. International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications. 10(4/5). 447–447. 8 indexed citations
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Thain, Douglas, et al.. (2013). Automated packaging of bioinformatics workflows for portability and durability using makeflow. 98–105. 2 indexed citations
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Moretti, Christopher, Andrew Thrasher, Li Yu, et al.. (2012). A Framework for Scalable Genome Assembly on Clusters, Clouds, and Grids. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 23(12). 2189–2197. 15 indexed citations
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Maccabe, Arthur B. & Douglas Thain. (2011). Proceedings of the 20th international symposium on High performance distributed computing. 3 indexed citations
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Donnelly, Patrick, et al.. (2010). Attaching Cloud Storage to a Campus Grid Using Parrot, Chirp, and Hadoop. 488–495. 1 indexed citations
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Liao, Qi, et al.. (2008). ENAVis: enterprise network activities visualization. USENIX Large Installation Systems Administration Conference. 59–74. 6 indexed citations
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Thain, Douglas, et al.. (2007). Lessons Learned Building TeamTrak: An Urban/Outdoor Mobile Testbed. 219–224. 1 indexed citations
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Belforte, S., M. Norman, S. Sarkar, et al.. (2006). Using Condor Glide-Ins and Parrot to Move from Dedicated Ressources to the Grid.. 285–292. 1 indexed citations
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Cieslak, David A., Douglas Thain, & Nitesh V. Chawla. (2006). Troubleshooting Distributed Systems via Data Mining.. 309–312. 1 indexed citations
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Wozniak, Justin M., Paul Brenner, & Douglas Thain. (2006). Access control for a replica management database. 41–46. 2 indexed citations
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Thain, Douglas & Miron Livny. (2005). Parrot: Transparent User-Level Middleware for Data-Intensive Computing. Scalable Computing Practice and Experience. 6(3). 62 indexed citations
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Bent, John, Douglas Thain, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, & Miron Livny. (2004). Explicit control a batch-aware distributed file system. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 27–27. 86 indexed citations

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